[Sigia-l] RE: first principals

[Anne Hjortshoj]

Re:

> However, I suppose I do take issue with the particular "information
> retrieval" label. IR has suggests a too-focused task, that of simply
> retrieving information. I would argue that information architecture is
> concerned with supporting *any* information-related task that people might
> have, and that we probably bring the most benefit in terms of how we help
> contextualize information, give it meaning through relationships.
>
> --peter

Just a note - IR (Information Retrieval) is an area of computer science
dealing with natural language processing. Not to get bogged down in
semantics, and not to suggest that it can't also be used in the field of IA
... just wanted to point out that the term is already in use in another
field.

-Anne