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These pages are no longer updated.
This information is now incorporated into my weblog, Area 7.
Information Architecture as a Profession
These links are intended to highlight and provide resources for information
architects and aspiring information architects looking for basic information
about the profession.
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- Defining Information Architecture
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- Popular Conceptions of Information Architecture
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- Built 2 Order, via Publish
- Building a Better Web With Content Blueprints, by J. D. Biersdorger, from NY Times (free registration required)
- Information Architects Make the Web Work, San Jose Mercury News (requires subscription/payment)
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- Becoming an Information Architect
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- Becoming an Information Architect, by Sacha Cohen via Monster Technology
- Information Architecture - A New Opportunity, via WebReference
- Information Design: Emergence of a New Profession, by Robert Horn, from Information Design, ed. by Robert Jacobson, MIT Press, 1999
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- Educational Programs
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- Communication Research Institute of Australia
- Formal Educational Credentials for Information Architects, an ACIA survey.
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Masters Program in Information Design & Technology (where I went)
- Indiana University School of Informatics
- Indiana University Center for Design Process
- Information Architecture Tutorial, by John Shiple via Webmonkey
- University of California, School of Information Management and Systems
- University of Michigan, The School of Information
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- Professional Associations
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- American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
- American Society of Indexers
- Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- International Institute for Information Design
- Society for Technical Communication--IDSIG
- Usability Professional's Association
