June 26, 2012

Taxonomy, Metadata, and Search

All the meta nodes in the conceptual layer explained.

Notes from Seth Earley's Confab Workshop ~ "(...) your table of contents, which somewhat expresses the hierarchy, order, and relationships within your information, helps the reader understand at a glance the whole of the information. Even if the user doesn't navigate his or her way through this sometimes maze-like TOC structure, not having the table of contents at all makes users uneasy. If you replace that table of contents with another sort of organization, something that doesn't express the semantic relationships of the information components, your users may feel lost."

(Tom Johnson ~ I'd Rather Be Writing)

Posted by PJB at June 26, 2012 10:18 AM | Classification: Information architecture - Metadata - Search