A Methodology to Verify and Improve an Existing Large-scale Information Architecture

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We Are All Connected: The Path from
Architecture to Information Architecture

We Are All Connected: The Path from
Architecture to Information Architecture 01/07/2004 06:41 PM
In this article, author Fu Tien Chiou describes a link between traditional architecture and Information Architecture, showing how the Information Architect uses a set of blueprints that builders -- designers and programmers -- can construct. 1217

We are all connected: The path from
architecture to information architecture

We are all connected: The path from
architecture to information architecture 11/11/2003 04:46 AM

Large Scale Collaborative Editing

Large Scale Collaborative Editing 10/30/2003 02:45 PM
An anonymous reader writes "3D17.org is a website designed to allow large-scale collaborative document editing. Unlike tools like Wiki, any changes made to a ...

Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture

Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture 04/28/2004 01:21 PM
Charles C. Mann has written a new Wired article that offers an intriguing overview of the latest research into automated, open ocean aquaculture. Robot caretakers would manage giant, floating fish farms that would drift between continents. This approach could eliminate problems of previous attempts at large-scale aquaculture which relied on fixed pens near the shoreline which produced huge amounts of pollution, lowered the values of shorefront real estate, and frequently failed due to overcrowding of the fish. For more information on this new project, visit the University of New Hampshire Open Ocean Aquaculture Project website.

Holy Horus! Large scale SMP for
Opterons.

Holy Horus! Large scale SMP for
Opterons. 09/04/2004 01:02 AM
The Inquirer: Holy Horus! Large scale SMP for Opterons. Sweet, but it's gotta be expensive.

'Internet attack large scale but did
little damage'

'Internet attack large scale but did
little damage' 06/16/2004 10:46 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Jun 17 2004 3:03AM GMT

Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion?

Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? 05/23/2004 02:59 PM

World's First Large-Scale Ogg Theora
Stream

World's First Large-Scale Ogg Theora
Stream 06/29/2004 07:07 PM

Large Scale Web Apps Built on Open
Source

Large Scale Web Apps Built on Open
Source 09/21/2004 02:56 PM

Large-scale software piracy ring busted

Large-scale software piracy ring busted 09/17/2004 01:53 PM
The Department of Justice announced an indictment against a ring of software pirates accused of large-scale software piracy. Over US$80 million in pirated software was sezied.

Applied Decentralization: A large-scale
social system for HLS

Applied Decentralization: A large-scale
social system for HLS 03/06/2004 02:08 AM

It's been a few months since I've posted - a very busy and exciting time here at Groove. Both in terms of what's been happening in the business and market, but also because we're closing in on the first beta of Groove V3. I can't wait to tell you about the improvements in V3 ... because after having used it day in and day out for a few months now, I've simply never felt nearly this excited about a product that I've worked on. And that says a lot. More on V3 in a few weeks!

For those of you who have been following Groove for quite some time, you may recall that the product's original raison d'être was to enable people "at the edge" to dynamically assemble online into secure virtual workspaces, to work together and to get something done, even if those individuals were in different organizations with completely different IT infrastructure.

Today, with the gracious permission of one of our most significant customers, Groove made an announcement that I'd like to talk about for a moment. It's very significant to me for two reasons: First, the nature of how Groove is being used in this solution demonstrates to the extreme the very reason why Groove was built the way it was, from a technology and architecture perspective. Decentralization at its finest. The customer's core challenge was to enable individuals from many, many different organizations - most of whom had little or no opportunity for training - to rapidly assemble into small virtual teams to selectively share information, make decisions, get the job done, and disassemble. The individuals are geographically dispersed. They use different kinds of networks, behind different organizations' firewalls and management policies. They are very, very highly mobile. And there are few applications where the requirement for deep and effective security is more self-evident.

Groove's press release can be found her e.

The Department of Homeland Security's press releases related to HSIN can be found here and here, while Secretary Ridge's remarks are here.

Why was a decentralized architecture for this network so fundamentally important, and thus why was Groove uniquely suited for the task? This brings me to the second reason that I'm tremendously pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to solving this problem. Larry Lessig taught us that in software-based systems in cyberspace, the code can define outcomes - inadvertently or intentionally - that might have an impact on society. Or better stated in this case, the system's core architectural design principles have a real impact not only on the system's mission effectiveness, but also in how it might effectively preserve and protect rights.

To understand these issues more deeply, one need look no further than the eloquent work released this past December by the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, called "Creating a Trusted Network for Homeland Security".

If you're interested in the "why" of decentralization, read the report. Look at the members of the task force. And take particular note of their proposed SHARE network and its architecture. (Interestingly, Richard Eckel wrote about it in his blog before he became aware of the details of Groove's involvement with HSIN.)

Lots of stuff here to read, but it's truly fascinating if you are interested in understanding how decentralization and peer-to-peer technology is having a real impact on government and society.

Although so, so many people are involved in this project because of its scope, in particular I'd like to recognize Col. Tom Marenic, Pat Duecy, Ed Manavian, and especially our partner Mike Kushin of ManTech/IDS. My sincere thanks for your leadership, your passion about the mission, and your appreciation for organizational dynamics, social dynamics, technology and architecture in assembling a large and empirically effective system for purposeful social interaction.

Software Engineering Practices for
Large-Scale PHP Projects

Software Engineering Practices for
Large-Scale PHP Projects 10/29/2002 10:49 PM
An excellent list of best practices that i would highly recommend following. The only problem is that these slides do not have notes, so you have to fill in the assumptions yourself, which might not be easy for novices.

"zeldman.nubet"

Network Coding for Large Scale Content
Distribution.

Network Coding for Large Scale Content
Distribution. 06/17/2005 03:20 PM
Christos Gkantsidis, Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez: Network Coding for Large Scale Content Distribution. The related work section is a great survey of swarming protocol research. The protocol presented in the paper is interesting, although I think the simulations use infinitely fast processors and disks; only the last two paragraphs address the considerable implementation issues. It's possible that these issues could eliminate the 20-30% performance advantage over BitTorrent.

Red Hat Continues Scale Out of Open
Source Architecture with Sistina
Acquisition.

Red Hat Continues Scale Out of Open
Source Architecture with Sistina
Acquisition. 12/19/2003 11:49 AM
Red Hat Continues Scale Out of Open Source Architecture with Sistina Acquisition. I guess that's one way to solve the GFS GPL violation.

Tackling Usability Gotchas in
Large-scale Site Redesigns

Tackling Usability Gotchas in
Large-scale Site Redesigns 02/10/2004 02:35 AM
Redesigns can solve old usability problems while creating new ones that must be solved in turn. From the lessons of the ALA 3.0 redesign comes this quick study in remapping content without frustrating readers.

Tackling Usability Gotchas in
Large-scale Site Redesigns

Tackling Usability Gotchas in
Large-scale Site Redesigns 01/07/2004 07:09 PM
Redesigns can solve old usability problems while creating new ones that must be solved in turn. From the lessons of the ALA 3.0 redesign comes this quick study in remapping content without frustrating readers.

Grid-based Large-Scale Computing
Research Environment

Grid-based Large-Scale Computing
Research Environment 04/09/2005 01:16 PM
Technology News Daily Apr 9 2005 4:40PM GMT

HEC Montréal: Follow-up on the
Large-Scale Mail Installation

HEC Montréal: Follow-up on the
Large-Scale Mail Installation 04/13/2004 06:05 AM
How did HEC Montréal's new mail installation handle the spam and virus explosion of early 2004?

Chinese websites call for large-scale
weekend protests against Japan (AFP)

Chinese websites call for large-scale
weekend protests against Japan (AFP) 04/14/2005 01:50 AM
AFP - Chinese anti-Japanese websites and Internet discussion forums called for a second wave of massive protests against Japan this weekend in cities across the country.

Tender: Multiple local authorities:
large scale supply and support of
software

Tender: Multiple local authorities:
large scale supply and support of
software 04/13/2004 03:05 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 13 2004 7:07AM GMT

Large-Scale, Global Attack on Internet
Impacts Major Sites for Two Hours
Tuesday

Large-Scale, Global Attack on Internet
Impacts Major Sites for Two Hours
Tuesday 06/16/2004 02:13 AM
FinancialWire Jun 16 2004 6:17AM GMT

Isotron Announces Project to Demonstrate
Large-Scale, Broad-Spectrum Radionuclide
Decontamination System

Isotron Announces Project to Demonstrate
Large-Scale, Broad-Spectrum Radionuclide
Decontamination System 09/08/2004 03:35 AM
Isotron will participate in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Radiation Decontamination initiative in the role of technology developer for the nation’s next generation decontamination technology. [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]

Department of Energy Office of Science
INCITE Program Seeking Proposals for
Large-Scale Scientific Computing

Department of Energy Office of Science
INCITE Program Seeking Proposals for
Large-Scale Scientific Computing 07/15/2004 05:06 PM
PhysOrg.com Jul 15 2004 9:38PM GMT

Large Scale Biology Corporation to
Release Fourth Quarter 2004 Financial
Results and Host Conference Call

Large Scale Biology Corporation to
Release Fourth Quarter 2004 Financial
Results and Host Conference Call 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Jan 25 2005 12:42AM GMT

Palm Beach County Switches to MWH Soft
Advanced GIS Technology to Support Large
Scale Enterprise-Wide Geospatial
Hydraulic Modeling

Palm Beach County Switches to MWH Soft
Advanced GIS Technology to Support Large
Scale Enterprise-Wide Geospatial
Hydraulic Modeling 02/05/2005 10:00 PM
MWH Soft, Inc., a leading global provider of water resources applications software, today announced that the Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department, Florida, has awarded MWH Soft a substantial contract for its premier ArcGIS-based (ESRI, Redlands, California) InfoWater Suite and InfoSurge software along with its Platinum Subscription program. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

Massachusetts’ Largest Water Authority
Upgrades to MWH Soft GIS Technology to
Support Large Scale Enterprise-Wide
Geospatial Hydraulic Modeling

Massachusetts’ Largest Water Authority
Upgrades to MWH Soft GIS Technology to
Support Large Scale Enterprise-Wide
Geospatial Hydraulic Modeling 09/05/2004 02:37 AM
In the latest illustration of its market-leading momentum, MWH Soft, Inc., a leading global provider of water resources applications software, today announced that the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) has selected MWH Soft InfoWater Suite as its enterprise GIS hydraulic modeling system. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004]

Information Architecture for Everyone

Information Architecture for Everyone 11/13/2002 04:55 AM
The purpose of this article is to help you define information architecture so that you can recognize when it is you are wearing an IA hat, as well as provide you some tips, basics and resources to help you build the most well architected sites possible. So let's get started.

Information Architecture: Blueprints for
the Web

Information Architecture: Blueprints for
the Web 10/29/2002 07:37 AM

International information architecture

International information architecture 08/17/2004 07:56 AM
I'm looking for examples of international information architecture - whatever that is. I stumbled accross the English version of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, which contains an Oath of service on the homepage: "With passion and pride, as professionals in development cooperation, we will perform our work responsibly and energetically with love ...

Information Architecture is not
Usability

Information Architecture is not
Usability 11/20/2002 04:37 AM

Information Architecture Overload

Information Architecture Overload 11/08/2002 05:06 AM

Future of Information Architecture

Future of Information Architecture 01/16/2003 05:05 AM

Information Architecture - Part 1

Information Architecture - Part 1 04/13/2004 03:42 PM
Information Architecture is an extremely under-valued tool. Well crafted IA makes a huge difference to the success of even a small website, and knowing just a few basics can work magic.

Information architecture references

Information architecture references 11/11/2003 03:21 PM

Ad-hoc categories and information
architecture

Ad-hoc categories and information
architecture 04/19/2004 01:43 PM

Ad Hoc Categorizations and the Emergence of Context Effects: "We discuss how marketers may actively affect categorization processes to increase product appeal, for example, in brand extensions and other category-based product evaluations."

I am looking at Ad-hoc categories (and came across the link above) and what they mean for information architecture.

Ad-hoc categories are categories like "things to take on a camping trip" - they can be created immediately and form a category, even if they didn't exist before. I believe that's the definition.

They have specific properties (for example, their members can have nothing in common other than the fact of their membership, while still showing gradation-of-membership effects.), and are already being used on the web (for example Amazon's "People who bought this book also bought" looks like an ad-hoc category.)

Of course, your copy of Women, Fire and Dangerous Things has some things to say about ad hoc categories, and Lawrence W. Barsalou did research talking about how these are goal-derived categories (I look at ad-hoc categories as a bit broader than goal-derived categories. The Amazon example isn't goal-derived, for example, but it's ad-hoc.).

I'm just starting my investigations into this particular intersection of information architecture and cognitive psychology, any ideas are very welcome.

The Dynamic Duo of Information
Architecture

The Dynamic Duo of Information
Architecture 10/23/2002 03:00 AM

Practicing Information Architecture

Practicing Information Architecture 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Sep 1. SIG meeting notes from CHI 2001.

PhotoSemantic Information Architecture

PhotoSemantic Information Architecture 10/25/2002 10:26 AM

Information Architecture - Blueprints
for the Web

Information Architecture - Blueprints
for the Web 11/14/2002 07:31 PM
This is a great book for all practitioners of Information Architecture. It doesn't matter if you are new to the discipline or an experienced architect, you'll still learn lots of useful stuff from Christina. The traditional subjects of IA are presented in a refreshing point of view, and it explains subjects that nobody before had revealed, with clarity and detail. It's also very fun to read.
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