... Dave: Just curious. Is that SME, in the sense of "Subject Matter Expert", "Subject Matter Expertise", "Small and Medium Enterprises", "Sales & Marketing...
Dave, The first thing that strikes me regarding your question: I would hope they have more than "good English" skills in India, particularly if you're talking...
Hi Dave, What you are describing is generally known as "indexing," not really "categorizing." Indexers assign appropriate terms from the taxonomy(s) to each ...
Thanks all for your helpful suggestions. The "content type" examples that this community has provided are quite robust that provide a great starting point and...
Invitation Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call. This month's topic is Developing an Ontology. Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009...
Dave, I don't know of an indexing skills test, but how about a traditional reading comprehension test for identifying main topics in a paragraph or two? Some...
I am doing an intro to taxo development webinar next week, and I thought I'd ask the community if there's anything you think librarians really need to know...
Good morning, Matt; The definitive list of primary facets (a facet being defined as a mutually exclusive and exhaustive list of related entities) has nineteen...
In the post...count 'em (19). No references. :~) John O' " The definitive list of primary facets (a facet being defined as a mutually exclusive and exhaustive...
I wouldn't consider a sub-type or category within a facet as a facet. I would count six facets from the list below. Six is a better number anyway for...
Based on my research, and the application of that research to a select few test projects, these nineteen facets are all that are required. By 'definitive' in...
Good observation. The framework is called Q6, and is most easily explained using only the six major facets. However, I have found that technically speaking,...
Hi Stavros; As a method for managing collections, Q6 is based on Ranganathan's system of classification. Interestingly, it also has a loose resemblence to the...
John, I think we'll wait for the white paper. My initial comment is that while your approach seems quite rigorous it also seems a little divorced from the...
Hi Matt As I'm sure you know, I discuss a range of candidates for facets in my book Organising Knowledge. For a very good discussion and some excellent...
Patrick, This is all true but I've a lot of conceptual material around facet methods (how one should construct them, how one should apply them) - what I'm...
Leonard, you raise some of the issues that I believe have been resolved with the development of Q6. BTW, I'm being deliberately provocative here to elicit...
Leonard, all, In the data(base) conceptual modeling arena <Party> is the most frequently used term, as a super-type of both Person and Organisation. See...
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 at 10:01:31, Gabriel Tanase <gabtanase@...> wrote ... Gabriel - Thanks. I have come across this use of <party>, and perhaps it is the ...
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This has been a fascinating discussion, weaving between business uses and theoretical concepts. I'll be summarizing the main points in a blog post next week...
These are not just facets - they are also master data elements that typically end up in data warehouses for business intelligence purposes. Right now we're...
Hey Nick; I'm up for that conversation. Connecting the concepts of faceted classification, master data management and business intelligence is brilliant - and...