Didn't Visivismo have faceted browsing? I remember folders or something
similar.
Shawn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Nagy
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:34 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Patents on faceted navigation: what's
> the impact?
>
> Danielle Plumer wrote:
> > "Prior art" is the way to attack patents such as these, as
> Nancy states.
> >
> > The Open Source Development Laboratories has an "Open
> Source as Prior Art" site at http://osapa.org/. The goal is
> to protect innovation by reviewing, and challenging as
> necessary, "poor quality" patents that threaten the
> development of new software tools.
> >
> I have been surfing around the Wayback Machine on archive.org to find
> instances of Faceted searching, but have not found much. It's hard to
> find a site on the wayback machine that has more than the
> front page. I
> have looked at dell.com, ebay.com, cnet.com and since I cannot use the
> searching mechanism it's hard to find instances of faceted search
> results, but even so I haven't found good instances of
> faceted browsing
> with results on the same screen. Before 2001 that is.
>
> Andrew
>
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 13:33:26 EDT