Investigating catalogue structures

As one method of investigation, I have begun mapping the layouts of different kinds of catalogues, and plan next to use these one-step-removed diagrams as ready-made structures to catalogue different information in new ways. For example, re-cataloguing/narrating a series of facebook photos through one of the above maps, or exploring a particular collection of items through the windows created by these catalogue structures.

The Book of the Future

Hendrickson in his article the Future of the Book states: 

"that as an industry, we should try to build a list of important concepts, features, and ideas that will help us all work towards building The Book of the Future." 

How might we address these in consideration of the output of our project?

1. Easy-to-use authoring tools that enable content creation and distribution
1. We have experienced this from the extreme design limitations in Apple Pages. The offset being the automatic/built-in accessibility features. This compromise is most apparent in the user's ability to customize the typography of the work. font size (not a trivial matter for the visually impaired), style and justification  (the majority of users would likely choose based on personal and culturally driven aesthetics rather than design best practices).
2. What does the equipment do well and how do we take full advantage of it?
2. Readily available in all formats
1. I want it on all my devices. Might be better to say that I want it in all/preferred contexts.
3. Continuous Updates (more tech-oriented and some non-fiction)
1. Mutability. Real-time revisions.
4. Rich media integration
1. Trans-media narratives.
5. Socially and personally connects readers to publisher/author/community
1. Holonarchy over hierarchy.
6. Engages the distracted and partial attention society
1. Packet knowledge.
7. Written and translated simultaneously
1. Collaborative processes, multiple authors
8. Gamification features
1. Expansion of what is narrative
9. Access from the source
1. Holonarchy over hierarchy.
10. Culture, staffing, and innovation
1. BRB
11. Open source
1. Holonarchy over hierarchy.
12. Priced fairly
1. BUSINESS

Hybridity

Our repeated use of hybrid has rendered it a bit opaque to me, so I revisited the dictionary.

Hybrid

Etymology

Known in English since 1601, but rare before c.1850. From Latin hybrida, a variant of ibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”), of unsure origin, possibly (a) somehow related to Ancient Greek ὕβρις (hybris, “outrage”)^[1], or (b) < the roots ús (“sow”) and ibro (“wild boar”)^[2]

Might we ask in what ways is a hybrid an outrage? A bastard? Or maybe, instead it is a kind of

Cultivar (plural cultivars)

A cultivated variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.