It was a terrific event. Much appreciation to our Shopify hosts, to the other presenters, and to everyone who attended.
If your browser blocks the embedded slideshow below, the presentation can be viewed on Google Docs.
Category: Events
World IA Day 2016
I’ll be talking about faceted search at World IA Day 2016 on Saturday, February 20. The Ottawa event is being hosted by Shopify.
Slides will be posted following the event. Hope to see you there!
The care and feeding of taxonomies
My presentation from the 2012 ARMA NCR IM Days conference is available for download:
The Care and Feeding of Taxonomies: Taking an Enterprise Approach (PDF, 709 KB)
A few resources of interest and great inspiration, with apologies for being so old-school: I could have written whole posts about any one of these, and this is only a partial set of citations. The age of Internet learning and too-busy-thinking-to-write-about-it, I guess.
White papers, articles, blog posts, presentations
Beyond the Polar Bear (Mike Atherton, BBC; presentation from IA Summit 2011)
A Brief History of Information Architecture (Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati, Journal of Information Architecture, Vol. 3, Issue 2)
Information Architecture – which one? (Linda Daniels-Lewis, Systemsope)
Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings (Google Official Blog)
Topic Overview: Information Architecture (Greg Leganza, Forrester Research)
What is the Business Value of Taxonomy? (Earley & Associates)
Websites & blogs
Books
A Semantic Web Primer
(Grigoris Antoniou, Paul Groth, Frank van van Harmelen, and Rinke Hoekstra; The MIT Press; 3rd edition, 2012)
Everything is Miscellaneous
(David Weinberger, Times Books, 2007)
(Patrick Lambe, Chandos Publishing, 2007)
Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schemas
(June Abbas, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2010)
Web Usability Week
Aboutness Inc. is pleased to be part of the Government of Canada’s upcoming Web Usability Week event.
I will be teaching a one-day course on Information Architecture (IA) and Content Findability, to be repeated four times during the week of March 21-25. The course covers principles and methods of designing IA for the web, as well as practices and techniques for getting a handle on content.
The course material draws heavily on my IA and web project experience with federal government institutions. I’ll spend some time on the practical realities of IA and usability in a federal public sector context — I’m hoping this will encourage some of the participants to share their experiences, too.
If you’re a federal web person, I hope to see you there!