Apparently the many people still need to be persuaded of the value of faceted organization of results. Kalback describes the merits of facets for improving relevance for the user and refers to Marti Hearst work in the 1990s at Xeroc PARC
The advantage is in the groupings - "The theory is, structuring a results list by clustering items around a topic better reveals “aboutness” of subsets of items, and this in turn potentially increases the chance of relevance. This isn’t only true in academic settings: studies show that grouping results can be of significant benefit in broader contexts on the web. ]"
Gives the World Digital Library as an example of a site that is applying a faceted construction.
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