It’s a bet #

Information architecture is not a singular state #

The supporting data of a node can be expressed as metadata until and after a more patterned architecture is defined. The combination of metadata can have a pattern read into it that emulates something closer to story.

As data is organized, the organizer is making bets on the truthiness of various connectome and future states. These bets are based on the behavior and actions of the sources as well as the behavior and actions the information is trying to support, within the working parameters of the data structure, process, and tech backbone.

Certain skillsets are also considering how the ingester is likely approaching the data, and optimizing the organization for that point of view.

The story of the metadata can change based on your point of view.

Interpretation is lensed along every touchpoint, where people are trying to orient: information source, organizer, information ingester to expose some common ones.

Good bets are driven by facts over opinions, understanding over perception, and actual human behavior over wished-for human behavior. All of these are susceptible to skewing by the core precepts and cognitive biases of the touchpoint – every touchpoint.

There will always be variations of human perception and ingestion that can skew their point of view in a way that can’t be constructed without a network structure — which is a hard structure to teach, learn, ingest, and maintain.