Abstract
Faceted browsing has become ubiquitous with modern digital libraries and online search engines, yet the process is still difficult to abstractly model in a manner that supports the development of interoperable and reusable interfaces. Existing efforts in facet modeling are based upon set theory, formal concept analysis, and light-weight ontologies, but in many regards, they are implementations of faceted browsing rather than a specification of the basic, underlying structures and interactions. We propose category theory as a theoretical foundation for faceted browsing and demonstrate how the interactive process can be mathematically abstracted in a way that naturally supports interoperability and reuse.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | JCDL 2015 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
| Pages | 275-276 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450335942 |
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| State | Published - Jun 21 2015 |
| Event | 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2015 - Knoxville, United States Duration: Jun 21 2015 → Jun 25 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
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| Volume | 2015-June |
| ISSN (Print) | 1552-5996 |
Conference
| Conference | 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Knoxville |
| Period | 6/21/15 → 6/25/15 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The project described was supported by the National Cen- ter for Research Resources and the National Center for Ad- vancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant UL1TR000117. The content is solely the re- sponsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Author.
Keywords
- abstraction
- category theory
- faceted browsing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering (all)