At Factor, our recent discussion on information modeling led us to explore personal organization. We asked team members to share their own organizing strategies. These insights reveal how personal experiences shape our organizing principles, balancing practical needs with personal preferences.
At IAC24, Joan Hua gave a very good presentation on how to get yourself oriented in a new domain quickly. As taxonomists and information architects, getting into a domain is so important to the process – it allows us to communicate effectively with SMEs and other stakeholders, and it helps us in making sense of …
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My kids aren’t old enough to have jobs yet, but somehow that hasn’t prevented them from collecting a lot of stuff. As they get older and celebrate more birthdays and Christmases, the amount of stuff they have gets larger and larger. My coworker Connor Cantrell recently wrote an article about the concept of “weeding” in …
In my first year of library school back when I still thought I would be in academic libraries for the long haul, I took a digital information literacy class. One of our assignments was to map C.C. Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (ISP) as established in her 1999 article “Accommodating the User’s Information Search Process: Challenges …
All organizations have unique sets of information and data requirements. Aligning organizational strategy to the information reality is fundamental to any repeatable and measurable information/data/content practice. Organizations in search of a successful repeatable information platform need alignment in many areas so that they can build the right solutions that allow them to connect with their …
This is a topic that’s been pretty near and dear to me, as I’m currently involved in an effort to migrate an enterprise taxonomy to an updated taxonomy management system. As part of the migration effort, I went back through old documentation to get a better understanding of why certain decisions had been made previously …
Your Taxonomy Governance Plan Is Incomplete without a Documentation Maintenance Plan Read More »
The classification of pipes, like most classification systems, turns out to be complex, messy, and interesting.
We call what we do Information Architecture. We don’t call it information engineering or information development. The word “architecture” is intentional. So here goes, I’m just going to say it: Unlike software engineering and software development, Agile doesn’t really work for Information Architecture. It can get in the way. In some cases, it can cause …
In this two-part series, I will be borrowing from the presentation I gave at the Information Architecture Conference earlier this year: Moving Information Across Boundaries, Information Theory for Information Architecture. (1 of 2)
In this two-part series, I will be borrowing from the presentation I gave at the Information Architecture Conference earlier this year: Moving Information Across Boundaries, Information Theory for Information Architecture. (1 of 2)
