Re: Facet sliders at Amazon

Hi Louie and everyone,

You might check out Spiteri's paper from IA Institute's website.

The url to the paper is as follows:

http://iainstitute.org/pg/a_simplified_model_for_facet_analysis.php

Regards,

Jay 


On 7/13/05, Louie Mayor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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