Web's second phase puts users in control | E-learning | Edu Many believe the web has entered a second phase, where new services and software - collectively known as web 2.0 - are transforming the web from a predominantly "read only" medium to one where anyone can publish and share content and easily collaborate with others. The "new" web is already having an impact in class, as teachers start exploring the potential of blogs, media-sharing services, and other social software, which, although not designed specifically for e-learning, can be used to empower students and create exciting new learning opportunities. These same tools allow teachers to share and discuss innovations more easily and, in turn, spread good practice. A travel weblog "Snails are not that bad, they taste like garlic mushrooms when you get them out of the shell," writes Scott on Musselburgh grammar school's Paris-Normandy 2006 web log. Discussing/annotating images Students discuss a Robert Campin painting using Flickr at Video blogging
UPA - The Usability Professionals' Association Information Architect I’ve been an information architect since 1994. This means I’ve put in my 10,000 hours several times over, and earlier this year, as I pondered my future, it invited some soul searching around the following questions: Am I getting better?Should I do something else? My analysis began with a look back at the work I’ve done in recent years, which includes consulting projects and relationships with Fortune 500 corporations, e-commerce startups, government agencies, foundations, universities, libraries, and publishers. In this retrospective, I focused on what’s timeless and what’s changing in the work that I do. What I Do First, classic information architecture (IA) remains central to my work. However, the context in which I practice has changed dramatically. As an information architect, I’m finding this complexity of context creates opportunities beyond the borders of information architecture. Value and Values I’ve always been proud of my work for the National Cancer Institute. To Be an IA
findability.org | ambient findability + the design of findable o User Experience Deliverables January 27, 2009 It's an exhilarating time for the user experience community. Rising awareness of our value plus emerging technologies and transmedia trends have created conditions for a step change in our practice. As an information architect, I'm enjoying the new challenges immensely, even as they sweep me outside my comfort zone. I've designed social software and rich user interfaces. Consequently, I'm rethinking my role, redefining my deliverables, and embracing new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration. Together, we're hoping to bring search to life with colorful, compelling stories, maps, and illustrations, which brings us back to deliverables. Tools for Thinking Two books have inspired me to think differently about discovery, communication, and design. Proverbs are the Holy Grail of simplicity. We need to open gaps before we close them. The story's power, then, is twofold: It provides simulation (knowledge about how to act) and inspiration (motivation to act). The Deliverables
Resource Description Framework (RDF) / W3C Semantic Web Activity Overview RDF is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. RDF has features that facilitate data merging even if the underlying schemas differ, and it specifically supports the evolution of schemas over time without requiring all the data consumers to be changed. RDF extends the linking structure of the Web to use URIs to name the relationship between things as well as the two ends of the link (this is usually referred to as a “triple”). Using this simple model, it allows structured and semi-structured data to be mixed, exposed, and shared across different applications. This linking structure forms a directed, labeled graph, where the edges represent the named link between two resources, represented by the graph nodes. Recommended Reading The RDF 1.1 specification consists of a suite of W3C Recommendations and Working Group Notes, published in 2014. A number of textbooks have been published on RDF and on Semantic Web in general. Discussions on a possible next version of RDF
Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design IAI en français | Définition de l'Architecture de l'Information Réflexions sur l'architecture de l'information, ses origines, son présent et son avenir. Rédigé par Peter Morville, l'un des fondateurs de l'AIfIA. Peter Morville le 14 novembre 2002 Traduction de Frédéric Cavazza le 28 mai 2003 Le récent lancement de l’Institut Asilomar pour l’Architecture de l’Information (AIfIA) provoque deux réactions prévisibles : Est-ce encore une autre tentative pour définir l’Architecture de l’Information ? Ces questions proviennent évidemment de deux catégories d’audience : Les initiés, qui ont vécu de nombreux débats sur la définition l’Architecture de l’Information et qui sont fatigués d’argumenter.Les non-initiés, qui constituent la vaste majorité des gens sur cette planète et qui n’ont jamais entendu parler d’Architecture de l’Information. Le plus effrayant est le nombre de non-initiés à l’Architecture de l’Information qui sont impliqués dans les technologies de l’information. Une petite voix dans un vaste monde Mais nous espérons aller beaucoup plus loin que cela.
Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Informat Theory often takes a back seat to practice in the field of web design—after all, it’s hard enough to keep up with the latest acronyms without trying to carve out time for navel gazing about the profession. As a result, innovation in the way we think about our creations has lagged behind the breakneck pace of change in the technologies we use to create them. Consider, for example, our craft’s foundational metaphor of “information architecture.” Since at least Richard Saul Wurman’s 1996 book Information Architects, architecture has been the primary metaphor for how “those who build websites” think about what we do. By adding a new metaphor to our theoretical toolboxes, we can gain a richer, more nuanced understanding of the way that we inhabit cyberspace. This enhanced apprehension of the medium should enable us to create websites that better serve our users. Consider cartography as a metaphor#section1 For years, most of us have thought of building a website as being more like the former.
Over a half million restaurants to choose from, but we'll h Louis Rosenfeld: Information Architecture & User Experience Interaction Design Pattern Library - Welie.com Suggest a pattern Have you seen new examples of patterns out there that have not been described on this site? Send me a link to an example and I'll add it to my to-do list. Suggest a pattern Latest comments Form (Lucas Gwadana) Sometimes the ERROR handling is not explicit enough because when a user makes an... Map Navigator (Marcus) For print pages etc static maps are still relevant. Accordion (dellmre) Ajax accordion samples with source code Autocomplete (Zorg) I believe the name of this pattern to be misleading. Slideshow (Joshua) Slideshows on Homepages can be very beneficial.
Notation3 (N3) A readable RDF syntax Up to Design Issues An RDF language for the Semantic Web This article gives an operational semantics for Notation3 (N3) and some RDF properties for expressing logic. These properties, together with N3's extensions of RDF to include variables and nested graphs, allow N3 to be used to express rules in a web environment. This is an informal semantics in that should be understandable by a human being but is not a machine readable formal semantics. These properties are not part of the N3 language, but are properties which allow N3 to be used to express rules, and rules which talk about the provenance of information, contents of documents on the web, and so on. The log: namespace has functions, which have built-in meaning for CWM and other software. See also: The prefix log: is used below as shorthand for the namespace < Motivation The motivation of the logic was to be useful as a tool in in open web environment. Formal syntax Semantics Note. Simplifications means