TWC 494/598: Information Architecture
Fall 2004

Schedule at a Glance
(for more details on readings and assignments, check the Weekly Schedule information in Blackboard)

Date
TWC494
TWC598
Week One
(August 23 )
What is information architecture
  • Rosenfeld, ch. 1 and Taylor, ch 1
  • Review course documents and assignments
  • See Weekly Schedule in Blackboard for activities (5 pts)
  
Week Two
(August 30)

Access to information/knowledge

  
Week 3
(September 6)

Information architecture

  • Rosenfeld, ch. 4 and Wurman, ch. 2
  • Activity (5 pts)
  
Week 4
(September 13)

Information retrieval

  • Rosenfeld, ch. 7 and 8; Rosenfeld, Webreview article
  • Assignment 1 due (10 pts)
  
Week 5
(September 20)

Techniques: research & strategy

  • Rosenfeld, ch. 10 and 11
  • Activity (5 pts)
  • Web project brainstorm (5 pts)
 Website selection due
Week 6
(September 25)

Techniques: design & documentation

  • Rosenfeld, ch. 12
  • Activity (5 pts)
  
Week 7
(October 4)

Organization vs. design

  
Week 8
(October 11)

Organizing systems: schemes & structures

  
Week 9
(October 18)

Labelling systems: classification

  • Rosenfeld, ch. 6
  • Item evaluation, part 2 (5 pts)
 Evaluation, part 1 due (organizational scheme, structure and classification)
Week 10
(October 25)

Controlled vocabulary

  
Week 11
(November 1)

Metadata

  • Activity (5 pts)
  Evaluation, part 2 due (controlled vocabulary, metatdata)
Week 12
(November 8)

XML and semantic web

  
Week 13
(November 13)

Markup languages and encoding standards

  • Ford article, Taylor, ch. 4
  • Activity (5 pts)
  
Week 14
(November 22)

Information architecture vs. usability

  Evaluation, part 3 due (standards)
Week 15
(November 27)

Building an information architecture team

  • Rosenfeld, ch. 15 and 17
  • Activity (5 pts)
  
Week 16
(December 6)
 Completed evaluation with rhetorical analysis due

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