Towards standard methods and metrics for evaluating IA

["Peter Boersma" <peter.boersma AT ezgov.com>]

Rashmi asked:
> I am looking forward to
> hearing from you all about your goals in joining this list. What are the
> sort of issues related to IA and evaluation this group should focus on?
> What are the kind of frustrations regarding evaluation that you face in
> your own work?

The focus on a shared evaluation questionnaire (is that what you're aiming
at?) seems too limited for me. Besides, there are other initiatives that
cover this, including, IIRC, NIST's Common Industry Format (see:
http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/iusr/index.html).

I realize that "metrics" are often used as evaluation measures, but I'd like
to see the scope widened to design measures as well. Or am I misinterpreting
"metric"? Does that exclude guidelines, patterns, rules-of-thumb, do's,
etc.?

Peter
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