Monthly Archives: August 2007

TQR – Sorting Out Card Sorting

Steven Hannah’s Sorting Out Card Sorting isn’t really about card sorting. It’s an example of using a particular methodoloy to do academic literature review and then a proposal for creating a tool that can be used to augment and extend the knowledge discovered during the review.
But even if the phrases grounded theory and constant [...]

More on Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web

During a recent slog up treadmill hill I read through Wm. Denton’s How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It on the Web.
I feel better now. After my grad school deja vu experience with Simplified Facet Classification I was despairing of ever being able to bring facets to the masses. Or in my case [...]

TQR – Introductory Tutorial on Thesaurus Construction

If thesaurus construction is something that comes up only occasionally in the course of your work you should bookmark this tutorial created by Dr. Tim Craven of Western Ontario University for his LIS students.
Eight sections take you quickly through the basic concepts and considerations for building a thesaurus. It’s a handy refresher that is [...]