Intervju med Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman myntade termen "information architecture" på 70-talet. I en intervju berättar han om ursprunget till termen:
The common term then was 'information design'. What got confusing was information design and interior design and industrial design, at that moment and still today in many and most people's minds, are about making something look good. Interior designers make your place look better, industrial designers were engineers doing something that usually went to an engineer to put a package around it. Information design was epitomized by which map looked the best - not which took care of a lot of parallel systemic parts. That is what I thought 'architecture' did and was a clearer word that had to do with systems that worked and performed. Thought 'architecture' was a better way of describing what I thought was the direction that more people should look into for information, and I thought the explosion of data needed an architecture, needed a series of systems, needed systemic design, a series of performance criteria to measure it. There are thousands of people using the term ('information architecture'), and they have no idea where the term came from, and 90 percent of them aren't doing what I think they should be doing anyway.
Postat av Erik Stattin den 02 januari - 16:42 | Arkivänk
Ämne: Terminologi
Hur IA blev IA
Här hittar ni en lång och bra introduktion till begreppet Informationarkitektur. Detta tips kommer också från den utmärkta men något pratsamma listan Sigia-l, där den som författat inlägget dock kommenterar:
One interesting point: At either the last IA summit, or the one before that, I asked Peter Morville about why he chose the term "information architecture" for describing the work he did, when Richard Saul Wurman had used it to define a somewhat different practice. Peter said that he and Lou, simply, though Wurman was wrong in his use, and they decided to apply the term in a way they thought more appropriate.
Postat av den 09 oktober - 11:14 | Arkivänk
Ämne: Terminologi
Metadata-termer förklarade
Victor Lombardi har satt samman en bra ordlista över vanligt förekommande ord och begrepp inom området för informationsstrukturering och metadata. Ord som "taxonomi" och "ontologi" förklaras till exempel.
Postat av Erik Stattin den 02 juni - 16:25 | Arkivänk
Ämne: Terminologi
Definitioner av IA
Här kommer mina samlade definitioner av informationsarkitektur. Kan vara bra att samla på ett ställe även om det är lite mycket text.
Definitioner
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IA:
The art and science of organizing information to help people effectively fulfill
their information needs. Information architecture involves investigation, analysis,
design and implementation. Top-down and bottom-up are the two main approaches to
developing information architectures; these approaches inform each other and are
often developed simultaneously.
[ACIA - Argus Center for Information Architecture, Kate Hagedorn]
Top-down IA (ny webbplats) "big":
The process of developing an information architecture based on an understanding
of the context of the content and the user needs. This involves determining
the scope of the site and the creation of blueprints and mockups detailing
the grouping and labeling of content areas.
[ACIA - Argus Center for Information Architecture, Kate Hagedorn]
IA:
Information architecture involves the design of organization, labeling, navigation
and searching systems to help people find and manage information more successfully.
Louis Rosenfeld/Peter Morville
Bottom-up IA (re-design) "little":
The process of developing an information architecture based on an understanding
of the content and the tools used to leverage that content (e.g. search, indexes).
This involves the creation of building blocks, the databases to contain them and
the procedures for their maintenance.
[ACIA - Argus Center for Information Architecture, Kate Hagedorn]
IA:
IA involves the design of organization and navigation systems to help people
find and manage information more successfully.
WebWord
IA:
The blueprint of the site upon which all other aspects are built - form, function,
metaphor, navigation and interface, interaction and visual design. IA is the science
of figuring out what you want your site to do and then constructing a blueprint
before you dive in and put the thing together.
HotWired
IA:
IA is a combination of organizing a site's content into categories and creating an
interface to support those categories.
Cnet, Shel Kiman
IA:
An information architecture is like the plan for a website, similar to the
architect's drawing. The information architect's job is to define the nature and
scope of an information service or website before the first HTML tag is committed
to disk.
Stephen's Web, Stephen Downes
IA:
...which I define as the process of structuring and organizing information so that
it is easier for users to find and for owners to maintain.
Louis Rosenfeld
IA:
Systems design is a multidimensional process that requires a new kind of project
manager - the information architect - who has the knowledge and experience to
develop information structures that account for the multiple levels and layers of
interaction among humans, machines, and the physical environment.
Cohill, 1991 Info Architecture and the Design process
IA:
1. The combination of organization, labeling, and navigation schemes within
an information system.
2. The structural design of an information space to facilitate task completion
and intuitive access to content.
3. The art and science of structuring and classifying web sites and intranets
to help people find and manage information.
4. An emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing principles
of design and architecture to the digital landscape.
Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld, Isbjörnsboken II
IA & Customer experience (CE):
Customer experience is founded on empathy with and understanding of the customer.
Information architecture, on the other hand, is based on an understanding of
information.
Mark Hurst, goodexperience.com
IA:
While definition of IA is at best fuzzy, ranging from the narrow view that it
is a Web-specific profession, to the dismissive view of it as just another
name for library science, it is clear to me at least, that the IA label
excites many people. while I accept IA as a concept and even a meaningful
description of a design process, I need more convincing that any one person
could be described accurately as an information architect.
Andrew Dillon, asis.org
IA:
For us, information architecture is designing information that people understand
and use to make their business more successful.
Mark Johnson, TUB.com
IA:
Information architect's aim to organize web-page content (text, graphics and
shopping carts) into definable categories that can be supported by intuitive
navigation system.
Ivan, Klariti.com
IA:
Information architecture is the practice of designing the infrastructure of a
Web site, specifically the navigation.
Aaron West, iboost.com, iBoost journal
IA:
Information architecture is primarily about the design of information environments
and the management of an information environment design.
Earl Morrogh, boxesandarrows.com
Postat av Caroline den 16 april - 14:03 | Arkivänk
Ämne: Terminologi
Informationsarkitektur är inte samma som användbarhet
http://www.digital-web.com/columns/ianythinggoes/ianythinggoes_2002-11.shtml Ännu en intressant artikel i Digital Web Magazine - denna gång om användbarhet kontra informationsarkitektur. Det är Jeff Lash, som är användbarhetsexpert och informationsarkitekt på MasterCard som försöker reda ut skillnaden mellan de två begreppen, som ofta sammanblandas. Något att ta upp på kursen kanske?
Postat av den 04 april - 14:28 | Arkivänk | Kommentarer (4)
Ämne: Terminologi
Definitionen på en blog, vad är detta fenomen egentligen?
Malin och jag satt och diskuterade hur man egentligen skulle definiera en blog. Är det själva sättet att publicera, programvaran etc som gör en webbplats till en blog eller har det snarare med innehållet och formen att göra? Vi var nog mest inne på den sistnämnda varianten. Eller vad säger du Malin? Vad säger ni andra? Här en definition av många som jag hittade på nätet.
Postat av Christel den 04 april - 14:01 | Arkivänk | Kommentarer (4)
Ämne: Terminologi
Äntligen översatta!
Om någon är nyfiken på vad "weblog" lämpligast översätts till på svenska, så finns det nu rekommendationer från Svenska datatermgruppen:
Weblog, blog = webbjournal alt. webblogg, och i informella sammanhang blogg.
En annan sak som vi har funderat över ofta är ju hur man översätter "bread crumb trail" till begriplig svenska. "Strukturmarkörer" brukar vi säga/skriva. TNC säger: "Vi anser synlig sökväg vara en mindre kryptisk term för det här begreppet, en term som dessutom är väl så kort och koncis."
Postat av Erik Stattin den 24 februari - 18:59 | Arkivänk | Kommentarer (4)
Ämne: Terminologi
Annat namn
Tänkte att våran blog kanske kunde heta Arken, syftande på arkitektur.
Postat av den 13 september - 13:13 | Arkivänk | Kommentarer (5)
Ämne: Meta