What Are Facets?
A facet is a way of categorizing information. Scriblio allows you to use facets to limit your searches quickly and easily, or browse areas that interest you. Clicking facets is the best way to understand them. Go ahead, explore.
This is a basic guide for how facets can help a user narrow their search. It will show how they can be used to understand Scriblio results, and how clicking them will lead to more targeted results. Scriblio has many ways of slicing search results into separate attributes, called facets.
Some frequently used facets include Subject, Author, Publication Year and other configurable items. When you do a search on Scriblio, the facets appear down the right hand side of the search results as in the example to the right from a search for petroglyphs. Not all Scriblio installs will have the same set of facets, but this should serve to illustrate their general function.
Each of the section headings tops a list of possible subdivisions of the topic that was originally searched for. So, this example shows the searched-for topic at the top. The small [x] beside is is an optional “remove this term” function, useful for when you have searched for multiple facets already.
The search results for a single keyword search are sorted by relevance. Limits can be placed by selecting one of the items listed under Subject. In this case, there are twenty-four items in the current search set that match the query for petroglyphs and the subject “antiquities.” Clicking the word antiquities in this list will return those twenty-four records and change the Searched for: heading to now look like this.
At this point, if the [x] next to petroglyphs was clicked, removing it, the search results would show a list of items only matching the subject antiquities. When looking at browse results — when going in to the catalog in some way that does not use a keyword search — results are sorted with the most recent additions tot he catalog presented first. Searches that use keywords will be returned ranked by relevance.
Publication Year is another popular facet allowing a user to do a keyword search for an item and limit the results to a particular year. This is especially good for limiting large search sets to most recent items. In the example shown on the right, clicking the date 2004 will limit the results to the three entries using the keyword petroglyphs that were published in 2004.
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December 12th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I can’t find publication year facets at my scriblio. How I can add this?