A Fundamental Disruption: Moving Information Architecture Into the Hands of Individual Consumers

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Presented at the 2009 IA Summit conference by Peter Sweeney and Robert Barlow-Busch of Primal Fusion.Technologies are considered disruptive if they challenge fundamental assumptions about how we do things. There is a fundamental assumption in information architecture that producers need to organize content before consumers can access it effectively. This is so fundamental that it permeates virtually every aspect of today’s online experience...This presentation briefly introduces semantic technologies before exploring how these technologies could challenge the foundations of information architecture...

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IA Summit 2009 • Memphis

A fundamental disruptionMoving information architecture into the hands of individual consumers

Digital cameras were a disruptive technology

Photo from Flickr, by lnx.

Disruptive technologies underperform at first…

Time

Performance

High-end marketdemands

Low-end marketdemands

You arehere!

Based upon The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

…but they eventually catch up.

Time

Performance

High-end marketdemands

Low-end marketdemands

You arehere!

Based upon The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

Semantic technology is now catching up…

Semantic Technology• Encodes meanings.• Auto-recognition of topics and

concepts… • Enables machines as well as

people to understand, share and reason…

…and is poised to disrupt IA.

Semantic Technology• Encodes meanings.• Auto-recognition of topics and

concepts… • Enables machines as well as

people to understand, share and reason…

Information Architecture• The art of expressing a model or

concept of information…• The art and science of organizing

and labeling…• The structural design of shared

information environments.

Definitions from:

The fundamental disruption:

Rather than producers organizing information in advance, consumers

will organize it on demand.

“Beware, the end is near!”

<Yawn />

Artist’s rendition from NASA

The pace of semantic innovation is accelerating

specialized semantic technologies

Web 2.0semi-structured data

Semantic Web

cooperation

structured data

Demonstrations

Metaweb: Freebase

http://www.freebase.com

Zepheira: Remix

http://remix.zepheira.com/

Simile: Exhibit

http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit

Thomson Reuters: Calais: Semantic Proxy

http://semanticproxy.opencalais.com

Kosmix

http://www.kosmix.com

Primal Fusion: Thought networking

http://www.primalfusion.com

So what might this mean for IA?

Peter Sweeney | peter.sweeney@primalfusion.comRobert Barlow-Busch | bbb@primalfusion.com

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