Organization Schemes Flashcards

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Organization Schemes:

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An organisation scheme defines the shared characteristics of content items and influences the logical grouping of those items. There are exact schemes and ambiguous schemes.

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Exact Organization Schemes:

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Chronological schemes:
Certain types of information lend themselves
to chronological organization. For example,
an archive of press releases might be
organized by the date of release..

Geographical schemes:
Place is often an important characteristic of
information. We travel from one place to
another

Alphabetical schemes:
An alphabetical organization scheme is the
primary organization scheme for
encyclopedias and dictionaries.

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Ambiguous Organization Schemes:

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Task-oriented schemes:
ask-oriented schemes organize content and
applications into collections of processes,
functions, or tasks..

Metaphor-driven schemes:
Metaphors are commonly used to help users
understand the new by relating it to the
familiar. Y.

Hybrid schemes:
The power of a pure organization scheme 
derives from its ability to suggest a simple 
mental model that users can quickly 
understand. 

Audience-specific schemes:
In cases where there are two or more clearly
definable audiences for a product or service,
an audience-specific organization scheme
may make sense..

Topical organization schemes:
Organizing information by subject or topic is
one of the most useful and challenging
approaches.

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