On 9/13/05, Marvin Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I absolutely agree with you. Common sense tells me that the KISS > principle should be applied when designing the directory structure. > Also, I agree with you that inheritance would create a mess. OTOH, > this is a complex issue that is not simple - I'm not sure exactly how > tags could totally solve this issue. If you could, please explain. > > Regards > > Marvin >
I am just proposing a system where individual components could have a number of tags added. Consider an alaogy. Say I have a bunch of photos on my computer that I want to organize. I make a folder called "family" and a folder called "motorcycles". All is good until I come across a picture of my wife on a motorcycle. Which folder does it go in? I've reached a limit of heirarchical representation. With tags, I can tag it 'family' and 'motorcycle' and maybe a couple of other things. Then to find a specific photo, I don't drill down through folders. I just search for a tag. To find similar photos I can click on a tag. I don't have to worry about the filesystem location of the photo I found -- all the photos can dump into one big directory. The tag database is how I find and organize the photos. For an example of this in action, poke around flickr.com a little bit. Regards, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You think that it is a secret, but it never has been one. - fortune cookie
