[Sigia-l] What do you call that place between the database andthe live site?

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

[BTW I'm removing the IAI list cross-posting here to avoid confusion]

I'm struggling to understand this in any context I know, but when you
say:

> The point in mentioning it was that it was an 
> analog of the company's information architecture (the actual 
> structure, not the job role).  I want to have that analog 
> again.  That's it.  I think that analog representation will 
> communicate to business and creative teams something they 
> don't get now.  I think that when they can interact with it, 
> they will learn things that will make our company more efficient.

I'm intrigued. Depending on what the "it" is here, I have been thinking
along what *might* be similar lines. This would involve a new artefact
or system that I would call a "content framework." This would  aid in
the information and content design process by storing actual content in
a form that can be described by the visual design at an early stage (eg
as XML). It would also - crucially - be easily changed as the project
progresses.

Could this be related to what you are describing? My reason for thinking
about this is to allow work on content (it's length, type, structure,
style, etc.) to start far earlier in the information architecture
process. Right now, we usually deal with such things after the IA has
been designed and signed off - only to find the content doesn't actually
fit very well when the two are integrated into the CMS. And that's just
one of many content-related issues that might be alleviated by such an
approach.

Jonathan



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