Re: Single sourcing vs. normalization

["Andrea Brundt" <andrea_w_brundt -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Hi Mark,

You wrote: "In a properly normalized content store, the organization of
content in the repository should be neutral in respect to the organization
of knowledge in the output, which obviously give you a big advantage in
organizing knowledge to fit the needs of different users."

And: "Long narrative exposition, for instance, does not normalize well (you
can break it into pieces but those pieces may not go back together in any
way other than they way they went in"

If I understand the concept correctly, I think a long narrative could
normalize just as well as, say, a field definition -- provided you leave it
intact! Perhaps the key is recognizing the point at which further division
damages meaning. A 500-word narrative falls apart when you break it into
pieces, but so does a 50-word field definition.

Fascinating stuff! Best regards,
Andrea

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