Why not a single hierarchy (was: Re: [Demexp-dev] [RFC] Using a file browser as demexp GUI?)

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

On the GUI side, jean-marie and myself have made some progresses, I'll
do a separate post on it.

echarp <address@hidden> writes:

>   To me, the tags/keywords seem like a strange kludge. Why this
>   bottleneck? Why use them for delegations? Why not a simpler hierarchy
>   that would/could map to a simple text (/part/chapter/section/...)?

Having a single hierarchy was our original idea and was implemented in
0.2, with delegation. However, there is a fundamental flaw in it: how do
you set the order between hierarchy levels? E.g.: between New York and
Ecology, which one should be put upper in the hierarchy?

That's why we have decided to use a flat space, with tags (aka labels)
on questions.

"Normalizing" tags allow us to hope to have a single keyword (aka tag)
behind a concept. 

But as underlined many times, that does not preclude others to build
more elaborated classifications or event their own classification (no
Serge, I haven't said ontology ;-).

That should be a FAQ.

Yours,
d.
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