[Sigia-l] Open-source IA tool in the making

[Peter Van Dijck]

> Ok, I think that's where were up to, and please, keep it coming. For
> example, how would people like the interface to be? Application? Web
> browser based? Do you *want* external people to participate with the
> tool (so you can hire a greasemonkey to add content, for example)?

Here's a usecase (that actually happened in reality): the IA/consultant 
makes a skeleton website, with navigation and such, the content 
producer(s) then populate that with content for a few weeks or so, we 
present it to the client (also in printed form) and they sign off on 
both structure and content.

The content is then in a db, related to the IA, and then we start 
working to actually implement this with design and backend tech (perhaps 
using some expensive CMS or portal software or whatever) and stuff.

Meanwhile, we add more content with this tool (it's not a cms tool, it's 
just a way for us to gather stuff in a structured form), have clients 
sign off on it. Once the actual website tech is done, we pump in the 
content from our db.

Not sure you'd want to support this usecase, but here it is :)

Peter, the topicmap abandonista.
(easytopicmaps.com is now in the hands of someone who will take care of 
it better than me, by the way.)