RE: the relationship between CM and IA(information architecture)
"Bauer, Lydia" <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:34:01 -0600
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I disagree - IA has a major role in CMS. Content representation and organization is an integral part of IA, and is also a great need in your CMS (what metadata needs to be captured? How will it be laid out? How will you find your content to maximize re-use? How will you categorize your content so: it can be associated with specific parts of your web site; be found; aid in hyperlinking between related content, etc. AIFIA (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture) recently partnered with CMSWatch (http://aifia.org/news/000269.php); and will be sponsoring a pre-conference at ASIST's IA summit on content management for IAs. I haven't looked for general articles on the relationship, but you might find something of interest at aifia.org or iaslash.org or asis.org or boxesandarrows.com. Lydia -----Original Message----- From: cms-list-admin-/[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Austin, Darrel Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 8:58 AM To: cms-list-/[email protected] Subject: RE: [cms-list] the relationship between CM and IA(information architecture) > Now CM and IA are hot topics.But the relationship between CM and IA > has not discuss a lot. > I only see three articles about this topic.I want to know more about > it.Can you give your opinion? Note that this *is* just my opinion... I don't think the relationship between CM and IA should really be that close. CM is specific to the content, IA is specific to the presentation. You may very well have multiple IA layouts for the same content, depending on how/where you are delivering your content to. In my limited experience with CMSs, one drawback to some of them is that they tend tie the content into a very specific web-based IA. It makes the assumption that any content you enter into the system will likely be delivered to one specific web site. At that point, any relationship between the CM and IA just tends to get in the way. I'd like to hear others' opinions on this as well... -Darrel -- http://cms-list.org/ please trim your posts. -- http://cms-list.org/ please trim your posts.