[Sigia-l] Faceted approach applied to content

[Donna M. Fritzsche]

I would definitely agree, and as Marcia pointed out, as long as you 
have flexible, modular underlying software, there is nothing keeping 
you from browsing in the same manner that Travis and Marcia describe.

While, aesthetically pleasing, strict hierarchical classification 
only make sense when its inherent to the content  for a given 
context, or one needs to physically place the object in one place (as 
in a library or store shelf or static browsing structure).  The 
strength of dynamic software is that you can put object where you 
need it (in a browsing structure), when you need it (because a user 
followed a specific branch in a taxonomy.)

Of course, as Fred pointed out, care should be taken to make sure 
your vocabularies aren't too fuzzy - you don't want unnecessary 
overlap.

Donna


At 2:12 PM -0500 11/16/03, Tanya Rabourn wrote:
>  > It's not a no-no; you should do whatever most clearly connects your users
>>  to the resources. But consider that you'd be defeating the purpose of
>>  faceted classification if you assign multiple values.
>
>Are you sure about that, Travis? I'm under the impression that the
>the mutual exclusivity rule means that you should never construct
>a scheme where a value could exist under more than one
>facet/attribute. Once you have a properly constructed scheme,
>applying more than one value to the object you're indexing is
>fine. I think Donna gave us an excellent example.
>
>-Tanya
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