Via pixelcharmer, I noticed that a couple faceted navigation plugins have been created recently for Movable Type. I'm thinking of trying out the CategoryFaceted plugin. It'll probably be an improvement, but I doubt it'll do everything I want.
Meanwhile, I'm continuing to hack on the Wiki Diamond project. Last night, I started making modifications to PikiPiki just to get a prototype going. Following the WikiWay, I'm keeping it simple. My current metadata format is based on flat files that have their metadata recorded as headers, a lot like an email message, but using -*-*-*- instead of a blank line to separate the headers from the body. For example:
Subject: Faceted Navigation
Author: Kim
-*-*-*-
The body of the document goes here.
It has a simple URL syntax for browsing: browse?Author=Kim&Subject= Faceted%20Navigation, for example. Once I get refinements working, I'll make the wiki public and you can all start playing with it.
Posted on September 4, 2003 05:43 PM
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