#18715
An informative web site about Topic Maps.
Biezunski, Michel and Steven R. Newcomb. TopicMaps. Resources>Information Design>XML
#18714
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.
TopicMaps (2002). Resources>Information Design>XML
#27583
UML is the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure.
UML Resource Page (1996). Resources>Information Design>XML>UML
#15236
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.
Moriarty, Sandra and Keith Kenney. International Visual Literacy Association. Resources>Bibliographies>Information Design>Visual Rhetoric
#31858
XBRL: The eXtensible Business Reporting Language 
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.
#21619
A collection of XML online resources maintained by IBM's DeveloperWorks division.
#27087
XML is 'extensible markup language' and SGML is 'standard generalized markup language' is somewhat 'related' to XML and HTML.
Bright Path Solutions (2006). Resources>Information Design>XML
#19113
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.'
TopicMaps (2001). Resources>Information Design>XML>Sitemaps
#32283
Logic+Emotion exists at the intersection of business + experience design—where passive consumers become active participants.
Armano, David. Logic Plus Emotion. Resources>Information Design>User Experience>Blogs
#32799
Tech Head Stories: Information Design
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.
Tech Head (2007). Resources>Information Design
#32809
Librarians as Knowledge Managers
This blog is about a KM practitioner. Integrated and aggregated teaching, training, theory, practice, service, and research prospects.
Taher, Mohamed. Librarians as Knowledge Managers. Resources>Knowledge Management>Information Design>Blogs
#33136
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.
#33190
Publications on Thesaurus Construction and Use
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.
Willpower Information (2008). Resources>Information Design>Metadata>Controlled Vocabulary
#33292
Thoughts on interactive architecture, business and design.
Adkisson, Heidi P. IA Think. Resources>Information Design>Interaction Design>Blogs
#33424
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.
Jackson, Chad and David Houlihan. Aberdeen Group (2008). Resources>Documentation>Information Design>Technical Writing
#34360
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.
#34362
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.
#34364
DITA and XML Community of the Rockies
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.
DITA-XML Community of the Rockies. Resources>Information Design>XML>DITA
#35045
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.
#35056
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.
W3Schools (2007). Resources>Information Design>XML>XSL
#35274
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.
Swivel. Resources>Research>Information Design>Charts and Graphs
#35289
Cafe con Leche: XML News and Resources
A blog about XML theory and XML applications.
Harold, Elliotte Rusty. Cafe con Leche. Resources>Information Design>XML>Blogs
#35439
A weblog/podcast by an Information Architect living and working in Ottawa, Ontario.
