Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

on Peter Morville’s column Strange Connections column, “Information Architecture and Ulcers” (http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange002.html), and quantitative data

I was happy to read Morville’s column, and also see the link within it to the book How to Lie with Statistics. I had already ordered a copy of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and though I expect both works [...]

on Boxes and Arrows, Newsmap, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, and Ebay

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I was excited about finding Boxes and Arrows through the IA Summit site;  now that I’ve taken a bit more time to explore, I can see not only acknowledge the implementation of solid IA in the site’s organization, [...]

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, chapters 10 & 11

Chapter 10 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web does well to acclimate the reader to the landscape of research methods that can be used to inform IA deployment in web development. Morville and Rosenfeld (2006) guide their readers through “a balanced approach to research” [...]

on Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, ch. 7, 8, & 9

It seems common practice for websites to include multiple embedded navigation systems, (global, local, and contextual), and some form of supplemental navigation systems, (a site index, a guide, and/or search functions), as the best methods to enable easy movement within a site’s content. Possible [...]

on the CIADA site, http://www.caida.org/home/

My only comments about this site are steeped in awe over both the spectacular organization and the staggering amount of data it makes accessible.  This is clearly a site intended as an information source and, likely, also a facilitator of community for those working to understand the structure of—and data transmission [...]

(Revised, 9/20), on the Pew Internet & American Life Project

I wasn’t aware of this project, but am happy to know of its existence. It seems a great warehouse for data regarding trends of internet usage across the country, which I think would be especially useful in guiding thinking about new projects within, say, libraries. In [...]

on UC Berkeley’s How Much Information?, http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/

While the study itself is fascinating–I’m honestly a little surprised to see a serious attempt at quantifying annual information creation–I would love to see a comparative analysis across multiple years (to present), especially if the number of files (for instance, for p2p sharing) was tracked, too. The reason I’m [...]

While I understand the overarching concept of contextual design, and (though we didn’t name it as such) believe I have participated in its application as a user, I am having trouble with the difference between “interpretation” and “data consolidation” in the 7 step process. The Wikipedia article includes this description within the “Interpretation” part of [...]

on Rosenfeld Media’s page on Rosenfeld’s upcoming book, Search Analytics

I’ve heard the term search analytics bandied about in libraries, but hadn’t yet heard of a sustained project to record and analyze search terms in order to better define the organization of library resources; needless to say, I’m interested in exploring Rosenfeld’s idea–and book–further, at least [...]

on Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, chapters 5 and 6

Morville and Rosenfeld (2006) enumerate the “challenges of organizing information” as follows: “ambiguity” (over labeling on websites), “heterogeneity” (of content of websites), “differences in perspective” (about proper organization, like determining association of content), and “internal politics,” (pp. 54-58). Since I continually move back to the [...]