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Facets are most often used for objects, while taxonomies are used for topics or subjects found in documents. As we shall see, this difference is changing, but it explains why facets have been mostly associated with ecommerce sites rather than within the enterprise where finding documents is the dominant interaction.
In the summer of 2004, Loyola Marymount University (www.lmu.edu), where I?serve as VP?for information technology, debuted its university portal. Although enterprise information portals had been around for years, we took a cautious approach to deploying what became known as ManeGate. Our initial portal effort was motivated in part by students looking for better ways to engage with one another electronically. The administration, on the other hand, saw the portal first and foremost as a vehicle for im- proving communication among campus constituencies—a way to simplify access to university systems.
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When faced with the task of improving the intranet, the focus is naturally on the desired future state of the site. Where do we want to get to? What does intranet nirvana look like?
In 2004, James Surowiecki released an interesting book, The Wisdom of Crowds. In it, Surowiecki explains that wise crowds are good at guessing the correct answer to things. Wanting to write something about folksonomies and intranets brought this book to my mind. For the uninitiated, a folksonomy is user-created classification system for tagging web content.
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Reviewed this Issue: Making Search Work; The Data Administration Newsletter; and Enterprise Search
Deployment, Usage, and Trends
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