RE: University use of faceted navigation

Have you seen UC Berkeley's Flamenco Project?  Their demo interface has
well-defined facets and the web site has lots of documentation:
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/.  The University of Toronto also does
some great interface research - see this annotated bibliography of
faceted navigation: http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-biblio.html

I set up this topical directory for a public library health information
page http://www.jocohealth.net/?moduleid=1&state=alt - just two facets:
by subject and by life stage.  The two stages were chosen as that was
how users inquired about something.  I did a corporate digital library
interface whose facets were also established based on how users inquired
about content (based on input from library staff as well as a formal
survey of users).

Hope this helps-
Lydia

Lydia C. Bauer
Content Librarian, H&R Block
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian J. Hoffman
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CMS] University use of faceted navigation

All,

Is anyone out there aware of any universities currently using 
metadata-generated, faceted navigation on their website? It would be 
especially useful if it was a library site. If so, could you please send
me 
their URL? If you were involved in implementing such a site, I'd love to

hear about what metadata standard you used and other such details. I
think 
the Forrester site is the first one I've seen that actually implements 
faceted navigation and would love to see more real-world examples, even
if 
they're corporate.

Thanks!


Brian J. Hoffman

Database Administrator/Webmaster
Penn State University Libraries
814-863-3214

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