Clarity in Chaos

April 12, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Clarity in Chaos

April 12, 2011 – Information architecture is on the forefront lately, whether we realize it or not. The history-making revolts against Middle Eastern governments has spurred massive amounts of data, and confusion.

Larry Lempert’s latest blogpost, “A Diverse Universe: Information Architecture at BNA” was the inspiration for this piece. In the middle of chaos, how do you ensure findablity of your data? With the Internet’s “free” information, users are relying on professionals less and less. How do you provide valuable content in this climate?

Findability is something we know a little about and Lempert’s musings ring true. Machine assisted indexing against a solid custom taxonomy is the key to any document management system, and successful findability. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies. 

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.