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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Morville |
| ISBN: | 0596007655 9780596007652 |
| OCLC Number: | 65183407 |
| Description: | xiv, 188 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Lost and found. -- Definition -- Information literacy -- Business value -- Paradise lost -- 2. A brief history of wayfinding. -- All creatures great and small -- Human wayfinding in natural habitats -- Maps and charts -- The built environment -- Wayfinding in the noosphere -- The web -- The Baldwin effect -- 3. Information interaction. -- Defining information -- Information retrieval -- Language and representation -- The people problem -- Information interaction -- 4. Intertwingled. -- Everyware -- Wayfinding 2.0 -- Findable objects -- Imports -- Exports -- Convergence -- Asylum -- 5. Push and pull. -- Marketing -- Design -- Findability hacks -- Personalization -- Ebb and flow -- 6. The sociosemantic web. -- Us and them -- The social life of metadata -- Documents -- A walk in the park -- 7. Inspired decisions. -- Bounded irrationality -- Informed decisions -- Network culture -- The body politic -- Information overload -- Graffiti theory -- Sources of inspiration -- Ambient findability -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Morville. |
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Abstract:
Written by the author of "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web", this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.
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