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Site organisation

In their book on information architectures for the web, Rosenfeld and Morville (2002) iden-

tify several different 

information organisation schemes

. These can be applied for different 

aspects of e-commerce sites, from the whole site through to different parts of the site.

Rosenfeld and Morville (2002) identify the following information organisation schemes:

1 

Exact. Here information can be naturally indexed. If we take the example of books, these 

can be alphabetical – by author or title; chronological – by date; or for travel books, for 

example, geographical – by place. Information on an e-commerce site may be presented 

alphabetically, but this is not suitable for browsing.