Review by Mary Joan Crowley (Sapienza University of Rome)
" The Journal of Information Architecture '- ISSN 19037260 - is a new semi-annual academic journal in English, with a system peer-reviewed, published by REG-iA ( Research and Education Group in Information Architecture ) international initiative promoted dall'IAI ( Information Architecture Institute) and connected to Copenhagen Business School.
The IAI was created in January 2008, now has among its members, researchers and professionals from Denmark, Sweden, Italy (Andrea Resmini, Luca Rosati), Poland and Norway. The founding premise of the group is that although the information architecture is a profession now recognized < style="font-style: italic;"> phrase "information architecture") is not an academic discipline is still in effect (such as a mountain of other essentials, of course ... ) and, with a few exceptions, does not constitute a course of study in schools and universities
The Institute for Information Architecture defines its object (IA) as "the science and art" to classify websites, intranets, online communities and software that facilitates usability and accessibility, and encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including library science, informatics, social computing, engineering (design ) information, visual design, and so on.
The magazine was presented during the 10th IA Summit in Memphis in March 2009 and the first issue is now available online for free access, while each subsequent file will first be visible to members of IAI and only then proceed with the archiving, will be open to all: a kind of embargo to focus on the members 'operational'. Major focus is to create a forum sufficiently large and widespread in order to increase the "scientific" information architecture. For this, it intends to use all the tools available on the Web, from blogs to Twitter to discussion lists.
The interest of the promotion group is in fact to embrace this designation in other domains of contour to achieve a collective knowledge of the domain and its members themselves, thus offers the opportunity all practitioner, academics and practitioners, to systematize and how they carry out their work or their research along with practical knowledge as well as the principles that guide their work.
This inaugural issue is a mirror of social issues and themes that must tackle the information architecture and process:
" The Journal of Information Architecture '- ISSN 19037260 - is a new semi-annual academic journal in English, with a system peer-reviewed, published by REG-iA ( Research and Education Group in Information Architecture ) international initiative promoted dall'IAI ( Information Architecture Institute) and connected to Copenhagen Business School.
The IAI was created in January 2008, now has among its members, researchers and professionals from Denmark, Sweden, Italy (Andrea Resmini, Luca Rosati), Poland and Norway. The founding premise of the group is that although the information architecture is a profession now recognized < style="font-style: italic;"> phrase "information architecture") is not an academic discipline is still in effect (such as a mountain of other essentials, of course ... ) and, with a few exceptions, does not constitute a course of study in schools and universities
The Institute for Information Architecture defines its object (IA) as "the science and art" to classify websites, intranets, online communities and software that facilitates usability and accessibility, and encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including library science, informatics, social computing, engineering (design ) information, visual design, and so on.
The magazine was presented during the 10th IA Summit in Memphis in March 2009 and the first issue is now available online for free access, while each subsequent file will first be visible to members of IAI and only then proceed with the archiving, will be open to all: a kind of embargo to focus on the members 'operational'. Major focus is to create a forum sufficiently large and widespread in order to increase the "scientific" information architecture. For this, it intends to use all the tools available on the Web, from blogs to Twitter to discussion lists.
The interest of the promotion group is in fact to embrace this designation in other domains of contour to achieve a collective knowledge of the domain and its members themselves, thus offers the opportunity all practitioner, academics and practitioners, to systematize and how they carry out their work or their research along with practical knowledge as well as the principles that guide their work.
This inaugural issue is a mirror of social issues and themes that must tackle the information architecture and process:
- Dorte Madsen. Editorial: Shall We Dance? , p. 1-5
- Gianluca Brugnoli. Connecting the dots of user experience , p. 6-15
- Helena Francke. Towards an architectural document analysis , p. 16-36
- Andrew Hinton. The context of machineries , p. 37-47
- James Kalbach. On uncertainty in Information Architecture, p. 48-55.
is an active call for papers for the autumn issue of 2009, at journalofia.org / cfp . Interesting that the authorial strategy reflects the dual nature of the discipline (professionals and researchers) of the journal: the authors propose that you will be asked to indicate if you want to submit a manuscript to review their "academic" or review "professional."
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