If architects build stuff, does an information architect build information? In what sense can information be 'built'? Did information exist before there was something called 'architecture'? What about hunter-gatherer societies that don't have architects and don't have buildings (i.e., skyscrapers), do they 'architect' information? Whoa. Is there a metaphor out of control here?
A system is "The set of correlated principles, ideas, or statements belonging to some department of knowledge or belief." (Oxford English Dictionary). So systematizing information is really an exercise in belief construction? If I work on a car, do I have to systematize the car or systematize my beliefs, or neither, or both? Whoa. How many systems are going on here?
If you don't know that something is there (e.g., "rocks"), you can't find it in a retrieval system, yet this boat, which was "at sea" vis-a-vis these rocks was able to find them. Things in the ocean aren't alphabetized. But in a retrieval system, if you forget the word "rocks", you'll find yourself "at sea". Whoa. Isn't alphabetization supposed to keep you off the rocks?
If architects build stuff, does an information architect build information? In what sense can information be 'built'? Did information exist before there was something called 'architecture'? What about hunter-gatherer societies that don't have architects and don't have buildings (i.e., skyscrapers), do they 'architect' information? Whoa. Is there a metaphor out of control here?
A system is "The set of correlated principles, ideas, or statements belonging to some department of knowledge or belief." (Oxford English Dictionary). So systematizing information is really an exercise in belief construction? If I work on a car, do I have to systematize the car or systematize my beliefs, or neither, or both? Whoa. How many systems are going on here?
If you don't know that something is there (e.g., "rocks"), you can't find it in a retrieval system, yet this boat, which was "at sea" vis-a-vis these rocks was able to find them. Things in the ocean aren't alphabetized. But in a retrieval system, if you forget the word "rocks", you'll find yourself "at sea". Whoa. Isn't alphabetization supposed to keep you off the rocks?