{"id":1757,"slug":"sciencedirect-faceted-search-definition","title":"ScienceDirect — faceted search definition: progressive refinement by independent facets/attributes","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","dev","candid-team"],"topics":["information-architecture","faceted-search"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** Faceted search is \"a modality of information retrieval that enables users to progressively refine search results by restricting objects that match a query based on their properties, known as facets, which are independent dimensions or attributes of the data set.\"\n\n**Source:** ScienceDirect Topics, \"Faceted Search — an overview,\" undated overview page (accessed June 2026).\n\n**Confidence:** Verified (academic-reference aggregator).\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** The clean, source-credible definition to use in client conversations. Anchors the difference between faceted refinement (multi-attribute, simultaneous) and a single-attribute filter or a plain category list. Cross-link [[nngroup-faceted-search-refinement-definition]] for the UX-research framing and [[flowhunt-faceted-search-plain-language-glossary]] for plain-language phrasing.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-searchable-structured-catalogue-working-tool-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the searchable, structured catalogue as a working tool — when records-not-prose pays off (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"flowhunt-faceted-search-plain-language-glossary","title":"FlowHunt (vendor glossary) — faceted search plain-language: filter by multiple attributes simultaneously vs single-attribute filter","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"nngroup-faceted-search-refinement-definition","title":"Nielsen Norman Group — faceted search refines a large content set; controls + results displayed simultaneously","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-build-catalogue-when-records-numerous-changing-multi-attribute","title":"R1 — Build a searchable, structured catalogue when records are numerous, change often, or carry several independent queryable attributes","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.575Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.575Z"}