[Sigia-l] IA and medium

[Steven.L.MacCall]

re: is "information architecture" a faddish term? (see below)

It's not in the Thesaurus of Information Science, so how could it *not* be
faddish? Hey, if it's not in the controlled vocabulary, then it is not
official ... ergo "faddish" ...

man, without such controls, what would this information world come to??
... a disorganized mess!! ;-)

<* removing tongue from cheek *>

the real point was that relative to an established profession
(librarianship: 126 years as a profession -- several millennia in
prototype form -- and still going strong :), information architecture has
(at least) a little further to go before being societally acclaimed as
evidenced by its inclusion into a higher percentage of the University
catalogs of the world...

slm

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Ziya Oz wrote:

> > IA is still too fadish a term
>
> How so?
>
> Best,
>
> Ziya
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