Resources in Information Architecture: Talk at General Assembly SF

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memex (Bush, Vannevar (Jul 1945), "As We May Think", The

Atlantic Monthly 176 (1): 101–8.) [ ]


RESOURCES[ ]

http://disciplineoforganizing.org


RESOURCES[ ]???????


RESOURCES[ ]= what we organize


RESOURCES[ ]!= "a thing"


RESOURCES[ ]categories


RESOURCES[ ]it’s tricky!


RESOURCES[ ]it’s tricky!

is a web page a single resource?is a car? in what context?


RESOURCES[ ]always a tradeoff


RESOURCES[ ]always a tradeoff

reduce recall, increase precisionreduce precision, increase recall


RESOURCES[ ]wait, what again?

1. identity

2. identification


RESOURCES[ ]four distinctions


RESOURCES[ ]DOMAIN

(Linnaeus)


RESOURCES[ ]FORMAT


RESOURCES[ ]AGENCY


RESOURCES[ ]FOCUS

metadata


RESOURCES[ ]wait, what again?

1. identity

2. identification


RESOURCES[ ]vocabulary

(it’s a problem) — Furnas


RESOURCES[ ]


RESOURCES[ ]homographs homonyms polysemes


RESOURCES[ ]control your vocabulary


RESOURCES[ ]

use your aliases


RESOURCES[ ]make identifiers

unique


RESOURCES[ ]


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