Domain-driven design IA Webinar

ASIS&T Presents Domain-Driven Design IA Webinar: Beyond the Polar Bear
May 26 2011, 11:30am-12:30pm (EDT)

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/beyond-the-polar-bear.html

Price: Only $25 for ASIS&T members, non-members $59. Access to recordings will be available to all registrants.

Mike Atherton leads this Webinar adapted from his popular presentation at IA Summit 2011 in Denver. The BBC's new Food site (bbc.co.uk/food) is completely rebuilt using principles of domain and data modeling. Domain-driven design breaks down complex subjects into the things people usually think about. With food, it's stuff like 'dishes', 'ingredients' and 'chefs'. The parts of the model inter-relate far more organically than a traditional top-down hierarchy.

A logical domain model makes site navigation mirror the way people explore knowledge. By intersecting across subjects, links themselves become facts, allowing humans and machines to learn through undirected user journeys. This paradigm shift from labeling boxes to taming rich data is a vital skill for the modern IA.

In this webinar, we'll explore how to design for a semantic 'web of data', using case studies from the BBC's Food and Natural History products. You'll learn how to unlock the potential of your content, create scalable navigation patterns, achieve simply fabulous SEO and step confidently into the world of open linked data.

We'll reference Rosenfeld and Morville's seminal IA tome and discuss what still holds true and what needs new thinking. The next web is here. Stop worrying about the perfect taxonomy, and start worrying about making your content findable, pointable, searchable and sharable.

Presenter:

Mike Atherton (@mikeatherton) has lately been busy figuring out how the BBC's archive of factual programming can be used to build popular products. With more than 15 years in IA and product design, he is an independent UX consultant who is passionate about sensible data structures, and fights the good fight to ensure user experience extends outside the boundaries of any one website.

An enthusiast of evidence-based design and content strategy, Mike evangelises to management types on the need to think beyond business drivers and make stuff people actually care about. He has spoken on topics as diverse as Domain Modeling and Disneyland at conferences in the UK and the US.

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