From Inside Architecture
So, full disclosure, I care about Wikipedia. Call me dumb, I know. Wikipedia has been described, alternatively, as the best platform ever invented for fostering useless arguments among ignorant people /and/ the most successful encyclopedia effort of all time. The truth, as always, lies between these extremes.
Well, I’m part of a small team that is working to clean up the Wikipedia pages dealing with Enterprise Architecture. One thing that we noted recently is the fact that there are two pages, similar, both rather poor, that cover essentially the same topic.
One page is called “Information Architecture” and the other is called “Data Architecture.”
We don’t believe that there should be two distinct pages. Wikipedia has a feature called “redirect” that allows the name of one page to point to another. So it’s possible to bring these together. However, the debate is now open… which one? Should the field be called “Information architecture” or “Data architecture”?
(Note, for a while, User Experience Designers used the term Information Architect. That seems to have faded and been replaced with User Experience Designer. I’d love to hear from folks in the UxD business about whether they feel ownership or kinship to the term “information architect”)
Or, third option, we are wrong… and there should be two distinct pages because these are two distinct concepts.
I created a quick survey to collect data. Please take the necessary 60 seconds to give me your input: http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=s5a8g1667ep36jf456406
