The difficulty of categorization. Philip C. Murray’s KM Connection article, The difficulty of categorization discusses implications of using categorization in the enterprise. In it he, he cite’s Bella Hass Weinberg’s 1996 article from the ASIS Conference Proceedings, Complexity In Indexing Systems — Abandonment And Failure: Implications For Organizing The Internet, to bring up the issue of difficulty in classifying documents from a large corpus of data. Weinberg’s article discusses the issues in classifying the Internet. Murray’s position is that a corporate body’s “three ring binder of knowledge” is not a massive data source, so is not necessarily subject to all of the difficulties that Weinberg mentions. He states, [ia/ – news for information architects]
