Definition

http://user-experience.org/uefiles/facetedbrowse/

http://searchtools.com/info/faceted-metadata.html

http://www.webdesignpractices.com/navigation/facets.html

Vendors of Faceted Browsing Software

• Endeca
• Flamenco
• Siderean: Seamark Navigator

Examples of Faceted Browsing

• Environmental Health News
  • Powered by the Seamark Navigator (Siderean). Run a search and use the interface to filter your results.
• fac.etio.us
  • Powered by the Seamark Navigator (Siderean). Browse through a set of del.icio.us items captured during 4 months in 2005 (as a sample data set).
• FacetMap
  • "FacetMap is both a data model and a software package, created to let users browse complex metadata while retaining a simple, familiar, menu interface."
• Barnes & Noble
  • Powered by Endeca
• Flamenco demos
  • "This web page allows access to the experimental interfaces under development as part of the UCB Flamenco research project.... The prototype below provides access to a large collection of architecture images from the UC Berkeley Architecture Visual Resources Library, whose standard interface is called SPIRO."
• Library catalog at North Carolina State University
  • Powered by Endeca