Batley, S: INFO ARCHITECTURE FOR INFO PRO

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84334-232-8
Verlag: Woodhead Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Chandos Information Professional Series

This book covers the key aspects of information architecture: core elements of information management, indexing, cataloguing and classification - organising and recording information in the digital environment. Information Architecture for Information Professionals also focuses on design, specifically user-centred design: designing information systems that support the needs of users, by providing attractive, intuitive interfaces that support a range of information tasks and accommodate a range of individual resources.


- Aimed at information professionals - existing texts in this emerging area are primarily aimed at web managers
- A straight forward introduction to the area

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batley, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Systematiken, Katalogisierung, Klassifikation, Bibliographisches Arbeiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Information architecture: An introduction; The preliminaries; Searching and finding; Documents and document description; Interface and display design; Management and maintenance; Evaluation.

Über Autor(innen)

Batley, Susan
Dr Susan Batley is a senior lecturer at the London Metropolitan University with teaching and research in the areas of organisation and retrieval of information and knowledge resources. Having completed a PhD on factors affecting the retrieval of information from picture databases in 1989, she worked as a subject librarian at the University of East London, before taking up her current post in 1996. Dr Batley is the author of another Chandos book, Classification in Theory and Practice.