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

[Jared M. Spool]

Kathyrn,

Wonderful help. Thanks!

I'll let you know if the team wants to discuss this further. (That's  
very likely.)

Jared


On Jun 26, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Kathryn La Barre wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Kathryn La Barre
> Assistant Professor
> GSLIS/ UIUC