[Sigia-l] Taxonomy/Classification IA and Enterprise IA

[Chiara Fox]

> At the risk of angering the LIS crowd, I'm going to venture to say that,
> even though they often go hand-in-hand, the bulk of "IA" jobs now and in
> the near future are going to be of the "site map+interactivity" type,
> and not the taxonomy/classification type.
>
> Creating thesuari, controlled vocabularies, etc. are specialized,
> typically short-term work: once you've created them and implemented
> them, the client maintains them.

I wonder how many taxonomy/classification/LIS IAs are innies and not
outies? That's where I landed after Argus.

Also, what about Enterprise IA? We don't talk much about that around here.
I see the taxonomy/classification type of IA feeding into Enterprise IA
rather easily.

What do others think?

-Chiara