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Yee, P. et al. “Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing.” Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’03). New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003. 401-408.
Crystal, Abe. “Facets are fundamental: Rethinking information architecture frameworks.” Technical Communication 54.1 (2007): 15-27.
p. 17 “Yee and colleagues (2003) define facets as “orthogonal sets of categories.” They note that facets may be either flat (containing a single level of values) or hierarchical (containing multiple levels of values in an ancestor-descendant structure). Furthermore, facets may be single-valued (allowing just one value to be assigned to an item) or multi-valued (allowing more than one value to be assigned to an item)…This specification of facets makes useful basic distinctions. However, a more general way of thinking about using facet classification is to model an information space that contains resources, which are described by facets (which are composed of schemes and structures).”
p. 17 “we can distinguish between facets and attributes. Facets entail an actual classification system (the scheme and structure), and so are defined by human interpretation and judgment. Attributes are simple values, not associated with a classification system, and are intrinsic to the nature of an object. Information architects can identify multiple facets and attributes for different types of resources, and apply these as needed…the year a particular work was created would be an attribute. In contrast, the period with which a work is associated would be a facet”
p. 17 “Facets are about interpretation, so they are about conflict. They are about applying a distinct point of view to help make sense of large information spaces.”
