Open AccessIntroducing FRED: Faceted retrieval of e‐government documents
Author(s) -
Freund Luanne,
Jinglewski Mary,
Kessler Kristof
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504901310
Subject(s) - metadata , computer science , context (archaeology) , domain (mathematical analysis) , government (linguistics) , focus (optics) , information retrieval , world wide web , work (physics) , quality (philosophy) , geography , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , physics , mathematics , archaeology , epistemology , optics
A faceted, metadata‐driven approach to e‐government information access is explored through the development of the FRED system. This paper describes first steps of this research, in which the quality of existing metadata in the Canadian context is examined, and the system framework is established. Future work will focus on mapping and supplementing existing metadata and evaluating the effectiveness of faceted information access in this domain.