Ia Midterm

Front 1

Ways IA is visualized (4)

ONLS Systems

Back 1

1) Organization systems

2)Labelling systems
3) Navigation systems

4) Search systems

Front 2

Top down IA tries to anticipate users needs by:

DIP

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1) Determining the users questions

2) Positing a structure that answers user questions

3) Is defined from above -- drills from top to bottom to find content

(it is the traditional model of IA)

Front 3

Bottom up IA

youtube, amazon, google...

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1) Tells users where they are

2) Helps move to other closely related views

3) Helps move through the information hierarchy

4) Allows to search the content

5) Allows to share the content

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Alt IA

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1) Browsing aids (indices, sitemaps, wizards)

2) Search aids (allows the entry of user-defined queries, search interface, query builders, search results)

3) Content and tasks
- users ultimate destinations (headings, sequential aids, identifiers

4) Invisible component

- background processes users rarely interact with like predetermined vocabularies, retrieval algorithms, best bets

Front 5

What kinds of research are associated with investigating context in the context/content/users trio?

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- background research

- getting buy-in

- presentations and team meetings (strategy team meeting, content management meeting, information technology meeting

- stakeholder interviews

- technology assessements

Front 6

What kinds of research are associated with investigating content in the context/content/users trio?

remember the bench

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- Heuristic evaluation

- Metadata and content analysis (gathering and analyzing content)
- Content mapping

- benchmarking (competitive bench marking, before and after benchmarking)

Front 7

What kinds of research are associated with investigating users in the context/content/users trio?

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- Search log and clickstream analysis
- Use cases and personas
- Usage analysis (content performance, visitor performance)
- Contextual inquiry

-User interviews and user testing (research sessions)
- Focus groups

Front 8

IA Strategy is...

Back 8

A high-level conceptual framework for structuring and organizing an information environment

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IA strategy incudes

this is an overview of the whole process

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- IA administration
- Technology integration

- Top-down or bottom-up emphasis

- Organization and labelling systems (top-down)

- Document type identification (bottom-up)

- Metadata field definition
- Navigation system design

Front 10

Developing the IA strategy, 4 steps defined by acions (TACT) think...

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1) Think (convert research data into creative ideas)
2) Articulate (diagrams, metaphors, stories, blueprints, wireframes)

3) Communicate (present, react, brainstorm)

4) Test (closed card sorts, prototypes)

Front 11

Things evaluated in the heuristic evaluation

remember place-making, mental-models

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- Does the information architecture provide more than one way to access information?

- Are indexes and sitemaps employed to supplement the site organization to further help users?

- Does the navigation system provide users with a sense of context -- (using things like place making and relying on existing mental models)?

- Does the site consistently use language appropriate for the audience (no jargon if the site is not intended for other professionals)?
- Are searching and browsing integrated and reinforce each other? (if you can't find something one way, you should be able to find it in the other)

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What does content analysis entail?

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- gathering, sorting, analyzing content.

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Heuristic evaluation provides top down understanding of an information environments organization and navigation structures, while content analysis provides a bottom-up understanding of its content objects. The two are bridged by

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content maps

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What is a content map?

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It is a visual rendering of the existing information environment that is in need of redesign. It is a tool for understanding the current state of the IA rather than a concrete deliverable.

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in content analysis, what categories can content be sorted into?

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- format

-document type

-source

-subject

-existing architecture

Front 16

Kinds of Metadata (3)

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1) Structural
2) Descriptive

3) Administrative

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Structural metadata

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- title of content object

- are there chunks within this content that might need to be accessed independently?

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Descriptive metadata

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- Topic, format, audience

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Administrative metadata

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- how this content object relates to the business you are working for.

- Who created it?

- Who owns it?

- When was it created?
- When should it be removed