Taxonomy Boot Camp: Bringing It All Together

摘要

Want 200-plus taxonomists hanging on your every word? Call them the "gods of the information age." That's what Bob Boiko did in his keynote speech at Taxonomy Boot Camp (taxonomybootcamp.com), held Nov. 5-6, 2013, in Washington, D.C., with the overall theme of Bringing It All Together. Boiko, founder and CEO of Metato-rial Services, Inc. and senior lecturer at the University of Washington Information School, went on to say that although we recognize information as a critical asset, nobody actually manages to leverage it very well. He thinks information should be central, between people and technology, driving the system. Too often, it's not. Moreover, when looking at information architecture, the back end of engineering and the front end of design should put the screen, where taxonomists rule, in the middle. An "information-centric view" balances systems and art.