[Sigia-l] Navigating through three dimensions

[Avi Rappoport]

This is a nice simple faceted system.  As for interface, I highly 
recommend taking a look at Marti Hearst's work on faceted 
browse/search, starting at <http://flamenco.berkeley.edu>.  There are 
a couple of commercial search engines working on this as well, 
including Endeca <http://www.endeca.com> and the one code-named 
Teapot <http://www.bpallen.com>.

Your other problem will be keeping things working in the back end, 
controlled vocabulary, subject taxonomy, stuff like that.

Avi

At 10:07 AM -0400 7/10/02, javier velasco wrote:
>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.

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