[Sigia-l] Relationship between Search and Browse

[Avi Rappoport]

I am a huge fan of faceted metadata search/browse integration, a la 
Marti Hearst.  I think multidimensional taxonomies are the only way 
to properly represent content, there is never a single right way to 
address user needs.

Faceted metadata search is easiest to implement when the attributes 
are already there, such as catalog databases, otherwise there's a big 
faceted classification hurdle to get over.  The results are amazingly 
usable.  I think this fulfills your criteria of narrowing functions 
to mirror content structure, without limiting the narrowing to a 
single direction.

My thinking on this is at 
<http://www.searchtools.com/info/facted-metadata.html>, please let me 
know if you have other good examples or questions.

Avi

At 11:19 AM +0000 3/26/03, Clifton Evans at Infostyling wrote:
>I would think that aligning search functionality with browsing would 
>be best achieved with the use of narrowing functions or filters that 
>mirror the content structure.
>
>Sound about right?
>
>Clifton.
>SIA @ Object1
>
>
>
>>My interest is piqued by Christina's point 11 ("these go to eleven"?).
>>
>>I would love to see people's examples of sites that 
>>understand/exploit/maximize the "relationship between browse and 
>>search."
>>
>>I value good search and I value good browse interfaces, but I'm not 
>>sure exactly what a good relationship between the two would be.
>>
>>-Laura
>>
>>>Christina Wodtke wrote:
>>>11. You have to value search and browse and their relationship, and moreover
>>>be able to design for that relationship.
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