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Notes from ASIS&T Annual 2002
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Notes from ASIS&T Annual 2002 Monday, November 18Just spurious notes from what I saw, in general a very good conference: Plenary with Lee Strickland Thomas Blanton: Openness and National SecurityI went in thinking this talk would be boring, but found it very interesting and by the end I was convinced we all need to spend…
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Bottom Up
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Peter Morville has an interesting new article at New Architect: Bottoms Up. In it he advocates more bottom-up design, reacting against overly reductionist top-down methods. But I think his philosophy is actually a balance of the two, and he’s trying to advocate this balance. Take this excerpt: I have been flabbergasted in recent months by…
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Travels
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ASIS&T 2002 Philadelphia
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This weekend I’m heading to Philly for the ASIS&T Annual conference. You too? See you at the hotel bar on Saturday, 7:30.
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Character counts to word counts
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Assuming a typical company website, when estimating the word count for a given piece of text when you only know the character count divide by six.
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Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools
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Excerpts from Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools: With databases virtually all of the semantic content has to be captured in the application logic. Ontologies, however, are often able to provide an objective specification of domain information by representing a consensual agreement on the concepts and relations characterizing the way knowledge in that domain…
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Peak/End Rule
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From Boom and Gloom: …the Peak/End rule. When people assess a past experience, they pay attention above all to two things: how it felt at the peak and whether it got better or worse at the end. A mild improvement – even if it’s an improvement from “intolerable” to “pretty bad” – makes the whole…
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Day 2
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11:46pm: The Institute launched today and the reaction was unexpectedly great. A fair amount of positive comments, links, and new members. The skeptics, rather than simply bashing, asked smart, pointed questions, the same questions we’ve been asking ourselves for the past several months. We have good reasons for starting the venture, we have a vision…
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Launch: AIfIA
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November 4, 2002 – Information architects from across the world today announced the launch of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA). The leadership of AIfIA includes expert practitioners, teachers, and authors from organizations including Yahoo!, AOL/TimeWarner, IBM, Lucent Technologies, MasterCard International, Wells Fargo, Wachovia Corporation, Razorfish, Adaptive Path, the Transportation Security Administration, the University…
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OSAF’s Vista
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Andy Hertzfeld, of the original Macintosh team, writes about the prototype of Vista: a prototype for OSAF’s Networked Personal Information Manager. As a view into a development process that must integrate many different modules into one flexible interface it’s a must read. I’m also glad to see he landed somewhere that has a good chance…
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Pushing Weblogs
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Sometimes pushing, via email, still wins over pulling via websites. There’s a handful of sites I want to monitor but lack the time or attention to surf, even as an RSS feed. Lately I’ve been using iMorph’s Infominder service. They basically check a site for changes and send you an update. Nice touches are thrown…
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The obligatory fake FAQ
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I had a good laugh when I was looking at Jesse’s book site and came upon a section titled The obligatory fake FAQ. This touches on one of those seemingly innocent requests that drive me up the wall: people who want to ‘create’ frequently asked questions. The original format was a beautiful thing, a bottom-up…
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Controlled Vocabularies in the Trenches
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Has anyone written about what it’s like to create controlled vocabularies (CVs) in the context of actual project work? I can’t think of any. Below are some spurious notes of my recent experience, probably not understandable to anyone else ’cause I don’t have time to instruct. We’re racing to deadlines and I’m driving as fast…
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Meta (‘s) Words
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Pleasing writing on the MetaDesign site… Information needs design. You cannot not communicate. It looks good and it makes sense. MetaDesign…an international network of visual engineers, bringing a broad perspective to the complex challenges of everyday communications.