Hierarchy again

[Long John Silver]

Hi all,

In my previous post I mentioned that I'm starting using LR for most of my digitized docs.
Now I'm facing some problem with my keywords...

Basically among other "root keywords", I have something like this:

UW
-- Wrecks
---- ANTALYA
-- Biology
---- Corals

Ships
-- Military
---- AM 121
-- Merchant
---- ANTALYA

Docs
-- ACS
---- Salvage
-- USMM
---- Reports
------ ANTALYA

ANTALYA it's a ship and, as you see, I have three times the keywords ANTALYA:

* I have some uw (underwater) shots of the wreck.
* I have some historical photos of it
* I have some historical documents about this ship.

I think this is a pretty common situation.

I have same problem with some places where the name identify both the underwater spot and land spot.: I need to immediately filter between them.
E.G.

http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/USA_East/Massachusetts/Halibut_Point/index.htm

I have a photo of Halibut Point above and below water

How do you manage it? Pro and cons?

 

[dj_paige]

Try this ... you have a ships hierarchy where proper names go (and perhaps general ship categories), you have a documents hierarchy (which only contains types of documents, not ship names), and you have an underwater hierarchy describing general things that are underwater, not specific items found underwater.

A photo of Antalya contains the following keywords: underwater, ships, Antalya, USMM, Reports.

In this manner, you assign keywords based upon the content of the photo, and your hierarchy is of descriptors of things in the hierarchy. Names of ships only go in the ships hierarchy.

Now, if you want your Antalya pics, you select the Antalya keyword. If you want your underwater pics, you select the underwater keyword. If you want your USMM documents, you select the USMM keyword.

Much more flexible.

 

[Long John Silver]

Thank you Paige,
loud and clear.

 

[Brad Snyder]

Excellent description Paige. For me, the problem is seeing those relationships ahead of time. Because keywording tends to be an adhoc activity for me, I sometimes find myself halfway down the wrong road, and then need to untangle my mess. I have to keep reminding myself, just because keywords 'fit' in a hierarchy, doesn't make that the best way to use them.