whysel I am reading and rereading the discussion/controversy/hype/reporting on Wikipedia’s knowledge engine and wondering exactly what about it should be construed as a direct competitor to Google. Yes. An unbiased, independent, not tied to corporate interests search engine, but of what content? Wikipedia’s, most likely. Surely not all of the internet, since their own data and … Read more
The IA Institute released their election results. Congratulations to Dan Klyn on winning the Information Architecture Institute President seat, and good election, Lara Federoff. Special congrats to my classmate Samantha Raddatz, the IAI’s new programming and events director! I was glad to see broader participation this year. It looks like we have a great team … Read more
I am honored to be nominated for President of the IA Institute. It is my wish and my promise that if you elect me I will do my best to promote what former IAI President Eric Reiss once described as the “concept, community, and craft of Information Architecture.” I have been a member of the … Read more
My feedback and contributions were acknowledged in Art Documentation, vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2015) “Transferable Skills and the Nontraditional Workplace: A Case Study of Internships with an Art and Design Theory-Focused Journal,” by Rachel Isaac-Menard of Adelphi University. Abstract—The author outlines a librarian internship in the virtual, nontraditional context of an open-access scholarly journal and … Read more
Decision Fish: The Art & Science of Decision-Making is a blog with observations and applications from decision science, behavioral economics, finance, cognitive psychology and philosophy, written by my husband, Brett Whysel. The purpose of this blog is to explore applications of these realms to real world decisions. I have been working with Brett to refine the … Read more
This article was featured in the ASIS&T Bulletin special edition on Information Architecture, published in July 2015. Information architecture (IA) is a mess on Wikipedia. We all know the coverage is inadequate, to say the least. In fact when Ted Nelson gave his keynote at the Information Architecture Summit this year, he mentioned looking up … Read more
June 6-8 was OpenStreetMap’s State of the Map Conference at the United Nations. I volunteered at registration and during morning sessions and was able to attend interesting talks on OSM data in Wikipedia, the Red Cross presentation on OSM in disaster response and developing a GIS curriculum in higher education. One of the highlights was … Read more
I am currently working on developing a WikiProject for Information Architecture at Wikipedia. I welcome participation from interested Wikipedians, with or without editing experience. Please view my IA Wikipedia Editathon tutorial and resource guide which I presented as an interactive session of the Information Architecture Summit, on April 22-26 in Minneapolis. ASIS&T Bulletin published my … Read more
Pleased to see the DRAFT IDEF Baseline Functional Requirements v1.0 have been released. I am proud to serve as the Vice Chair of the User Experience Committee and would love to hear comments on the Usability guidelines.
I am very happy to announce that I will be presenting an Information Architecture Wikipedia Editathon as an interactive session of the Information Architecture Summit, on April 22-26 in Minneapolis. As an amateur IA historian and keeper of many things IAI for several years, I have decided to go one step further and present my … Read more
