Re: The Common Lisp Directory is online

From: "Thien-Thi Nguyen" <[email protected]>

> "Marc Battyani" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > OK so what are your suggestions for step 1 (categories) and 2
> > (descriptions)?
>
> design nit:
>
> for categories vs attributes (aka labels, keywords, etc),
> i'm in favor of the latter.  there will always be something
> that "belongs" in more than one category.  you can synthesize
> categories by grouping attributes, but not the other way around.

I've not added the items to the directory yet but each item can have any
number of categories. So the 2 are really equivalent.

> if you push category synthesis to user-customizable level,
> that would be the nice (to users) hack.  the user's ontology
> is something you want to avoid messing with -- users are weird!

Hehe... This is why I prefer to have a predefined main tree but with side
edges (the related categories) and terminal nodes (the items) that have any
number of edges pointing to them.

I don't know if my explainations are clear enough...

Marc