: creating a generic facet framework. It would be interesting to know if : any work has been published which enumerates the design patterns : involved. I found Marti Hearst's research paper "Design Recommendations : for Hierarchical Faceted Search" very useful... : http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/papers/faceted-workshop06.pdf
You know ... i keep hearing about flamenco, one of these days i should really take it for test drive and see what's under the hood. Thanks for hte link to the paper ... I'm much of an academic, so I tend to forget that there are people out there doing hardcore research into these things. : month etc. That would require the query server to further split the : counts depending on how it was to be presented in the user interface. yeah ... for non trivial collections, the seperation between UI and functionality is a lot blurrier when dealing with facets because computing *everything* the UI *might* wnat to expose can be prohibitive. : Sure, sites like epicurious.com with their fixed number of simple facets : can be catered for in Solr. Future sites, based on thousands of facets, : some hierarchical, some Tag-like and some numerical would struggle I think! I don't know about that ... CNET has hundreds of thousands of products, with tens of thousands facet constraints ... and Solr seems to be doing ok for us :) -Hoss
