One of the reasons a lot of IT- related information architecture
and management has been so poor is that people working in IT
just don't realise that they're reinventing the wheel, or
that we've been working away on the organisation and retrieval of
information
for centuries (almost).
It looks like the whole e-Gov strategy is going to be scuppered because
departments and local government just aren't going to be compliant
with the various e-Gov standards (like e-GMS, e-GIF, etc) by 2005.
It would be extremely interesting to find out how many departments
actually
have people with LIS backgrounds addressing compliance with
the government metadata standard, for instance, and how many have just
given
the job either to the IT department, or maybe specifically to their
webmaster.
Another interesting thing would be how well departments with LIS staff
working on this,
compared with those who allocated the work to non-LIS people.
(I feel a dissertation coming on...)
Like learning marketingspeak as a means of improving services to users,
maybe learning ITspeak would help us all communicate that we know
what we're talking about as far as the use and organisation of
information
is concerned.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list for CILIP members working towards MCLIP status
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kirsty Beveridge
> Sent: 13 January 2004 10:11
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: looking for a job spin off
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> a spin off from the jobs/status/pay thread
>
> Have a look at this site - it's primarily US, and some of it's a bit
> thin - but in it's talk about information architecture it's describing
> what we do, ( the term has been around for a while ) &
> it's trying to
> push it in a glossy way....
> It also bridges the vocabulary gap between
> librarianship/computing(web
> designers)/& the rest of the world - in the same way that
> 'taxonomy' is
> a more acceptable term than 'classification' in some sectors.
>
http://www.aifia.org/
So what do we do? Buy a new suit, produce some marketing bumph and
introduce the powers that be to a new set of jargon/acronyms? Well, it
works for management ... personnel/human resources.....
Kirsty
(By the way Rosenfield & Morville (2002) Information Architecture
for the world wide web, O'Reilly is actually quite good - it's readable
& does make passing reference to librarianship!)
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