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Movements, part 2: Information

  • Frontmatter
  • Chapter sections: information
  • A note about information architecture
  • Information architecture is itself a node
  • Failing information states
  • Practical information architecture
  • Connectome is the fundamental structure
  • Taxonomy and definition
  • Why think about structure
  • Nodes
  • Connections
  • Juxtaposition and placement
  • Juxtaposition and placement, longform
  • The basic information structures
  • Basic information structures, longform
  • Nodes as encapsulated rich data
  • Nodes as encapsulated rich data, longform
  • Levels
  • Levels, longform
  • Strata
  • Strata, longform
  • Lenses
  • Information structures ripen
  • Metadata
  • Contextualization: Information architectures are by and for people
  • People as the primary information context
  • The implicit process
  • Story
  • Learning is hard work
  • Why look for something?
  • What are we hoping to accomplish?
  • Why do we care about this architecture?
  • Architecture overtones: Built-in precepts and functions
  • Network is hard
  • Top-down hierarchy
  • Bottom-up approach to hierarchy
  • Network overview
  • Pulling hierarchical structures out of network
  • The repercussions of simplifying
  • System as resources
  • Understanding system connectome
  • Systems flow
  • Systems expand and contract
  • Systems are elastic
  • Point of view: multiplicity to one
  • Have I mentioned variability yet?
  • It’s a bet
  • Hierarchy as a lens
  • User perspective
  • Quantum physics of the mind
  • Problem solver or researcher perspective
  • Excluded data still exists
  • Perception difficulties of network
  • Why not discard network for hierarchy?
  • Bridging between information and mind
  • Links to full book
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