RE: [unrev-II] faceted classification

From: Alex Shapiro (alex@touchgraph.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 09:11:37 PDT

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    Feature definition for cased based reasoning?  Sounds interesting... Link?

    And saying that something can be placed into a database does miss the point (I think).  Lots of data structures could be placed into a database.  The interesting thing is how the structure maps to the data, not how the structure could be represented in a database.

    Here are two more links:  The first is to a site called InfoDesign which "provides information designers with up-to-date information and communication facilities on aspects of the growing field of Information Design. Its main objective is to collect, structure and disclose relevant resources."
    http://www.bogieland.com/infodesign/

    Lot's of useful links here, including some to Douglas Engelbarts work, and one also, a further description of Faceted classification http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr517/winter2000/Group7/facet.htm

    --Alex

    At 04:36 PM 9/28/01 +0100, you wrote:

    Faceted classification sounds a lot like the sort of feature definition that
    gets done when defining cases in case-based reasoning, and even like plain
    old fashioned relational databases. (Or did I miss the point?) If so
    experience in these fields might give pointers on how to do it well.

    Dr Victoria Uren
    KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
    Tel: +44 (0) 1908 858516
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/victoria/
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/



    > -----Original Message-----
    > From:      Alex Shapiro [SMTP:alex@touchgraph.com]
    > Sent:      Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:29 AM
    > To:      unrev-II@yahoogroups.com
    > Subject:      [unrev-II] faceted classification
    >
    > Read more at http://peterme.com/archives/00000063.html  --Alex
    >
    > ... faceted classification, one of the most powerful, yet least
    > understood,
    > methods of organizing information.
    >
    > Faceted classification, on the other hand, is a bottom-up scheme. Here,
    > each object is tagged with a certain set of attributes and values (these
    > are the facets), and the organization of these objects emerges from this
    > classification, and how a user chooses to access them. Toys, for example,
    > lend themselves to a faceted classification, with the facets being things
    > like, "Suitable Age," "Price," "Subject Type," "Brand," and even
    > "Character" (like Barbie or Elmo).
    >

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