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Contextualization: Information architectures are by and for people

Movements, part 2: Information

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

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, longform

Strata, longform

Information structures ripen

Contextualization: Information architectures are by and for people

People as the primary information context

The implicit process

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 expand and contract

Systems are elastic

Point of view: multiplicity to one

Have I mentioned variability yet?

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

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