Facetag Slides and Paper
Categories: Information Architecture
Tags: euroia, facetag, faceted_tagging, facets, flamenco, folksonomies, folksonomy, tagging, tags
I think about it as a sort of bridge between emergent and traditional classification tools. A mixed sauce that aims to smoothen both the limits of controlled vocabularies and of plain folksonomies.
The feedback that we got at the EuroIA was quite positive. I saw a lot of people interested, asking about further developments and the possibility to play with the tool.
This morning we published the slides that we used at the EuroIA and the revised paper with screenshots embedded. You are encouraged to download them and to let us know your comments, critics and suggestions.
We are no more the only ones with a similar vision in mind: Marti Hearst should be working on something related and I’m pleased to notice that librarians are evaluating similar approaches as well, comparing ontologies and thesauries to folksonomies. Have a look at the abstracts for the SIG/CR Workshop in Texas or to the call for papers for the next ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
It’s a little bit sad admitting that librarians are quickly catching up while information architects are still discussing about the usefulness of folksonomies.
I’m more for a pragmatical approach. That’s why we proposed a tool, not only a paper. That same tool is now in alpha and it will be soon opened to information architects to test its usefulness for their everyday tasks.
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October 24th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Not only are librarians catching up, but awareness on these issues (findability, richer classification models) is still largely a broad-vision, Big IA thing which does not yet translate to real-life tools or features in current (FL/OSS) content management systems.
This conversely means that unless we are talking about large web sites projects, there is scarcely even any ready-made technical solution out there. Like knowing everything about blogging theory, but no Movable Type / Wordpress / around to abuse.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Just found out about the project. I’m very much looking forward to a release.
June 18th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Ho letto il vostro materiale sui Facetag, domanda al volo:
ma http://www.monclick.it/catalogo/categoria.asp?catcode=NBO non è quello di cui state parlando?
Ti pongo la domanda solo per capire meglio.
Grazie
June 18th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Monclick, come molti altri sistemi (per esempio Pixmania.com) utilizza un sistema di categorie che in realtà è un’applicazione spuria (ovvero volutamente libera ed approssimativa) delle faccette.
Le faccette infatti esprimono una scomposizione “semantica” del dominio e sono legate le une alle altre da relazioni ben precise, a differenza da quanto succede per esempio all’interno di un qualunque database relazionale in cui i diversi attributi di un record sono in realtà dimensioni scorrelate.
Ci sono però altre differenze ancora più importanti tra Monclick e Facetag: Facetag utilizza un sistema a faccette sui tag inseriti dagli utenti, non su termini creati a priori dal progettista del sistema, le stesse risorse sono inserite dagli utenti ed inoltre i tag hanno una struttura gerarchica e non piatta (come se 700-800euro sotto avesse le categorie 700-710euro. 710-720euro etc.)
Per qualunque ulteriore delucidazione non esistare a chiedere
Emanuele
June 19th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Perdonami, permangono dei dubbi.
Esiste la possibilità di vedere all’opera una applicazione con FaceTag?
June 19th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Perdonami, permangono dei dubbi.
Esiste la possibilità di vedere all’opera una applicazione con FaceTag?
Trovo la cosa di molto interesse.
Sto sviluppando una tesi (e banco di prova) sull’argomento e-learning 2.0 e ritengo fondamentale il punto relativo alla classificazione