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Ett nytt institut för informationsarkitektur
Idag lanseras ett institut för informationsarkitektur med det lite mystiska namnet "Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture" eller AIfIA. De sammanfattar syftet med organisationen i 25 teser som nog skulle kunna utgöra grunden för en diskussion om vad vi menar med informationsarkitektur. Här är i alla fall deras definition av vad IA är:
- The structural design of shared information environments.
- The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability.
- An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.
Postat av Erik Stattin den 04 november - 15:23 | Arkivänk | Kommentarer (5)
Ämne: Informationsarkitektur
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Den här def var ju storslagen: The structural design of shared information environments. det ser ut att innefatta även fyskiska bibliotek, alltså hylluppställning... men det kanske de vill.
Kommentar av: caroline 04 november - 16:34
Storslaget, indeed! Jag kastade iväg följande fråga som de förmodligen inte har tid att besvara, men värt ett försök:
"What a great initiative! I was wondering about your definition of IA: 'The structural design of shared information environments.' Does this include the design of actual, physical libraries and its collections? Coming from a library environment and the field of web-IA I find this broad definition to be applicable to everything I do professionally. What's your take? Hope you have time to answer this question!"
Kommentar av: Erik 04 november - 17:30
Fick ett trevligt svar från AIfIA:
"Hi, Erik.
Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback!
I'm on the Leadership Council of AIFIA and I wanted to address your question
about our IA definition.
Any definition is of course a tricky proposition, especially since language hasn't quite caught up with the new realities of the Internet just yet. The
struggle we had was how to name something like this that exists in the ether -- since so much of language is grounded in concrete physical experience.
Our phrasing is meant to focus on environments that are not only "about" or "for" information but are "made of" information. Rather than using bricks
and mortar to build a structure to house information (and the human activity that takes place around use of that information), we use information itself as raw material for what we design and build.
Also, never before in history have people massively shared an environment in this way -- something only possible in a pure-information dimension where the primacy of time and space is diminished, and the central concern is relevance. The Internet represents a fundamental shift in how we relate to one another, not only how we relate to information.
So, in your example of a physical library space, while the library itself is not so much the result of IA design (though there is certainly overlap and
influence between these disciplines), the electronic catalog could easily be an IA concern. So is how the catalog connects with external information
environments, such as a university intranet, or a library loan program.
As it stands, on the AIFIA site, we explain the finer points to some degree in the "25 Theses," and I there's also more commentary on it at my blog. But perhaps we should address this distinction more explicitly on the site? What do you think? Any
suggestions are quite welcome!
Thanks again for your interest.
--
||.. Andrew Hinton
||.. Information Architect
||.. www.memekitchen.com"
Kommentar av: Erik 04 november - 20:44
Fantastiskt! Jag kommer rustad till tänderna till TLS-kursen på tordag. Det skall bli spännande och se vad den har att erbjuda.
Kommentar av: Eva 05 november - 09:18
Den som vill kan följa en diskussionstråd på MetaFilter som diskuterar vad informationsarkitektur är apropå lanseringen av AIfIA.
Kommentar av: Erik 05 november - 21:17