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Re: [Sigia-l] Faceted approach applied to content
From: Donna M. Fritzsche (donnamarie_at_amichi.info)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2003 - 14:41:25 EST
I would definitely agree, and as Marcia pointed out, as long as you
have flexible, modular underlying software, there is nothing keeping
you from browsing in the same manner that Travis and Marcia describe.
While, aesthetically pleasing, strict hierarchical classification
only make sense when its inherent to the content for a given
context, or one needs to physically place the object in one place (as
in a library or store shelf or static browsing structure). The
strength of dynamic software is that you can put object where you
need it (in a browsing structure), when you need it (because a user
followed a specific branch in a taxonomy.)
Of course, as Fred pointed out, care should be taken to make sure
your vocabularies aren't too fuzzy - you don't want unnecessary
overlap.
Donna
At 2:12 PM -0500 11/16/03, Tanya Rabourn wrote:
> > It's not a no-no; you should do whatever most clearly connects your users
>> to the resources. But consider that you'd be defeating the purpose of
>> faceted classification if you assign multiple values.
>
>Are you sure about that, Travis? I'm under the impression that the
>the mutual exclusivity rule means that you should never construct
>a scheme where a value could exist under more than one
>facet/attribute. Once you have a properly constructed scheme,
>applying more than one value to the object you're indexing is
>fine. I think Donna gave us an excellent example.
>
>-Tanya
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