Information Architecture and Taxonomy
Learn how to establish an Information Architecture (IA) including the Taxonomy component that supports and drives your business strategy. Explore IA from many angles including: interface, governance, useability and technology architecture. This session is based on a methogology used by Delphi to assess need and develop an IA solution strategy for its clients.
Session Highlights
- Key Concepts and Functionality
- Information Architecture
- Meta Tagging
- Taxonomy
- Ontology
- Topic Trees
- Classification and Categorization
- Controlled Vocabularies
- Thesaurus
- Business Drives and Justifying the Information Architecture
Information Architecture
- The Basic Components of Information Architecture
- Building a Taxonomy Within the Information Architecture
- Defining Search and Discovery Metaphors
- Integrating Search and Taxonomy
- Building Multiple Information Architectures
- User Perspectives
- IT Perspectives
- Research and Strategy
- Content, Community and Context
- Tools and Techniques
- Information Seeking Behaviors
- Organization Schemes and Organizational Structures
- Challenges of Metadata
- Building a Governance Document
- Technology Alternatives
- Auto Tagging
- Taxonomy Generation
- Auto Categorization
- Maintenance
- Justifying Technology vs. Manual Approaches
- Design Approaches
- Developing Customized Taxonomies
- Designing Work Group and Enterprise Metadata Schemas
- Separating Taxonomy Structure from its Front-End
- Diagnosing Common Interface Design Failures
- Defining the Role of the Information Architect
- Selecting and Applying Relevant Standards