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Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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lugnet.admin.database
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Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:46:42 GMT
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Todd Lehman writes:
> OK, so here's my whole spiel on themes...
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> This is a medium-term planning thing (1-3 months) and a background task
> while other stuff goes on. I don't expect we'll have the new theme tree
> completely worked out before the end of January or Februrary.
This may seem an odd question, but is this topic meaning to discuss how the
database will be organized at a data level, or at an interface level?
If the former, this is probably irrelevant to the vast mojority here, so I'm
assuming the later. (but it doesn't hurt to ask)
If the later, then here's a suggestion:
Have a tree which has only the official Lego theme/sub-theme designations. If
you split things up otherwise, or add 'unofficial' themes, then you run into
some difficulties:
a) You will _never_ make everyone happy. Everyone will use a different
criteria to judge what goes where, and will be irritated if they can't find
things, or are constantly finding things they don't want to see. (a town
purist may have a pathological aversion to trains or something)
b) The deeper and more complicated the tree gets, the less people will use it.
c) I'm not sure if this is an issue, but redesignating themes, or creating
arbitrary ones may run contrary to TLG's Fair Play document
Obviously this isn't enough of a solution - there has to be something else
available. How about a keyword triggered search? It's a fairly
straightforward setup, and is familiar to about 103% of the on-line community.
I trust I don't have to go into detail on the advantages and drawbacks of a
search engine?
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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| I'm not with that. Why?...Read below, only one example. The sets that we know and "cotegorize" as technic sets, were not all "Technic" from the beginning. Although they were apperantly looking like the ones today, those boxes released before 1982 (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
| | | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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| (...) It's a great question!! (...) Both -- mostly at a data level, with much of the implementation hidden at the interface level, but with the interface level giving a view at the data level if someone wants that fine of a view. (...) Yup, that's a (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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| OK, so here's my whole spiel on themes... This is a medium-term planning thing (1-3 months) and a background task while other stuff goes on. I don't expect we'll have the new theme tree completely worked out before the end of January or Februrary. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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