Sabine Mas

Faceted Classification for Museum Artefacts: A Methodology to Support Web Site Development of Large Cultural Organizations

Purpose – This research project aims to provide a new visual representation of the Artefacts Canada digital collection, as well as a means for users to browse this content. Artefacts Canada Humanities is a database containing approximately 3.5 million records describing the different collections of Canadian museums.Design/methodology/approach – A four‐step methodology was adopted for the development of the faceted taxonomy model. First, a best practice review consisting of an extensive analysis of existing terminology standards in museum communities and public web interfaces of large cultural organizations was performed. The second step of the methodology entailed a domain analysis; this involved extracting and comparing relevant concepts from terminological authoritative sources. The third step proceeded to term clustering and entity listing,which involved the breaking‐up of the taxonomy domains into potential facets. An incremental user testing was also realized in order to validate and refine the taxon...

Towards a New Approach to Legal Indexing Using Facets

This paper presents work in progress to design and test a new model for indexing judicial decisions using facets. We have created a prototype database with a sample of 2 500 judicial decisions in the fields of administrative law, labor law and the law of obligations. The decisions are indexed using four facets (Person, Action, Thing, Context) and two classes (Legal category, Remedies and sanctions). We will test the prototype to compare its performance with that of a standard database. It is hoped that our model will support the full or partial automation of legal indexing and provide a structure for AI applications in the legal domain.