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

[Reese, Dean]

>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?



Over the past year I have been part of an in depth evaluation of Endeca -vs- Verity. In the end the base capability was very similar with each having its own strengths. In th end we choose Verity for a set of specific reasons to our implementation.

Parametric, does not need imply single attribute only, semantically maybe. In the implementation from Verity it is not a limitation. Is it a synonym, again I think it depends on implementation, it can be.



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