IA in the WSJ

Added on 5 May 2004 Peter Bogaards
“The article starts off by citing Greg Storey’s work to redesign the infamous Bin Laden President’s Daily Brief. It then moves on to describe what Information Architecture/Design is and how it can make a difference in understanding information and in the bottom-line for a business. IA/ID also is mentioned in the decision-making process for the Columbia disaster, and Tufte gets to rail a bit against Powerpoint. Tufte also dismisses Mr. Storey’s redesign of the PDB (way to exhibit solidarity, Ed). The article then moves onto another favorite pundit, Nielsen, and he gets to quote his $71B in lost productvity sound-bite.” (every breath death defying) – courtesy of victor lombardi

An Information Architecture Perspective on Personalization pdf logo

Added on 4 May 2004 Peter Bogaards
Chapter from ‘Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce‘
“The framework laid out here for understanding the design implications of personalization does not answer any questions, however – it just raises awareness of how little we already know about users’ expectations from personalization. In fact, the web and its early navigation metaphor are still young and we do not understand it well enough yet.” (Keith Instone)

Here is a How to Topic Maps, Sir!

Added on 4 May 2004 Peter Bogaards
“There is a great deal of philosophy involved in working with Topic Maps. Not in the sense of arguing for extentionalism or purport a theory of when cats die in boxes, but in the sense of epistemology, the philosophy of learning. It is about how we perceive things, how human cognition works, about how we label things, how we categorise and find our way in the vast information layer between our brains and our tools.” (Alexander Johannesen) – courtesy of column two

Planning: The Key to Successful CMS Implementation

Added on 4 May 2004 Peter Bogaards
“The Semantic Web is an on-going large-scale effort to improve the current architecture of the World Wide Web by adding a semantic infrastructure to web resources that can be used for sophisticated data-oriented applications. As its basis, we identify metadata, or information about information, that unambiguously specify machine-understandable facts about web resources.” (Judy Glick-Smith – The Rockley Report)

Metadata on the Web: On the integration of RDF and TopicMaps

Added on 3 May 2004 Peter Bogaards
“The Semantic Web is an on-going large-scale effort to improve the current architecture of the World Wide Web by adding a semantic infrastructure to web resources that can be used for sophisticated data-oriented applications. As its basis, we identify metadata, or information about information, that unambiguously specify machine-understandable facts about web resources.” (Paolo Ciancarini et al. – Extreme Markup Languages 2003)

Measuring the User Response to ClearType

Added on 28 April 2004 Peter Bogaards
“We are investigating the user response to Microsoft’s ClearType™ font enhacement technology. ClearType is a setting that is manipulated through the operating system of devices using Liquid Crystal Display screens. ClearType works by altering the vertical color stripe within a pixel, allowing for changes in how the text looks at fractional levels. These changes are intended to enhance the resolution of the screen text and improve readability.” (Andrew Dillon et al.)

Reproduced and emergent genres of communication on the World-Wide Web

Added on 28 April 2004 Peter Bogaards
“Genres are useful because they are more easily recognized and understood by recipients of the communications. Therefore, we suggest that Web site designers consider the genres that are appropriate for their situation and attempt to reuse familiar genres. More explicit attention to genres may also speed the wider acceptance of newly emerging genres of communication unique to the Web.” (Kevin Crowston and Marie Williams) – courtesy of victor lombardi