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William Denton | 5 Jan 2004 05:36
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Essay about making faceted classifications, putting on web

Hi,

Last year I mentioned (to the facetedclassification list) that I was
working on an essay for library school about how to make faceted
classifications.  It's all done and I put it up on my web site in case
anyone's interested:

	http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html

I take Louise Spiteri's stripped-down set of principles, based on
Ranganathan's and the CRG's canons and so on, and set out a seven-step
method for making a new classification.  Please bear in mind I've never
actually made one.  One thing I had fun with was coming up with a fresh
example to demonstrate the method I propose for making a classification.
I use ... dishwashing detergents.  A faceted system suits them very
nicely.

Some people on both lists are cited.  Thanks to those who had a suggestion
for me last year, and thanks to everyone on the lists for such interesting
discussions.

Happy new year,

Bill
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PeterV | 6 Jan 2004 01:58

RE: Essay about making faceted classifications, putting on web


Thanks for the heads-up William. Good paper!
Peter

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PeterV | 7 Jan 2004 00:36

New year introductions


Since our last round of introductions, quite a lot of interesting people
have joined the group (I know, I have to approve them all).

If you are new, please take a moment to write a short introduction to
yourself: who you are, where to find out more, why you're interested in
an obscure topic like faceted classification.

And welcome to all the new people! Who goes first?

Cheers,
Peter

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mail | 7 Jan 2004 09:02
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Re: New year introductions


Hello,

here is Jürgen Schiel from Stuttgart, Germany student in the field of
informationdesign. At that time I am on an internship at Fraunhofer
Institute for research. I am interested in faceted classification in
conjunction with my research.

I wish all on this list a Happy New Year!

find out more about me at http://www.juergenschiel.de (in german only)

regards Jürgen Schiel

PeterV <peter <at> poorbuthappy.com> schrieb am 07.01.2004, 00:36:13:
> 
> Since our last round of introductions, quite a lot of interesting people
> have joined the group (I know, I have to approve them all).
> 
> If you are new, please take a moment to write a short introduction to
> yourself: who you are, where to find out more, why you're interested in
> an obscure topic like faceted classification.
> 
> And welcome to all the new people! Who goes first?
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
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Matt Mower | 7 Jan 2004 11:34

Re: New year introductions

PeterV wrote:
> Since our last round of introductions, quite a lot of interesting people
> have joined the group (I know, I have to approve them all).
> 
> If you are new, please take a moment to write a short introduction to
> yourself: who you are, where to find out more, why you're interested in
> an obscure topic like faceted classification.
> 

I'm Matt Mower, I work at Evectors software (http://www.evectors.com/) 
where we are developing new tools and methodologies for collecting, 
organising, and making sense of knowledge.  When I find the time I also 
write a weblog http://matt.blogs.it/

A little over a year ago I wrote a personal topic mapping tool for 
weblogs called liveTopics which was able to export XFML maps of weblog 
posts (among other things).  More recently I am a co-developer of 
K-Collector which is an enterprise knowledge organisation tool.

K-Collector uses faceted topic maps as a central part of the sense 
making framework.  I use the term 'faceted' in the XFML sense of 
"mutually exclusive containers that contain hierarchies of topics."

We have a public portal available at http://w4.evectors.it/

Regards,

Matt

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Hebbertt De Farias | 7 Jan 2004 14:36
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New year introductions

I'm Hebbertt De Farias, I'm a Library and Information Sciences student at University of Brasília,
Brazil. In my research group we are developing new methodologies for  Web Semantic ontologies with
faceted classification.

Regards

Hebbertt

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Marcel van Mackelenbergh | 7 Jan 2004 15:43
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RE: New year introductions

Hi Peter and others,

Thanks for having me in this group. My name is Marcel van Mackelenbergh,
I am from the Netherlands and I work independent. My business is
usability. I am interested how information can improve the performance
of people. In my last knowledge management job at Lucent Technologies, I
learned that the best knowledge management can be obtained when you ask
the experts to create a taxonomy, let's say a structure that helps
people to find information. However, there is also a usability side to
taxonomies. I am trying to set up a discipline that tells people how to
create and test taxonomies (metadata) from a user (usability) point of
view. Therefore I am very interested in articles like the one from
William Denton.

Faceted classifications are for me a must-have. I don't see how I can
combine more than one point of view on information without using a
faceted classification. For example, if I want to support both experts
and novices to use the same information resources, I must have a faceted
classification, there is no way around that.

Today I got the help of Bradley P. Allen to use Seamark to test a
taxonomy on wine. I created this taxonomy to test the usability
principles I layed down in 
http://members.home.nl/mackelenbergh/how_to_create_metadata.htm
and another very useful guideline from acm.org:
 <http://www.acm.org/class/how_to_use.html>
http://www.acm.org/class/how_to_use.html
especially guideline 6: "something only falls under a category when it
explains something about that category."  "Having to do with it" is not
enough to put information in a category. I found that very helpful when
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David Gammel | 7 Jan 2004 16:08
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Re: New year introductions

Hi Everyone,

My name is David Gammel and I head up the web publishing and knowledge
management/sharing efforts at the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association in Washington DC. ASHA is a membership society and
certifying body for speech-language pathologists and audiologists in the
US. 

ASHA has a faceted thesaurus of terms that we use for indexing our
content, products, and services. We do not yet provide a faceted
browsing tool for our web site but I hope we will do so one day (perhaps
using XFML!).

I write a weblog (http://www.highcontext.com/) that is ostensibly about
the web and membership associations but tends to be more about the web
and KM. I also created the KMpings trackback service
(http://www.highcontext.com/kmpings/) for knowledge management writers
to use a central tracking mechanism for KM posts.

-David

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Since our last round of introductions, quite a lot of interesting
people
have joined the group (I know, I have to approve them all).

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yourself: who you are, where to find out more, why you're interested
in
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Alex Wright | 7 Jan 2004 18:35

RE: Digest Number 99

Hi all,

I'm Alex Wright, an IA/UX consultant in San Francisco, currently working
under contract with Yahoo!  I have an M.S. in library science, and
worked as an academic librarian for 6 years before switching gears to
doing Web work back in 1995.

Although I've worked on a couple of basic facet mapping exercises for
past clients, I consider myself mostly a beginner with this topic.  I'm
looking forward to following the discussion, and hopefully to
contributing at some point down the line.

regards,
alex
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Vinko Vrsalovic | 7 Jan 2004 18:42
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New Year Presentation

Hi.

I'm Vinko, a MSc student of computer science at Pontificia Universidad
Catolica de Chile. I'm doing research on search methods for software
patterns. During my research I stumbled upon faceted classifications,
and now I'm trying to develop a faceted classification of software
patterns and then implement it in a web application 'a la' FacetMap with
some extra functionalities, such as a web service for interchanging
pattern data in XFML, and some extensions to strict faceted
classifications that make sense for the pattern domain.

The current state of the project is at http://patterns.ing.puc.cl It's
not quite a faceted classification right now, and I'm in process of 
redoing all of it, starting with the classification. Right now I'm in 
process of constructing the vocabulary from a set of about 50 documents,
which contain about 200 patterns. 

I read in some paper not long ago that there were some formal methods
to define the classifications, not just informal ('experience-based')
ones, but the author did not provide any detail about it. Anybody knows
where can I find references or explanations about these formal methods?

Thanks,
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