[Sigia-l] IA research?

[Piet Kopka]

--On Dienstag, 30. November 2004 09:37 +0100 Natasja Paulssen 
<natasja.paulssen at ordina.nl> wrote:

>> Maybe IA is transforming readable into sensible?

I hope not to be to off-topic with that:

If the ia (the information architect) has a good sense of the information 
space of the data, or at least of the nature of it, he/she has a chance of 
getting this through the data stored in a database to the eyes/fingers/mind 
of the user. The portions of data delievered at a given time in an 
interface will become informations for the user if he/she is able to 
rebuild that information space. What is a information in one informaion 
space will be an information space itself if followed (e.g. through a link).


You can say the ia creates more readers him/herself than readers are 
needed. Or the energy needed to understand is less than the energy the IA 
structured data delivers in form of intelligent, insightful, etc. editing, 
chunking and presenting of the data.

This (sadly?) implies, that it is always not enough to build a good 
abstract IA, but you always need IA in every level of detail for the best 
results.  This also implies, that "human readable" is in any case dependent 
on the humans involved. The human in charge has to accomplish the task to 
build the information space for transforming data into information.

Piet