Taxonomy / Content Management

[Nancy Flury Carlson]

I am writing an article for Sci-Tech News (a publication of the Special Libraries Association) about LEGOs. I’m just starting it and the deadline is next Friday Nov 15 so it will be brief. In the process I found this nice taxonomy from Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/legos-organized-species-infographic

There is a lot in the literature about how LEGOs are supportive of childrens’ interest in engineering and sci-tech studies. As an information professional I see LEGOs as a great support tool for taxonomy and content management learning. In the CMS (content management system) world, I see mentions of using the LEGO analogy to clarify how parts of a content management system work. In the process of my recent LEGO sorting adventure, I first learned that there are standard terminologies for LEGO parts, used by LEGO, bricklink, and other sites.

If any of you have comments and insights about LEGO taxonomy, terminology, sorting strategies and debates about how to organize, I would love to hear from you in this forum or via email (nancy@carlsonstudio.com)

[Josh]

this is one of my favorite lego sorting anecdotes: http://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=707

[Tim]

Josh wrote:

this is one of my favorite lego sorting anecdotes: http://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=707

Josh, I remember reading that on Lugnet back when it was first posted and LMAO! Thanks for dregging up a great post. 🙂

[Nancy Flury Carlson]

That is hilarious! Josh, is this why you moved to a new house? (step 24)

[Matt Redfield]

“It’s ok to dig through a pile of windshields looking for the trans yellow blacktron hood. It’s not ok to dig through a pile of slopes looking for the specialized corner cap slope.”

Yup.

“but it’s a bit more efficient to sort this way, and you can do some of it while watching a video.”

Yuuuup.

“One of the first indicators that you should do this was that you didn’t have a compartment big enough to hold all your Lego horses…”

Yup.

[Josh]

Nancy Flury Carlson wrote:

That is hilarious! Josh, is this why you moved to a new house? (step 24)

I plead the 5th. You’re one of the few members that has seen both houses.

[Josh]

here’s a related discussion about the recent bricklink sale and what that may mean for taxonmy – http://www.newelementary.com/2013/09/bricks-inc.html

[Matt Redfield]

Josh wrote:

I plead the 5th. You’re one of the few members that has seen both houses.

For the record, the more children one has, the more one’s LEGO areas become condensed / sacrificed… I’ll leave it to you all to reason out the implications of this statement.

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