Faceted Classification
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Facet examples
(from William Denton's How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web)
Five facets Ranganathan's Colon Classification (Ranganathan 1962):
- Personality (the something in question, e.g. a person or event in a classification of history, or an animal in a classification of zoology)
- Matter (what something is made of)
- Energy (how something changes, is processed, evolves)
- Space (where something is)
- Time (when it happens)
BC2 for ideas (Broughton 2001, 79):
- thing/entity
- kind
- part
- property
- material
- process
- operation
- patient
- product
- by-product
- agent
- space
- time
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'Depending on the search restrictions, any of a range of products for travel, the bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, garden, or office will be listed.
- Gift recipient (e.g., her)
- Their interest (entertaining)
- Occasion (birthday)
- Price range ($25-$50)
The site has two more options: one lets the user narrow the results to gifts that can be personalized; the other controls the ordering of the results: by product name or by increasing or decreasing cost. Any commercial classification will need a cost or price facet.
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Examples of Faceted Navigation in Action
Faceted Nav Solution Providers
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