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- BioFacets Biologists are increasingly relying on online biological databases to conduct their research. Despite the availability of hundreds of such databases, only a handful of them are effectively deployed by the community. The main reason for this is the lack of
- Information Flow #4 ~~ August 2002 ~~ Facets and Multiple Angles of Access Stepping back, it is wise to keep reminding yourself, that the ultimate purpose of both classification systems and controlled vocabularies is to facilitate access. Thus, ask yourself over and over, how might the seeker look for a resource? And you will na
- Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the discipline dealing with the modern version
- WWW -- Wealth, Weariness or Waste This article offers some thoughts on the problems of access to information in a machine-sensible environment, and the potential of modern library techniques to help in solving them. It explains how authors and publishers can make information more accessib
- XML.com: Introduction to XFML XFML is a simple XML format for exchanging metadata in the form of faceted hierarchies, sometimes called taxonomies. Its basic building blocks are topics, also called categories. XFML won't solve all your metadata needs. It's focused on interchanging face
- Faceted Classification as a link-spam tool choose your favorite flavor here! domain was formerly the home of a wannabe standard markup language for facets.
- Faceted Classification From a consulting co that does facets: "Given the significant difficulties in categorizing books, papers, and articles using traditional library classification techniques, it would seem next to impossible for humans to classify the small chunks of rapidly
- Strict Faceted Classification Argument for keeping faceted classification schemes fully orthogonal. Interesting, but not necessarily convincing. The author is principal of a company that markets a strict faceted classification toolkit.
- Faceted Classification Software Tools Facetmap is both a data model and a software package, created to let users browse complex metadata while retaining a simple, familiar, menu interface.
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