Recently I wrote about Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put it on the Web. In section 4 he introduces three questions and four principles that provide useful guidance when implementing navigation systems for information architectures that rely on faceted classification. The three questions step through some basic questions that you need to …
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Steven Hannah’s Sorting Out Card Sorting isn’t really about card sorting. It’s an example of using a particular methodoloy to do academic literature review and then a proposal for creating a tool that can be used to augment and extend the knowledge discovered during the review. But even if the phrases grounded theory and constant …
During a recent slog up treadmill hill I read through Wm. Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It on the Web. I feel better now. After my grad school deja vu experience with Simplified Facet Classification I was despairing of ever being able to bring facets to the masses. Or in my …
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If thesaurus construction is something that comes up only occasionally in the course of your work you should bookmark this tutorial created by Dr. Tim Craven of Western Ontario University for his LIS students. Eight sections take you quickly through the basic concepts and considerations for building a thesaurus. It’s a handy refresher that is …
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Once in a while it is a good and refreshing thing to revisit some of the classics. In this case a paper that I consider to be a primary lens for looking at information seeking behaviours. Something struck me as I was rereading Marcia Bates’ “The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the On-Line …
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