Re: Introducing myself

I am very interested to read the discussion in this group.  Thank you 
to Phil for the link from the kmconnection page.  I am writing to 
introduce myself.

I am an engineering academic at the University of Bath in the UK, 
having recently moved from the University of Bristol.  My research 
interests for some years have been in engineering information 
organisation, particularly for engineering design.  I am especially 
interested in organisation of the unstructured information that 
designers use in the course of their work.  Our research brought us 
to classification of documents into multiple nodes in hierarchies 
with dynamic updating of the classification display based on user 
selection (we first used dynamic updating about 10 years ago, but at 
that time with selectable attributes rather than hierarchically 
decomposed nodes).  We built a software demonstrator that is still 
running at Bristol at http://nzm.dig.bris.ac.uk.  There are three 
demonstrations at this site – advertisements for cars, legislation 
from the UK parliament and papers from an academic conference 
(confidentiality with our collaborators prevents use of engineering 
examples).  Our classification approach is not very "pure" in faceted 
classification terms (although the second hand car database is the 
closest), but I hope the demonstrators show that the software could 
be used for faceted classification.  Since doing the work we are 
finding out a good deal about faceted classification, thanks in no 
small part to this community here!  Classification in our systems is 
done using classification rules with a home-grown classification 
engine.  We are currently working on further exploitation of the 
approach in engineering and other information organisation 
applications.

Chris McMahon



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