List four types of ambiguous organizational schemes and explain them.
What will be an ideal response?
Topical schemes categorize items by subject. Library of Congress subject index is an example. The ACM Guide to Periodic Literature’ subject index is another.
Task-specific schemes organize items by functionality or service they provide. This type of scheme is often used to organize menus in software. For example, in MS Word, the functions for cutting, pasting, undo, find and replace are under the heading of “Edit” while commands involving paragraph placement, item numbering and inter-line spacing are in the category “Format”. The home page for ACM’s Digital Library has a predominantly task-specific scheme.
Audience-specific schemes cater to identifiable groups of users, or audiences, that visit a site. Many manufacturers have a link specifically for distributors and another link for customers who want to find a retailer.
Metaphor-driven schemes capitalize on a user’s previous experience with the familiar to help them navigate a site. The use of a metaphor to organize a content can be extremely limiting because it cannot accommodate functionality or concepts that aren’t present in the original metaphor.
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