SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: LIS Resources Anyone?
Re: SIGIA-L: LIS Resources Anyone?
From: Locatelli_at_aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 15:59:24 EDT
What you really need to think about are facets. That is what are the
different dimensions or ways of describing the objects in your collection.
>From your example, I'd consider the following facets: language (English,
Japanese), geographic location [of subject] (Japan, Tokyo), subject
(physicist, scientific discoveries). Using those facets (and others as
necessary) as fields in your database, allows users the maximum flexibility
in searching.
You might want to check the chapter in Rowley on faceted classification. See
the citation in the Argus Guide to Information Architecture that follows. [
Rowley, Jennifer and John Farrow. <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0566080478/argusassociatesiA/">Organizing Knowledge: An Introduction to
Managing Access to Information</A>. 3rd ed. (2000)
For the third edition, this standard text on knowledge organization and
retrieval has been extensively revised and restructured to accommodate the
increased significance of electronic information resources.]
In a message dated 6/20/01 3:28:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Shawn.Smith_at_vodafone-us.com writes:
> Say you have a news story, available in English and Japanese, about
> scientific breakthrough involving a physicist in Tokyo. Is it a news story?
> A science story? A Japanese story? Or is the most important thing about it
> the fact that it's available in English and Japanese? All of the above,
> obviously, but what's the best way to manage/catalogue a piece of
> information like this?
>
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