[Sigia-l] Peter Morville talk and the costs of faceted classification

[Andrew H Otwell]

On 11/5/02 6:01 PM, "sigia-l-request at asis.org" <sigia-l-request at asis.org>
wrote:

> That got me thinking about Marti's Flamenco project. The art (or
> architecture) described there is a larger info space than wine, but
> still somewhat contained, and perhaps was able to use existing
> keywords adapted from LC.

(Note: I wasn't at Peter's talk where this topic came up.)

I used to work in the Uni of Texas's slide library (about 6 million images),
and so was pretty familiar with the Getty Art and Arch. Thesaurus, which is
partially faceted. Flamenco seemed immediately familiar to me because it's a
subset of that: