Archive for the 'Thesauri' Category
May 15, 2002
Content Filtering with Facets
An article about employing content filters has spawned a very interesting discussion over at boxesandarrows.com. A few people have pointed out work that is being done on building navigation and filtering systems based on faceted metadata. This is very timely information for me since my office is working towards integrating our faceted thesaurus on our web sites as a search tool and an alternate organizational structure.
What isn’t mentioned so far in the discussion over at b&a is that the faceted approach requires a very structured set of metadata terms if the filtering is to be effective. A sloppy set of facets that contain redundant terms or leave significant gaps will not be effective. However, creating an effective faceted thesaurus is NOT easy: starting from scratch, it took several months to create, review and finalize the first version of our faceted thesaurus.
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April 23, 2002
Taxonomy and IA
There is a great interview with Samantha Bailey over on boxesandarrows.com about the relationship between metadata and taxonomies and what they mean for information architecture overall (they start to get into this on the second page of the interview).
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April 16, 2002
Thesauri Management Tools
I came across this site recently while researching thesaurus management tools. It gives a nice overview of what thesaurus software should do and lists known products, including a feature comparison table. Even though these pages were updated recently, a lot of the software listed is no longer supported or hasn’t been updated from DOS versions.
It amazes me that there are not more options out there for this kind of thing.
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