Modeling Faceted Browsing with Category Theory to Support Interoperability and Reuse

Daniel R. Harris

doi:10.1145/2756406.2756972

Modeling Faceted Browsing with Category Theory to Support Interoperability and Reuse

Daniel R. Harris

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2756406.2756972
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

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Volume	2015-June
ISSN (Print)	1552-5996

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Conference	15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Knoxville
Period	6/21/15 → 6/25/15

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© 2015 Author.

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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.

Funders	Funder number
National Cen- ter for Research Resources
National Institutes of Health (NIH)	UL1TR000117

Keywords

abstraction
category theory
faceted browsing

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General Engineering

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Harris, DR 2015, Modeling Faceted Browsing with Category Theory to Support Interoperability and Reuse. in JCDL 2015 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, vol. 2015-June, pp. 275-276, 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2015, Knoxville, United States, 6/21/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2756406.2756972

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JCDL 2015 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2015. p. 275-276 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries; Vol. 2015-June).

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