[Sigia-l] Facetted Browsing Discovery Tools from the 1980's

[Kathryn La Barre]

Steve Pollitt's work with view based systems was a classic example of
early faceted browse in the 1980s (one of the better known
implementations was Hibrowse for Embase). He and his team worked
through CeDar at the Polytechnic of Huddersfield .
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue4/cedar/ You can see his system
developing further here: Pollitt, A. Steven. (1998). The key role of
classification and indexing in view-based searching. International
Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control (27)2, 37-40.
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla63/63polst.pdf He took this work to his
company View-based systems. Very interested to discuss this further
offline, as I have a good grasp of this area (early faceted systems)
and am preparing a detailed literature review in this area for the
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

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Kathryn La Barre
Assistant Professor
GSLIS/ UIUC