From the FacetedClassification List, Kathryn La Barre writes that at the upcoming CHI2006 conference in Montreal (April 22-26), Hearst (Berkley), Smalley and Chandler(eBay) will be presenting the course Faceted metadata for information architecture and search completely available online. It’s a fundamental two hundreds and more slides piece on facets and IA.

The description:

The purpose of this course is to introduce and explain a systematic approach to designing information architecture for web sites consisting of large collections of items.
The main goals of the approach are to produce websites with multiple different views to reflect differences in user’s preferred search and browsing methods, to incorporate search uniformly throughout the design of the site, and to do this in a manner that makes use of standard technology and allows non-experts to be able to add to the content of the site without disturbing the other properties.

The main objective of the course is to instruct attendees about how to integrate navigation and search for large collections in a seamless, flexible manner that helps users find things quickly and browse items comfortably.

The course will present a method for developing such interfaces and steer attendees away from common pitfalls.

It will also present justifications for the approach in the form of usability results and real world application of the ideas.

Finally, it will point out the limitations of the approach.

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