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Acronuym Amnesia — oh lord I meant acronym, ugh

This week­end I was sit­ting with my friend Kathy Gill at a house warm­ing par­ty and we got onto the sub­ject of the evo­lu­tion of markup lan­guages. Aside from mak­ing most of the geeks in the vicin­i­ty cringe at “work talk” on a Saturday, we were run­ning at top speed through the jun­gle of acronyms … 

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TQR — Denton’s Three Questions and Four Principles and an Observation of My Own.

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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TQR — Sorting Out Card Sorting

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 … 

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More on Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web

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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