[Sigia-l] [joe sokohl] representing info arch in printed docs

[Richard Hill]

[Re-sent for Joe, who has been having troubles communicating with the 
list.  Dick Hill]

From: "joe " <joe at sokohl.com>
Reply-To: <joe at sokohl.com>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
Subject: representing info arch in printed docs

Hi all,
Here's something fun: A non-Web, non-software IA problem! Whew! What a 
concept....anyway, here's the problem:
The group of software architects I'm working with has created a clustering 
of services within services within services. Attendant to all that are 
documents...different standards and guidelines and procedures and reports 
and what-not. These documents relate to different aspects of this group of 
documents (think "library").
My problem: how to show on a document what group the document belongs to. I 
don't want to show filename/path info, because that's not going to have 
meaning to someone accessing the document via an email attachment. Yet one 
approach could be some sort of wayfinding path. They thought of doing an 
iconographic approach, but that has meaning only inside the software 
architecture group...not to disparate VPs or remote developers. Yet somehow 
there exists a need to show to a reader where in the taxonomy of 
documentation a specific document resides, or relates.
Can anyone point me in the direction of sites or books or articles that 
talk about how to express the information architecture within the 
information design of a document? I'm thinking of some sort of combo of 
Nathan Shendroff and Karen Schriver, in a way.
Many thanks for any help,
joe
Joe Sokohl
Sokohl & Associates
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