Information architecture is the intellectual design and structure of an information service.
It "involves the design of organization, labeling, navigation, and indexing systems to support both browsing and searching." (Rosenfeld and Morville)
Good information architecture, like good design, should be almost invisible. Poor information architecture, on the other hand, is all too obvious - as you can see on many Web sites!
I have worked on several major projects to design information services, either as the main information architect or as a member of the project design team.
The Western Australian Cultural Heritage Portal: an ARC-funded project to develop a common interface to the databases of libraries, museums, galleries and
archives.
The Online Anthology of Western Australian Writing: a wide range of literary and other texts from Western Australia, selected by
John Kinsella. The Anthology is part of the AustLit Australian Literature Gateway service.
The Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts. This national project was funded by the Australian Research Council through its RIEF Scheme. The
EAD Retrospective Conversion Guidelines for this project are available.
Preserving Australia's Sound Heritage: an ARC-funded Web service for the Callaway Centre, School of Music, University of Western Australia.
The Berndt Museum of Anthropology's Web service, developed with a grant from the AVCC's National Priority (Reserve) Fund, 1997/98.
CygNET Online: the flagship electronic service of the University of Western Australia Library, redesigned in 1997/98. Now superseded by a new version of the
site, launched in 2001.
The Electronic Text Service of the University of Western Australia, implemented in 1996. Many of the texts in this service are not available outside UWA, for copyright reasons. See my paper in the journal Computers and Texts, issue no. 13 (Dec. 1996).
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