[ba-unrev-talk] Re: [unrev-II] more on faceted classification
[This is a thread started on unrev-ii: (01)
http://www.bootstrap.org/dkr/discussion/3634.html (02)
I'm moving it to this list.] (03)
Cool article! I was going to comment on it, but changed my mind after I
actually followed the URL and read it. :-) Unfortunately, I had already
promised on unrev-ii that I would comment on it here, yet I have nothing
useful to add, other than "cool article!" Sorry about that. :-) (04)
-Eugene (05)
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Alex Shapiro wrote: (06)
> http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/speed.html
>
> "So What's Wrong With Taxonomies
> Size
> Following in the footsteps of the Dewey Decimal System, Yahoo took a
> highly pre-coordinate approach, attempting to create controlled
> vocabulary terms (i.e., names of categories) for every imaginable
> subject. The result? An informal count suggests more than 67,000
> categories in Yahoo with roughly 4 to 8 levels of hierarchy between the
> main page and actual content. That's a lot of vocabulary to manage.
> Portals that take this approach wind up growing an enormous category
> structure that constrains their ability to adapt."
>
> --Alex (07)
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