Facet vs. foci? [was: Defining basic vocabulary of facetedclassification (TERMINOLOGY)]

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: PeterV [mailto:[email protected]]
> Inviato: sabato 4 gennaio 2003 01.30
> A: [email protected]
> Oggetto: RE: [facetedclassification] Defining basic vocabulary of
> facetedclassification (TERMINOLOGY)
>
>
>
> >  I'm not a librarian, but I feel it would be better to
> >  separate FACET (the criteria for classification - i.e.
> >  color, type etc. in the wine examlple of Kathryn La Barre)
> >  from its CONTENT (the various wines).
>
> I don't think that works. (I don't think it really matters much either
> because that's the concept on which I designed XFML and it still works
> :)
>

I agree!

> Colour > red is a simple 2 level hierarchy of facets (yes, you may as
> well call red and white facets since they are mutually exclusive). But
> what about Things to do > Watersports > Diving > Nightdiving? Where do
> you draw the line between a facet and a 'topic'/'foci'?
> PeterV
>

Mine it's a theoretical distinction, that helped me to better understood the
concept of FACET and its correlata.
In the second case I'd draw the line between THINGS TO DO (facet) and
WATERSPORT, x-SPORTS ... z-SPORTS (topic/foci).

I have a linguistcs background: in that discipline (as in others) there is a
basical concept: the distinction between ABSTRACT vs. CONCRETE: langue vs.
parole (de Saussure) or competence vs. execution (Chomsky). So, /A/ is a
phonema (i.e. the abstract/mental representation of the sound A in the mind
of speaker) vs. [a] that is a phono (i.e. the concrete articulation of that
phonema).

So, I see the difference between Facet and Foci in a similar way: Facet =
the abstract concept; foci the concrete declination/expression of my Facet.

But I agree in a semantic markup language as XFML that intricate distinction
may be omitted (I have to study XFML, I don't know it very well but I am
conquered by it).

I don't know if my senteces were clear. I apologize for such theoretical
digression :)

Luca


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