[Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges and tomatoes

karl fast karl.fast at pobox.com
Fri Apr 12 21:39:04 EDT 2002


> > But the way I understand faceted taxonomy, you still have mutually
> > exclusive categories within a single facet. The temptation seems to
> > be to place an item under more than one category within a single
> > facet.
> 
> Nono, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but the *facets* should be
> mutually exclusive (like: colours, regions), not the
> things-within-the-facets (how do you call these things anyway?
> like: red, white).

Exactly.

See my other post (it's long) for a full explanation. 


--karl



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