Blog Articles
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IA Institute Election Results
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…
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Noreen Whysel for President
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…
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Introducing Decision Fish
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…
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Information Architecture in Wikipedia
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…
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State of the Map Bonus: Satellite Selfie
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…
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IA in Wikipedia
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…
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ID Ecosystem Framework Draft Published
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.
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Information Architecture Wikipedia Editathon at IAS15
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…
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#BlackLifeMatters Wikipedia Editathon
A news clip from the New York Public Library’s February 7, 2015 Wikipedia Editathon, #BlackLifeMatters, where I am interviewed about the editing my daughter Jay and I were doing on the life and career of costume designer Judy Dearing, best known for her work on Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama A Soldier’s Play, the…