are there best-practices how to structure digital content =how to make categories/sections, adv.of tagging etc

Question

what are the advantages of structuring content in sections? how to structure sections (are there user-driven preferences?)
How to define categories that people find what they are looking for as fast as possible?
What are systems in use to archive digital content? A) on the harddrive, b) in CMS?

What are best practices for defining tags? What are the advantages/disadvantages over categories/sections...

What are strategies so that people in a cooperative environment, e.g. who work together in an office, can best re-use digital content, from letters written in Word to powerpoint documents etc.

Answer 1

Hi,

Unfortunately it would take several books to answer your questions thoroughly.

XML is the tagging system du jour, Office 2007's default file format is XML. So the short answer would be for you to tag your PowerPoint and Word documents right in those products.

The amount of XML information on the web is overwhelming. I'd start with a web search for "XML tagging best practicies" and go from there.

-Jim