Information Architecture & Information Architecture & Design Design • Week 5 Schedule - Planning IA Structures - Other Readings - Research Topic Presentations • Email Nadalia your Presentations - Class Work: User Analysis - Group Project Plan Review - Group Work: Planning the Project Site • Send email to the list from your project account - URL of your working designs - URL of your working specifications
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Information Architecture & Design Information Architecture & Design
• Week 5 Schedule- Planning IA Structures- Other Readings- Research Topic Presentations
• Email Nadalia your Presentations
- Class Work: User Analysis- Group Project Plan Review- Group Work: Planning the Project Site
• Send email to the list from your project account- URL of your working designs
• The Structure of Your Content (Part of the Plan)• Models the Information for the User (Content
Modeling)• What Do You Do With Your Project Data (Content)?
- Context• Descriptive• Prescriptive
- Quality• Accuracy• Recency
- Characteristics• Media / MIME• Uses
• Represent the Relationships Between Systems
Controlled VocabulariesControlled Vocabularies
• Establish Consistencies• For the Content• For the Developers• On the Site – Apparent to the Users
• Just Synonyms?• Lists of Equivalents (Index)• Aliases (Authority File)• Also an Implied or Overt Hierarchy
• “Synonym Ring” p 178
• Based on User’s Understanding• Improved Upon by IA• Iterative Process to Discover Alternate Words and
Concepts• Not Just for Search
Building Your “Authority File”Building Your “Authority File”
• The list of preferred terms or acceptable values. P 180
• The Mission Statement for your Content- Acronyms, Abbreviations- Multiple terms (“term rotation”?)- Cases (Upper, Lower and Mixed)- Button and Graphics too
• Use a Central File to Keep Current• Responsible Role during the IA Method
Classification SchemesClassification Schemes
• Taxonomy (more than one)- Front End
• Users (Personalized)• Interface (Browse)
- Back End• Information Architecture• Content Management• System (Search)
- Preferred Term- Varian Term (synonyms)- Broader Term (preferred’s parent)- Narrower Term (preferred’s child)- Related (“see also”, synonyms)- Use (rules for where and when)- Scope (restricts meaning)
Thesaurus TypesThesaurus Types
• Classic- Links- Keywords
• Subject Index• LoC
• Index- Browsable
• Appearance• Ordering (Multiple orders)
- Relational• See also• Hierarchy
• Document versus Site
Faceted ClassificationFaceted Classification
• Multiple Dimensions• Now More Applicable to Digital Information