Towards a General Relation Browser: A GUI for Information Architects

I thought you might like this. The abstract makes it sound very 'faceted'.

Towards a General Relation Browser: A GUI for Information Architects
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Marchionini/

Gary Marchionini and Ben Brunk
Interaction Design Laboratory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abstract

The paper presents the case of ongoing efforts to develop and test
generalizable user interfaces that provide interactive overviews for
large-scale Web sites, portals, and other partitions of Web space. The
interfaces are called Relation Browsers (RB) because they help people
explore the relationships across different attribute sets, thus enabling
understanding the scope and extent of the corpus through active exploration
of different "slices" defined by different attribute value juxtapositions.
The RB concept is illustrated through discussion of six iterations over a
five year period that included laboratory usability studies, a field test,
and implementations with a variety of data management problems. The current
application to design concepts in a digital government setting is discussed,
and the concept of the RB as the basis for an interface server is presented.


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