Funny you mention Dr. Soergel- in his class a week or two ago, he showed us
a presentation he gave at OCLC sometime in the mid-1980s on just this subject!
BTW- I have also been looking at Dr. Pollitt's work on this subject at
Dr. Soergel's suggestion. If only his suggested faceted presentation for
EMBASE became the standard interface -- imagine where we'd be now.
Christina
Pikas
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wrote:
There were a number of services that used classification early on
> to provide a form of facet, but not surfaced as we think of them
> being
surfaced today. For all I know some of these in their
> current form do surface
these in intelligent ways now - at the
> time it would have been very difficult.
For example, you might
> use the Zoological Record taxonomic index to restrict
your search
> to items that fell into the value "aves" and all of its
>
submembers in the facet of "family" (or whatever it would be
> called) when
looking for items on migration. That could easily be
> presented in the same
way as guided navigation is presented now.
> Or in Medline, if looking for
materials on hospital libraries,
> you could use the classification to specify
"as information
> services" rather than "as costs centers". Dagobert Soergel,
among
> others, has done work in this area - see his presentations
> archived
as part of the various NKOS workshops -
> http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/.
>
> I don't think of the Northern Light folders or Vivisimo/Clusty
> folders
as facets - at least not in the same sense as we
> normally use the term
(if a normal use exists). Their clustering
> is/was based on so many different
kinds of things, including
> domain name, title words, content, and (n the
case of NL) some
> intellectually derived classification.
>
> Also, I
worry in all of this that we need to make a distinction
> between usability
and performance. It's one thing to ask whether
> a presentation method makes
the process of navigation easier,
> makes people happier, and makes them
feel in more control, and
> it's another to ask whether they are getting
the right/relevant
> information (however we define "right/relevant") in
a timely
> manner.
>
> Candy
> ----------
> Candy Schwartz, Professor
> GLSIS, Simmons College, Boston, Mass.
>
Received on Wed Mar 21 2007 - 16:04:27 EDT