[LINK] Information architecture in Canberra

[Antony Barry]

On 04/10/2007, at 3:13 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:

> She said how strict and polyhierarchies are common for government  
> web site designs, but there are alternatives, such as metadata- 
> driven database, faceted classifications (sorted by attributes of  
> entities), organic structures and tagging.
>
> Andrew Boyd, SMS Management & Technology, on prototyping as part of  
> the web design process:
>
> He demonstrated a web interface prototype tool AXURE. The example  
> he showed was of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme schedule on a  
> PDA. This would be a good use for a prototype tool as it would need  
> a difference interface to the average web page. One worry I have is  
> that much of what web designers are doing is reinventing software  
> development techniques, by trial and error.

Also what librarians have done. Faceted classifications were  
developed by Ranganathan, an Indian librarian, in the early 1930's  
and are still used in Indian libraries. I remember learning about  
them in my library science course in the early 1960s.<http:// 
www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr517/winter2000/Group7/facet.htm>

Tony

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