[Sigia-l] IA research?

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Paulssen, Natasja
>  
> Databases contain mostly machine-readable data. We include more of
> human-sensible information.

I am not sure of what you are trying to say. Could you please
elaborate?


[...]
> 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.

For decades, companies have already been doing content lifecycle
management using DBMS.


> I specifically use the word content instead of data or information
> to keep away from that discussion. 

Don't mean to be disrespectful, but isn't that disingenuous? When I am
being sold something called "Information Architecture", I expect the
discussion to be centered around what information is and the
associated architecture. Anything less smells fishy.

BTW, without a pragmatic distinction between information and data, how
do you, or other IAs, know that what is being worked on is in fact
"Information Architecture", not "Data Architecture"?


[...]
> 
> BTW what does highfalutin (high falutin?) mean? 

It means something is being made to sound complicated or important in
order to impress people. See also:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=highfalutin


Boniface