[Sigia-l] Card sorting

[Seth Earley]

You would need to do another kind of exercise - tagging.  Split users into
two groups.  Take representative content and ask one group to come up with
terms that they would use if they were looking for the specific items.  Ask
the other group to place terms on content that they would use to describe
the content if they were applying metadata terms to the content.  Have them
compare results and see if the searchers are using the same (unambiguous)
terms as the taggers.  Also see if there are multiple hits for a search term
and consider how to disambiguate those items. (Additional attributes, etc.)

Seth
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Donna Maurer

You can't ;)

That's where some smart IA uses their brain and 'designs' an IA rather than
relying on 
the outcomes of a single activity.

Donna

On 25 Apr 2006 at 19:35, Malahat Hosseini wrote:

> I have a question:
> 
> How can you make sure that the way people "sort " things is going to be
the
> same as how they will be "looking " for things?
> 
> For instance I can see the case of someone putting everything that has the
> word " information" in it in one category; but I am sure the same person
> might not look for those items all in one category when faced with an
> organized system...I wonder if I have been able to convey what I mean.
> 
> I am curious to know how you  communicate this to people... 
> 
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Donna Maurer
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