[Sigia-l] Disposable navigation systems

[Natasja Paulssen]

>>Alexander wrote:
>>You can always try. :) Personally, I'm not quite sure what you mean.
>>Are you referring to navigational means that are so detached from the
>>information it provides as "detached"?

Yes, from an informational viewpoint metadata and navigation structure
should
be independent of each other. I believe that talking about disposable
navigation systems will help people understand the importance of this
independency better.

>>If so, look to faceted navigation, or a million other
>>too-general-for-this-shirt type navigations. I deal with Topic Maps,
>>and the general Topic Maps datamodel lends itself to a somewhat
>>"detached" navigation, I guess, but please elaborate a bit.

Faceted navigation may certainly leed to a disposable navigation system.
Yet designing with the temporary feel of disposable in mind might leed
to new ideas, I hope. The ultimate example being: feed the outline of
your document into a search engine that generates an information hierarchy
on the spot. Interesting e.g. for checking business cases to see what other
projects claim the same benefits...
Does this help?

Natasja