[Sigia-l] Faceted Classification

[Donna Marie Fritzsche]

I really don't see what is so new about all of this.
(If I understand what you are saying correctly - what is the best example?)
This type of functionality had been available in the computer
science/AI world/visualization world forever.  While it might be new 
to the web-world, I certainly
don't think the ideas behind it are unexplored in other paradigms. 
For instance, I designed and programmed trading systems that fetched 
deals and other trading objects using much the same functionality 
(and more) as that on imdb.com or tower records,com .   I did it 
years ago in a client-server environment interfaced to a Syabase 
database, on a NeXT Computer.  It was good work, but it wasn't the 
only example of such work.

I think that sometimes one discipline in this group does not speak 
the language of
another discipline and we end up reinventing and renaming concepts 
way too often.
We all come from different disciplines that  have built  and used 
many of the same concepts, we just use them slightly differently or 
call them something different.

Lets  try to give or point to definitions and examples when we use 
discipline specific terms.
I personally have found that  many of  concepts  that the library 
science world uses,
I have known and used for years, I just didn't  know "their" terminology.

Since creating a shared  knowledge base is important,  I think it 
would benefit the group to assume that a certain set of techniques 
have been used (there is alot of *great* work out there that many 
people have probably not seen - Ziya does a particularly good job of 
pointing it out - and I will try to do so also, unfortunately many of 
the references are not always available online.)

Thanks for your consideration,

Donna








At 12:04 PM -0400 7/11/02, Christopher Fahey [askrom] wrote:
>  > Maybe the new and exciting thing here is that faceted
>>  classification is being exposed to the user via
>>  navigation design.
>
>Good point. There certainly is an opportunity for interface design
>innovation in exploiting metadata to build more powerful navigation
>(rather than search-based or single-hierarchy) interfaces.
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>-Cf
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>[christopher eli fahey]
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