Discussion

• Object
  • name
  • type
  • structure
  • semantics
  • version
• Container (parent: Object)
  • collection
  • sequence, time series
• Genre (parent: Object)
  • cultural, social
  • linguistic, notational
  • stylistic
• Node (parent: Object)
  • atomic
  • stream
  • composite
  • genre
• Document (parent: Node)
  • structure (document type definition)
  • layout
  • representation
• Organizer (parent: Object)
  • function/relationship
  • parameters/arguments
• Organization (parents: Container, Organizer)
  • catalog
  • concept space
  • hyperbase
  • index
  • knowledge base
  • thesaurus
  • audience: personal, community, ...
• Link (parent: Organizer)
  • directed, undirected
  • source/origin
  • target/destination
• User (parent: Object)
  • human
  • agent
  • authentication scheme
• Community (M) / Social World (parents: Container, User)
  • negotiated meanings, agreement to disagree, visions/problems
  • practices, norms, what is legitimized, what is accepted
  • fluidity, volatility, longevity
  • scope, scale
  • homeostasis /self-protection mechanisms
  • institutional circuits
  • communication channels
  • constrained by availability of necessary infrastructure
  • defined by logs of use
  • cross-community
• Using (parent: Object)
  • browsing
  • collaborating
  • consuming
  • exploring
  • learning
  • navigating
  • problem solving
  • publishing/producing
  • searching
  • seeking
  • valuing
  • viewing
• Using Pattern (parents: Container, Using)
  • distributions
  • repeatings (MRP)
  • repair/correction sequences
  • reusings
  • chunking over time into dealing with: question, session, research area
  • usage statistics, perhaps in context
• Interface (parent: Object)
  • dialog
  • collaboration, groupware, communication
  • modalities, presentation
  • system behavior
  • flexibility, configurability
  • embedding in environments

Community, Document, Genre, Interface, Organization, User, Using, Using Pattern
->Quality

Add in: Publisher/Provider (not here!!!), question, answer (and q/a pairs or FAQ files and Bellcore movie selector using people's ratings), ...

• cost/benefit
• relevance/pertinence
• utility/usability

There are cross-relationships. One might hope that an expert systems might apply rules that relate various facets of each of these in combination with others to yield a particular quality.

Scenario: retrieve based on relevance to a user community.