This course will help you further your knowledge of the science of organizing information via a series of practical, hands-on lessons and activities. Taught by Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for experienced information architects who are interested in learning more about the library science aspect of information architecture. Chiara will explain the relationships and concepts behind data organization, controlled vocabularies and thesauri, content modeling and metadata.
What will be covered?
This workshop covers:
- Patterns and relationships: Analyze content, features, and data within your system, whether it's a website, intranet, or web application. Learn how to create a model of your content that illustrates how the different pieces relate to each other.
- Concepts of categorization: Learn the advantages and drawbacks of different categorization methods. How best can you use metadata and tagging? What exactly is the difference between a taxonomy, folksonomy, vocabulary, or thesaurus? We'll look at examples of each.
- Controlling vocabularies: Once you have a way to organize your content, how do you describe it to support findability, search and browse, and facilitate reuse? Learn how to cut through the ambiguity of language, focusing word choices with the appropriate level of vocabulary control.
- Concepts in practice: We'll spend the remainder of the day looking at real-life examples of metadata, categorization, and vocabulary control with emphasis on unusual implementations of approaches and Web 2.0 examples.
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00-11:00 AM | Metadata & Controlled Vocabularies |
| 11:00-11:15 AM | Break |
| 11:15-12:30 PM | Content Analysis |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:30-3:15 PM | Content Modeling |
| 3:15-3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:30-4:30 PM | Classification & Site Structure |
| 4:30-5:00 PM | Q&A |
