july 30 uie virtual seminar: designing for faceted search
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Faceted Search: Designing Your Content, Navigation and User InterfacePete BellCo-Founder
Daniel TunkelangChief Scientist
UIE Virtual SeminarThursday, August 20, 20091:30pm ET
The rise of facets
“Put simply, if you’re an information architect, we see facets in your future.”-Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
Faceted search as a concierge experience
Winery
Flavor
Year
Grape
Region
Subject
Sentiment
Entities
Date
Industry
Categorizing structured and unstructured content
Folksonomy: can crowds categorize:?
The opportunity Wisdom of the crowds Cover the “long tail” Fresher content
The challenge Another messy silo? Authority?
The yin & yang of categorization & navigation
Design patterns for faceted search
Faceted search machinery
Faceted authority: Who do you trust?
Depending on the task at hand,• I trust Olaf for finance content but not engineering•Phil is often right, but I’ll need to confirm it•I don’t trust Panhead to be accurate, but he might lead me to a good source
2 implementations of faceted authority
Records have authority facets> navigate records by authority facets
Facets 301: Facets have authority facets> navigate by authority facet of facets
Faceted Search: Designing Your Content, Navigation and User InterfacePete BellCo-Founder
Daniel TunkelangChief Scientist
UIE Virtual SeminarThursday, August 20, 20091:30pm ET