March 14th, 2005
Feeling like I’ve been there. Thanks to Seb.
Compiled at Seb’s Open Research: “Theory of meta-design. Systems must 1) Evolve, therefore can’t be completely designed prior to use; 2) Be designed for evolution; 3) Evolve at the hands of the users.
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Q. Standards vs. patterns vs. guidelines vs. best practices - what’s the difference?
A. Patterns can be cross-referenced. You can have one big pattern that references other dependent patterns.
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Asia with Europe. You need to acknowledge that some variation will occur in your IA. What you wind up with is a fairly static tree where the changes occur at the leaves. I wouldn’t count on your navigation being perfect globally, but as a first step you can go that way.
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6. Several people report that when there’s specialized activity you often don’t find cross-cultural variation.
7. People will often say up front that they’re different. But we’ve implementing something uniform, and it worked.
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It’s fine that the first generation of IA was self-educated, but I think for the next gen it will have to be at least partially done the traditional way. I think that in this applied field it’s absolutely critical to have a close connection between academia and practice/business.
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The info life cycle. Seeking, then recognizing (is this what I’m looking for?), then retaining/storing, then having the info follow us and be ready at our fingertips. The navigation metaphor only leads us to the document, but doesn’t tell anything about what happens next.
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Genres are channel-specific. There is talk of taking content and putting it anywhere, in your phone, PDA, etc… I’m skeptical of the “convergence” notion of content as being some kind of liquid that you can pour in and out of varied containers. [In other words, form carries important information about function.].
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genres simplify the practice of IA of large spaces. It reminds us that IA is about the content. They remind us that people are using the information, not just finding it.
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Issues with folksonomies: Retrieval, quality, authority, economics, scalability, and usability
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We need to take context into consideration. Flickr works wonderfully as a photo sharing service. You’re not going to see any of these free tagging approaches in corporate, governmental, nonprofit websites.
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Folksonomy is tagging, not taxing. Metadata is hard, expensive, not easily emergent; tags are easy, generated by users for free, self-interest driven, emergent, and flat
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We’re starting to see the systems evolving to encourage consistency in tag use, e.g. showing you your past tags or others’ tags.
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PeterMo talked about findability. I’d like to talk about *discoverability*. It gets poetic, again. I find it very compelling.
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