[Sigia-l] Re: Faceted Classification

[Laura Norvig]

There still appears to be some control here, working from what 
librarians call an authority list. For example, note that there are 
56 entries with the building name Angkor Wat (I *love* the fact that 
they tell you how many items are associated with each term). Someone 
took the care to ensure that alternate spellings of Angkor Wat were 
not allowed.


At 2:14 PM -0400 7/11/02, Christopher Fahey [askrom] wrote:
>Sometimes, faceted classification can go a little too far:
>
>http://flamenco.sims.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flamenco/production/FrankenMat
>rix?action=categorylist&group=object
>
>I think this is a great example (or rather, a counter-example) of why a
>*controlled* vocabulary is important. The field "Building Name" is
>clearly one which should not be exposed as a navigable facet, since
>apparently you can enter anything you want into the field.
>
>-Cf
>
>Christopher Fahey
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