[Sigia-l] Navigating through three dimensions

[javier velasco]

Navigation spaces is one of the IA subjects that most 'fires me up', I
always dreamed of designing an interesting navigation space. Now I have
my chance, and the scope of the project is rather shocking, I think I'm
heading in the right direction, but I'd like to ask for some advice from
this amazing group.

This is the case:

I have a huge archive of articles, mainly news articles. And my plan is
to organize a browsable archive to engourage navigation, wandering. My
approach is to organize the archive into tree axis:

- Subject - remember "my first taxonomy"? it covers sports, culture,
society, education, etc. very huge.
- Publication (Media) - 4 newspapers, 7 magazines, some other media and
their corresponding sections.
- Date - publication date.

I believe these three axis sytem qualifies as a faceted system. Am I
right?

So where I need your help is in taking it to the interface level, please
send me examples of interfaces that manage this kind of stuff, or ideas
on how I could keep on moving.

Of course all kind of comments, or advice regarding the pre-interface
plan are also welcome.
If there's interest I can surely share the replies.

Thanks in advance,
and also thanks for all the stuff you always feed to the list, it's an
invaluable resource.

Javier