Comments on: Everything Is Miscellaneous — The Problem with Classifying Information http://idratherbewriting.com/2007/06/11/everything-is-miscellaneous-the-problem-with-classifying-information/ The Latest Trends in Technical Communication Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom http://idratherbewriting.com/2007/06/11/everything-is-miscellaneous-the-problem-with-classifying-information/comment-page-1/#comment-35848 Tom Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:58:05 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/06/11/everything-is-miscellaneous-the-problem-with-classifying-information/#comment-35848 Thanks for your thoughts Gordon. I think that tagging our content is critical, but many of the traditional help authoring tools don't really allow you to tag much of anything. For example, there's no way to tag anything in RoboHelp (to my knowledge). The web 2.0 tools of the current web are light years beyond some of the existing help authoring tools. Thanks for your thoughts Gordon. I think that tagging our content is critical, but many of the traditional help authoring tools don’t really allow you to tag much of anything. For example, there’s no way to tag anything in RoboHelp (to my knowledge). The web 2.0 tools of the current web are light years beyond some of the existing help authoring tools.

]]> By: Gordon http://idratherbewriting.com/2007/06/11/everything-is-miscellaneous-the-problem-with-classifying-information/comment-page-1/#comment-35744 Gordon Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:58:52 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/06/11/everything-is-miscellaneous-the-problem-with-classifying-information/#comment-35744 Interesting, this matches my own thoughts about our internal information as we move to the single source nirvana dreamed of by many technical communicators. Put all your information in one place, and tag the hell out of it because you never know when, or why, you'll need it in the future. But at what point does text searching make that redundant? Who knows. At the moment I'd take a stab at suggesting that tagging is a way to limit the scope of a text search. As the article suggests. Interesting, this matches my own thoughts about our internal information as we move to the single source nirvana dreamed of by many technical communicators.

Put all your information in one place, and tag the hell out of it because you never know when, or why, you’ll need it in the future.

But at what point does text searching make that redundant? Who knows.

At the moment I’d take a stab at suggesting that tagging is a way to limit the scope of a text search. As the article suggests.

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