Flexible Search and
Navigation using Faceted Metadata
The Flamenco Project Team
Motivation
Recent Study by Vividence
Research
Following Hyperlinks
An Analogy
Main Idea
The Challenges
Main Idea
An Important Trend in
Information Architecture Design
A Taxonomy of WebSites
Faceted Metadata
Metadata: data about
data
Facets: orthogonal categories
Faceted Metadata:
Biomedical
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
www.nlm.nih.org/mesh
Mesh Facets (one level
expanded)
Questions we are trying to
answer
How NOT to do it
Yahoo’s use of facets
Yahoo’s use of facets
Yahoo’s use of facets
Yahoo’s use of facets
Problem with Metadata
Previews as Currently Used
Recipe Collection Examples
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Epicurious Metadata Usage
Metadata usage in Epicurious
Metadata usage in Epicurious
Metadata usage in Epicurious
Metadata usage in Epicurious
Metadata usage in Epicurious
Epicurious Basic Search
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Epicurious: Usability Study
Missing From Epicurious
Metadata Interface for Image
Search
Current Approaches to Image
Search
Architects and City Planners
The Collection
Architects’ Image Use
Development Timeline
The Interface
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Usability Study on Round 3
Study Tasks
Interface Evaluation
Overall Preferences:
Matrix vs. Tree
User Comments - Matrix
User Comments – Tree
Task Completion Times
When Given A Choice …
Feature Usage (%)
Refining
Feature Usage –
Expanding / Starting Over
Feature Usage (%)
Types of Actions
Interface Evaluation
Application to Medline
Summary and Conclusions
Summary
Summary
Summary
Advantages of the Approach
Some Unanswered Questions
Thank you!