Propose an Information Architecture for a Knowledge Network
100 points
Overview
In this assignment you will propose an information architecture (IA) that has the potential of facilitating and leveraging user-generated content. Articulate that design for multiple audiences, you’ll need to articulate your design for one of three distinct audiences:
- an academic IA audience
- an audience of IA professionals
- an audience of interest to that group/users.
These articulations should come from building the situated conversations of a knowledge network you have already analyzed that helps facilitate further user knowledge construction.
This assignment is meant for you to display all you have learned in the class to this point it should contain:
- a rationale for the proposed change based off of your memo audiences values
- knowledge network/user analysis based on a summary of your computational rhetoric practices/analysis or sense of community
- a discussion of current knowledge work networks contexts (Hinton, Morville)
- an articulation a summary of current site IA (Covert)
- a proposed IA site redesign or new site with rationale (should include discussion of topics and visualizations generated in previous assignments.
- A proposed project work plan for further research and roll out given your experiences in the class.
Please note: 50 points of this assignment are gained from turning in a complete first draft for peer review.
Getting Started
Unlike other projects that you have in other class, I encourage and expect you to mine liberally from the work you have previously done in this course.
- Go back over your previous work as well as the comments made on that work from your peers and myself. What needs to change to make your work more theoretically and pragmatically sound?
- Pick your audience and articulate their values. Do they care about efficiency? Growth? Theoretical implications? Training?
- Once you have your audiences values, think about how to frame your previous work toward those values. What elements of your might you emphasize or deemphasize for your new audience?
- Think about what tasks you can accomplish now, how long those tasks would take given what you know now, and how much additional information you would need to move forward?
Developing Your Persuasive Memo:
In your memo you should address:
- an articulation of the analytical rhetorical process: Do you articulate the process of landscape analysis research well? Do you articulate the value of your landscape analysis research well? Do you explain it in a systematic way?
- Rhetorical analysis of an online knowledge network community: Do you integrate language for Rosenfield and others to explain existing and proposed information environments well?Do you use visualizations to make a more effective argument?Do you integrate visualizations and text well?
- An analysis and proposal of an IA including visualizations: Do you show/explain where on your new sitemap you make information design decisions to support your community or organization’s goals? Do you show/explain where you make information design decisions to avoid duplicate content? Do you show/explain where you make information design decisions that will help users locate where they are on the site?
- Project work plan: Do you list what information and assets will you need to move forward with the project? Do you explain what information or deliverables are needed before which stages of the project? Do you explain what skills/talent you will need before which project stages?
Format
- Google doc submission with integrated visualizations
Length
- One 7 – 10 page project proposal memo (single spaced, longer if APA) not including appendices or citations.
Submission
A single document deliverable that contains the following submitted through google docs with comments enabled.
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