15. Findability
Structure, meaning
Needs,behaviors Document/data types,content
Information needs, audience types, objects, meta-information, existing
expertise, experience,tasks, structure, future structure, volume
information seeking
behaviors
Community Content
IA
Culture, technology
Business models & goals,
Corporate culture, technology,
funding, politics, resources,
Context
constraints
16. Only 15% feel findability as
opposed to “search” is understood and
addressed within their organization.
17. What is Information Architecture?
IA is the art and science of structuring
organizing, and labeling information to
help people find and manage information
Browsing Aids
Information Enabling
Components
Architecture
Content & Tasks
Search Aids
Rosenfeld & Morville
18. Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5
Research Strategy Design Implementation Administration
Review existing Create conceptual Transform high-level Build, Test, Launch Evaluate & Improve
materials to framework for strategy into an IA
gain high-level Structuring & Includes: Day to Day Maintenance:
understanding of organizing web site − Organizing & Tagging (effort required tied directly
goals/business High-level The most “work” Documents to content churn)
context, existing happens here: − Testing − Select & Evaluate new
IA, content, & Recommends: − Controlled vocabs. − Troubleshooting content
Intended audiences − IA Administration − Taxonomies − Developing − Classification management
− Technology − Thesauri Documentation − Indexing management
Meetings with Integration − Metadata schema − Developing Training − CV & Thesauri management
strategy team, − Top-down vs − Blueprints Programs
content owners, Bottom-up − Wireframes Periodic Evaluation/Updates
IT, users, − Organization &
stakeholders Labeling Systems Continuous Evaluation &
− Doc Type ID Improvement
− Metadata field
Definitions
− Navigation System
Design
19. Users
Who are they?
Which audiences are the most important?
What motivates them to come to
this site?
What do they want from this site?
What do they need from this site?
How do they navigate?
What terms do they use to
search, browse, and
classify information?
What are their most important
information needs?
20. Content
How do I get my arms around the content we have?
What content has value?
What content can I get rid of?
How do I make answers emerge from content?
How should content be
organized and labeled?
What is this content object?
How can I describe it?
What distinguishes it
from other content objects?
How can I make it findable?
21. Context
Who in this organization makes the decisions?
What are the primary business goals and objectives
for increased findability?
What does the decision-maker want from the site?
What political and cultural factors might impact
the architecture?
What similar initiatives
have worked in the past?
What similar initiatives have
failed in the past and why?
What resources (people,
technology, time, $$$)
are available?
How will the architecture be
maintained?
24. Organizational Schemes
Exact Schemes: divide information into well-defined and
mutually exclusive sections (easy to design, maintain, and use)
–Alphabetical
–Chronological
–Geographical
Ambiguous Schemes: divide information into categories
that defy exact definition (difficult to design & maintain, can be
difficult to use. Supports process of associative learning by
grouping items in intellectually meaningful ways)
–Topic or Subject
–Task-oriented
–Audience
26. Relevancy Ranking
Date
(Weighted) Term Summing
Omni-term skewing
Term density and proximity
Links and conections
Analytics (Explicit and Implicit)
User preferences and affiliations
Dynamic/User controlled?
28. Search Brings Results... TOO MANY Wrong Results
Potential
Answer
Enterprise Potential Potential Potential
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Content The
You Search Answer
Potential Potential Potential Potential Potential Potential
Answer Answer Answer Answer Answer Answer
Elapsed time:
Hours
1. You Search 4. Check 2nd result
Not the right answer
2. You Find MANY hits
... Check ### result
3. Check 1st result Not the right answer
Not the right answer Later that day:
... Check ### result
Did I get the right
Not the right answer
answer?
... Check ### result Did the opportunity pass
Not the right answer us by?
... Check ### result Is this the most current
Not the right answer information?
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extract valuable multiple ways to get to precision in retrieval, further layer of components are used in
information from the information, the but can often include precision tandem, you are
vast collection of simplest being a shared false positives or provided with “the
Enterprise Content drive or arrangement by content irrelevant to 5. Analytics provides answer”
file folders your focus further precision by
putting the query and
content in context
Search is only
PART of the
answer
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