The Paris Pages Experience
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Fundamental Issues
As a web site grows, and more and more diverse data are included, several issues
become important to address. Some of these issues might be written as some of the following questions,
not all of which are independent:
- What should be put in a web site about Paris?
- There are 8000+ pages in the web site (and growing) - how should they
be linked together? How should the links between pages be maintained?
- As the site has more and more pages, navigation becomes more and more difficult.
How can this be solved?
- How shall the data be classified, sometimes asked as:
- How shall the Paris data be classified?
- Is there one classification which is
the best, or are there several?
- How do links change as a function of different
classification schemes?
- Who classifies the data - the web creators, or the
web surfers? Both?
- How can we associated different data types? How do we present data/information to the
user?
- As the Internaut navigates the web site, how can we present associations between diverse
data types so that the content and context is enrichened? Exactly the presentation of
these associations is what makes web site navigation different from a simple
database query.
- How shall we incorporate new data, and new data types?
The Paris Pages Experience
Index