Siderean's Seamark Navigator 4.5 enables identification of the relationships between sets of data across disparate sources whether structured or unstructured. Among other benefits, it may make it easier for users to create and manage taxonomies, but also to be able to see connections between facets - to be able to "branch out".
"The offering takes full advantage of semantic technology to enable users to harness content from across the enterprise and on the Web, greatly facilitating information access and discovery. Further, says Siderean, it enables more user participation than before, providing new tagging, voting, ranking and reviewing capabilities. It also helps knowledge workers to efficiently collaborate via commenting features and the ability to save and share searches."
Paula Hane at Information Today's Newsbreaks provides a longer description in Siderean Upgrades Its Relational Navigation Platform (May 14) Sue Feldman of IDC was among those interviewed for this article. She said that "Siderean handles dynamism — elements don’t have to be predetermined. And, while other discovery tools allow drill down through facets and hierarchies, Siderean can handle ‘sideways relationships’ in a unique way."
Siderean Software website has whitepapers and articles on its relational navigation. Especially recommended is the short video (3 minutes) on the Evolution of Search in which the VP of software engineering, Jack Berkowitz, compares keyword search, faceted search, and relational search.
David Weinberger in his blog, Everything Is Miscellaneous, references the Siderean patent for relational navigation, saying "Faceted classification and taxonomies both work by showing the user narrower and narrower results. That's often what we want, but in this crazy world, we may also want to leap off the branch we've walked onto." Siderean's relational navigation might be the method.
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