information architecture

Anyone interested in an incredible new concept in data modeling for Drupal should see this video of Jay Epstein talking about how he builds sites that are lean, mean and powerful.

http://youtu.be/38ExF9ffF5c

Enjoy and feel free to share with anyone this could benefit.

A well-known, "very" high-tech university is considering OA for its extranet knowledge-base. This decision came after looking at TWiki. What I'm attempting to plan for is how to manage UI for 200+ "Spaces," as OA provides. And also if this goes beyond what OA intends for. But I think it's rather ideal still. What do you think?

Hi all,

Do anyone know of any wireframe stencils or other IA library for Drupal 6/7 ?

I have been searching but haven't had the luck of finding any.

Simon

Greetings IA Team Members,
I am planning a skype meeting to discuss where we are and of course to gathering your input.
I am Eastern Daylight Time, Time zone offset: UTC - 4 hours
I am very flexible with the meeting date and times, so please let me know all the dates and times you are available.
I would like to schedule the SKYPE meeting with the next 2 weeks.
I am currently using MS Project, so please let me know if you can support that document or prefer to use a different project management software, preferably open source, so it can be available to the entire team.

Recently I took on the task of reorganizing and streamlining this group site, with the goal of making it much easier for new and existing volunteers to continue with the drupal.org redesign implementation. There is information on the group site that isn't up-to-date or 100% clear yet, but I think we are fairly close with reorganizing these g.d.o pages. Here are my main changes, and I'd love your feedback.

What information would you need in order to help with the redesign implementation? Please add your comments below.

Changes to the Overview page

I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a while and I'm running into a roadblock in terms of providing good usability to community members vs. correct information architecture. As an example, let's say I'm running a website about plants, and visitors can add articles about different plants. This is just a crude example to help understand the problem. When a visitor goes to create a new article, they can categorize it as follows:

Plant Part
- Color
-- Produce

It seems the variety of options to create some sort of distro or feature set or pattern or template or whatever are broad, but one thing that is united under all of them is the need to collect a list of what sort of features should be included in this. So what features do you think every or most church websites should have. Let's stay away from modules, how it would be accomplished.

This is a question about defining the problem. We can figure out how to solve it later.

I am not a developer but a very hands-on subject matter expert.

Having been badly burnt by poor performance in the past, I am trying to pre-empt performance issues. Please suggest what is the ideal way to build the site: through taxonomy, content types (CCK) or what?

Expected load:
50-500 users logged in. Approximately 10 times as many anonymous. This may increase further.

Taxonomy:
1500 terms with ten or so cross references:

For example:
Vocabulary 1: all animals
Vocabulary 2: all countries

Hi, I'm currently in the planning stage of creating an online presence of a student guide to the university and the city of Ghent. There's one question that keeps popping up: how can you create a guide that is as accurate as possible, and how can you spot most easily what needs an update, a fact check or a rewrite?

I'm exploring a few routes, and I'd like some input and/or hear about your experiences. (This isn't strictly newspaper-related content, but since local newspapers often also try their best to be a guide to the city they cover, I thought I'd post it over here anyway.) Here goes:

EDIT: There will be a BOF discussion tomorrow, Wed morning at 9:00am here at Drupalcon. Please join the discussion and share your thoughts.