Hi, while there is a point to the fact, that some facets could be more or less covered by other facets (like office, which IMO is more like a purpose classification), I think they still serve their purpose. I believe those facets still describe a useful concept. Besides where would you draw the line? E.g. not every package has a uitoolkit, is hardware related or has something to do with the network. The problem with the number of facets is more a UI-issue, which can be solved (look e.g. at Enrico's smart search [1]). I agree, that at one point we could start grouping some facets, e.g. if we start having facets for every field of science, but I do not think that this is neccessary now.
Best regards Ben [1] http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ssearch.html -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:52:42 -0300 > Von: "Tássia Camões" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Refactoring the vocabulary > Hello team, > > I've been thinking about the group of facets and tags defined in the > vocabulary and I would like to open a discussion on this topic. > > It doesn't seem reasonable to me that, for example, facets like > "implemented-in" and "biology" are at the same level of hierarchy in > the categorization. While some facets can really be defined as > "different points of view from which to look at the package archive", > some other seem only to be the relation with a specific field (as it > happens with "biology", that most of the packages will never be > categorized under this facet). > > Using this aproach we would be much closer to the magic number 7 plus > or minus 2 mentioned by [1]. > > As a first draft, the ones I would consider as "first level" facets are: > > culture, field, implemented-in, hardware, interface, made-of, role, > scope, network, suite, uitoolkit, use, works-with, works-with-format > > The others seem to be "second level" ones ( they could be nested, > maybe under a "section" facet): > > accessibility, admin, biology, devel, filetransfer, game, junior, > mail, office, protocol, security, sound, web, x11 > > > I don't know all the implications of doing such a change, but I'd be > happy to make you think about this. > > [ ]'s > > Tassia. > > [1] http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html > > _______________________________________________ > Debtags-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel -- GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
