Flamenco, the pioneering faceted classification system, has gone Open Source. Woohoo!

Faceted classification allows users to browse a complex tree of data by dynamically deciding which branch is a branch of which branch. (Demos here.) Flamenco is a project led by Marti Hearst at UC Berkeley School of Info. It was an important influence on commercial providers such as Siderean.

FLAMENCO is an acronym that stands for FLexible information Access using MEtadata in Novel COmbinations. Or, as I prefer to think of it: FIAUMINC. [Tags: faceted_classification flamenco open_source taxonomy everything_is_miscellaneous marti_hearst]

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