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Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! - Making Sense of It All

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:25:45 -0800

Lars Garshol, Development Manager at Ontopia posted a fantastic article on the relationships between different classification tools - topic maps, ontologies, taxonomies, and more. Well worth the read, since it's a clear explanation that separates similar concepts that too often get muddled.

How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web

Sat, 10 Jan 2004 05:25:14 -0800

William Denton has released a well written paper on faceted classification for the web, created for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. Here's a bit about what you might expect to learn:

This paper will attempt to bridge the gap by giving procedures and advice on all the steps involved in making a faceted classification and putting it on the web. Web people will benefit by having a rigorous seven-step process to follow for creating faceted classifications, and librarians will benefit by understanding how to store such a classification on a computer and make it available on the web. The paper is meant for both webmasters and information architects who do not know a lot about library and information science, and librarians who do not know a lot about building databases and web sites. The classifications are meant for small or medium-sized sets of things, meant to go on public or private web sites, when there is a need to organize items for which no existing classification will do.

Putting Facets on the Web: An Annotated Bibliography

Fri, 31 Oct 2003 04:18:32 -0800

William Denton's annotated bibliography covers the design faceted classification systems for the World Wide Web.

Dublin Core 2003: Seattle, WA

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:53:25 -0700

The Dublin Core 2003 Conference is currently going on in Seattle this week. A couple of the attendees and I will be sharing our notes(and photos) when we've recovered(it's actually still going on). But until then, enjoy the conference proceedings online.

Keyword extraction and facet analysis for email archives

Mon, 12 May 2003 10:59:20 -0700

Kathryn La Barre and Chris Dent have been experimenting with computational methods for creating a faceted access structure of the Unrev-II mailing list archives.

The email archive of the unrev-ii list is the basis for this ongoing project, to build an access tool for an email archive that also functions as a knowledge repository. Methods utilized in future iterations of the project will include traditional semantic analysis, clustering algorithms, and facet analysis.
They have a preliminary prototype available, and have published a paper.

Chris' project page and Kathryn's project page offer more detail about the project and their hopes for their work. (thanks Bootstrap Alliance)

Data visualization through facets

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:35:52 -0700

Pointed out by Steve Mulder on SIGIA: Iokio has a demo of a product selection tool that uses different facets to choose a digital camera. Sliders allow the user to adjust cost, weight, and resolution with real time feedback on available models. Thanks to Joe, who discovered a direct link to their Camera Finder Demo.

Why you need your very own taxonomy.

Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:46:01 -0800

Tom Smith has a great introductory article on Why You Need Your Own Taxonomy. Useful for explaining taxonomies and facets to management or clients.

A Simplified Model for Facet Analysis

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:34:11 -0800

AIfIA has republished Dr. Louise Spiteri's article "A Simplified Model for Facet Analysis".

Introduction to XFML

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:19:37 -0800

Peter published an article on XML.com that describes what XFML is and how to use it. Nice work, Peter.

BC Vickery up for grabs

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:46:43 -0800

I Found a facsimile of Brian Campbell Vickery's Faceted Classification Schemes on Alibris. It would be truly excellent if someone could get the Vickery books (or excerpts of them) to be repro'd at a place that delivers. I just ordered a loan of this one from my corporate library.

Faceted search

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:06:37 -0800

This page on Search Tools attempts to summarize how facets might be used in search.

Diving more deeply into facets

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:11:06 -0800

How do you say faceted classification in Italiano? Classificazione/indicizzazione a faccette. One of the small facts I've culled out of the faceted classfication list.

Discussion is heating up a little and Kathry La Barre is dropping science on us. The great advantage in having PhDs and doctoral students discussing on the list is that a thorough understanding of the facet analysis and classification literature can inform practice. Already there is a great need to really define and understand what facet analysis is, what facet classification is, how they are done, etc. This is one case where I think it is necessary to be pedantic because I fear that misunderstanding of the terms may result in incompletely executed implementations that call themselves faceted classification systems. Before we start to throw these terms around liberally in meetings with decision makers, we should be sure we know what we are talking about and be able to answer the most basic as well as the more difficult questions about what facet analysis and classification is and how it will positively effect the user experience.

New mailing list for faceted classification

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 05:34:24 -0800

Peter Van Dijk (Poor But Happy) and Phil Murray (Knowledge Management Connection) are starting a discussion group on faceted classification.

All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:07:25 -0800

Karl Fast, Fred Leise and Mike Steckel have started a series of articles on Boxes and Arrows to make facetted classification and controlled vocabularies accessible to practicing IA's without LIS backgrounds. Look forward to it.

This is XFML

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:19:52 -0800

Mark Pilgrim dives into XFML, with a nice description of how XFML can be used to describe content from different points of view, like looking into the center of a gemstone from each of its multiple faces (facets). As with the concept of topic maps, this example illustrates how description can be done post content publishing when you use a format like XFML.