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SIGIA-L: Summary of: Anybody have an IA skills list?
From: Karyn Young (karyn_at_shredbetty.org)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 21:53:33 EST
Thanks to everyone for responding to my question about an IA skills list. Below are the responses. I've edited out everything except that directly related to the question for brevity's sake. And I've left out names (again thanks all!!):
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at http://experience.aiga.org there's a ppt. presentation you can
download that outlines skills and knowledge for IAs (as well as other
roles). they were prepared for last summers AIGA ED summit.
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if you stick to a library science definition, it would include information classification, clustering, labeling, indexing and retrieval (thesaurus/controlled vocabulary development). from an agency perspective it could include information design, ui design, requirements gathering, use case development, usability engineering, heuristic evaluations, html prototyping and css, javascript, xml, and xsl.
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For skills re: IAs (the practicioners) see Jesse James Garrett "What IAs Do" and Tal Herman's followup a year later.
http://www.jjg.net/ia/iadoes0700.pdf (got pointed to this one twice)
and
http://www.seralat.com/infodesign/ia_work/ia_job_survey_20010430.pdf
Also this thread on Eleganthack:
http://www.eleganthack.com/blog/archives/00000121.html
takes on a soft skills/big picture approach
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We're working on it.
--> http://www.info-arch.org/infrastructure/archives/000003.html
(see my post especially -- Jeff Lash)
Also see http://www.IAwiki.net/InfoArchDotOrg/JobTips
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For those who asked: I'm developing the documentation for the list of IA skills under the UCD process in IBM, plus direction on how to get those skills. And finally, definition of what constitutes being a beginner up through an expert (broken into levels 1-5).
I may post my progress here for your feedback....although it might turn into another mud fight about who we are and what we do ;-)
Thanks again!
Cheers,
Karyn Young
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