[Sigia-l] Taxonomists vs. information architects

[kate.simpson at freshfields.com]

Denise Bedford:
>" The future (and not too distant) lies in our ability to leverage
>different kinds of taxonomies as enterprise architecture components to
data
>drive content to different views, portals and the more traditional
website
>architecture. "

I can second Denise's experience. 
I currently find myself working for an international law firm where good
organisation of the underlying structure of information has become a key
strategy as we build the new know-how system. The need to integrate the
various systems across the firm in order to share and re-use information
(and with better results) will involve standardisation of information
architecture components such as field labels, values and taxonomies etc.
Understanding these and how they interact, on top of how they are
applied to a user interface or workflow, are major elements of my role
as information architect. I'd be interested to hear from any taxonomists
on this list about where their job with organising information starts
and ends - perhaps a fundamental part of my initial work here is in fact
that of a taxonomist?

Kate

Kate Simpson
Information Architect
Knowledge Management
kate.simpson at freshfields.com
 
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