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The first published use of the term "bread crumb" for online navigation was in 1987 by Mark Bernstein. One early reference is The bookmark and the compass: orientation tools for hypertext users, SIGOIS Bulletin, 1988.

• Faceted browse blogging at iaslash.org (the faceted browse topic)
• FacetMap.com
• Flamenco search interface project: includes published user research
• Searchtools.com: Faceted metadata search and browse
• Faceted navigation pattern
• At kmconnection.com: Barrington Report on Advanced Organization and Retrieval, vol 1 no.1, has several things on faceted browsing, including an article on terminology. There is also this page: Faceted Classification of Information.
• Putting Facets on the Web: An Annotated Bibliography by William Denton
• Vendors of products that support faceted browsing (this is not a comprehensive list however): Endeca, FAST (I hear their 4.0 version includes faceted search results), Siderean.

My chapter "An information architecture perspective on personalization" has just been published in the book Designing personalized user experiences for eCommerce.

• Chapter: IA perspective on personalization (550K PDF)

For the CHI 2003 workshop

Material prepared for the CHI 2003 workshop Designing Personalized User Experiences for eCommerce: Theory, Methods, and Research.

• My position paper (260K PDF)
• My presentation (870K PPT)

Laundry list of links, for now

• Argus white paper - Information Architecture and Personalization (2000)
• A Framework for Classifying Personalization Schemes Used on e-Commerce Websites, January 2003, HICSS Conference, Hawaii

Attached are 2 files that I created in 2002-2003 about Location, Path & Attribute Breadcrumbs. This work on breadcrumbs was first presented as a poster at the 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit, March 16-17, 2002.

Three Breadcrumbs Overview (280K, April 1, 2003 version) - 1-page example for each type of breadcrumb: Yahoo! for Location, Eddie Bauer for Path, Amazon for Attribute.

IA Summit Poster (550K, March 30, 2002 version) - A single PDF that includes the overview, the poster contents, and comments from attendees.