Music Info Sources and Services – LIS5937

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 [...]

on Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, chapters 3 and 4

Morville and Rosenfeld (2006) identify four different “information needs” that inform user search behavior, which in turn should impact the work of the information architect in organizing a web site or other information environment –

A user looking for an answer performs a search and finds [...]

on the 2AdvancedStudios website, http://2advanced.com

The overall feel of the website is similar to a video game, which—considering the client list of 2 Advanced Studios includes Sony Computer Entertainment and Nintendo of America—makes a great deal of sense. I am curious, though, if the site has been updated in some time since the last news is [...]

on the website of Peter Morville’s consulting firm, Semantic Studios, http://www.semanticstudios.com/

Since Peter Morville is one of the leading voices in the field of Information Architecture, I’m sure his archived column is filled with important thoughts on the subject, as are his books. I’ve read David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous and Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability, and [...]

on the website of the IA Summit, http://iasummit.org/napkin/

The most appropriate immediate response to this front page is happy surprise – I expect this sort of design is not only charming, but is functionally brilliant. It demonstrates what the course readings have claimed as the goal of good information architecture in terms of its easy understandability [...]

on the website of the Information Architecture Institute, http://iainstitute.org/

First, in the About section (“About,” n.d., para. 1-3), the IA Institute represents itself as an organization for IA professionals in a similar way to how ALA exists for librarians or ASIS&T for information professionals. I saw the stated goal of building bridges between related disciplines, (something [...]

on Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, preface and chapters 1 & 2

Morville and Rosenfeld (2006) define information architecture as follows:

(1) The structural design of shared information environments.

(2)  The combination of organization, labeling, search and navigation systems within web sites and intranets .

(3) The art and [...]