Crafting A System For Knowledge Discovery And Organisation A Case-Study On Kos For A Non-Standard German Legacy Dataset

This paper describes a case-study developing a knowledge organisation system (facet thesaurus) on the example of a non-standard German language legacy dataset, DBO [Datenbank der bairischen Mundarten in Osterreich / Database of Bavarian Dialects in Austria]). A particular focus is placed on the 109 original data collection questionnaires contained in the collection, which are understood as an entry point to the entire collection. Here they serve as a case-study to demonstrate the process, which may be extended to the remainder of the collection. Ranganathan (1933, 1967) created the first faceted scheme - Colon Classification - to classify books in libraries. Faceted classification has also been used to assist automated search and retrieval of information (Prieto-Diaz 1991). According to Mills (2004), facet analysis has a very vital role for information retrieval and in the design of classificatory structures by the application of logical division to all forms of the content of records, subject and imaginative. The natural product of such division is a faceted classification. Building on these previous endeavours, we here introduce a facet thesaurus for eliciting and promoting access and navigability for the items in this collection, in order to make cross cutting topics accessible.