[Fwd: Flamenco is now open-source]

[Erich Schubert]

Hi,
Not new, but news. ;-) Although I think enricos GUI is already pretty
neat.
And one of our strengths is to not show too many links, their UI is
totally cramped with links.

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Rashmi Sinha <rashmi at uzanto.com>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The recent discussion on faceted search interfaces reminded me to post 
> this...
> 
> Now you can build your very own faceted metadata navigation system
> based on Flamenco (thank Marti Hearst, not me. I have not worked on
> Flamenco in a little while).
> http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/download.html
> 
> In case you have not heard of Flamenco, it was an early faceted
> metadata interface from SIMS, UC Berkeley. I did some work on it
> while at UC Berkeley. Its a cool system, the interface is somewhat
> busy, but it supports more complex information finding tasks very
> well (we did a lot of testing with architects using an architectural
> image database).
> 
> Go here for a live example:
> http://orange.sims.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flamenco.cgi/famuseum/Flamenco
> Some articles here:
> http://www.rashmisinha.com/articles/flamenco_S_02.pdf
> http://www.rashmisinha.com/articles/epicurious-study.pdf
> 
> rashmi
> 
> 
> 
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best regards,
Erich Schubert
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