Information Architecture

Peter Van Dijck at DrupalCon

Peter Van Dijck, author of the IA book and the XFML specification (read: well-known information architect), will provide a presentation at DrupalCon! The topic of his presentation is: I18N information architecture: how to organize global websites.

Let’s say you are localizing your Drupal install. How can you create an alphabetical ordered list in Chinese, which doesn't have alphabetical ordering? Your taxonomy might have problems: “Public schools” means almost the opposite in the US versus the UK – now what? How do you handle sites with 2, 4 or 50 languages or locales? What to do if an article hasn't been translated?

DrupalCon and Information Architecture Summit side-by-side in Barcelona

One of the most popular and powerful features of Drupal is its taxononomy system, which allows you to classify content in a flexible way. Information Architects are folks who develop taxonomies as part of their professional work. It turns out that the European Information Architects community hold their annual conference, EuroIA, from September 21-22, 2007, in Barcelona. Side-by-side from DrupalCon, so to speak.

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