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Information architecture is considered to have been founded by Richard Saul Wurman.[2] Today there is a growing network of active IA specialists who constitute the Information Architecture Institute.[3]
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[hide]Definition[edit]
Information architecture has somewhat different meanings in different branches of IS or IT:- The structural design of shared information environments.[4][page needed]
- The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities, and software to support findability and usability.[1][4][page needed]
- An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.[4][page needed][5]
- The combination of organization, labeling, search and navigation systems within websites and intranets.[4][page needed]
- Extracting required parameters/data of Engineering Designs in the process of creating a knowledge-base linking different systems and standards.
Debate[edit]
The difficulty in establishing a common definition for "information architecture" arises partly from the term's existence in multiple fields. In the field of systems design, for example, information architecture is a component of enterprise architecture that deals with the information component when describing the structure of an enterprise.While the definition of information architecture is relatively well-established in the field of systems design, it is much more debatable within the context of online information systems (i.e., websites). Andrew Dillon refers to the latter as the "big IA-little IA debate".[6] In the little IA view, information architecture is essentially the application of information science to web design which considers, for example, issues of classification and information retrieval. In the big IA view, information architecture involves more than just the organization of a website; it also factors in user experience, thereby considering usability issues of information design.
Information architect[edit]
Richard Saul Wurman says the term information architect is "used in the words architect of foreign policy. I mean architect as in the creating of systemic, structural, and orderly principles to make something work — the thoughtful making of either artifact, or idea, or policy that informs because it is clear.[7]Notable people in information architecture[edit]
Pioneers[edit]
First generation[edit]
- Jorge Arango
- Jesse James Garrett
- Adam Greenfield
- Peter Merholz
- Eric Reiss
- Donna Spencer
- Christina Wodtke
Second generation[edit]
Influencers[edit]
See also[edit]
- Applications architecture
- Business analyst
- Card sorting
- Chief Experience Officer (CXO)
- Content strategy
- Controlled vocabulary
- Data architecture
- Data management
- Data Presentation Architecture
- Digital Humanities
- Enterprise architecture
- Enterprise information security architecture
- Faceted classification
- Human factors
- Informatics
- Information system
- Interaction design
- Knowledge organization
- Ontology
- Process architecture
- Semantic Web
- Semiotics Web
- Web graph
- Sitemap
- Social Information Architecture
- Taxonomy
- Tree testing
- User experience design
- Knowledge visualization
- Wayfinding
- Web literacy (Infrastructure)
References[edit]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "What is IA?" (PDF). Information Architecture Institute.
- Jump up ^ "Richard Saul Wurman awarded for Lifetime Achievement". Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- Jump up ^ "Join the IA Network". Information Architecture Institute.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Rosenfeld & Morville 1998.
- Jump up ^ Resmini, A. & Rosati, L. (2012). A Brief History of Information Architecture. Journal of Information Architecture. Vol. 3, No. 2. [Available at http://journalofia.org/volume3/issue2/03-resmini/]. Originally published in Resmini, A. & Rosati L. (2011). Pervasive Information Architecture. Morgan Kauffman. (Edited by the authors).
- Jump up ^ Dillon, A (2002). "Information Architecture in JASIST: Just where did we come from?". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53 (10): 821–23. doi:10.1002/asi.10090.
- Jump up ^ Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Architects. p. 17.
Bibliography[edit]
- Wurman, Richard Saul (1997). Information Architects (1st ed.). Graphis Inc. ISBN 1-888-00138-0.
- Rosenfeld, Louis; Morville, Peter (1998). Information architecture for the World Wide Web (1st ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN 0-596-52734-9.
- Brown, Peter (2003). Information Architecture with XML (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-471-48679-5.
- Wodtke, Christina (2009). Information Architecture - Blueprints for the Web (2nd ed.). New Riders. ISBN 0-321-60080-0.
- Resmini, Andrea; Rosati, Luca (2011). Pervasive Information Architecture - Designing Cross-channel User Experiences (1st ed.). Morgan Kauffman. ISBN 0-123-82094-4.
Further reading[edit]
- Wei Ding; Xia Lin (15 May 2009). Information Architecture: The Design and Integration of Information Spaces. Morgan & Claypool. ISBN 978-1-59829-959-5.
- Sue Batley (January 2007). Information Architecture for Information Professionals. Woodhead Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84334-233-5.
- Earl Morrogh (2003). Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780130967466.
- Peter Van Dijck (August 1, 2003). Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success. Rotovision. ISBN 9782880467319.
- Alan Gilchrist; Barry Mahon (2004). Information Architecture: Designing Information Environments for Purpose. Facet. ISBN 9781856044875.
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