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Overview

The IA Institute is working to establish a standard glossary of information architecture terms. The glossary is intended to foster a shared vocabulary within the discipline and should work in concert with the development of the IA Taxonomy.

In 2005, Bob Doyle and Amy Silvers (and others?) worked to develop a glossary extending Kat Hagedorn's work at Argus in 2002. Since then additional terms have become in use. We are reviewing these terms to further extend our vocabulary.

Goals

• Create an updated IA glossary, used to describe concepts and practices of Information Architecture and related disciplines and serve as a basis for discussion of the business practice of IA.

Proposal

• Glossary Review Proposal - proposal needs to be written
• Essentially, review the 2005 IA Glossary for relevance and completeness.

Status

• Glossary Status Report

Staff

• Leader:
• Board Sponsor: Andrea Resmini
• Volunteers:
  • Enter your name if you would like to help

Communication

• Basecamp Page
• About Basecamp

Website

• IA Glossary Project
• Current IA Glossary - hosted by CMPros

Deliverables

• Glossary Workspace - This is where the current work/discussion is taking place.
• Link to any deliverables and documentation. (None found for previous iterations of the IA Glossary).

Resources

• Other IA glossaries:
  • IAGlossary at the IAWiki (via archive.org)
  • ACIA IA Glossary White Paper by KatHagedorn.
  • UsabilityFirst's glossary
  • The Usability Company glossary of UE terms
  • Usability Glossary by Bob Goodman

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