Perspectives

Everyone Is in the Information Business

Every organization is in the information business; most work centers around organizing , governing, and distributing information. Sometimes the information itself is the end product: content, whether streaming videos or articles on a website, needs to be organized so that people can find what they’re looking for. The same applies to products: digital environments have …

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How Digital Teams Can Begin Planning for Language Models – Part 2

Image Source: Photo 64004277 / Puzzle © Mikael Damkier | Dreamstime.com In part 1 of this series, I discussed how language models require careful attention to deliver accurate information. Since out-of-the-box language models are trained on general knowledge, using them to leverage your company’s information requires intentional information architecture workflows. In this post, I’ll describe …

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How Digital Teams Can Begin Planning for Language Models – Part 1

Image Source: Photo 135270998 © Bangkok Click Studio | Dreamstime.com From image recognition to conversational text powered by massive datasets of recorded human knowledge, our social and business ecosystems are on the cusp of a major paradigm shift in knowledge retrieval and information interaction. Large language models (LLMs) are the poster child for applying artificial …

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Machine Learning is Coming for Your Taxonomy

*This post is based on a talk given by Bob Kasenchak at the 2023 Information Architecture Conference. It was a detailed 20-minute presentation designed for IA practitioners. Our goal with this post, however, is to distill it down to its foundational thesis and invite a discussion about the important differentiation between Subject and Topic Taxonomies. …

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Unpacking the Junk Drawer to Discover Gold

Providing concrete return on investment (ROI) numbers for IA projects is often complicated and difficult to calculate. Successful IA project executions are dependent on a solid foundation. At enterprise scale, IA builds the foundation of an organization’s information infrastructure so that users can connect with the right information across multiple platforms to create the required connection. When the foundation is flawed, the connections don’t happen….