[Sigia-l] Serious Discussion of IA Research?

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Dwayne King
>  
> >>
> > [...]
> >> but in my opinion a relation schema is most definitely part of
> >> Information Architecture,
> >
> > What else is in that Information Architecture?
> >
> 
> Not sure I follow the question. It's my belief that a database
> schema is an artifact of information architecture. Are you asking
> what other artifacts would exist?

No, I don't mean artifacts. An artifact of something exists after that
thing. For example, after thinking of a schema, one can have it
described in some form. Thus, we have a schema description - an
artifact of the schema.

Meanwhile, without a schema there is no architecture to speak of.
Since architecture cannot exist without a schema, schema is not an IA
artifact. But the schema description is an IA artifact.

When schema is a part of IA, not the IA, what other parts are in that
IA?


Boniface