http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/02/17/facetious.php

February 17, 2005
fac.etio.us

While del.icio.us is delicious, fac.etio.us isn’t
facetious. It’s a thought experiment embodied in
software from Siderean, a company that creates faceted
classification systems for big-ass enterprises. (Note
the “facet” in “fac.etio.us”? Damn clever!)

Faceted classification assigns a set of parameters
(facets) to the objects it’s classifying and then lets
users sort them using the facets in any order. For
example, appointments in your calendar might have
facets for time, date, person, location, subject, and
importance. You could then ask to sort first by
person, then by location, and then by date, and a
minute later walk through them by importance, then
date, then subject, etc. In short, faceted
classification systems let you construct trees with
the roots and branches in whatever order suits you at
that moment. And faceted systems never lead you down
branches that have no fruit.

So, Siderean is playing around with doing a faceted
classification of about five days’ worth of bookmarks
at del.icio.us.

In an email, this is what Bradley Allen, the founder
and CTO, says:

Currently this is being updated hourly from three
feeds: delicious, delicious/popular, and my own inbox
feed. The RSS feeds are being transformed into
slightly richer RDF using the Dublin Core and SKOS
vocabularies, then loaded into Seamark and made
navigable using dc:subject (tag), dc:creator,
dc:publisher (site), dc:moderator (feed) and dc:date
as the facets.

At the fac.etio.us home page you’ll see all five
facets exposed: tag, creator of the tag, site tagged,
the feed it was found in (del.icio.us,
del.icio.us/popular, and Brad’s feed), and the date
the tag was created. You can click on any, but let’s
say we click on one of the entries in the list of
Tags: Music. We are taken to a page that lists all the
bookmarks tagged “music,” but are also shown a list of
all the other tags given to all pages tagged with
“music,” all the people who have tagged a page
“music,” all the feeds that contain bookmarks tagged
“music,” and every day in which someone has used the
“music” tag. Each of these is itself clickable.

Oh, to hell with describing it. Give it a try!

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Posted by self at 10:57 AM
Comments and Trackbacks

Yes I tried Facetious today, Its absolutely
wonderful... Only if someone will do this as a proper
extension of delicious!!! At the very least, as a
first step don't need to worry about facets simply
allowing a step by step search through intersections
of tags, really adds great functionality. I think this
must be very easy, maybe its already been done by
someone hiding somewhere, but surely for delicious,
technorati flickr etc, this is a must have extension..
Posted by mark ranford on February 18, 2005 01:50 AM |
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