Page Types

See also Architecture and Content Pages, Categories and the Style Guide

Every page contains a package of information, limited by page type. Three page types describe our social systems: Workgroups, Efforts, and Products. Place pages type describe a discrete geography at specific Landscape Scales. Topic pages summarize our synoptic understanding of parts of whole systems. For example we might try to understand an embayment by studying the oscillation of tides, the chemistry of the mud, its use by birds, etc. We limit information on a page Create Links between pages to avoid redundancy. We don't repeat everything we know about Herring on a page about Cherry Point Driftcell. Instead we summarize knowledge about Herring as a species on a Herring page, and the nuances of the Cherry Point Driftcell in a place page. Each page then references to the other. We don't tell a complete story on each page——the only complete story is the whole ecosystem. Our primary interest is to collect and organize information and knowledge in a way that is well-structured using 5 page types:

Workgroup Pages describe groups of people that work together over time with a shared purpose. Most are either public or private corporations. We are interested in what they do, where they operate, the resources they use, and how they relate to other workgroups. Workgroups undertake Efforts and create Products. For large institutions like the US Federal Government, we describe them at the largest scale that is useful (typically agencies) and subdivide when useful.

Effort Pages describe programs of action over time intended to achieve a particular effect. Our sense of an effort is often confused with "project proposals" seeking funding. Projects are usually a part of a larger effort. On the platform, we want to organize projects into more coherent efforts so we can see the big picture.

Product Pages describe artifacts that Workgroups create as they undertake Efforts, such as documents, graphics, websites and datasets. The platform can archive products (where allowed and useful), or can point to another stable archive.

PLace Pages describe geographic locations. On the platform we systematically describe places at different Landscape Scales. Within the Salish Sea Bioregion, we identify Regions and within those Catchments and within those Landforms. Jurisdictions like Counties, Districts and Municipalities are socialeconomic constructs that we describe using Workgroup pages.

Topic Pagessummaraize the atomized knowledge of the academic framework. In support of the platform purpose and focus on ecosystem stewardship, we organize our generalized knowledge with a division between Anthropogenic Topics (about the activities and ideas of humans) and Ecological Topics (whereby we try to understand the dynamics of places and other-than-human beings).

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Page Types

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