http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Resources/Information-Design A listing of the most recently indexed works about Resources and Information Design in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Resources/Information-Design http://tc.eserver.org/35439.html http://tc.eserver.org/35439.html A weblog/podcast by an Information Architect living and working in Ottawa, Ontario. http://tc.eserver.org/35289.html http://tc.eserver.org/35289.html A blog about XML theory and XML applications. http://tc.eserver.org/35274.html http://tc.eserver.org/35274.html Swivel's mission is to make data useful. Compare data from multiple sources. Sort and filter data according to simple criteria. Map geographical data. Plot pie, bar, scatter and line graphs. Download data into a spreadsheet for analysis. http://tc.eserver.org/35056.html http://tc.eserver.org/35056.html XSL stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language, and is a style sheet language for XML documents. XSLT stands for XSL Transformations. In this tutorial you will learn how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into other formats, like XHTML. http://tc.eserver.org/35045.html http://tc.eserver.org/35045.html The DITA Open Platform is a free, open-source project which goal is to provide an enterprise platform for the edition, management and processing of DITA documents. http://tc.eserver.org/34360.html http://tc.eserver.org/34360.html infotexture is the blog of an independent consultancy based in Potsdam, Germany with over 10 years of experience in technical documentation for information technology and telecommunications products. http://tc.eserver.org/34362.html http://tc.eserver.org/34362.html The DITA-OT plugin transforms a map into a single file, suitable for publication, and automatically call the xmlrpc API of the blog to publish it. The DITA Wordpress plugin adds a css (a slightly modified version of the DITA-OT commonltr.css) to your Wordpress theme to properly render the standard domains. http://tc.eserver.org/34364.html http://tc.eserver.org/34364.html Our goal is to bring people together — think social network organized around XML, DITA, content management and related topics. This blog serves as a hub for white papers and URL resources, contains a calendar of XML-related events and conferences, tracks industry trends, and keeps members up-to-date as to “what’s new” on the site. http://tc.eserver.org/33424.html http://tc.eserver.org/33424.html Often conflicting pressures to produce communications that better fit customer demands as well as stay within tightening constraints on budgets and schedules are leading many technical communications organizations to a topic-based approach to authoring. In fact, 58% of participants in Aberdeen Group's October 2008 DITA and the Technical Communicator’s Transformation study report that they currently follow author content in a topic-based manner, with a vast majority of those remaining planning to implement one in the future. A topic-based approach promotes greater content reuse and is seeing a considerable impact on the authoring efficiency of technical communications projects today. The benefits of topic-based authoring can be compelling, with findings from the The Technical Communicator’s Transformation study indicating that when pursued the right way, topic-based authoring can have a broad range of benefits, enabling an organization to meet authoring and localization cost targets as well as documentation quality expectations, among others. However, as the adoption of this approach spreads, the advantages seen by today's leading organizations will flatten out. This Sector Insight provides a guide for current adoption of topic-based authoring and those still considering it; outlining the changes that are expected to take place in as topic-based authoring goes mainstream. http://tc.eserver.org/33292.html http://tc.eserver.org/33292.html Thoughts on interactive architecture, business and design. http://tc.eserver.org/33190.html http://tc.eserver.org/33190.html This is a list of printed and electronic publications about the principles of constructing and using information retrieval thesauri. It is not a list of existing thesauri, although some thesauri have been included when they are good examples or illustrate the results of different approaches to thesaurus construction. http://tc.eserver.org/33136.html http://tc.eserver.org/33136.html The Café serves as a forum for unmoderated discussions of information design issues. Information design involves knowledge and skills in various areas, such as graphic design, psychology, language, typography, diagramming, and user-testing. http://tc.eserver.org/32799.html http://tc.eserver.org/32799.html Information Design is the practice of gathering, filtering, and presenting information in accordance with effective design principles in order to understand --- and communicate to others --- the essence, the meaning of that information. Here are links to resources that can help you explore and practice meaningful and effective information design. http://tc.eserver.org/32809.html http://tc.eserver.org/32809.html This blog is about a KM practitioner. Integrated and aggregated teaching, training, theory, practice, service, and research prospects. http://tc.eserver.org/32283.html http://tc.eserver.org/32283.html Logic+Emotion exists at the intersection of business + experience design—where passive consumers become active participants. http://tc.eserver.org/31858.html http://tc.eserver.org/31858.html XBRL is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data. It provides benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. It offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data. XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language. It is one of a family of XML languages which is becoming a standard means of communicating information between businesses and on the internet. http://tc.eserver.org/31657.html http://tc.eserver.org/31657.html Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection [of information]. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters. http://tc.eserver.org/31582.html http://tc.eserver.org/31582.html This blog discusses documents and information designs “in the wild" - especially those that are exceptionally good or exceptionally bad. http://tc.eserver.org/29385.html http://tc.eserver.org/29385.html A weblog about the Web, computer vision and life. http://tc.eserver.org/29375.html http://tc.eserver.org/29375.html Known to write a script or two to automate repetitive tasks like help builds, she also likes to write posts about XML-based information models like Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). She often experiments with online help technology, enjoys writing blog entries, and wants to find new ways to use communication to help people understand technical solutions to complex problems. http://tc.eserver.org/29285.html http://tc.eserver.org/29285.html DITA maps are documents that collect and organize references to DITA topics to indicate the relationships among the topics. They can also serve as outlines or tables of contents for DITA deliverables and as build manifests for DITA projects. http://tc.eserver.org/29267.html http://tc.eserver.org/29267.html An glossary of thousands of terms and concepts from information architecture. http://tc.eserver.org/29268.html http://tc.eserver.org/29268.html A collection of professionals in information architecture, grouped by country and alphabetized by surname. http://tc.eserver.org/28822.html http://tc.eserver.org/28822.html Feedity is an RSS generator for web pages without a web syndication format. The goal of Feedity is to dynamically create RSS web feeds from such webpages. Feedity will take virtually any web page, and convert it into a fully formed RSS web feed. The RSS feed is updated in near-real time. http://tc.eserver.org/28526.html http://tc.eserver.org/28526.html A decision support database that is maintained separately from the organization's operational database. Support information processing by providing a solid platform of consolidated, historical data for analysis. http://tc.eserver.org/27769.html http://tc.eserver.org/27769.html News and Information from the Society for Technical Communication's Online Special Interest Group. http://tc.eserver.org/27613.html http://tc.eserver.org/27613.html This tutorial provides a quick introduction to the Unified Modeling Language. http://tc.eserver.org/27583.html http://tc.eserver.org/27583.html UML is the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure. http://tc.eserver.org/27244.html http://tc.eserver.org/27244.html de Lijst richt zich op het structureren van informatie en het vastleggen van kennis. de Lijst is in 1999 begonnen als een project van een student Informatiedienstverlening en -management (IDM) aan de Haagse Hogeschool. http://tc.eserver.org/27245.html http://tc.eserver.org/27245.html IAwiki is a collaborative knowledge base for the topic of Information Architecture. http://tc.eserver.org/27087.html http://tc.eserver.org/27087.html XML is 'extensible markup language' and SGML is 'standard generalized markup language' is somewhat 'related' to XML and HTML. http://tc.eserver.org/27048.html http://tc.eserver.org/27048.html The DITA Knowledge Base pages provide a reliable basis of technical and educational information on the standard. http://tc.eserver.org/26463.html http://tc.eserver.org/26463.html Basic know-how, checklists, tools and links, which will help you to write create clear and concise user-friendly manuals, online help files, software demos, tutorials and other forms of user assistance. http://tc.eserver.org/26464.html http://tc.eserver.org/26464.html Grundlagenwissen, Checklisten, Tools und Links, die Ihnen beim Schreiben benutzerfreundlicher Handbücher, Online-Hilfen, Software-Demos, Tutorials und anderer Formen der Benutzerunterstützung ("User Assistance") helfen. http://tc.eserver.org/25338.html http://tc.eserver.org/25338.html An interactive multimedia 'map' about the interconnections between various Internet search engines. http://tc.eserver.org/25196.html http://tc.eserver.org/25196.html iaslash is a news site for information architects, modeled on slashdot, interested in information organization, usability, user testing, user interface design, and other areas related to the access and use of information in information-use environments. http://tc.eserver.org/23834.html http://tc.eserver.org/23834.html Those new to the field of user-centered design will find this book most useful; intermediate or advanced practitioners looking for in-depth information specific to web applications may want to look elsewhere. http://tc.eserver.org/23794.html http://tc.eserver.org/23794.html The IA Library is a selection of resources related to the field of information architecture. The collection includes articles, books, blogs, and more. http://tc.eserver.org/23229.html http://tc.eserver.org/23229.html 佐藤直美によるWeb情報設計についてのウェブログ。毎回鋭い視点で軽快にかつさわやかにファセット分類法から映画にダイエットと幅広くアットランダムに語られる。 http://tc.eserver.org/23199.html http://tc.eserver.org/23199.html The AIfIA-announce newsletter is a free email that is published twice a month. It includes news about what's new with AIfIA and partner sites. http://tc.eserver.org/23204.html http://tc.eserver.org/23204.html Discussion of a variety of TC software platforms. http://tc.eserver.org/23185.html http://tc.eserver.org/23185.html This glossary is intended to foster development of a shared vocabulary within the new and rapidly evolving field of information architecture. It should serve as a valuable reference for anyone involved with or interested in the design of information architectures for web sites, intranets and other information systems. http://tc.eserver.org/23072.html http://tc.eserver.org/23072.html A clearinghouse of web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize or provide enhanced access to Internet resources. http://tc.eserver.org/23034.html http://tc.eserver.org/23034.html Findability refers to the quality of being locatable or navigable. At the item level, we can evaluate to what degree a particular object is easy to discover or locate. At the system level, we can analyze how well a physical or digital environment supports navigation and retrieval. This website is a selective, seriously incomplete, and perpetually evolving collection of links to people, software, organizations, and content related to findability. http://tc.eserver.org/22443.html http://tc.eserver.org/22443.html CMS Wiki is a knowledge base for Content Management. http://tc.eserver.org/22291.html http://tc.eserver.org/22291.html What's this Hey Hey IA thing all about? Well, it's a resource-hub for Information Architects. Created to serve fellow IAs, I'm hoping the community will support this site and send along information on good books, sites, events, lists, etc. http://tc.eserver.org/21761.html http://tc.eserver.org/21761.html A mailing list for discussion of information architecture. http://tc.eserver.org/21728.html http://tc.eserver.org/21728.html A collection of online resources in information design and information architecture. http://tc.eserver.org/21720.html http://tc.eserver.org/21720.html This is the archive for the SIGIA-L@asis.org mailing list. http://tc.eserver.org/21623.html http://tc.eserver.org/21623.html XML, the Extensible Markup Language, has gone from the latest buzzword to an entrenched eBusiness technology in record time. This newly revised tutorial discusses what XML is, why it was developed, and how it's shaping the future of electronic commerce. It also covers a variety of important XML programming interfaces and standards, and ends with two case studies showing how companies are using XML to solve business problems. http://tc.eserver.org/21619.html http://tc.eserver.org/21619.html A collection of XML online resources maintained by IBM's DeveloperWorks division. http://tc.eserver.org/21586.html http://tc.eserver.org/21586.html R020 es un sitio independiente sin fines de lucro dedicado a la investigación y difusión en el campo de la bibliotecología y las ciencias de la información creado por profesionales de distintas especialidades. R020 está orientado al espectro profesional que en la actualidad se dedica al desarrollo de servicios documentales y de información. Es un espacio multidisciplinar y abierto al intercambio con especialistas de todas las disciplinas relativas al campo de la información. R020 es el resultado del trabajo en común de profesionales de distintas áreas y diferentes puntos del país interesados en la actualización y la innovación. http://tc.eserver.org/21464.html http://tc.eserver.org/21464.html Welcome practitioners, educators and students from all experience design disciplines! The goal of this archive is to build a teachable and learnable body of knowledge for the extended experience design community, which can be referenced and is freely accessible. These cases have been peer-reviewed and present best-practices from each year. http://tc.eserver.org/21089.html http://tc.eserver.org/21089.html A directory of more than 100 online resources about RSS (Really Simple Syndication). http://tc.eserver.org/21000.html http://tc.eserver.org/21000.html The Resource Description Framework (RDF) integrates a variety of applications from library catalogs and world-wide directories to syndication and aggregation of news, software, and content to personal collections of music, photos, and events using XML as an interchange syntax. The RDF specifications provide a lightweight ontology system to support the exchange of knowledge on the Web. http://tc.eserver.org/20813.html http://tc.eserver.org/20813.html This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML META tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the HEAD section of the page. http://tc.eserver.org/20457.html http://tc.eserver.org/20457.html This Web site is a collaborative effort by students in Studies In Hypertext — a Technical Writing class offered by the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. The following pages discuss the political, theoretical, and technical issues of the World Wide Web and how these issues relate to the practices of communication, learning, and information retrieval in our culture. http://tc.eserver.org/19177.html http://tc.eserver.org/19177.html IDblog is Beth Mazur tilting at power law windmills. A little bit Internet, a little bit technology, a little bit society, and a lot about designing useful information products. http://tc.eserver.org/19175.html http://tc.eserver.org/19175.html InfoDesign serves as a forum for moderated discussions about information design issues. Information design is the art and the science of presenting information so that it is understandable and easy to use: effective, efficient and attractive. Information design involves knowledge and skills in various areas, such as graphic design, psychology, language, typography, diagramming, and user-testing. http://tc.eserver.org/19172.html http://tc.eserver.org/19172.html A collection of links to information design resources. http://tc.eserver.org/19168.html http://tc.eserver.org/19168.html a detailed history of information design. http://tc.eserver.org/19169.html http://tc.eserver.org/19169.html Here's a reasonably current list of favorite weblogs in information design and related fields. http://tc.eserver.org/19113.html http://tc.eserver.org/19113.html This specification provides a model and grammar for representing the structure of information resources used to define topics, and the associations (relationships) between topics. Names, resources, and relationships are said to be characteristics of abstract subjects, which are called topics. Topics have their characteristics within scopes: i.e. the limited contexts within which the names and resources are regarded as their name, resource, and relationship characteristics. One or more interrelated documents employing this grammar is called a 'topic map.' http://tc.eserver.org/18931.html http://tc.eserver.org/18931.html This is a guide to resources information professionals use when problem solving or learn more about ourselves as a profession. http://tc.eserver.org/18712.html http://tc.eserver.org/18712.html Topic maps are a standard for storing metadata (similar to thesauri, or RDF). They can be used to generate navigation for a website, and lots of other metadata tasks. Topic maps are a new standard (since + 2000) and are slowly starting to be discovered. http://tc.eserver.org/18713.html http://tc.eserver.org/18713.html XFML Core is an open XML format for publishing and sharing hierarchical faceted metadata and indexing efforts. XFML Core is lightweight and easy to implement, yet uniquely powerful. http://tc.eserver.org/18715.html http://tc.eserver.org/18715.html An informative web site about Topic Maps. http://tc.eserver.org/18714.html http://tc.eserver.org/18714.html Topicmaps.Org is an independent consortium of parties interested in developing the applicability of the Topic Maps Paradigm to the World Wide Web, by leveraging the XML family of specifications as required. http://tc.eserver.org/18585.html http://tc.eserver.org/18585.html New Architect Research is your source for IT white papers and market research reports from over 3,500 leading IT vendors and over 60 top analyst firms. You can also sign up for the KnowledgeAlert email service to automatically be notified of new research or white papers as they come in. http://tc.eserver.org/15236.html http://tc.eserver.org/15236.html The study of visual communication is a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional effort. People who write on this topic come from mass communication (including photography, advertising, and news editorial areas), film and cinema studies, education, art and aesthetics, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, architecture and even archaeology. This rich melange of viewpoints is an asset because of the insights that come from cross-fertilization, however it causes some problems academically for those of us who teach visual communication because of a lack of any sense of common theory. This is not to suggest that there is or should be a central of core theory that organizes the field, however, it would be easier to order a curriculum, as well as a graduate program of study, if there were some notion of at least the important theories and scholars from the various disciplines that need to be covered. This project looks at the body of literature and the categories that emerge from the writings to develop a taxonomy of topics and some sense of the location of the most important, or at least the most frequently written about, areas of study. The objective is to collect the scholarly writing on the most central visual communication topics (mental imagery, visual thinking, the language metaphor, psychology), as well as peripheral topics that interweave with visual communication, such as sociology, anthropology, archaeology and architecture. http://tc.eserver.org/14308.html http://tc.eserver.org/14308.html Zur Entwicklung seiner Anliegen nimmt IIID weltweit Kontakte mit Informations-Designern, Beratungsorganisationen und Forschungsinstituten, Universitäten, kommerziellen Unternehmen und design-fördernden Institutionen auf. Organisation des jährlich stattfindenden Symposiums 'Vision Plus' und Veröffentlichung der dort gehaltenen Präsentationen. http://tc.eserver.org/10624.html http://tc.eserver.org/10624.html This site provides information designers with up-to-date information and communication facilities on aspects of the growing field of Information Design. Its main objective is to collect, structure and disclose relevant resources. http://tc.eserver.org/10398.html http://tc.eserver.org/10398.html This bibliography consists of two parts, an annotated list of 17 essential works on information design chosen by members of the InfoDesign e-mail list, and a longer, unannotated, classified bibliography of additional works.