Accessibility
Books
Careers
Classification
- ASIST Special
Interest Group
Studies the principles, processes, and constructs of classification schemes
- International Federation of Classification
Societies
Societies whose aims are to further knowledge classification research
- Automatic
Categorization
Selection of feature words and proper names that reflect the main topics of the text
"Automatic text categorization is an important research area and has a potential
for many text-based applications including text routing and filtering. Typical text
classifiers learn from example texts that are manually categorized. In this paper we
discuss the categorization of magazine articles with broad subject descriptors."
- Classification Society
The CSNA is a nonprofit interdisciplinary organization whose purposes are to promote the
scientific study of classification and clustering (including systematic methods of
creating classifications from data), and to disseminate scientific and educational
information related to its fields of interests.
- Content Wire
Magazine for using taxonomies in knowledge organization
- Delphi Group Examines software
segment for taxonomy management.
- "Taxonomy software can reduce our reaction time to
make informed and timely business decisions based on knowledge and information contained
within the unstructured data of an organization's digital documents. This software helps
us form ideas from information we didn't know we had while revealing relationships and
correlations that were submerged or lost in the depths of the ocean of information
overload."
- Learning how to classify | How to classify
content by Gerry McGovern http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_02_classify.htm.
"Design classification like it will be 'written in stone.' You don't want to be
changing your classification every six months. This will mean a lot of work and will
create confusion." http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_02_classify.htm
- Finding the Flow in Web Site Search
Marti Hearst, Jennifer English, Rashmi Sinha, Kirsten Swearingen, and Ping Yee. pdf or html
- Hierarchical Faceted Metadata in Site Search Interfaces
Jennifer English, Marti Hearst, Rashmi Sinha, Kirsten Swearingen, and Ping Yee PDF
- Next Generation Web Search: Setting Our Sites
Link Analysis in Web Information Retrieval Monika Henzinger
- Computing Web Page Reputations Alberto Mendelzon and Davood Rafiei
- Learning to Understand the Web William
Cohen, Andrew McCallum, and Dallan Quass
- Context in Web Search Steve
Lawrence
Communities
Content Development
Controlled Vocabularies
Ecommerce
Education and Online Courses
- Master Degree in Information Architecture
The IAKM Master's degree requires 48 credit hours: 24 hours in the core and 24
hours within a concentration. The core program provides competencies in information
technologies, information design, information seeking behavior, strategic planning, and
information users and uses. Contact Sharon Edwards at sedwards@slis.kent.edu The prospectus is
at http://iakm.kent.edu
- Information
Architecture Masters Degree at Capitol College
Graduate Programs Information Architecture Program
http://www.capitol-college.edu/academics/grad/msia.html
- Information Architecture Ecomp 308
The class will focus on work world applications, structuring documents,
briefings, websites, electronic interfaces, and electronic support systems. The class will
appeal especially to technical writers, webmasters, designers, or records managers who are
looking for integrative solutions to communications problems. Details at the USDA site: http://grad.usda.gov/evening/summer/info.html
- Carnegie Mellon - Master of Design in Interaction
Design
www.cmu.edu/cfa/design/programs/mdes/mdes.html
- Indiana University - User-Oriented Information
Architecture and Design Career Specialization www.slis.indiana.edu/degrees/mis/mis-crs.html
- University of Michigan's School of Information -
Digital Tool Kit Program On Information Architecture
www.si.umich.edu/dtk/2000/607.htm
- University of Washington - Web Technology
Essentials Certificate Program
www.extension.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/wte/wte_main.asp
- Educorner FREE online IA course http://educorner.com/courses/ia/
Experts
Forums and Mailing Lists
Hypertext
Indexing
Information Retrieval
- MIT
Information Architecture Project
This MIT project is collecting the design principles that create navigable information
spaces. "What if we could explore information like we explore the world around
us? Humans have a rich awareness of location and situation that directs how we
interpret and interact with our environment. The Information Architecture project seeks to
create information spaces, where people will use this awareness to search, browse, and
learn. In the same way that they navigate in the physical environment, they will navigate
through knowledge. "
- Information Retrieval Online text of a
book by Dr. C.J. van Rijsbergen. "Information retrieval is a wide, often
loosely-defined term but in these pages I shall be concerned only with automatic
information retrieval systems. Automatic as opposed to manual and information as opposed
to data or fact. Unfortunately the word information can be very misleading. In the context
of information retrieval (IR), information, in the technical meaning given in Shannon's
theory of communication, is not readily measured"
- Knowledge Interchange Format
(KIF) DARPA project based format for exchanging pieces of knowledge bases.
"Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is a language designed for use in the interchange
of knowledge among disparate computer systems (created by different programmers, at
different times, in different languages, and so forth)."
Information Architecture - as described by the
experts
- Information Design v. Information Architecture
http://www.stcsig.org/id/whatis.html
- Information architecture defined. Christina Wodtke http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php?aid=302&pid=0
- Builder.com 10 questions about information architects http://www.builder.com/Authoring/AllAboutIA/
- Practising IA finite yet unbounded. Adam Greenfield
http://www.v-2.org/practicingIA.html
- Lou Rosenfeld - STC article (PDF)
http://www.stc.org/pics/idsig/dmatters/apr00.pdf
- Becoming an Information Architect from Monster.com http://technology.monster.com/articles/infoarchitect/
- What is an Information Architect?
http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/downes/threads/mm1.htm
- Information Architecture Revealed
http://www.webword.com/interviews/rosenfeld.html
- Minda Zetlin explains the role of an information architect
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO56575,00.html
- The Art of Information Architecture
http://www.iboost.com/build/backend/arch/644.htm
Aaron West introduction to one of the core tenants of IA: understand the problem, plan the
solution, create the design.
- Data modeling vs. IA http://www.webreview.com/1999/04_02/developers/04_02_99_4.shtml
- Top three IA sins - Macworld
http://www.macworld.com/1999/02/create/web.html
- 7 pitfalls to avoid http://www.internetworld.com/magazine.php?inc=121500/12.15.00feature3long.html
- Seven deadly sins http://home.netscape.com/computing/webbuilding/studio/feature19980729-1.html
Sin 1: Forgetting who your users are
Sin 2: Not creating a flowchart
Sin 3: Not organizing your content
Sin 4: Not using consistent navigation
Sin 5: Using unclear link colours
Sin 6: Using the TITLE tag incorrectly.
Sin 7: Not looking ahead.
"Your site will change over time - you'll want to add information, prune old
pages, incorporate new technologies and tags, and perhaps give it a complete visual
overhaul. The best way to handle such changes is to come up with a plan for growth now,
while you're in the early stages of design."
- Nathan's unified field theory
http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified/index.html
http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/interview.html
The intersection of these issues can be addressed by the process of Information
Interaction Design. In other circles, it is called simply Information Design,
Information Architecture, or Interaction Design, Instructional Design, or just plain
Common Sense
- If You Meet a Data Bigot on the Road, Kill Him http://www.webreview.com/1999/04_02/developers/04_02_99_4.shtml
- 13 Reasons Why Data and Document Retrieval are not The
Same
Intranet Architecture. http://www.webreview.com/1997/03_21/strategists/03_21_97_3.shtml
How do you balance the need for central control with the desire for individual expression?
Our Web Architects have a plan. Peter Morville.
- Peter Morville's Information Architect's Manifesto
http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange010.html
Information architects of the world, unite! The environment has changed. Now, so must
we!
- Scott Jason Cohen's Curse of Information Design http://www.alistapart.com/stories/curse/
To many, the information architect seems redundant. If the project involves heavy
back-end implementation, the system and user flow will already be determined. In terms of
layout, a good visual designer will know not to make a page too damn cluttered. So why use
an information architect and his unparalleled influence in creating the site?
- Mark Hurst of Creative Good http://www.goodexperience.com/columns/040300infoarch.html
"The main difference between information architecture and customer experience is the
foundation of each. Customer experience is founded on empathy with, and understanding of,
the customer. Information architecture, on the other hand, is based on an
understanding of information. "
- Stephen Downes defines IA http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/downes/threads/mm1.htm
"And the world is going to need more information architects, and information
architects are going to have to think in larger and larger terms"
Keywording
- Real world examples of key wording
in action, shows a wide variety of associated pictures with key words. This basic key word
document from the Picture
Agency Council of America (PACA) covers a lot of information in two pages.
Metadata and Searching
- Finding the Flow in Web Site Search. Marti Hearst,
Jennifer English, Rashmi Sinha, Kirsten Swearingen, and Ping Yee. pdf or html
- Hierarchical Faceted Metadata in Site Search Interfaces
Jennifer English, Marti Hearst, Rashmi Sinha, Kirsten Swearingen, and Ping Yee pdf
- Next Generation Web Search: Setting Our Sites
Link
Analysis in Web Information Retrieval Monika Henzinger
- Computing
Web Page Reputations Alberto Mendelzon and Davood Rafiei
- Learning to
Understand the Web William Cohen, Andrew
McCallum, and Dallan Quass
- Look Before You Ask http://www.digital-web.com/columns/wideopen/wideopen_2002-07.shtml
by David Wertheimer. "Let search remain to maximize your site's usability, but
tone down its presentation just enough to encourage a click or two. The goal is not to
eliminate search as an option, but to expose the audience to an alternate, and possibly
superior, mode of site navigation."
- Context in
Web Search Steve Lawrence
- Creating a Website Index Fred Liese's article in
B&A http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002848.php
on using indexes (the alphanumeric kind) on websites.
- Keeping an eye on metadata http://www.cw360.com
- Digital Web Magazine New column called
IAnything Goes, Jeff Lash takes an in-depth look at IA. The Age of Information
Architecture http://www.digital-web.com/columns/ianythinggoes/ianythinggoes_2002-08.shtml
- Also David Wertheimer on Beyond the IA Guy: Defining
Information Architecture
http://www.digital-web.com/columns/wideopen/wideopen_2002-08.shtml
Projects
- The Scorpion Project is a project of
the OCLC Office of Research exploring the indexing and
cataloging of electronic resources. Since subject information is key to advanced
retrieval, browsing, and clustering, the primary focus of Scorpion is the building of
tools for automatic subject recognition based on well known schemes like the Dewey Decimal System
- Word
Wranglers Examines the features and capabilities of leading
classification products. "Automatic classification tools transform enterprise
documents from "bags of words" into knowledge resources" Katherine Adams
Performance Improvement
Navigation
Prototyping
Searching
Site Design
Success Stories
Taxonomy
- Managing Taxonomies
Strategically "Taxonomies are structures that provide a way of
classifying things -- living organisms, products, books -- into a series of hierarchical
groups to make them easier to identify, study, or locate. Taxonomies consist of two parts
-- structures and applications. Structures consist of the categories (or terms) themselves
and the relationships that link them together. Applications are the navigation tools
available to help users find information."
- Introduction to business
taxonomies course
- Your taxonomy is your
future
- Two taxonomies are
better than one
- Why is metadata a hot
topic?
- Online Taxonomies
"Taxonomies
are knowledge representation tools, typically used in natural and life sciences to
understand, group and classify nature, like plants and animals."
- Automated Categorization of Web Sites "In this
paper¡we analyze the nature of web content and metadata and requirements for
text features. We present an approach for targeted spidering including metadata extraction
and opportunistic crawling of specific semantic hyperlinks. We describe a system for
automatically classifying web sites into industry categories and present performance
results based on different combinations of text features and training data."
- Practical
Taxonomies Implementation of taxonomies to organize organizational
knowledge. "The only thing harder than finding any particular item of
information may be finding it again" Sarah L. Roberts-Witt
- Taxonomies Are What?
Taxonomies for organizing information on the Web by Liz Edols
- Taxonomy: Creating Knowledge from
Chaos
Overview of taxonomies and organizing information on the Internet from Robin Bloor,
Chief Executive, founder of Bloor
Research
Usabilty
As Usability is often
referred to when discusing Information Architecture, we have included the following
links... in no great order of preference!
Columns and Publications
Well Worth a Look
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