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Career Change from Ontology/LIS to IA
Information Architecture  |   Link

I've been asked over the past few months of how to get started in learning more about information architecture from LIS and ontology/symbolic systems. I've compiled some quick pointers off to other sites that have richer content. There are probably more resources out there, but I think these are a good start.

Conferences
IA Summit 2000, Boston, MA - notes/slides
www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/Information_Architecture/
IA Conference 2000, La Jolla, CA - notes slides
www.argus-acia.com/acia_event/
IA Summit 2001, San Francisco, CA - notes slides
www.asis.org/Conferences/SUMMITFINAL/index.html
IA Summit 2002, Baltimore, MD
www.asist-events.org/IASummit2002/
ACM-CHI 2001, Seattle, WA - notes
keith.instone.org/practiceia/
keith.instone.org/measureia/
ACM-CHI 2002, Minneapolis, MN - call for participation
keith.instone.org/hci-ia-chi2002/

Personal Sites
www.louisrosenfeld.com
www.eleganthack.com
www.peterme.com
www.jjg.net/ia
www.semanticstudios.com

General Sites
www.iaslash.com
www.iawiki.com
www.info-arch.org
www.asis.org
www.argus-acia.com

Careers/Jobs
Some typical companies out there looking for the following titles
information architect
knowledge engineer
metadata architect
taxonomy engineer
taxonomist
ontologist(which you already know)
computational linguists
lexicographer

Types of Companies
search
directory development(ex, LookSmart)
taxonomy development
content management systems (ex, Interwoven)
publishing (ex, Elsevier, EBSCO)

Posted on February 21, 2002 09:12 PM