RE: New year introductions

Hi Peter and others,
 
Thanks for having me in this group. My name is Marcel van Mackelenbergh,
I am from the Netherlands and I work independent. My business is
usability. I am interested how information can improve the performance
of people. In my last knowledge management job at Lucent Technologies, I
learned that the best knowledge management can be obtained when you ask
the experts to create a taxonomy, let's say a structure that helps
people to find information. However, there is also a usability side to
taxonomies. I am trying to set up a discipline that tells people how to
create and test taxonomies (metadata) from a user (usability) point of
view. Therefore I am very interested in articles like the one from
William Denton.
 
Faceted classifications are for me a must-have. I don't see how I can
combine more than one point of view on information without using a
faceted classification. For example, if I want to support both experts
and novices to use the same information resources, I must have a faceted
classification, there is no way around that.
 
Today I got the help of Bradley P. Allen to use Seamark to test a
taxonomy on wine. I created this taxonomy to test the usability
principles I layed down in 
http://members.home.nl/mackelenbergh/how_to_create_metadata.htm
and another very useful guideline from acm.org:
 <http://www.acm.org/class/how_to_use.html>
http://www.acm.org/class/how_to_use.html
especially guideline 6: "something only falls under a category when it
explains something about that category."  "Having to do with it" is not
enough to put information in a category. I found that very helpful when
creating my wine directory.
 
I will use my wine taxonomy to see whether others can easily accomplish
assignments I will give them. I will publish my results in Technical
Communication, magazine of the STC, organization for technical writers. 
 
cheers,
 
Marcel
 
 
Marcel van Mackelenbergh
Human Performance Engineer
P.C. Hooftstraat 20
5242CH Rosmalen
the Netherlands
telephone: +31 73 522 3022
email:  <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected]
homepage:  <http://members.home.nl/mackelenbergh>
http://members.home.nl/mackelenbergh
 
-----Original Message-----
From: PeterV [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: woensdag 7 januari 2004 0:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: [facetedclassification] New year introductions
 

Since our last round of introductions, quite a lot of interesting people
have joined the group (I know, I have to approve them all).

If you are new, please take a moment to write a short introduction to
yourself: who you are, where to find out more, why you're interested in
an obscure topic like faceted classification.

And welcome to all the new people! Who goes first?

Cheers,
Peter



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