[Sigia-l] History of "Information Architecture"

[Dave Collins]

>Please, dear God, just read this:
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/InfoArchitecture.html


A fascinating read. I may pick up more of his material.

An unsolicited comment:

"As I looked into the organization of information, I realized that there
were only five ways to do it. They can be remembered by the acronym LATCH:
L) by location, A) by alphabet, T) organized by time ... C) by category ...
and H) by hierarchy, from the largest to the smallest of something, from the
reddest to the lightest red, from the densest to the least dense, and so on.
The primary choice of which way you organize something is made by deciding
how you want it to be found."

It seems he uses 'hierarchy' to really mean numerically- or value-ordered.
(i.e. 1 to 10 / low to high) - to be frank, an odd use of the term, IMO.
Then where does he fit the quintessential example of hierarchical
organization - a tree-structure? I don't see it fitting into any these five,
including the last one, considering his definition. Sure, you could jam it
in, but does it not stand on its own, even if it louses up the acronym?

Dave