Recently in Information Architecture Category

Typically, Google Book Search has not been high on my list of sites that I regularly use to search for content.  However, recently I have had very good luck with searching this site.  Over at Learning to Change Business, a blog that I write on executive education, you will notice that I have been doing research on the Mars Pathfinder mission. Google books actually produced excellent results for this query and I found two or three books on the subject that had not turned up in other sites.

Today's post at Google Operating System entitled Quantity Over Quality at Google Book Search explains a bit more about the status of the product and some of the problems associated with producing the site.  I have not found a downloadable book yet, but the citations have been helpful.

IAwiki is a WiKi and in this particular case, it's a collaborative knowledge base for the topic of 'Information Architecture'. IAwiki is much more than that though. It's certainly a knowledge base, but not exclusively for Information Architects. Anyone involved...

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I have been struggling with controlled vocabulary and information architecture issues for the past week or two. I always find that taxonomy issues are the most difficult problems to solve in organizations where groups have very strong attachments to the way that they describe their activities, products, or processes.

This long post by Christian Ricci is a good intorduction to the problems associated with creating and governing a taxonomy and applying it correctly to content.

AIfIA has just released a new Information Architecture Library which links to a pile of information architecture resources. To quote:

Welcome to the IA Library. The IA Library is a selection of resources related to the field of information architecture. The collection includes articles, books, blogs, and more.

[Thanks to Peter Van Dijck.]

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