Website Taxonomy

Website Taxonomy
Kathryn La Barre

Interested in faceted classification. But did not see it as useful in a library situation.

Webopedia web site taxonomy definition

Organization and access for web content for browsing, navigation, search

Faceted Classification discussion list?

People use facets on 24/200 sites surveyed
Used in basic search, browse, navigation only, advanced search, integrated search and nav.

Common facets were
Who,what, where, place

US Department of labor given as an example.

Facets carry throughout the site.

By topic, by organization, by location – principles of orders within facets, each facet has it’s own logic – not always alpha, sometimes by importance.

Took each example, showed graphically, then broke down into a wireframe. Nicely showed her point.

Cranfield studies showed that facets can be rapidly overwhelming.

Principles for practice: Theory and Practice

Are there a list of fundamental facets - Platonic ideal facets? Developing a list of facets as a possible list of fundamental facets.

There are existing metadata standards that exist, how much do facets map to those standards?
Most sites have backend databases, and the facets are based on that metadata usually.
How do we reuse legacy metadata?
Looking to coordinate this with OWL and RDF / Semantic web.

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