Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

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 [...]

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 [...]