Rule Based Faceted Navigation on Semantic Link Network

Semantic link network is a model which can represent resources in cyber space, physical space and social space. It pursues semantic richness rather than correctness. So the scale of SLN becomes larger and larger which renders hard browsing. Faceted navigation is a feasible and efficient way to browse a large scale SLN if it can comprehensively consider properties of resources and semantic links between them. This paper proposes a mechanism that provides rule based faceted navigation for users to freely browse resources in different facets from an SLN. Besides properties of resources, the model deals with semantic links as well. A user can set personalized rules to generate their desired facets. Several interfaces are designed for users to operate the process of faceted navigation.