Information architecture has become one of the latest
areas of excitement within the library and information
science (LIS) community, largely resulting from the
recognition it garners from those outside of the field
for the methods and practices of information design and
management long seen as core to information science.
The term, â â information architectureâ â (IA), was
coined by Richard Wurman in 1975 to describe the
need to transform data into meaningful information
for people to use, a not entirely original idea, but certainly
a first-time conjunction of the terms into the
now common IA label. Building on concepts in architecture,
information design, typography, and graphic
design, Wurmanâ s vision of a new field lay dormant
for the most part until the emergence of the World
Wide Web in the 1990s, when interest in information
organization and structures became widespread. The
term came into vogue among the broad web design
community as a result of the need to find a way of
communicating shared interests in the underlying
organization of digitally accessed information.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/105971 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Dillon, Andrew, Turnbull, Don |
| Publisher | New York: Marcel Dekker |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book Chapter |
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