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

[Donna M. Fritzsche]

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>Interesting. You see "site map+interactivity" subsumed by other (related)
>disciplines, but same thing cannot happen to "taxonomy/classification"? Many
>data/software designers/architects would disagree with you.
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I have to agree with Ziya here, there are a variety of people who 
have skills in this
area - taxonmomy/classification has been happening for years in 
fields other than
LIS - data/software designers, database architects (and the good ones 
do work with users extensively and have worked with large enterprise 
issues), artificial intelligence researchers, object-oriented 
designers, educators, content specialists, indexers, etc. etc,,

There really is no reason to assume that one "group" has ownership of 
a skill set .
More importantly, as long as the skills are represented and work is 
carried out well - does it really matter?  I imagine in some cases, 
the work will be subsumed by other related disciplines and in other 
cases "IA" specialists  will continue to be brought in.

I think the important factor is that the skills needed and the work 
to be accomplished is identified and that talented people are found 
to do the work. If  an individual chooses to identify their skill set 
with IA, AI, Library Science, Metadata Specialist, Database 
Architecture, etc -that is just a choice in how they are marketing 
themselves or its historic, based on the job titles from their 
previous work experience.

I choose to call myself an IA, but I recognize and respect that those 
in many other disciplines have talents and skills that overlap with 
mine.

Thanks,
Donna M. Fritzsche
Partner
Amichi, LLC
Strategic Knowledge Architecture and Information Design
www.amichi.info
donnamarie at amichi.info
(773) 680-2188