Dopers! Help me with a nine-level naming hierarchy!

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OK, so I’ve been tossed the task of coming up with a naming scheme for a nine-level hierarchy. The process is a series of database directories that organize documents. The bottom level will be the document name itself. But I have to come up with something that is fairly techy/documenty and so forth.

I already pitched choosing something completely off-the-cuff but memorable so we’re stuck with something mundane that at least has to have something to do with documents and such.

What say ye, Dopers? Can you help?

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I don’t envy that job–I’ve struggled with naming problems for even smaller hierarchies.

Can you give us an idea of what the documents are? I’m thinking that something mnemonic would be useful, with the first letter of each level spelling out a memorable nine-letter word.

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Characters --> Words --> Sentences --> Paragraphs --> Pages --> Chapters --> Books --> Shelves --> Stacks (or BookCases)

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I’m stuck at ‘Database Directories’ to begin with. All of our databases are on a single ‘directory’ (well, actually, spread across many disks in arrays).

It would be meaningless to even try to spout off a possible solution without knowing about the actual data and documents, but navigating through 9 levels of directories (and I’m guessing there will be multiple sub-directories under them) seems like sheer, carpal-tunnel hell to me.

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?

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Seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, princedoms, powers, virtues, archangels, and angels?

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Limbo, lust, gluttony, avarice, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud and betrayal?

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We think alike, that’s what I thought of too. I like AHunter3’s idea the best so far.

Then I thought: Life, Domain, Kingdon, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus & Species, but I don’t remember them unless I look them up.

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Pitcher, Catcher, First Base, Second Base, Third Base, Shortstop, Right Field, Center Field, Left Field.

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World, Continent, Country, Province, Municipality, Street, Building, Apartment, Room?

Thgis one can be connected to the Bookshelf hierarchy at the small end and the Planet hierarchy at the large end if you need more levels. :slight_smile:

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Tribe, Genus, Species would be another hierarchy for life forms.

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OK, more info. If we’re going with a metaphor thing it should run around either explosives or document management stuff.

How 'bout it?

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I would go with something totally unoriginal but obvious, such as Level_A, Level_B, Level_C, Level_D, Level_E, Level_F, Level_G… or Level_1, Level_2, Level_3, Level_4, Level_5, Level_6 …

When I compare Level_2 to Level_4 I can immediately tell which level is the “higher” level. If I compare “Class” to “Family” (to take the biological proposal) or “Shelves” to “Stacks” (to take the book example) I have to stop and think for a second.

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stone, copper, bronze, iron, steel, industrial, nuclear, space, information

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spark, smoke, flame, fire, combustion, burn, blaze, conflagration, inferno

fuse, gunpowder, bullet, revolver, rifle, cannon, howitzer, missile, warhead

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Famous library, wing, floor, room, row, bookcase, shelf, book, and character?

Ex: Alexandria, North Wing, Third Floor, Room 5, Bookcase G, Third Shelf, Necronomicon, and C’thul-

Okay, maybe a different character.

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Explosive power
Explosive speed
Explosive growth
Explosive personality
Explosive violence
Explosive information
Explosive sound
Explosive device
Explosive vomiting
Explosive diarrhea

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Who’s your favorite baseball team? Use the names from the lineup for opening day.

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one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine

:smiley:

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How about:

DrNo->FromRussiaWithLove->Goldfinger->Thunderball->YouOnlyLiveTwice->OHMSS->DiamondsAreForever->Live&LetDie->ManWithTheGoldenGun

As long as you like James Bond films (and everyone who matters does! :D) then it’s perfectly logical. :stuck_out_tongue: