- MIME type / meta data schema / Meta data profile / Processing profile – Anything to do with treatment of assets and their metadata.
- Permissions (ACL).
- Brand, regional and language factors.
- Content life cycle esp. archival requirements.
- Browsing behavior.
- Less changing folders in the top.
- Performance – Not more than 1000 assets / folder. Prefer deep hierarchy than the flat one.
- Consistent hierarchy.