[Asis-l] information architecture

[Terrell, Thomas]

By some name, Information Architecture (IA) will always be with us, just as
real architecture will always be with us. We will always need to think
strategically about information storage and retrieval, and we will always
need to understand the there are issues of scale, economy and bandwidth that
impact that thinking. 
We may change our vocabulary. We will change our "best practices" every day,
because hardware and software costs and capabilities change every day. The
lines that delineate IA and information design will be drawn and redrawn and
argued over for years.  This is good and healthy, because the subject is
still alive as long as there is disagreement and discussion. 
Think of all of the years that Einstein and Bohr argued the finer points of
the nature of light and energy. Many of their peers were bored within a few
years, but without those discussions and the letters and publications that
followed them, we would not have super-strings today.
I am fairly certain that there is no unified field theory of Information
Science. As we change access to information, we change expectations for
access. As those change, we change. To manage change and design new answers,
we need IA... at least until we all get a wireless modem in our cerebral
cortex, but then we would still need a P2P management tool, and a definition
of what it did and how files would be identified and metadata schemes... 
Oh well, apparently we will ALWAYS need IA and people who study it.

Tom Terrell

Dr. Thomas F. Terrell 
Assistant Professor 
School of Library and Information Science 
University of South Florida 
(813) 974-3521 voice 
(813) 974-6840 fax 
tterrell at chuma1.cas.usf.edu 



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hill [mailto:rhill at asis.org]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 7:49 AM
To: Asis-l at asis.org
Subject: [Asis-l] information architecture


[THis message was sent last week but apparently due to a malfunction of 
some sort, I was essentially the only subscriber who received 
it.  Re-sending to test the list.  Dick Hill]


Dear Candidates,

Can you please summarize your position on the future
role of the Information Architecture field in ASIST?

Thank you,
Victor Lombardi



Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD  20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
PHONE: (301) 495-0900

http://www.asis.org 

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