Factory Service - provides services for creating and managing objects in a distributed environment. The idea of multiple views has roots in traditional library card catalogs, but SenseMaker view types go beyond author, subject, and title. Furthermore, the set of view types available to the SenseMaker user is dynamically determined by the user's choice of search services. Users may choose from a variety of strategies for bundling together results, which provides a high level overview of the result collection. For example, a good bundling strategy in a title view is to bundle together results with similar titles.
Users can choose from a number of high-level duplicate detection strategies.
Users can change the current strategy at any time. For example, a user trying to get a survey of an area might consider results with identical titles to be duplicates. In contrast, a user trying to see how well indexed a particular item is might consider results with identical titles to be unique items, as long as they come from different search services. SenseMaker offers users a range of ways to iteratively limit or expand a collection.