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In general, the following can be said:
- Portal: helps you move through content
- navigation layer
- Hub: helps you explore the scene
- exploration layer
- Index: helps you find specific data
- lookup layer
- Guide: helps you understand a topic
- understanding layer
- Archive: helps preserve history for you
- time/history layer
- Database: helps maintain live structured information for you
- structured truth layer
- Ranking: helps present information in an objective or subjective manner for you
- evaluation layer
Layers can reference and feed into each other:
- portal connects you to guides & hubs -> discovery
- hubs connect across all the above -> exploration pathways
- index interacts with the database -> structured lookup
- archive provides historical context to support guides -> credibility
- database can feed rankings -> structured evaluation
With that in mind, many of the entries below may fit into multiple criteria above