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Information Architecturefor Indexers
Presented by Fred Leise
American Society of Indexers
National ConferenceGalveston, Texas
May 18, 2002
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Overview
• About me
• Goals for this presentation
• What is information architecture (IA)?
• Users
• Context
• Content
• Process
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About Me
• Indexing experience– Freelance indexer since 1995– Indexing instructor– Scholarly texts in the humanities
• IA experience– Argus Associates, Inc.– Freelance IA
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Goals for This Presentation
• Introduce IA concepts and vocabulary
• Explore relationship of IA and indexing; importance of learning about IA– IAs as target market for indexing services– IA skills related to those of indexers; IA as
possible area of skills expansion
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What is Information Architecture?
• A relatively new craft (8–10 years old)
• Part of the field of website/intranet design
• Based in areas of expertise from librarianship:– Information retrieval– Classification: collocation and differentiation
• A solution to the problem of finding information on web sites
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Related Subjects
• Usability / User experience/Interaction design
• Information design
• Graphic design
• Information technology / System Design
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Definition of IA
• Structure of information
• Usable organization of information
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Structure of Information
• Single data point: no relationships
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Single Data Point
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Structure of Information
• Two data points: multiple relationships
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Chocolate Bar : Cocoa
Near
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Peppermint : Steel
Far
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Tall : Freckled
Overlapping
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Employees : Administrative Assistants
Subset
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Cancer : Oncology
Isomorphic
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What is Information Architecture?
• Structure of information
• Usable organization of information
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Usable Organization of Information
• Implications:– Users: Who is using the information?– Content: What is the information?– Context: Where is the information being used?
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Content
Context
Users
IA
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Users: Variables
• Age
• Experience
• Content knowledge
• Users must be able to use the site, otherwise it is a failure.
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Users: Methodologies
• User interviews– How do they use the current system– What would they change to make it better?
• User testing– How well do users do on assigned sample
tasks? – Do they search or browse?– What other information finding aids do users
use? Colleagues? Bookmarks?
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Users: Methodologies
• Search log analyses– What terms to do users currently use when
searching for information?– Are there many unique terms used or are there a
number of commonly used terms?– Are there groups of related/alternate search
terms (include common misspellings)
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Context: Everyday Life
• Human beings as natural classifiers
• Organization of menus
• Organization of grocery stores
• Organization of car manuals
• Organization of catalogs
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Context: Web Sites/Intranets
• What are the business goals affecting the site? Purpose of site?– Vanity web sites – Information web sites– E-commerce web sites
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Context: Methodologies
• Opinion leader/project team interviews– What are their goals for new/revised site?– What resources are available for site creation/
revision?– What challenges do they see to completing the
project?– What would they do to make the current site
better?
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Content
• Organization of information
• Navigation
• Labeling
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Content: Methodologies
• Content analysis– Sampling of content currently on site or to be
put on site– Heterogeneous or homogeneous?– 500 documents or 5 million documents?– What types of documents?
• Applications, reports, white papers
– Document format? PDFs? DOCs?
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Organization of Information
• Top-down organization– Looks at totality of content– Enumerative classifications
(hierarchies / taxonomies / ontologies)
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Organization of Information
• Bottom-up organization– Looks at content objects– Faceted classifications– Indexing using authority files / thesauri– Metadata
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Organization of Information: Methodologies
• User testing– Open card sorting– Closed card sorting– Task completion
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Navigation
• Types of navigation– Global: applies to entire site– Local: applies to parts of site– Supplemental: additional finding aids
Site maps Site indexes
– Contextual: within paragraphs
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Global NavigationGlobal Navigation
Local Navigation
Supplemental Navigation
Contextual Navigation
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Navigation
• Clarity: understandable, unambiguous
• Consistency: word form (verbs, nouns)
• Information scent: differentiation, i.e., where is the information I want likely to be?
• Depth vs. breadth
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Labeling
• Labels for navigation
• Labels as headings
• Labels as contextual links
• Labels for index terms
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Navigation labelsNavigation labels
Heading label
Contextual link labels
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Index term labels
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Labeling
• Clarity
• Consistency
• Label granularity matches content granularity
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IA Process
• Research
• Design
• Testing
• Implementation
• Maintenance
• Revision: Research, etc.
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Contact Information
Fred Leise
900 W. Ainslie St.
Chicago, IL 60640
773-561-1993
www.ContextualAnalysis.com
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