| Description |
xxii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Managing information for the knowledge economy series |
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Managing information for the knowledge economy
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| Contents |
Preface: A brief history of information architecture / Peter Morville -- Introduction / Barry Mahon and Alan Gilchrist -- 1. Developing an information model for information- and knowledge-based organizations / Mike Fisher -- 2. Document, information, data, content: How to model information? / Catherine Leloup -- 3. Developing a scalable information architecture for a cross-sectoral, distributed citizen's information system: The Seamless UK experience / Mary Rowlatt, Cathy Day, Jo Morris and Rob Davies -- 4. Specifying and procuring software / Bob Wiggins -- 5. The care and feeding of software vendors for IA environments / John Gregory -- 6. A flexible architecture for managing current awareness / Sabine Kruse and Manfred Hauer -- 7. Why and when would you use XML in text-based systems? / Derek Sturdy -- 8. Topic maps: Indexing in 3-D / Bob Bater -- 9. A devolved architecture for public sector interoperability / Stella G. Dextre Clarke -- 10. Identifiers and interoperability / Elizabeth Scott-Wilson -- 11. Information architecture and vocabularies for browse and search / Amy J. Warner -- 12. The taxonomy: A mechanism, rather than a tool, that needs a strategy for development and application / Alan Gilchrist -- 13. From architecture to construction: The electronic records management programme at the DTI / Liz MacLachlan -- 14. Building a business taxonomy: A work in progress / Ruth McLaughlin and Angela Greenwood -- 15. Interfaces: Expressions of IA / Janice Fraser -- 16. Guru interview / Marylaine Block and Genie Tyburski -- 17. Designing a worldwide experience for PeopleSoft / Janice Fraser and Camille Sobalvarro |
| Summary |
The advent of the computer has facilitated a significant growth in the tools and techniques for manipulating information. Almost all of the information increasingly used to drive modern organizations is now digital in creation and use. Networking as a means of sharing resources and co-ordinating functions has led to a convergence of the roles of records managers, archivists and LIS managers. However, much of this development has been ad hoc, driven by general management practices of efficiency and productivity gain through the use of ICT. Increasingly huge and unstructured information flow leads to overload and loss of control, and little attention has been paid to the broader issues of coherence and coordination of information. This book addresses these broader issues, which are the driving force behind the development of information architecture (IA) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Web sites -- Design.
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Knowledge management.
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Information technology.
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Management information systems.
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Information organization.
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| Author |
Gilchrist, Alan.
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Mahon, Barry.
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| LC no. |
2003065157 |
| ISBN |
155570493X alkaline paper |
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1856044874 hardback |
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