[Bug-gnupedia] Separating content from presentation

[Bob Dodd]

We've had some really good posts on the project so far, but I think we
need to begin to separate out issues a little more than we have so
far...

There are two basic parts to an information repository: 

1) The raw content and internal structure that supports it
2) Views of that information which are presented to the user

And we need to be clear which part we are talking about.

Stuart Yeates (Re: Classification difficulty and incompleteness) makes
some very good points about classification in terms of how subjective
classification (and hence editing) can be, and that strongly suggests,
to me at least, that rating systems and clasifications exist as *views*
of the data i.e. as part of catalogs of the information, and not as
part of the internal structure of the 'pedia.  There will (hopefully)
be many catalogs, each filtering and presenting the 'pedia in a manner
appropriate to its users (e.g. filtering content to make a children's
encylopedia), but with only one 'pedia.

So, we need to be careful to identify what we are talking about when we
post: is it the "core" 'pedia, and the essential organisation of that
information (by subject, author, language, version, synonym...), or is
it suggestions for a catalog (rating systems, hierarchies)?  We need
both, I'd just like us to be clear in our own minds, which ones we
think we are talking about.

I would also suggest that people's interests also spilt pretty much
down these lines, and that we think of the 'pedia as two sub-projects:
once concerned with the "core", and one concerned with the first
catalog of its contents.












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