On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 00:24, John Norman <j...@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Does it make any difference that different users might have a different > logical tree for organising the same content? I have seen quite a few > hierarchical information organisation models that make sense to one human > being but are completely unhelpful to another. I quite like the concept of > an amorphous information pool that can have multiple apparent organisations > according to viewer and context.
I agree: one just has to look at the different folder structures on people's computers. The best one I have seen (and he is a developer!) was to put everything flat on the desktop and after a while, when it becomes full and old, he simply moved everything into an "old" folder - on the desktop. Over time, this gives quite a few nested old folders. Unusual but very simple... oh, I am getting off-topic ;-) You could achieve multiple views with shareable nodes in JCR 2.0 plus hiding the other nodes that point to the same structure depending on the current user. But I don't think it's worth the effort. When you have shared content you have to come up with a structure that is useable for everyone (at least a bit). Here at Day we define the base structure of the repository for our CQ5 product, a structure that emerged through the product's history and follows many conventions from the unix file system hierarchy (eg. short names are important). Only at the lower levels customers are free to use a different structure (for code and other non-site content stuff). Regards, Alex -- Alexander Klimetschek alexander.klimetsc...@day.com
