[Sigia-l] Marcia Bates on Web-era information retrieval

[christina wodtke]

> > gosh faceted classification is easy and better! why doesn't
> > everyone doing
> > it?
>
> Easier?  Easier on the user or on the developer?  It's certainly NOT
easier
> building faceted classifications.  (

sorry, forgot to use the irony tag.

faceted classification is hard work
http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/002780.html


Something we have not discussed about FC is whether it is easier, harder or
about the same for an end-user to comprehend. There are a bunch of factors
in that, I'm sure like type of search, type of content-body etc, but I'd
love to hear anecdotes if anyone has 'em.

Do people grok FC? Do people even think about classification systems enough
to form a mental model when in information retrieval mode?