Hi all! I'm interesting in faceted classification applications in the e-Gov field. Is there anybody here who know special schemas developed for that purpose or...
Luca Rosati
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Feb 9, 2004 2:44 pm
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"[Frank Exner = Little Bear : Jan 7] It doesn't hurt that one of my most exiting teachers was Dr. MA Gopinath, SR Ranganathan's last assistant." Hi Little...
"[Marcel van M : Jan 13] Do you know of software that allows the cooperation between a machine (that generates metadata) and humans (that tweak the output)? " ...
Greetings Claudio. I'll let Little Bear address your questions about Gopinath's research, but I wanted to tell the list a bit more about the Indian Center to...
I am new to this list. I would appreciate your comments on the paper " Faceted Indexing based System for Organizing and Accessing Internet Resources"....
""" [Andy Schriever : Jan 8] one can apply the power of the RDBMS query engine to knowledge representation techniques such as semantic networks, class and...
Andy, You may also find some of the work going on at Endeca quite interesting. We have developed a library interface that uses a faceted interpretation of the...
Matt Eichner
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Feb 23, 2004 4:39 pm
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""" [Marcel van M : Jan 13] 1. does it make sense to turn automatically generated metadata into faceted metadata? 2. Does it require humans to determine what...
Browsing through the archive, it seems to be the custom to introduce oneself Hi, I'm Alan and I'm a ... Well I'm not entirely sure what I am now. I was a...
... Matt, I think there's interest for sure (me for one). Feel free to send them to me if you'd like me to put them up for download on my site. Cheers, Peter...
Indeed. Every month or three I ask the newbies to introduce themselves. So everyone who hasn't done so yet and feels like it, please introduce yourself and...
I was wondering if anybody else on the list would be attending this weekend. I'll be there presenting a case study on the faceted navigation system we built...
As someone who has recently joined this list I am seeking some information from people who have pragmatic experience implementing faceted classifications - but...
Hello: I suggest you take a look at my faceted classification approach at http://one-world-is.com/beam. It provides a six faceted taxonomy of natural/human...
All, Matt Eichner, work in a software company based in Cambridge called Endeca. I was for part of my life the guy who spent a little too much time in libraries...
Matt Eichner
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Feb 25, 2004 12:59 pm
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Bill, Your question is great. I faced a similar problem when creating a faceted approach to library systems navigation. The 600's subject data fields, for ...
Matt Eichner
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Feb 25, 2004 1:21 pm
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... In my experience (in particular working on a clinical incident reporting system), I found this depends very much on the nature of the information ...
Hi Bill, The advice we got from a consultant who helped us build our faceted thesaurus was to keep the number of terms/subfacets within any one level of a...
Bill, I am a strange kid here on the block since I know little about library science nor am I strong in IT. My trade is human factors, cognitive psychology,...
All, Thanks for all the interest in the Library example of faceted classification and navigation I mentioned. I've been asked by my company not to post the ...
Matt Eichner
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Feb 26, 2004 12:52 pm
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I concur fully with Marcel's comments. I, too, have a bit of ergonomic/human-factor and cognitive science viewpoint, along with my management focus and IT...
Matt and Claudio: Thanks for the information -- very useful! Regarding Matt's question about the use of relational databases -- I'd like to share some...
Andrew- While I would agree with you that reusability of information architectural components is crucial for their use throughout an enterprise, I believe it...
I concur with Bradley's statements. RDBMS are challenged to handle all of the "dimensions" needed for any architecture, because of all of the types or...
Hi, I've noted that, in spite of the size of this list, introductions seem to be expected (or at least they are called for periodically), so here we go. :) I'm...
And everybody who told me privately they would introduce themselves on this list can take this as their cue to do so. You know who you are! :) Peter...
Dear colleague-facet-lovers, How do you explain faceted interfaces to others? More or less, I use two metaphors: 1. During war the various ground defence...
Marcel, What you are describing are the various intersections of a Venn diagram [search Google for abundant information on the concept]. I have used Venn...
