[Sigia-l] Faceted approach applied to content

[kkotwica at cxo.com]

Hi Marcia,

I guess taxonomy is not a good word, I was using it very generically as in
"classification."

Can you further explain what the difference between group of attributes as
opposed to faceted you discuss? I'm still in learning mode. I understand faceted
can also include hierarchies but does not have to (e.g., the wine example Peter
Merholz describes, http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000063.html). I further
thought faceted meant an entity could be described by multiple things
(multifaceted). So I have a piece of content and it's a white paper (from
content type facet/attribute) and it's about knowledge management (from
technology facet/attribute) and it's about outsourcing (from management
facet/attribute). It's each and any combination of those items. One is not more
important than another. I can search (or display) using just white paper, or
just knowledge management or both, etc.