Sent by Steve McCann on 14 October 2003 19:07
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!
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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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