Re: [tm-pubsubj-comment] XTM vs. XFML
Re: [tm-pubsubj-comment] XTM vs. XFML and Facet Maps: yet another faceted classification explanation, highlighting the political aspects of classification: "it's easier to describe a category by its characteristics than to devise a category name, eg., "that man has brown skin" rather than "that man is of the African race" (while must still define "brown" we aren't caught in trying to define "African" or "race"). For many thorny problems, faceted classification (ie., describing things by their characteristics rather than assigning them a universal category) offers advantages over "standardized" taxonomies or ontologies.
# Nov 9, 2002