I am very excited to be speaking at the annual Information Architecture Summit in Minneapolis this coming April. This will be my third time speaking at the summit, and I’ll be the first speaker in the “IA Theory and Practice” track. Whereas the other talks I’ve done for the summit have been a bit more […]
I was lucky enough to attend the annual Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) seminar at the Royal Library of the Netherlands in the The Hague this October. The quality of the papers presented was very good, and I think everyone who attended took away something new and useful. Here’s a few of the interesting things that I […]
At a project kick-off for an enterprise information architecture project we started this summer for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) we used a useful technique to determine enterprise priorities for classification and taxonomy projects. I call the exercise “Metadata Dot-Mocracy.”
The problem with the category “Related Articles” is that it is a synonym for “Miscellaneous.” To be more effective the term should state how the other articles are related – such as “More Sushi Cook Books” or “More General Electric Stoves Under $1000.” Stating the relationship of something with suggested items makes the suggestions more […]
Today I had the pleasure of visiting the University of Laussane, Switzerland to see an exhibit on Hungarian architect Yona Friedman, called the Genesis of a Vision. I’m certainly no expert on Mr. Friedman’s work, but I found the exhibit interesting coming from the perspective of someone who designs space with information. There were a […]
This poster is a follow up to “Better Cross-Channel Experiences with Metadata,” a presentation delivered by Adam Ungstad to the IA Summit in New Orleans 2012. It was Adam Ungstad’s submission to Euro IA 2012 poster night. Here’s the original description: To date, the Information Architecture and User Experience fields have focused largely on how information should […]