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

[Webindexing]

Hi Donna,

Some other sites that have faceted classification (current last year -
haven't checked them all recently) are:

Annotated Wordnet (www.siderean.com/wordnet17.jsp)

Tower Records (www.towerrecords.com). After you have searched by keyword
you can refine searches by price, format, feature etc.

Dun & Bradstreet (www.dnbbiz.com) - 19 million businesses can be
searched 

Genome Analyzer (genome.i411.com/leto/ok.asp)

Te Kete Ipurangi: the Online Learning Centre (www.tki.org.nz/e/search).
Offers grouped options for selection. First choose the 'filter' category
(eg, language, education topic). You then get keyword options applicable
to that category. Unlike the other faceted search sites, this one
doesn't show the number of hits for each option. So youmight create a
detailed search for Fijian language resources for certain subjects etc,
only to find that there are only 3 documents in the whole collection
that are in Fijian. 

Children's books online (www.icdlbooks.org/library). Site is very slow.
Demo at www.icdlbooks.org/library/help/search_area.htm

Posters (robotwent.com/posters)

Meta Matters (http://dcanzorg.ozstaging.com/mb.aspx)

Cheers,

Glenda.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] 
> On Behalf Of Donna Maurer
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 June 2004 7:55 PM
> To: sigia-l at mail.asis.org
> Subject: Re: [sigia-l] Faceted browsing WAS The category of 
> "Miscellaneous"
> 
> 
> On 16 Jun 2004 at 2:54, Jonathan Broad wrote:
> 
> > Endeca has an excellent commercial implementation of faceted 
> > search/browsing.  The Flamenco project headed by Marti Hearst of 
> > Berkeley's Info School has an open-sourced implementation 
> of a similar 
> > interface.
> > 
> > For one thing, that kind of interface eliminates the dead-ends of 
> > directories.  For another, it re-homes relevant structure 
> dynamically 
> > in response to a user query.  
> > 
> Having spent my day up to my elbows in faceted browsing (which also 
> involved creating a new page on the IAwiki: 
> http://iawiki.net/FacetedBrowsing), I wonder why you think that it 
> eliminates the dead ends.
> 
> All of the current implementations of faceted browsing I have found 
> purposely lead to dead ends. Faceted browsing is a filter, 
> and a filter 
> is a funnel that progressively narrows the number of results down.  
> You browse through the facets until you find a product/page that is 
> interesting. Although it would be simple to use the facets to create 
> relationships (and eliminate dead ends by expanding the results), I 
> haven't seen this done at all.
> 
> 
> So a request and a blatant plug...
> 
> If you know of sites that use faceted browsing, email me (have a look 
> at the page mentioned above on the IAwiki for a definition). 
> I'll update 
> the wiki. 
> 
> And if you are in Australia, come see me talk about faceted browsing, 
> the shape of information, personas and other cool things at our new 
> half-day seminar "Latest Thinking in Usability & IA":
> http://steptwo.com.au/seminars/040729/index.html
> (told you it was a blatant plug ;)
> 
> 
> Donna
> 
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