September 25, 2003
How To Find A Cable Car In The Fog: Category-Based Navigation
Something else I found (in addition to the Center in a Box I'm now working on!), in my recent searching at Berkeley: "Category-Based Navigation" -- drilling down through the faceted data, in this case describing photographs of "life at Berkeley & environs."
(or "dim light" anyway...)
When I recently went looking for interesting doings at my grad school alma mater, U.C. Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), I found not only Professor Glushko's "Document Engineering" initiative (with whom I've made contact, and will help with beta-testing one of their products soon), but also this quite interesting, Endeca-like (I'd seen their dog & pony show about a year ago?) drill-down navigation and search tool.
I find this really interesting, and would love to someday work on the metadata design for this sort of approach.
(See final link for your cable car in the fog...)
Wm.
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html
= BAILANDO ("dance" in Spanish), or "Better Access to Information using
Language Analysis and New Displays and Organizations"
= FLAMENCO ("pink bird" in Spanish ;^) stands for "FLexible information Access
using MEtadata in Novel COmbinations"
(Python, MySQL & Lucene)
Commercial Implementations
"Several commercial implementations of ideas related to those we've
explored in Flamenco are now available. These include Endeca, Siderean
(formerly bpallen's teapot system), and DieselPoint."
SIMS 202: Information Organization and Retrieval
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is202/f02/PhotoProject.html
The Photo Project
"...outcome of this project will be a sensible and usable classification to
structure and describe photos, and a browser application to look at the
photos within that classificatory structure..."
Example drill-down search URL:
http://flamenco.sims.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flamenco/202photos/Flamenco?q=conditions:3/location:35&group=location
Conditions = "Lighting | Brightness | Dim"
Location = "Geographic Area | U.S. | California | Bay Area | San Francisco County"
Results: 7 pictures (one including cable car in the fog...)
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A related cms-list posting. Cool!
Wm.
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Re: [cms-list] Faceted Classification: Extended info for a category
From:
Steve McCann
To:
CMS List
Date:
Oct. 14, 2003 11:02:52
Manuel,
The Flamenco Search Interface project has an excellent approach to
faceted classification interfaces:
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html
The tobacco documents database might prove to be a good example of the
needs you talk about below. (the site is experimental and tends to go
down occasionally.)
They are using MySQL and Python and the database itself appear to be
available open source. Looking at the site today I've noticed that
they've also provided a detailed how-to document on building a faceted
classification interface.
http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco/howtobuild/howtobuild.html
Hope this helps!
--
Steve McCann -- Libraries Fellow
North Carolina State University Libraries
* Digital Library Initiatives Dept.
* Research and Information Services Dept.
Campus Box 7111
Raleigh, NC 27695-7111
ph: 919-513-7080
fx: 919-515-3031
steve_mccann@ncsu.edu
M.G. Noriega wrote:
>Hi,i hope this doesn't strays too far from the list on-topics
>
>I'm currently researching ways to adapt a website redesign to faceted
>classification. So far, so good :)
>
>Now i'm facing the need to link some data to any given category, for
>example:
>
>What we are looking for: companies
>
>Which facet are we using to search: 'Products (made by the company)'
>
>Which category are we currently in: 'Product X'
>
>
>So, besides info about companies that manufacture product X i'd like to
>present a link to a PDF describing product X. Every category should
>(could) have some arbitrary data associated to it.
>
>Rather than technical details that i can figure out, i'm looking for
>resources, standard practices, naming, etc... for this kind of 'extended
>info' for the category, because i'm sure this issue has been treated
>before, it's just i haven't heard of it :)
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
>
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