Internet:

• Interview with Rosenfeld (see Literature below) The field is relatively new and under development; therefore, the definition of information architecture depends on whom you ask. Here's one that works for us: "Information architecture involves the design of organization and navigation systems to help people find and manage information more successfully."

• Introduction to Information Archtecture Information architecture is the process of organizing, labeling, designing navigation and searching systems that helps people find and manage information more successfully.

• 10 questions about information architecture; By Shel Kimen At its most basic, information architecture is the construction of a structure or the organization of information. In a library, for example, information architecture is a combination of the catalog system and the physical design of the building that holds the books. On the Web, information architecture is a combination of organizing a site's content into categories and creating an interface to support those categories.

• Information Architecture Tutorial [Overview by John Shiple]

• IA Resources [http://www.jjg.net/ia/]

• Project Management Plan: IAS Project Activities Model Companies nationwide are striving to improve and streamline their business processes and information in order to become more competitive and efficient. Information management can facilitate this effort. Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company currently has no integrated approach for providing and managing information about the company's missions, processes, products, customers, and suppliers.

Literature:

• See also: Web Design Literature

• Hobbs, W.John, Information Architecture: An Essential Planning Tool © 1990.

• Rosenfeld, Louis and Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. O'Reilly, 1998.

• Wodtke, Christina, Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web [ISBN: 0735712506 New Riders Publishing US$ 29.99 (currently selling at US$ 20.99 at Amazon.com) Page Count: 368 Publication Date: 16 October 2002]