INLS 180 Day 19 Notes
Main Points
IA emerging field concerned
with organization, interface, user experience, an art as much as science
Pioneer careers vs predictable careers
Limited number of data
structures and ordering schemes
Design is part/a kind of
communication
Questions
Day in the
life of an IA?
Tools for
IA designers?
Pros and cons of insider
design vs outsider?
Training paths for IAs? [best fields vs best people]
Intuition
role in IA?
Long term
viability of IA?
Content vs
form/design balance?
2. Intermediation
More
Intermediation or Disintermediation? [service vs self-serve]
Information Overload and the
need for intermediaries
See
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/index.html
The amount of print information is now trivial in volume
(93% digital each year) [next wave of sensor data not even started yet]
Quality versus quantity?
Disintermediation
Many services changing models/roles (gas attendants,
travel agents, bank tellers, cashiers, sales clerks)
Phone menu systems, WWW services
Physical services adding value (e.g., Bookstores add
creature comforts, newspapers & TV add WWW interactivity)
What about publishers? (author
publishing on WWW?, roles of non-commercial presses?)
What about libraries?
Online reference? What about corporations?
What added value services can we invent? EBAY intermediaries?
Managing change and living with the churn
Reference services:
importance of reference interview
Online reference services?
3. One-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class
with today?