I'm trying to find different
I'm trying to find different methapors and ways of explaining faceted classification. "It lets you triangulate when searching" seems to work well. The "It's like a diamond, you can look at things through different facets" seems less convincing.
Seb's Open Research: "faceted classification consists in choosing several attributes ("facets") and classifying things under particular combinations of values for these attributes. The appeal of this scheme is its combinatorial power that lets it automagically make room for things that don't exist yet."
# Oct 7, 2002