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First Steps Towards Information Architecture

A Review of Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Hal Kirkwood
Hal Kirkwood
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Hal Kirkwood advises on the range of sources available to help the budding information architect define and improve his or her ideas. Hal Kirkwood is Assistant Professor of Library Science at the Management & Economics Library, Purdue University. E-mail: [email protected]
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Extract

In the essential work, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville (ISBN 1-56592-282-4), the authors state that the primary job of the information architect is to:

clarify the mission and vision for the site, balancing the needs of its sponsoring organisation and the needs of its audiences

determine what content and functionality the site will contain

specify how users will find information in the site by defining its organisation, navigation, labelling, and searching systems

map out how the site will accommodate change and growth over time.

These points rather succinctly describe what an information architect sets out to accomplish for any given site and/or situation. But given these points what should someone ‘do’ to implement improved information architecture (IA) for a site? Where do you start?

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Winter 2001 , pp. 23 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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