Information Architecture
Information Architecture covers the methods and tools to improve the management, findability and usability of information. Solutions need to find a balance between conflicting requirements: governance and regulations that dictate how information must be managed versus making it easier for people to use information to aid business activities
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| Tagging over time | New methods of auto-tagging that could reinvent search algorithms and information architecture (Apr 08) |
| The Metaweb | From the web to the metaweb, via social software and semantics - image by nova spivacks (Apr 08) |
| 11 Things To Know About Semantic Web | ReadWriteWeb post about how semantic web is replacing relational databases. Not sure it can be called Web 3.0 tho', more Web 2.5 (Feb 08) |
| Tom Coates: Web of data | ReadWriteWeb post about how network effects are proving more effective than traditional hierarchies for managing data (Feb 08) |
| Databases are so 20th Century | Good article describing the challenges of using relational databases to store hierarchically structured content |
| A cognitive analysis of tagging | How the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular (Sep 05) |
| Free Culture | Lawrence Lessig's talk at Oscom 2002, talking about the challenges we face from copyright and patent laws taking advantage of technology |
