[Web4lib] Faceted navigation as metasearch

[K.G. Schneider]

> Actually the end architecture is more likely to be the federated search
> system on top (user interface side) of the databases. The fed search
> systems already have the capability to combine results which the
> database systems do not. The interesting advance here is firstly,
> combining different "faceted organizations" of the data from different
> databases (Genny's  point below), and then the presentation of those
> refining/navigation/searching aids to the user in a non-confusing way,
> but one that doesn't lose their power.  Working on it......

While you're working on it :) there's also the challenge (not specific to
faceted navigation, but weirdly highlighted by it in some situations) of the
very different outcomes of searching against databases versus citation
indexes... 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com