When the information encounters the Internet Web Information Architecture system

Article Description: when the information encounters the Internet Web Information Architecture system.

Ancient cloud: Water to, then canal into.
It is said that the water flowing through the place, naturally formed a channel. When the time comes, things naturally become.

Human history is basically dealing with water, waterway is basically the ancient core of transport channels, agricultural times of irrigation systems, hydroelectric power station ... Abound. It may even be said that water breeds human civilization.

Before changing the world, we must first know the world. Before you build a channel, you need to understand the properties of water before you can really use it.

It is often said that the internet is the ocean of information.
In the information age, information, like water, has a lot of natural properties. To build a system to carry information is like digging ditches in ancient times. To benefit the audience, you must first understand the nature of the information.

Get to know your information
The difference between information and water is that information is man-made and water is made in heaven. But the same is that before you build a canal, you need to have a thorough understanding of the attributes of the information. Like music, a song has many natural attributes: Lyrics, Melody, time, author, singer, age, genre, etc., in the above attributes have defined, also defines the scope of information; There are also many social attributes: background stories, Word-of-mouth evaluations, publishers, albums, prices, bar codes, etc.

Knowing this is like knowing the buoyancy of water, the pressure, the freezing point, the boiling points, the evaporation, the fluidity ...
It's not hard to count these attributes, but it's not easy to really understand the logic behind the attribute and play it reasonably into your architecture. Many social attributes actually have historical backgrounds and can be changed. See a lot of information systems, for architecture and architecture, resulting in unnecessary redundancy, good architecture does not need to be complex. Perhaps just using the information one of the attributes, play to the extreme is enough.

When information encounters the Internet
In the absence of the Internet, information in their respective fields and industries, from the production of Information-> channel distribution-> to reach the audience, owning their respective ecosystems. The internet is like a bandit, breaking all kinds of unspoken rules in various industries. The trend of information digitalization has been known by God.
Until today (2011), change is only the beginning, and the internet has only replicated traditional channels, and Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville wrote in 02 The Web Information Architecture (Chinese version), focusing on describing information and indexing relationships, Is the change of digital bearing form. And most of the traditional channels still dominate, they are still in control of the release of content, a last-ditch struggle.

The development of the Web information architecture, or the digitization process, will revolutionize the flow of information from generation to dissemination and indexing. The information architecture itself does more than just address the problem of information indexing. The knowledge system of this book needs to be updated.

Before the integrity of the knowledge system, the phenomenon has already been exposed to the bud, the two authors in the book in several editions of the process to add a lot of fashionable elements and cases, but the speed of book publishing is far from the change. The traditional architecture of the idea is that the information has been handed, and then think about how to optimize the organization, and the Internet real-time characteristics, the need for a new architecture in real-time feedback, and is a self optimized system. It's like when you read this article with a paper book, my Thoughts on the information architecture may be new. Perhaps you wait for the second edition of the book, rather than pay attention to my blog.

Architecture is like a ditch, not only in the final presentation and indexing phase, but in the information: source produces-> distribution-> filter-> consumption-> feedback. This will form a complete, closed-loop ecosystem, each of which will be more efficient than the traditional approach and will never be supplemented by traditional channels.

Traditional information channels, can only reflect the long tail head of the public preferences. The world's largest book market, also can not have 1% of human books, for reading the long tail demand, have to have other systems and channels to meet. And all of this on the Internet, a good architecture provides the possibility of an infinitely long tail, and information is produced by the collective wisdom of self-organizing effects. The good structure is not to let the machine replace the human brain, but to respond to the feedback of the human brain and shorten the feedback process.

The information encounters the Internet, different from the book into the library, is only the problem of classification and organization. And now the information is in the Internet, still in the early stage.
The water is made by heaven, and the information is man-made. In the World of information: "Canals" become, "water" is.

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"UCD spark SET" IN the second quarter is finishing, still lack several articles, should Angela Adult request, get propositional composition "Information classification and method" one, special send this article, read in advance you earn a free probation. For a long time do not write articles, it is difficult to Shang, the title itself is too large, if the need to complete the text of the proposition and provide the construction of drainage methods, I would like to write a book, then decided to pull a long egg, if you can think together, to achieve the purpose.

I read this article, tone too like the media review, this is not my intention, has been a trance: A designer's best work should be to make people like products, rather than write good articles. But the Internet emphasizes sharing, and it is a blessing to have a brief flash of light, to record and share it, and to help peers. The last experience and peer mutual encouragement: more analysis of the site, less to see the media comments. Read more non-design books and watch less blogs. Blog post, try to write a book review it.
(please edit not to include these two paragraphs, Shun wish a happy New Year)