- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:17:33 +0100
- To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair) " <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Cc: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>, bpa33@bpallen.com
Hi Alistair, folks, fyi, there's a 'vanilla' XML format for facetted classification with the obvious acronym XFML [1]. It's primarily aimed at web site data (such as blogs). The model/syntax is close to parts of Topic Maps/XTM, and considers facets to be mutually exclusive categories, which may form part of a hierarchical classification. I'm pointing to it now because there are some good refs on facets around that area [2], and I've a feeling facetting may be a very powerful tool in the SKOS kit. Also I'm wondering whether some of the data that's been marked up in XFML could be automatically translated into SKOS/RDF. That the format yields well to XSLT is demonstrated at [3] - view source. btw, XFML doesn't really have a mechanism for enforcing the mutual exclusion, it's assumes the cataloguer will look after that. Note too that Siderean Software have done a fair amount of work with facetted classification and RDF [4]. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://xfml.org/ [2] http://xfml.org/links.html [3] http://www.alter.most.org.pl/fa/xfml/altermap.xml [4] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/facetedclassification/message/199
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