In this episode about “Women in the Field of Information Architecture”, I was happy to talk with Stacy Surla at the IA Summit in Las Vegas, after she spoke in a panel discussion about “IA in Second Life”.

Stacy isn’t just the Treasurer on the Board of the IA Institute, she’s also a force behind some important initiatives, such as the Local Groups initiative. We talked about Stacy’s IA background, her IA Institute role, her IA conference speeches and many other topics, including some very interesting ideas about ambient findability in virtual worlds like Second Life.

Quick Jump in Audio (17,25min/6 MB):
women_in_ia_stacy_surla.mp3

01:07 Minute - Stacy’s IA Bio and background
04:32 Minute - Her role in the IA Institute
10:20 Minute - Stacy’s conference speeches

 

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Andrea Resmini, Emanuele Quintarelli, Luca Rosati - Speech about Bottom Up - Top Down Classificatiton - The FaceTag

- The speech:
speech_recording_bottom_up_top_down_classification.mp3
- View the slides from the Euro IA together with the recording
- The FaceTag white paper
- The FaceTag website
(Sorry, about the quality of this recording. We apologise and plan to broadcast an interview about “facetags” in early 2007.)

 

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Eric Reiss - Seven Trends in IA (Highly recommended)
-> Presentation(view this parallel to the Audio) Reiss_trends_in_ia_berlin_2006.pdf

Quick Jump in Audio(11,3 MB):

seven_trends_in_ia.mp3
01:55 Minute - New IA Trends in Europe - coming from the users (compared to USA)
04:35 Minute - Websites have become part of the business plan
04:33 Minute - Trend #1 - Now we’re going to make them part of the business
07:25 Minute - Customer Relation Management
08:04 Minute - Trend #2 - Websites have become more focused
11:58 Minute - Trend #3 - Websites are now truly multimedia
13:42 Minute - Trend #4 - Sitemaps are dying
16:38 Minute - Trend #5a - Customization is dead
17:38 Minute - Trend #5b - Two exceptions - Personalization lives
20:15 Minute - Trend #6 - Site search is maturing
21:30 Minute - Trend #7 - IA is not always part of the job title

Eric Reiss wrote the following book:

 

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Peter Morville - Keynote Speech (Highly recommended)
-> Presentation-Ambient Findability (view this parallel to the Audio)

Quick Jump in Audio(22,9 MB):

keynote_speech_peter_morville.mp3
00:40 Minute - Intro Eric Reiss (Eric has some fun with the Austrailians)
04:48 Minute - Start Speech Peter Morville (Ambient Findability)

 

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Eris Reiss - Information Architect from US and Denmark

The European IA szene had a great time at the EURO IA conference 2006 in Berlin. And one man who’s responsible, with his team of country embassadors, for the great success is Eric Reiss.
Eric is a great supporter of the Euro IA community which is strongly growing within the last years. My name is Wolf and it was an honore for me that I had a chance to talk to him. Let’s hear what he says…

Podcast of this Interview - 33:31 minutes

ia_voice_interview_eric_reiss.mp3

Eric Reiss wrote the following book:

 

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