[sigia-l] Faceted browsing WAS The category of "Miscellaneous"

[Tanya Rabourn]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Jonathan Broad wrote:
> I think one difference between parametric search and what I consider
> full-blown faceted navigation/search is the complexity of the facets.
> Parametric search, as implemented by Verity (so far as I've been able
> to determine), seems limited to flat or single-valued facets.  Or at
> least, it should be. :)

OK, but apart from verity k2's implementation of parametric
browse, can we say that parametric and faceted are synonyms?
Or are you saying parametric is a NT for faceted?

(Just trying to sort this out so I can have conversations
with non-IA types.) It seems to me that I never read
anything that uses both terms...it's always one or the
other, so in my mind they've become synonyms with preference
dependent on discipline. Is it more complex than that?

-Tanya