Include the "why"

[ChocopieKewpie]

Framework should mention that classification systems should highlight the "why" it exists.

[alpha-beta-soup]

Two ideas from the Garth working on the Māori perspectives:

• The idea of "enduring questions" and "supplementary questions" that have been developed for Stats NZ (2013) for environmental data. That is, questions that won't really change over time, but the way they are answered (under a particular structure) and the datasets used, does change. Questions start simply (high level, e.g. "where is all the agricultural land"), but can become increasingly complex as we interrogate datasets (e.g. farm type and management practice). Enduring questions can be developed under an economic, environmental, social, or cultural lens.
• The idea of starting from a whakataukī, of which Garth has given several examples.

[brandonnodnarb]

Yeah, the enduring questions perspective crystallized a few things for me.

I think it also supports starting with a minimalist set of 'top' level categories--e.g. Urban, Agriculture, Coastal, off-shore...there are two others which I cannot for the life of me remember. Anyway. I'm not suggesting these categories are useful, in and of themselves, all together at the same time, but the do provide a base by which one can reach the features and concepts of interest (at whichever level of detail is warranted).