headers
Claudio Gnoli | 3 May 2004 18:40
Picon

Citation order

Aida, you provided a great explanation about notation for 
common auxiliaries/facet combination, and you are right
that UDC is a more appropriate system to provide examples
of it.

"b) citation order.... is the rule of order between facets that
enables compound and complex concept building. This is purely
intellectual and arbitrary for each system in-spite strong 
similarities" (Nested facets / Aida Slavic)

Well, I suspect that Ranganathan and CRG people would not 
stay indifferent while hearing about "arbitariness" :-)  Actually 
-- as you know -- they did search good general principles for 
citation order... Ranganathan claimed that the sequence

	personality, matter, energy, space, time

has an order or "decreasing concreteness", though this
can be said to be quite abstract and vague... CRG developed 
on this to define a greater number of fundamental categories 
(broad facets), and I believe they defined it on the basis 
both of practice and of linguistic theory of cases...

As for UDC citation order

	subject, time, place, form, language

I am ignorant, but would like to know more about its origin. 
Of course we have to keep in mind here that UDC was 
originally not faceted, and that the facets you mention are,
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 1 comment |
headers
PeterV | 4 May 2004 01:05

RE: Citation order


>  Generally speaking, my feeling is that citation order is
>  a key feature of faceted classification which is often 
>  neglected in digital applications. Though it's true that 
>  information retrieval technologies allow people to find 
>  a facet no matter where it is positioned within a subject 
>  string (so that we do not need "chain procedure" anymore),
>  I believe it can still be important in displaying and 
>  browsing sorted lists of large numbers of items...

Could you elaborate a bit more on the experience of the library science
folks (I believe you are one?) on this ordering, and how it might
influence the things we do on the web? I find this interesting!

Cheers,
Peter

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark
Printer at MyInks.com.  Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada.
http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511
http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/0bmwlB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

----------
Thanks for playing. 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/facetedclassification/
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Phil Murray | 12 May 2004 14:14

Free downloads of Issue 1 of BRAKOR

The first issue of The Barrington Report on Advanced Knowledge Organization
and Retrieval (BRAKOR) is now available for free downloading at
http://www.KMconnection.com in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

The theme of the inaugural issue is knowledge organization and faceted
classification.

The first issue features the following articles and departments:

* Why knowledge organization plays a key role in enterprise productivity and
competitiveness (Philip C. Murray)

* Analysis of the role of bibliographic classification in emerging
enterprise knowledge organization requirements (Claudio Gnoli)

* A review of BlueBox's Image Information Toolkit (David Riecks)

* Perspective on trends evident at the DC2003 conference (Joseph Tennis)

* A review of Endeca's ProFind Search and Guided Navigation for the
Enterprise (Philip C. Murray)

* The first installment of "The terminology of knowledge organization," an
effort to build a reference vocabulary for the multi-disciplinary domain of
knowledge organization

* Upcoming events in knowledge organization (both commercial and academic)

* News items of interest in the domain of enterprise knowledge organization
and integration
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Claudio Gnoli | 12 May 2004 15:55
Picon

Citation order

"[PeterV]  Could you elaborate a bit more on the experience of 
the library science folks (I believe you are one?) on this ordering, 
and how it might influence the things we do on the web?"

Yes I confess I am one of those LIS folks :-)

Let's use examples from FATKS, which are available online
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/fatks/classification_system.htm#citation>.

Class 590 "Religion" includes:

	5904	"Buddhism"

and has among its facets:

	E	"Agents of religion", including:
	E31	"originator, founder, central figure of the faith"

	A	"Theory and philosophy of religion", including:
	A443 	"physical form, appearance"

So, if you want to express the concept
"physical form of the Buddha", you will have to 
combine 5904 with the other two facets. 
But, do you have to write them as 5904 A443 E31,
or as 5904 E31 A443 ? The way in which you write it
will affect the position of this concept in the browsable
list of all concepts.

Now, rules for citation order in FATKS (which are
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
bernard chabot | 26 May 2004 21:42
Picon

From resource characterization to facet values

Hello,

Is it possible with XFML to use the *same set of facet values* for
characterize *a given kind of resource* with *differents semantic*

For instance : 

Exemple 1 : 
 - A set of facet values = "geographical places"
 - Kind of resource = "journey technical sheet"
 - Semantics : "place to start" / "place to go" / "place to ..."

Exemple 2 : 
 - A set of facet values = "people"
 - Kind of resource = "music"
 - Semantics : "author" / "music composer" / "singer"

Exemple 3 : 
 - A set of facet value = "kind of process" (thermic, mecanic, ...)
 - Kind of resource = "ingredient"
 - Semantics : "main operation" / "secondary operation" / ...

Regards

Bernard Chabot
PCO Technologies

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 
Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70
http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/0bmwlB/TM
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |

Gmane