Facets, facet analysis and faceted search

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Facets, facet analysis and faceted search

• Kathryn La Barre, Indiana University
  klabarre_at_indiana.edu
• Project homepage
• http//mypage.iu.edu/klabarre/facetstudy.html

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Overview

• What is a facet?
• How are facets used in search contexts?
• What is possible in terms of faceted search
  applications?

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What is a facet?

• Small components of larger entities/units.
• Properties
• Attributes
• Characteristics
• Relations
• Functions
• Concepts

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Buildings
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Facet analysis

• Fundamental concepts are analyzed and
  grouped together as facets
• Hunter, E. (2002) Classification made simple.
  Ashgate
• Building Facets
• Location
• Composition
• Purpose
• Date/Period constructed
• Performance
• Style
• Associated persons
• ETC. . .

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Faceted search
421,291 images
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1,050 images
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163 images
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15 images
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421,291
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What is possiblegt

• Faceted browsing examples
• http//iawiki.net/FacetedBrowsing
• Faceted metadata
• Examples
• (software) Adiuri, Siderean, Endeca
• (full deployment) Flamenco project
  http//bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html

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More information

• Images of England http//www.imagesofengland.org.
  uk
• Hunter, Eric. (2002). Classification made simple.
  Gower/Ashgate.
• Mills, J. (2004). Faceted classification and
  logical division in information retrieval.
  Library Trends 52(3), 541-570.
• Ranganathan, S. R. (1959). Elements of library
  classification. London Association of Assistant
  Librarians