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SIGIA-L: Flamenco: Merging Facets With Search
From: Peter Merholz (peterme_at_peterme.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 20:25:49 EST
SIGIA-Ellers--
I've fallen in love with Flamenco, a search technology that incorporates
(and exposes) faceted metadata.
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html
If you want to take a test drive, head here:
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco-interface.html
I'd love to hear what SIGIA-ers think. I find Flamenco interesting for a
number of reasons:
- it exposes faceted metadata to the user
- it was developed with a rigorous user-centered process... the team made
sure to understand the users' problems before writing any code (and verified
the interface's usability with iterative design)
- it doesn't bite off more than it can chew--it doesn't try to be all things
to all people, it just tries to solve the problem of exposing faceted
metadata in the search and browse process. It's an extremely robust solution
to a well-defined, bounded problem. It will be an addition to an information
architect's toolkit. It's not trying to be the silver bullet of information
access/retrieval.
- it suggests any number of further directions to take (understanding how
facets relate to tasks, further refinements to the interface, etc.)
I've rambled about it on my site:
http://peterme.com/archives/00000143.html
--peter
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