- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:24:01 +0200
- To: "John S. Erickson" <john.erickson@hp.com>, "Butler, Mark" <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, <www-rdf-dspace@w3.org>
- Cc: <bpa33@bpallen.com>
> The associated white paper is useful: > http://www.siderean.com/TechnologyWhitePaper.pdf > > ...although one realizes that this "faceted search" is simply > "metadata-based > search..." I raised this point on the xfml list very recently, and got a very good response from bpallen at Siderean. They are representing facets by specifying the range of the properties (with RDFS). This, he agreed, didn't formally incorporate the disjointedness characteristic of faceted metadata (which would need owl:disjointWith or equivalent) but that in practice lexical distinctions in the URIs enforced the disjointness. So I think to all practical intents and purposes, it is fair to talk of this as being faceted search. Cheers, Danny. ---- http://dannyayers.com
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