On Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 12:49:33 PM UTC+2 Edward K. Ream wrote:
> My challenge is to try to understand how one might profitably use very > large outlines. I have no clear pictures in mind :-) > > Some things come to my mind: What questions do you have to ask to get a clearer picture? What is a 'very large outline'? - You surely don't think of millions of hierarchy levels but millions of leaves (endpoints, items without children). In his book 'Information Anxiety' (at Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Information-Anxiety-Richard-Saul-Wurman/dp/0553348566/ref=pd_sbs_1/141-3618587-2451749?pd_rd_w=dOmhl&pf_rd_p=3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f846&pf_rd_r=DN7ZZT5T6J66BK9FAEKV&pd_rd_r=fb994c7d-d673-413d-8951-c7f8dc833c30&pd_rd_wg=YbBmO&pd_rd_i=0553348566&psc=1>), Richard Saul Wurman claims, that there are only 5 ways to organize Information: 1. Category (concepts, types) 2. Time (historical events, diary; but also processes, step-by-step procedures)) 3. Location (country, state, county, city, etc.) 4. Alphabet (dictionary, telephone directory) 5. Continuum (organization by magnitude, small -> large, cheap -> expensive, etc.) Which large quantities of things are best managed by a relative flat hierarchy of these organizational principles?. Which very complex and/or large domains/problems/artefacts/collections are best described by tree-like structures? Very abstractly, large outlines are useful everywhere where one uses some hierarchy to classify large quantities of things. - Dewey Decimal System to classify media (books, articles, etc.) - plant and animal taxonomies used in biology - bill of materials in industrial production - Yellow Pages - Population registries by country, state, county, city, etc. Reinhard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/256f1294-217c-4d11-be54-a2639ff139c9n%40googlegroups.com.
