diff --git a/config/initializers/avo.rb b/config/initializers/avo.rb
index c42ddbca2dfe0f48991e6b78c52ece3bbb9f7649..5fb33bbe762df446dfb48a6ab4c569c2de923e7e 100644
--- a/config/initializers/avo.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/avo.rb
@@ -148,51 +148,62 @@ Avo.configure do |config|
       dashboard :home
     end
 
-    section "Basics" do
-      resource :actor_types
-      resource :actors
-      resource :copyrights
-      resource :image_sizes
-      resource :literature
-      resource :texts
+    section "Backoffice Management" do
+      resource :users, visible: -> {
+        authorize current_user, User, "index?", raise_exception: false
+      }
     end
 
     section "Samples" do
-      resource :gazetteers
-      resource :archaeometry_analysis
       resource :samples
     end
 
-    section "Sample Attributes" do
+    section "Petrography" do
+      resource :archaeometry_analysis
+    end
+
+    section "Location Data" do # apprentice (no-delete)
+      resource :gazetteers
+      resource :phases
+      resource :types
+    end
+
+    section "Object Data" do # apprentice (no-delete)
       resource :analysis_methods
-      resource :colours
       resource :forms
       resource :fragmentations
+      resource :fabric_codes
+      resource :literature
+      resource :vessel_form_types
+      resource :wares
+    end
+
+    # TODO: in a later step: all should get no-delete, no-edit
+    section "Fabric Description" do # apprentice (no-delete)
+      resource :colours
       resource :frequencies
       resource :hardnesses
-      resource :sample_status
       resource :sortings
       resource :sphericities
       resource :surfaces
+      resource :texts
       resource :textures
-      resource :vessel_form_types
       resource :voids_forms
-      resource :wares
-      resource :fabric_codes
-      resource :image_colors
     end
 
-    section "Site Attributes" do
-      resource :certainties
-      resource :phases
-      resource :types
+    section "Image Data" do # apprentice (no-delete)
+      resource :image_colors
+      resource :image_sizes
     end
 
-    section "Management" do
-      resource :users, visible: -> {
-        authorize current_user, User, "index?", raise_exception: false
-      }
+    section "Actors" do # apprentice (no-delete)
+      resource :actor_types
+      resource :actors
     end
+
+    # resource :sample_status # TODO: will be removed
+    # resource :certainties # TODO: will be removed
+    # resource :copyrights # TODO: probably can be removed
   }
 end