Paul Kahn,
France
http://
www.kahnplus.com
Workshop: [A27]
- Enterprise Information Architecture for Cultural Institutions
The value of publishing information on the
Internet is in the combination of access and connections. While
many institutions began with the concept of a single web site
-- a home page linked to pages organized into sections -- this
model is obsolete. Today the Internet presence of the Museum,
Library, or Foundation exists in Enterprise Web Space, a combination
of many web sites, databases of digital collections, publications,
special exhibitions, membership and user information, and related
digital resources.
To create effective Enterprise Web Space,
we must apply information architecture principles, organizing
the information we want to share in relation to the needs of our
audience. Without effective architecture, the structure becomes
unusable -- we cannot see what is available, we are lost, we cannot
find what we need. The role of Information Architecture is a combination
of information analysis and design, to identify and visualize
structures that help users find and follow connections. To make
these connections useful in our daily work, we must see beyond
the limits of the web site and into the connection patterns of
the information itself.
We will look at the four major elements
of Web Space: web sites, applications, content collections, and
user identity. We will examine several examples of Web Space:
collections of scientific publications, national libraries, national
and international cultural and museum associations, and large
cultural institutions. In each case, we will examine how the elements
of the Web Space are connected to bring value to the hypertext.
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