IA Gateway Library

The IA Gateway Library contains a Body of Knowledge for information architecture (IA) practitioners, researchers, developers and other creators of information spaces, who which to learn and practice effective IA. It contains materials developed over decades of work by information architecture experts. Topics cover IA Basics, Accessibility, Search, Taxonomy, Knowledge Graphs and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not a complete collection and will continue to grow with your help. Sign up to contribute materials!

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Featured article Article

Information Architecture, Information Overload, and the Literacies

Tibor Koltay 2012

This paper places emphasis on the relationship between information architecture and information overload in the light of the benefits, offered information literacy, digital literacy be other literacies, often named the new literacies. It argues that making use of information literacy…

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Featured book Book

Indexing from A to Z

Hans Wellisch 1997

For authors, students, and beginners as well as experienced indexers, the author covers not only back-of-the-book indexing but also the indexing of periodicals and non-print material, with practical examples of correct and incorrect indexing.

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Featured slideshow Slideshow

What are your users REALLY thinking? An objective way to uncover the subjective

David Robins, Jason Holmes, Janna Korzenko 2008

Presentation from the 2008 IA Summit

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Featured video Video

Ubiquitous Information Architecture & Gamestorming

Sunni Brown, Dave Gray, James Macanufo 2010

As our systems grow more complex, design is changing from a solo activity to a team sport where designers, partners, and users work together to co-create experiences. This participatory design requires new skills and practices. How can you engage more…

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Acknowledgements

The bulk of this library is a collection of materials curated by the Information Architecture Institute and its predecessor organization, the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture. While these organizations no longer exist, we recognize the people who have made this collection possible and continue to contribute to its depth and breadth:

IAI Library Volunteers: Michael Angeles, Austin Govella, Noreen Whysel, Bob Doyle, Abby Covert, Marianne Sweeney, Shari Thurow.

IAI Translation Team: Livia Labate, Bev Corwin, Jeannette Shew, Wolf Noeding, Barbara Wolf, Andrea Resmini, Trent Sherrell, Noreen Whysel.

2016 IA Library Barn-raising Team: Abby Covert, Dorian Taylor, Rachael Hodder, Ren Vasey, Rebecca Kidd, Jason Hobbs.