Information design (also known as 'information architecture') is the study of the details of complex systems. Among these are websites, user interactions, databases, technical writing documentation, and human-computer interfaces.
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Microformats are markup that allow expression of semantics in an HTML document. Microformats are designed for humans first and machines second, and are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted web standards.
O'Gribin, Niall. Erigena (2006). Articles>Information Design>Standards>HTML
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Microsoft Access Queries with Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 Tool 
This article by Jayaram Krishnswamy shows how you can install the Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 and connect to an MS Access database. This article will cover the steps right from downloading and installing the Oracle SQL Developer, to connecting to a MS Access database, and using the SQL interface along with a few sample queries.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. Packt (2007). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
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Businesses invest a lot of money (usually more than budgeted), time, and other resources to migrate their legacy data. The reasons for making such an investment range from upgrading to the latest version of an enterprise resource plan to making old data compatible with new information systems. The success of these data migration projects depends on a number of critical factors. This article looks at a few of them.
Chatterjee, Ipsita. StickyMinds (2006). Articles>Information Design
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Migrating from Microsoft SQL Server and Access to MySQL
In this article I will cover the basics of migrating an application from an Access or SQL Server database to MySQL. We'll start with various reasons why you should (or should not) migrate your existing Access or SQL Server database to MySQL, then cover the planning stages of an application migration. Next we will look at the tools and methods for migrating your actual data from Access/MSSQL to MySQL, followed by some general guidelines for modifying your client application from a Microsoft database to MySQL. Finally, we'll look at some considerations to make when deploying your new MySQL database and application.
Hillyer, Mike. MySQL (2007). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
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Migrating MS Access 2003 Data using the Oracle SQL Developer 1.2
Business needs often necessitate data migration from a smaller, less secure database to a higher end, faster database server with a more reliable availability. A typical scenario is the migration of data from a desktop sized database such as MS Access or Fox Pro to any other higher end database servers such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 or SQL Anywhere Server. Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 with this latest version is sometimes called the Migration version as it supports migrating data from three vendors (MySQL, SQL Server and MS Access) to an Oracle database. In fact, it has been designed to migrate from more than one version of MS Access. This feature was not available in the version 1.1 of this tool.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. Packt (2007). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
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A Millennial Paradigm for Documentation: the Scroll!
Although some zealots have proposed eliminating printed information entirely in favor of online help systems, Adobe Acrobat files, and even e-books, discarding printed books may prove less effective than simply modernizing them. Scrolls are the logical successors to books.
Hart, Geoffrey J.S. Geoff-Hart.com (2001). Articles>Documentation>Information Design
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La visualización de weblogs se sirve de metáforas espaciales como el mapamundi o las líneas de metro de una ciudad. Aparentemente algo tan desligado de la localización requiere de ella para establecer una referencia.
Dursteler, Juan Carlos. InfoVis (2004). (Spanish) Articles>Information Design
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Misconceptions About Integrated Project Databases
The notion of an integrated project database (IPDB) has existed for decades. Over that time many projects have been undertaken to develop the technologies and frameworks required to implement an IPDB. Also over that time, there has been promotion of the benefits and impacts that IPDB systems will have on the industry. As there are still no industrially stable IPDB systems in existence, the industry's perception of what they are and what they can do has diverged from many of the original presentations. It is also clear that researchers and de-velopers involved in IPDB development have many different ideas about what constitutes an IPDB and what is, or is not, possible to create. This paper aims to describe misconceptions which are growing up around IPDB systems, and presents the authors' view of reality (informed by the opinions of the UK network of experts in ob-jects and integration (URL-1 1999) which was run by the DETR).
Amor, Robert and Ihsan Faraj. ITcon (2001). Articles>Information Design>Databases
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Mobile Phones: Europe's Next Minitel?
Europe's cellular phone system is far superior to that in the United States. However, telephones will not be the platform for the mobile Internet. Given this, Europe's advantage may in fact be an obstacle to real innovations, as France's experience with Minitel shows.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2001). Design>Information Design>Wireless Web
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The world of mobile phones is a jungle of technologies with few established standards that, in some ways, resembles the early days of personal computing. Here the author presents an impressionistic landscape of this world, a glimpse of the near future, and thoughts on what it might mean for IAs.
Smith, Shawn. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Articles>Information Design>Wireless Web
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MobiLink Synchronization Wizard in SQL Anywhere 10
MobiLink is a technology that can help multiple databases synchronized, a key requirement for mobile access to data. The article shows you how to create a model that can be deployed to access data on a SLQ 2005 Server remotely with a SQL Anyhwhere database. A forth coming article descibes the deployment details.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. ASP Free (2006). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
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Modeling Flexible Document Structures with XML Schema: Rhetorical Objects and Rhetorical Metadata 
With the adoption of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) on the rise, researchers in academia and industry are seeking to leverage the descriptive power of metadata to better understand the semantic structure of information (e.g., see Berners-Lee, 1998). But most interaction on the World Wide Web is what Geisler (2001) calls “document-centered,” involving the exchange of discourse a great deal larger and more complex than the basic units of meaning that semantics deals effectively with. As a result, the tools of semantics fall short of providing adequate metadata schemes which capture the most compelling features of effective discourse in any medium: emotional and ethical appeals which work in conjunction with appropriate logical and semantic structures.
Hart-Davidson, William, Victoria Moore and Joshua Porter. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2003). Design>Information Design>XML>Metadata
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Modeling Information for Three-Dimensional Space: Lessons Learned from Museum Exhibit Design 
Perhaps these concerns sound familiar: visitors complain that they cannot find information of interest. One observes, 'I know there's information about that type of robotics here, but darned if I can find it;' visitors enter the site but don't stay particularly long. Some might even express an interest in the subject; let's say it's modern art. But they leave almost as quickly as they enter without paying much attention to the artwork that the designers painstakingly displayed; other visitors spend hours at the site but never seem to notice particular sections. For example, a visitor might be thoroughly familiar with the content on radios but oblivious to the section on industrial hardware. These observations could describe visitors to Web sites. Actually, these observations describe museum visitors. The connections between the two are discussed in this article.
Carliner, Saul. Technical Communication Online (2001). Design>Information Design>Usability
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Modeling Information in Electronic Space: An Introduction to This Special Issue
Organizing content for delivery on the computer screen challenges us to design our information in an imagined three dimensions. As mobile devices respond to the surrounding world, our content also needs to adjust to the real physical environment around our user. Our rhetorical space has changed, and in this special issue, authors wrestle with the ways in which we think, move, and design differently as we explore these virtual and real worlds. One team suggests showing the user the structure of the information gradually in search forms. Another author suggests that merging object-oriented thinking with visual language may offer us a way to consider structure and format together, while granting each its own distinct qualities. Focusing on mobile devices, one author sketches out the challenges we face in this new rhetorical space, and another highlights the idea of embeddedness, the fact that our devices are enmeshed within a content-rich world that we move through. Our final contributor takes us to museums, to
Price, Jonathan R. Technical Communication Online (2001). Design>Information Design>User Interface>Web Design
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Models, Processes, and Techniques of Information Design
Although graphic design and document design are important aspects of it, information design has a much broader focus than just the appearance of information. Its ultimate focus is on the effectiveness of that information.
Carliner, Saul. Saul Carliner Studio. Design>Information Design>TC
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Monitoring Order: Visual Desire, the Organization of Web Pages, and Teaching the Rules of Design
Monitoring Order looks at two potential sources -- writings about book design and writings about visual arrangement in painting -- for helping teachers of writing think about teaching visual composition for Web pages; both sources are problematic but suggest directions for further study.
Wysocki, Anne Frances. Kairos (1998). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Visual Rhetoric
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Moving a Database from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 in Three Steps
This tutorial shows how SQL Server 2005 can be migrated to SQL Server 2008 quite easily by manually detaching the database from SQL Server 2005 and attaching it to SQL Server 2008. This is a much easier process than the 'Copy Database Wizard' which has two procedures one of which is the same as the manual process but carried out under the guidance of a wizard and the other which does not require the stopping of the Source server.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. Packt (2008). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
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Moving from Information Mapping to DITA
Is your company making the move from Information Mapping to DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)? The author compares and contrasts the two methods and shares insight on how to ease the pain of switching from one to the other.
Hughes, Michael A. Intercom (2008). Articles>Information Design>XML>DITA
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This article first reviews the current literature that addresses the value of the technical communicator. Whereas those discussions focus on what is delivered to the user (reader), this article examines the value the technical communicator adds by creating organization (internal) knowledge. The article then examines the philosophical underpinnings that support any discussion of knowledge and defines the role of technical communicators as creators of knowledge. Finally, it offers an expanded value proposition for technical communicators and examines its practical implications.
Hughes, Michael A. Technical Communication Online (2002). Design>Information Design>Content Management>SMEs
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This article, the first of three parts, explains what MSXML is and how to access an XML document using JavaScript.
Keogh, Jim and Ken Davidson. ASP Free (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>Microsoft Windows
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This article, the third of three parts, explains what MSXML is and how to access an XML document using JavaScript.
Keogh, Jim and Ken Davidson. ASP Free (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>Microsoft Windows
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This article, the second of three parts, explains what MSXML is and how to access an XML document using JavaScript.
Keogh, Jim and Ken Davidson. ASP Free (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>Microsoft Windows
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The MySQL Roadmap – What's Planned?
MySQL is old news ...or is it? In this fast-paced expose, Blane looks at where MySQL is now, and what's planned in Versions 4.1 and 5 - including the exciting developments of MySQL Cluster and Stored Procedures!
Warrene, Blane. SitePoint (2004). Articles>Information Design>Databases>Open Source
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Released in January 1998, MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). It's based around the Structured Query Language (SQL), and is best for managing the content of the database as opposed to transactions, as MySQL does not support COMMIT or ROLLBACK. One of the biggest drawbacks of MySQL is it's lack of support for referential integrity, no stored procedures, no triggers, and no sub-queries. MySQL is free, and may be downloaded from download section at MySQL.
Lemon, Gez. Juicy Studio. Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
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The Myth of 'Seven, Plus or Minus 2'
This article proposes that the optimal number of menu items cannot be reduced to the generalized 'Magic Seven, Plus or Minus Two' (7±2). The author proposes that instead, when planning a site information architecture, the two most important considerations are breadth versus depth and the display of information.
Kalbach, James. Dr. Dobb's (2002). Articles>Information Design>History>Cognitive Psychology
