Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

on DigitalWeb, InfoCamp, Intranet Roadmap, Adaptive Path, and Information ArchiTECH

DigitalWeb Magazine – http://www.digital-web.com/ – This site seems decent resource for web development, though with the rapid progression in IA, the resources linked are more an historical survey than they are updated, reliably new content. It doesn’t appear that the entire site was updated when the [...]

on IA for the WWW ch. 20 & 21; Web Theory, ch. 1

The primary take-away from the example of the development of MSWeb is the applicability of traditional library and IT solutions, but with room for maneuvering. This is repeatedly mentioned across both chapter 20 and chapter 21, in regard to Microsoft’s work as well [...]

on Karin McGrane & Louis Rosenfeld’s PowerPoint, Selling IA

More than anything, this is an addendum to the Morville & Rosenfeld reading of chapters 17 & 18 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, but it is worth (1) recording a note about this presentation for future reference, and (2) acknowledging that the experience of [...]

on free software sites (Google Pack, FSF, Freeware Files, Free-soft)

For Google Pack, it is important to stress the need to review all of the information on the ‘learn more about Google Pack’ link near the bottom right of the linked page, as well as to read the terms of use for the software a user [...]

on IA for the WWW, chapters 17 & 18

As someone already in the position of having to justify staff, student, consulting, and technical services expenditures to a variety of decision-makers, I cannot stress strongly enough how useful Morville & Rosenfeld’s chapter ‘Making the case for IA’ will be. Some of the tactics are familiar – [...]

on Textmap.com and Google Sets

Textmap functionality based on entity exploration is difficult if the ‘Entities’ button doesn’t appear on the front page. I’m not sure if this is something that has changed over the past week or two, but the only button at the top of the front page (http://www.textmap.com) is ‘Contact’; only by going [...]

on IA for the WWW, chapters 14, 15, and 16

As the unfortunate victim of convoluted government websites and their poor search functionality, I consider Morville & Rosenfeld’s case for ethics in IA to not just be about intention but results. Similar to their example about Amazon’s unintended editorializing in response to ‘abortion’ queries, I noticed [...]

On jig.net, I looked at Elements of User Experience and appreciated a model that could identify not just different areas to address in designing a website, but also as a guide that could be used to assign tasks to different groups working on developing web content while providing a staged model to follow. Jesse James [...]

Continuing with the same theme as with chapters 10 and 11, Morville & Rosenfeld’s “Design and Documentation” chapter in Information Architecture for the World Wide Web is the next set of instructions for putting IA into practice — and will clearly provide a solid checklist for the beginning of actual work product in the form [...]