information structure
Structure helps us figure out how to navigate information. Most of us try to pick it up as we go along, but being a little more aware helps us orient in the whole.
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The funky variability of meaning as a lesson in taxonomy
Taxonomy discussions might be boring according to some perspectives, but they are periodically necessary. Originally published on Medium.
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Nodes
The more tangible of the two most basic pieces in information structures.
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Connections
The two most basic pieces in information structures.
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Juxtaposition and placement of nodes
Using space to affecting meaning in models without connections
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Structures in information architecture
The true structure of information, in my opinion, is the connectome — the pattern of connections that form between nodes.
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Nodes as encapsulated rich data
The simplest additional dimension in information structures
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Levels
The mixed-bag dimensions in information architecture
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Strata
Dimensional ecology in information architecture
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Lenses
The point of view in information architecture
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Information structures ripen
Information gets modified all the time -- most often by being added to.
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Bottom-up approach to hierarchy
Start at many, keep consolidating to one.
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Issues with top-down built hierarchical information structures
When it comes to information, connections have meaning. The value of the connections can be made explicit, as in ontology; but even…
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Understanding system connectome
The way I’ve explained systems thinking was intended to help ground in a reasonably universal, physical medium that could be explored…
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Systems flow
I’ve mentioned before that the push/pull of information is an indicator that we’re dealing with a system rather than a network, but what…
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Systems expand and contract
Why does the push/pull of systems happen?
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Systems are elastic
How systems rebalance is through and because of elasticity, and that elasticity is most prevalent in the connectome.
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It’s a bet
Information architecture is not a singular state, even if only one state is the bet.
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Hierarchy as a lens, opening, or view
Hierarchical variation of organizing a subset of system for broader use.
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The user perspective
The finite lens of the average pass-through user.
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Perspective attention: quantum physics of the mind
Networks are huge, people's attention are finite; we move around with lenses to continually manage overwhelm.
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The problem solver or researcher perspective
Variability of lenses used in researching novel approaches to information.