[Sigia-l] IA research?

[Paulssen, Natasja]

> Companies believe that they've already taken care of their information
> asset by having CIO responsible for the company databases. They see
> information as data.
> 
This is exactly why I believe we IA's should move up the food chain. The
problems we encounter about findability etc help broaden their
perspective. Databases contain mostly machine-readable data. We include
more of human-sensible information.

> To have them see that they need "an architecture for the information",
> they need a pragmatic distinction between information and data.
> 
> But after years of hand waving, such distinction is still not
> forthcoming. Thus, "information is not data" is hair-splitting.
> "Information Architecture" is a highfalutin name. IA is in limbo.
> 
So maybe that is not the way to go. I have found that pointing them in
the direction of content lifecycle management helps a lot. This is a new
(and complete) definition of what they should do. I specifically use the
word content instead of data or information to keep away from that
discussion. The CLC I use includes create, publish, use, revise and
archive. It is relatively simple to show that a good information
architecture supports the entire lifecycle and that IA is more than a
single classification (you really do need multiple facets).

BTW what does highfalutin (high falutin?) mean? It sounds great; I want
to be able to put in into my active vocabulary!

Natasja Paulssen

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