RE: Introducing myself

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From: Peter Merholz [mailto:peterme <at> peterme.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:32 PM
To: facetedclassification <at> yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [facetedclassification] Introducing myself

> You son of a bitch! You're now the first result for "faceted
classification"
> on Google

> I'm only second!

Yeah, I noticed that recently. No idea why. Eat your heart out, Peter. 

> I did a teeny bit to popularize the notions of facets within the IA
> community with this post:
> http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000063.html

> Which was my way of talking up what I had learned in a class taught by
Peter
> Morville and Samantha Bailey.
> http://argus-acia.com/acia_event/seminar_roadshow.html

Yep. Saw that a long time ago. I posted a comment, but it didn't show up,
for some reason. I see that you have additional recent comments, including
some from Steve Pollitt. Great! (I met Steve when we both presented in the
same "knowledge management" session at the ISKO conference in DC.)

> I'm interested in facets because I my gut tells me that people "get" them
> (when designed well), and are far more useful than other forms of
> classification and categorization.

That's why we're all here, I hope. But I think it's also one of the
design/interface issues we have to address. A very small percentage of
people use even the simplest Boolean queries, preferring instead to hack
away at big piles of retrieved documents. Will they use good implementations
of faceted retrieval? Do faceted approaches have to be *complemented* with
hierarchical approaches? (Or are there ways around that?)

> I'm interested in interfaces to facets, and have been keen on Flamenco and
> Endeca (http://www.endeca.com/)

Thanks for the pointer to Endeca. I had not come across that. Gotta look
closer.

> It's pretty clear the Web makes presenting faceted classifications far
more
> feasible, and their employ is inevitable.

My guess is that they will become inevitable when we find ways of combining
automatic classification by facets with manual controls.

Great to see your post!

    Phil

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