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