FIELD GUIDE / PUBLIC RESOURCE ORGANIZATION
CATEGORY DESIGN FIELD GUIDE
How to Organize Overlapping Web Resources Without Duplicating Every Link The cleanest way to organize resources that fit several categories is to give each item one primary home and add lightweight cross-references wherever another reader might reasonably look. This preserves a single record to maintain while still supporting multiple ways of finding it. Categories should represent reader tasks, not every characteristic a resource happens to have.
PRIMARY HOME
CROSS-REFERENCES
RETRIEVAL TESTS
Prepared 20 August 2026