This proposed structure aims to take advantage of the dynamic nature of Plone's object-oriented architecture in order to better understand the ways in which information can be organized and circulated by, through and across various communities of practice.

One goal of the Asthma Files involves understanding the ways in which information circulates among and across communities of practice. Namely, the Asthma Files is designed in a way to allow a better understanding of the informational practices of two distinct communities of practice. One such community is formed of collaborative researchers who actively work on the Asthma Files project in order to better understand asthma culturally, environmentally and biologically while the other community is composed of members of the public who are looking for information concerning asthma care, etiology and conceptualization. As such, this proposed organizational structure for the Asthma Files website attempts to take advantage of the capabilities of the Plone content management system in order to better understand the ways in which information can be stored, circulated and utilized by, across and between communities of practices. The organizational structure is designed in a way that pays particular attention to the dynamic nature of information technologies in order to understand how the medium of cyberspace impacts cross-disciplinary collaborative practices.

Object-Oriented Architecture
As a technology of information, Plone is characterized by it's object-oriented architecture. This allows Plone to bypass simple linear hierarchical organization in favor of a dynamic allocation of space where each element of the database can be dynamically reorganized without collapsing the entire structure cohesiveness of the entire website. As such, Plone's object-oriented architecture is particularly well suited to studies of cross-disciplinary collaboration and information circulation. Because each element of the database is able to act as a quasi-independent node of the network, new organizations and associations can be easily formed, added and tracked.

At the user level, this object-oriented architecture manifests itself through the Plone organizational system of collections and tags. Tags are associative markers that are used to classify particular pages into a category. A single page can be marked by a multiplicity of tags, thereby being associated dynamically to a large number of relevant categories. Collections, on the other hand, represent the dynamic receptacles to which the tags are associated. Where viewing a collection, users will be able to access a list of all of the individual files that are marked by the tag associated with the collection under scrutiny. This particular organizational form allows a particular file to be associated and circulated in multiple location, through multiple channels and for multiple purposes without it ever being duplicated or removed from its place of storage. As such, my tracking the addition and subtraction of tags, it is possible to track the ways in which the information is circulated.

Public Front End and Private Back End
A key component of the proposed organizational structure is the artificial division between a public front end and a private back end. The front end will be composed almost entirely of dynamic collections in order to leverage the object-oriented capabilities of Plone while the back end will be composed of static folders and will act as a repository for the individual pages that are part of the Asthma Files website.

This imposed division between public and private creates the two communities of practice that are the focus of the Asthma File's information circulation study and forces particular pathways along which information can circulate from public to private. As such, the division allows a study of the ways in which such pathways are transgressed and the ways in which new pathways are created. Asthma Files researchers will primarily be interacting in the private back end in order to create content. However, they will also be involved with the front end when they associate the created files to particular public collections. As such, the division between public and private allows an exploration of the ways in which Asthma Files researchers conceptualize information circulation as well as information association. The division allows an epistemological exploration of the reasons why particular information is made public or remains private.

On the other hand, website viewers will primarily be involved with the public front end of the website. Website viewers will not be able to create individual pages; most of their interaction with the Asthma Files website will consist of viewing the information being presented and also potentially commenting on the pages in order to initiate conversations engendered by the pages. However, viewers also will be able to act at the level of information circulation  and back end through the creation of personal collections store in their own personal folders. They will be able to create personalized tags in order to create dynamic collections of files for personal consultation. However, these new viewer-formed collections also will be accessible to the wider Asthma Files community through the tag cloud that displays tag use and importance. As such, it will be possible to study the ways in which new associations when viewers circulate the pages from the public front end to the private back end.