IA Institute announcements.

[Jeff Lash <jeff AT jefflash.com>]

Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
--> http://www.aifia.org

The AIfIA-announce newsletter is published every other
week (pretty much) and features news about what's new
with AIfIA and with our partner sites.

So let's get to the news!

---- WHAT'S NEW WITH AIFIA -- http://www.aifia.org ----

1) AIfIA Initiatives: Wondering what AIfIA is up to?
Want to see how you can get involved? The new AIfIA
Initiatives page has a list of all of the projects that
AIfIA is working on.
--> CHECK IT OUT -- http://aifia.org/pg/initiatives.php

2) Become a member: Sign up now, volunteer, and help
AIfIA grow!
--> JOIN NOW -- http://aifia.org/signup/



---- WHAT'S NEW WITH OUR PARTNERS ----


-- IASLASH -- http://www.iaslash.org

Some good links that have been posted to iaslash in the
past few weeks:

Comparing left- and right-justified site navigation
menus
--> http://iaslash.org/node.php?id=7350

Introduction to social software
--> http://iaslash.org/node.php?id=7346

Trust by Design
--> http://iaslash.org/node.php?id=7342

iaslash is daily news for information architects,
operated by AIfIA
--> http://www.iaslash.org/


-- BOXES AND ARROWS -- http://www.boxesandarrows.com/

Two good recent Boxes and Arrows articles:

1) IA Classics: Tools of the Trade in Comic Book Form
"What I need are highly condensed overviews," I
thought, "like those comic books that convert great
literary works into a few illustrated pages. They
condense Moby Dick down to 12 pages and provide a
version of Great Expectations that can be read in 15
minutes."
--> http://tinyurl.com/a6b2

2) Building a Metadata-Based Website
The online world has been flooded in recent years with
talk of metadata, structured authoring, and cascading
style sheets. The idea of a semantic web is gaining
momentum. At the confluence of these two broad
categories of activity, new models of websites are
emerging.
--> http://tinyurl.com/a6b5

Read other recent Boxes and Arrows articles:
--> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/2003_04.php

All previous articles by categories
--> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/cat_index.php

Boxes and Arrows is the definitive source for the
complex task of bringing architecture and design to the
digital landscape.
--> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/


-- IAWIKI -- http://www.IAwiki.net/

Looking for Recent Changes to the IAwiki?
--> http://www.IAwiki.net/RecentChanges

IAwiki is a collaborative discussion space for the
topic of Information Architecture. Anyone can
contribute, and there are no pre-registration hoops to
jump thru.
--> http://www.IAwiki.net/



-- ARGUS CENTER FOR INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE --
http://argus-acia.com/

An oldie-but-goodie from the ACIA:

Software for information architects
"Within the next 5 years, all large web sites and
intranets will leverage software applications from a
wide variety of categories. We will not choose between
automated classification software and a collaborative
filtering engine. We will need both, and more. And,
information architects will play an integral role,
working closely with business managers, content
managers, and software engineers to select, acquire,
integrate, and leverage this sophisticated suite of
applications."

--> http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/current_article.html



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