[Sigia-l] Re: Sigia-l digest, Vol 1 #92 - 8 msgs

[Andrew Otwell]

Quoting from Gerry McGovern:

>> Yes, information architecture is quite complicated on a large website.
>> However, metadata, classification, navigation, search, and webpage
>> design and layout, are communications challenges.
> 
> Eric asked:
> and not logistics or interoperability or ... ?

Sounds to me like McGovern hit most of the IA concerns at the level I'd
expect of many decision-makers: "hmm, sounds pretty important, and our
website is hard to use. Yes, I understand what it takes to put together a
magazine, that involves things like tables of contents and page layouts."

There's certainly no egregious errors here that make me want to write an
angry email to him. It would have been nice if he'd explained that those
Information Architechts can *also* help with that crappy CMS so beloved of
the IT department: 

> It's time for web publishing technology to become transparent. There's now
> more than enough reasonably-priced content management software out there to
> make publishing content a relatively easy task. Today, if publishing content
> on your website is an overly technical task, the IT department is not doing
> its job properly.

Nor the IAs. Of course, "reasonably priced" certainly doesn't translate into
"making publishing content a relatively easy task." That's no kind of logic.

andrew