CLD202x Information Architecture

Importance of IA

Increased usability and discoverability

Enhanced performance

Better user adoption

Responsiveness to change

Key Elements of IA design

people

Design

Context

goal

Technology

Usablity

Maintainablility

Extensibility

Software

Security

Management

Documentation

Traditional, information-driven analysis

Agile design

What triggers information architecture changes?

Changes in information use

New security requirements

Amendments to regulatory requirements

Changes to working practices

Changes to organizational structure

Driving information architecture reviews

Identifying and using stakeholder knowledge

Contextualizing information

Information purpose

Information consumption

Information creation

Information value

SP 2013 features

Managed Metadata Service

Site columns

Content types

Term sets

Document sets

Location-based metadata defaults

It stores enterprise keywords and term groups

It publishes content types

Text or HTML content.

A predefined list of choices, or choices that are based on another list in the site.

Numbers

A person or group that is selected from the available SharePoint 2010 or Active Directory directory service users

Currency values

Date and time entries

A calculation that is based on other column values

An image

A choice from a term set

LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE COMPONENTS

Service applications

Web applications

Farm

Content database

Site collection

Site

Lists and libraries

Items