Using Facets to Classify and Access Digital Resources: Proposal and Example

Hudon, Michèle

doi:10.1002/9780470611302.ch9

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“…For instance, gender, occupation, age and first language learned are facets used to group individuals; the same facets can be used to identify any single individual. This explicit way of describing facilitates retrieval by criteria without any obligation to apply syntactic rules (or citation order) or to know which class should be looked into (Hudon 2008). Hearst (2006) found that participants in empirical studies estimated that hierarchical faceted categories were preferable to unpredictable clustering, and Fagan (2010) stresses that facets as a refinement tool were generally appreciated by information searchers who rated the faceted system more highly, giving it significantly higher ratings for flexibility and relevance of search results.…”

Section: Organization Vs Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facet

Hudon¹

2020

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S.R. Ranganathan is credited with the introduction of the term “facet” in the field of knowledge organization towards the middle of the twentieth century. Facets have traditionally been used to organize document collections and to express complex subjects. In the digital world, they act as filters to facilitate navigation and improve retrieval. But the popularity of the term does not mean that a definitive characterization of the concept has been established. Indeed, several conceptualizations of the facet co-exist. This article provides an overview of formal and informal definitions found in the literature of knowledge organization, followed by a discussion of four common conceptualizations of the facet: process vs product, nature vs function, object vs subject and organization vs navigation.

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Section: Organization Vs Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facet

Hudon¹

2020

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“…When a faceted approach is used, users can navigate information on the website by continuously refining their choices in each facet (Russell-Rose and Tate 2013). Compared to hierarchical classification structure, faceted classification structure is more flexible, and provides a more refined representation of information (Hudon 2010). Particularly, facets allow the expression of various aspects of information resources and provide multiple access points, which make them especially effective in organizing information on the Web.…”

Section: Online Information Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because of such benefits, there has been growing interest in using a faceted approach to organize digital information resources (Priss and Jacob 1999;Ellis and Vasconcelos 2000;Broughton 2002;Yoo 2004;La Barre 2006a;La Barre 2006b;Tang 2007;Choi 2009). In addition, several researchers developed faceted classification schemes that can be used in classifying information resources on the Web ( Van der Walt 2004;Zins and Guttmann 2000;Kwak 2001;Hudon 2010). However, little research has suggested faceted classification for online health information based on the analysis of users' preferences.…”

Section: Online Information Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%