“This is the project homepage for the preliminary study: ‘Adventures in faceted classification: A brave new world or a world of confusion?’ presented July, 2004 at ISKO in London, England.” (Kathryn La Barre)

“This paper presents the arguments for developing and publishing topic map design patterns and a proposed notation for diagramming design patterns based on UML. Finally, by way of examples, the paper presents some design patterns for representation of traditional classification schemes such as thesauri, hierarchical and faceted classification.” (techquila)

“In this essay, I will examine the purposes served by classificatory structures and discuss how classifying information from an interdisciplinary perspective can be relevant, valuable, and useful.” (Claire McInerney – SCILS Rutgers)

“The mental effort required to consistently assign keywords outweighs the benefits for most frontline contributors to content, document, and knowledge management systems. Contrary to this lovely summary, faceted classification can actually compound the problem. Facets are oversold in situations where info-civilians have to classify content that they have created themselves. Expecting facets to solve the metacrap problem is naive.” (Jess McMullin – interactionary) – courtesy of victor lombardi

“Given the significant difficulties in categorizing books, papers, and articles using traditional library classification techniques, it would seem next to impossible for humans to classify the small chunks of rapidly changing information that characterize information-intensive business environments. But it’s not. Library and information science professionals have already provided the foundations of an alternative to traditional classification techniques: faceted classification.” (The Knowledge Management Connection) – courtesy of keith instone

“Taxonomies are an important tool in balancing the contradictory forces of information overload and the need for instant access to the right information.” (Eric Woods – KMWorld) – courtesy of elearningpost

“(…) this is also about how generally incomplete the content object models that most digital music experiences are based around.” (City of Sound)

“A work of fiction. A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine published in 2009.” (Paul Ford) – courtesy of thomas vander wal

“Ontologies are a way of specifying the structure of domain knowledge in a formal logic designed for machine processing. The effect on information technology is to shift the burden of capturing the meaning of data content from the procedural operations of algorithms and rules to the representation of the data itself.” (Michael Denny – xml.com)

“XMFL is a new language designed to exchange MetaData between websites. The metadata is of topics arranged into facets.” (iawiki)

“When it comes to the Web, there is nothing more misunderstood than metadata. Technical people search vainly for a way to automate its creation. Many editors and writers want nothing to do with it. And yet without quality metadata a website cannot properly achieve its objectives. It’s time to get serious about metada.” (Gerry McGovern)

“Metadata is a web writing skill. It helps your readers quickly find what they need. Metadata is an essential part of successful web sales and marketing efforts. It helps influence people to buy. In every sense, metadata can drive action. It can help you achieve your objectives.” (Gerry McGovern)

“We are primarily back-of-book indexers, but have also worked on journal, database, website and online help indexing, as well as metadata and thesaurus construction for intranets and websites.” (Glenda Browne and Jon Jermey)

“Metadata have 4 quality aspects: Show what the information is about, point to useful information only, describe the relevance of information, and are clear.” (Marcel van Mackelenbergh)

“LanguaL is a multilingual thesaural system using facetted classification. Each food is described by a set of standard, controlled terms chosen from facets characteristic of the nutritional and/or hygienic quality of a food, as for example the biological origin, the methods of cooking and conservation, and technological treatments.” (About LanguaL) – courtesy of peter vandijck

“(…) a brief introduction on taxonomy and metadata (what I call content classification requirements), this article will focus on finding and utilizing such relationships in hierarchies.” (Christian Ricci – Boxes and Arrows)

“There is a great deal of philosophy involved in working with Topic Maps. Not in the sense of arguing for extentionalism or purport a theory of when cats die in boxes, but in the sense of epistemology, the philosophy of learning. It is about how we perceive things, how human cognition works, about how we label things, how we categorise and find our way in the vast information layer between our brains and our tools.” (Alexander Johannesen) – courtesy of column two

“The Semantic Web is an on-going large-scale effort to improve the current architecture of the World Wide Web by adding a semantic infrastructure to web resources that can be used for sophisticated data-oriented applications. As its basis, we identify metadata, or information about information, that unambiguously specify machine-understandable facts about web resources.” (Paolo Ciancarini et al. – Extreme Markup Languages 2003)

“Information taxonomy is a Web developer’s best friend because it can help reach those two most elusive goals of effective Web design: user satisfaction and return on investment. Conversely, even the most efficient search engine cannot completely overcome problems caused by poorly conceived or completely absent information taxonomy.” (ZDNet)