It’s already been more than a month since the IA Summit in Chicago and the various themes from the event are still swirling around in my head. This was Summit #19, (my 16th, Niles’ 8th!) and as it happens it will be the last conference called the “IA Summit” as ASIST is not going to…
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Librarians & Architects: Natural Enemies?
As an Information Architect who has always embraced the “information” appelation but long been queasy about the “architecture” bit, imagine my surprise to come across* this wonderful article by Marvin J Taylor and Andrea Geyer about the long history of tension between librarians and architects around the design of libraries. The article documents the evolution…
Read moreA Taxonomy Glitch
We’ve all been there–wracking our brains to come up with a descriptive label for a category and finding that the easiest way to describe the set is by what it ISN’T. Ideally in a carefully designed information architecture this will be relegated to iterative draft work and not make it into the live version of…
Read more@IAS14 (which is the 15th IA Summit)
I’m at the IA Summit, hard to believe it’s the fifteenth anniversary of this event (which means that I’ve been working in this field for, well, let’s just say that if my career was a kid it could be drafted but can’t yet drink). The summit is in San Diego, which is a great city…
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