RE: New year introductions

Matt, others,
 
Very exciting what you wrote about what you are doing. Brings me to a
question(s) that I am asking for some time now:
I see software that produce automatic classifications (Inxight, Empolis,
Infolution). These classifications are using some open source standard
(RDF, Topic Maps, etc.). Of course, technically, I can turn this output
into faceted metadata. However:
1. does it make sense to turn automatically generated metadata into
faceted metadata? 
2. Does it require humans to determine what is a facet and what isn't? 
3. Is there a guideline that tells when something is a good facet (not
technically but from the user point of view)?
4. Does someone have experience with automatically generated faceted
metadata?
5. What software would you recommend to automatically generate faceted
metadata?
6. Does this software allow a mix between automatically generated and
handcrafted metadata?
 
Anybody?
 
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: Matt Mower [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: woensdag 7 januari 2004 11:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [facetedclassification] New year introductions


PeterV wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm Matt Mower, I work at Evectors software (http://www.evectors.com/) 
where we are developing new tools and methodologies for collecting, 
organising, and making sense of knowledge.  When I find the time I also 
write a weblog http://matt.blogs.it/

A little over a year ago I wrote a personal topic mapping tool for 
weblogs called liveTopics which was able to export XFML maps of weblog 
posts (among other things).  More recently I am a co-developer of 
K-Collector which is an enterprise knowledge organisation tool.

K-Collector uses faceted topic maps as a central part of the sense 
making framework.  I use the term 'faceted' in the XFML sense of 
"mutually exclusive containers that contain hierarchies of topics."

We have a public portal available at http://w4.evectors.it/

Regards,

Matt



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