World's fastest modeling job, or information architecture: What is it? The multidisciplinary adventures of two Ph.D. students

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Jun/Jul 2000 by Denn, Sheila O, Maglaughlin, Kelly L

* What an information architecture looks like

* What the process is for building an information architecture

* What the relationships are among the stakeholders involved in the information architecture

Where an information architecture fits in overall system design

* What different staff positions contribute to the information architecture enterprise.

Work will be continuing to try to process the responses that were received and to develop these models. Regardless of whether the model we produced is a workable one, the process of creating it certainly has generated a lot of discussion among the participants. This discussion continues at a rapid pace (our mailboxes are filling up even as we type) on the newly formed information architecture special interest group mailing list. So the summit has succeeded in accomplishing another of its goals - stimulating the formation of a community of people interested in information architecture and opening the lines of communication between academics and practitioners in the field.

Sheila 0. Denn and Kelly L. Maglaughlin are Ph.D. students in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Denn can be reached at denns@ ils. unc. edu; Maglaughlin is at maglk@ils.unc.edu