Re: Broad and flat vs hierarchical facets - beginning with introducing myself

Hi Bill,

The advice we got from a consultant who helped us build our faceted
thesaurus was to keep the number of terms/subfacets within any one level
of a facet to under 26 or so. If you have more than that look at
subdividing or condensing your terms. 

-David

>>> [email protected] 02/25/04 12:37AM >>>
My questions to the list is for pragmatic experience re 

1. What is the practical maximum number of items that can be included
in
a flat (alpha or logically sorted) picklist before users won't use it
or
can't find the item they are looking for?

2. In a hierarchical picklist, how many layers are considered to be
practical and what is the practical maximum number of items that
should
be presented in a layer (assuming that the hierarchical logic allows
much freedom to go flat vs deep)? 



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