Re: Facet sliders at Amazon

Hi Bill,

Thanks for this sharing this.

I'm a big fan of your work in www.miskatonic.org,
which is a major reference for my university paper.
I'd like to thank you for creating a great reference
that discusses classic facet classification
techniques, incorporating clear approaches to building
the facets and foci into a relational database.

I have a small inquiry though - I'd like to ask
whether or not Spiteri's work, which you quoted from
the Canadian Journal of Library and Information
Science, is accessible for free somewhere. Our library
here in the University of the Philippines does not
carry the journal (and many other journals for that
matter), and I am really aching to check out Spiteri's
work directly.

Thank you in advance!

~Louie Mayor

--- William Denton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's an interesting thing I saw linked at
> iaslash.org:
> 
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/finder/104-4110715-5037550?productGroupID=loose%5fdiamonds
> 
> It's a tool for choosing diamonds at Amazon.com, and
> it uses sliders to
> let the user choose from price, carat, cut, colour,
> and clarity.  Shape is
> the only facet given discrete options.  As you make
> your choices and move
> the sliders around, you're told how many diamonds
> match your choices.
> That part of it is a little slow--by which I mean
> it's not
> instantaneous--but it's a nice interface and good
> example of choosing from
> facets.
> 
> Bill
> -- 
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada :
> www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
> 
> 



		
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