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title: "New article in Simplifying Complexity – Ensuring information harmony in the larger documentation landscape"
date: 2018-03-07
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# New article in Simplifying Complexity – Ensuring information harmony in the larger documentation landscape

> In the [Simplifying Complexity](https://idratherbewriting.com/simplifying-complexity/) section of my site, I published a new article about how to ensure information harmony across a larger documentation landscape, where other articles might contain similar themes and information. In the article, I dive into two factors that increase complexity in a system: specialization and interconnectedness. Relevant to documentation scenarios, when subject matter experts contribute specialized articles into a larger system without understanding how their individual article interacts with other information in the system, the result is often a redundant, contradictory, and ever-increasing jumble of content. In this article, I explore ways to solve this problem through better metadata, primarily evaluating tags and whether they can help identify all known instances of content. You can read the article here: [Ensuring information harmony in the larger documentation landscape](https://idratherbewriting.com/simplifying-complexity/ensuring-information-harmony-in-the-larger-documentation-landscape.html).