Faceted classification at US Federal level; BRAKOR

In case you haven't heard:

The Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI) was created in
June 2003 to implement Section 207 of the E-Government Act of 2002 (Public
Law 107-347, 44 U.S.C. Ch 36). The Categorization of Government Information
(CGI) Working Group of the ICGI holds regular meetings. (See
<http://www.cio.gov/documents/ICGI/cgi_meetings.html>.

The minutes of third meeting (March 15, 2004, at White House Conference
Center, Washington DC) include a summary of a presentation on faceted
classification by Lillian Woon Gassie, Senior Systems Librarian, Naval
Postgraduate School:

"After an introduction by Gretchen Schlag, Lillian Woon Gassie gave a
presentation on Faceted Classification. Lillian is a Senior Systems
Librarian, Naval Postgraduate School, supporting development of faceted
taxonomies in Homeland Security. Lillian started by noting that traditional
classification is uni-dimensional and hierarchical, with everything assigned
to its particular place. Faceted classification recognizes that information
can be assigned to multiple dimensions, includes attributes beyond those
that are intrinsic to the information (e.g., function as distinct from
subject). Relating an objects’ attributes or facets (e.g., who, what, how,
where, when) provides flexibility in navigation in that the serachers has
multiple ways of getting to any piece of information. Relevant standards and
technologies for faceted classification include XFML (exchangeable faceted
metadata language), RDF, topic maps; tools include facetmap, Endeca, and
Verity. Appropriate analysis within a domain would allow agencies to create
faceted taxonomies and one agency could map to another's taxonomies using
XFML. A directory of taxonomies of common facets could also be published.
Advantages of this approach include ability to map across taxonomies and
move toward semantic technologies that can improve the flexible
classification of information. This could build on traditional
"bibliographic control" methods, but provide for less rigid schemes."

Source: <http://www.cio.gov/documents/ICGI/20040315-notes.doc>

The CGI Working Group consists of members that represent all three branches
of the Federal Government. The CGI Working Group is chaired by Eliot
Christian of the Federal Geographic Data Committee.

Attendance at public meetings is encouraged.

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The first issue of The Barrington Report on Advanced Knowledge Organization
and Retrieval (BRAKOR) will be available for free download toward the end of
this month. (See <http://www.kmconnection.com/BRAKOR1-1_color_v2.pdf> for
additional information.)

But there's still time to send me:

(1) News items of interest (including notices of product releases,
implementation stories, industry)

(2) Pointers to upcoming events (conferences, seminars) and recent
publications/papers that you have found interesting. ASIS&T SIG-CR always
does great stuff, but I'm not a member at the moment. Can anyone let me know
what's going on there?? Verity and Convera have been sponsoring a series of
excellent (and free) seminars on "corporate taxonomies." Who else?

BTW, note that InfoToday is presenting a new conference -- Enterprise Search
Summit in New York City, May 11-12. See
http://www.enterprisesearchsummit.com.

Issue 2 will be devoted primarily to the processes of developing an
"Enterprise Knowledge Organization System." What do YOU want to know about
the processes?

Thanks,


Phil Murray
Editor-in-Chief
The Barrington Report on Advanced Knowledge Organization and Retrieval
(BRAKOR)

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