Organizing Web Information

[Marc Salomon]

On Jul 17, 12:34, Erik Jul wrote:
>Subject: Re: Organizing Web Information
>>The point in question
>>is - how do you catalog something that appears differently (perhaps
>>radically differently) depending on which individual is viewing the material?
>
>For some applications it may be useful to catalog *that* such a site as you
>described exists.
>
>A simple example is a weather server.  Of course the weather differs from
>time to time and from place to place and may even be displayed according to
>user-defined parameters.  But the fact that a weather server exists is easily
>cataloged.

I think that the point here was that while in the paper library holdings were
assigned a single number and placed in a single place on the shelf in somewhat
linear space, the www allows for the same resource to exist in multiple axes or
planes with equal ease perhaps depending on context.  To further complicate
matters, it will not necessarily be the origin server that originally
held/served the object that determines how and where others will place it or if
they clone it or just link to it.

-marc

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