The Canadian Parliament and Peace Tower

Seven days after ad-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah fīl-ʻIraq wa ash-Shām (ISIS) announced mass rape to be religious practice, a Canadian supporter in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu near Montreal rammed his car into a group of soldiers, killing Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent.  The murderer was then killed by police in a car chase.  Two days later, on October 22, 2014, another Canadian ISIS supporter shot and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo of the Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada Regiment¹ as he stood ceremonial guard at the Canadian National War Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.  In a move worthy of Hollywood, Parliament’s Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers, a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent (i.e. management), killed the murderer within the building complex just outside the Library of Parliament.

A Book of Remembrance in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower

The most visible structure on Parliament Hill is the Peace Tower which includes a Memorial Chamber.  In the Chamber are Books of Remembrance, seven books holding the names of Canadians who died in service to their country.  Beautifully drawn with hand calligraphy, these volumes are the equal of any medieval monastic work.  The first artist was James Purves, who did preliminary work on Book 1 and completed the first page.  He died in 1940 and was replaced by his assistant Alan Beddoe, who worked on the project until the 1970s.

Book 1 – First World War (66,655 names).  The names of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces are listed first, by year (1915-1922), then in alphabetical order.  Each listing includes rank, name (last name first), and regiment.  Canadian names from the British Empire Forces are listed next.  Finally there is an Addendum with names in the same order.  The second page of the Addendum has a drawing of the WWI Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France.

Page from Book 2, “Second World War,” 1947

Book 2 – Second World War (44,893 names).  These names are listed by year (1939-1947), then alphabetical order, with the same information as World War I.  There is no Addendum.

Book 3 – Newfoundland (more than 2300 men and women who died in the two World Wars before Newfoundland became a Canadian province).  These names are listed by war, then in alphabetical order.  This book adds date of death to the information for each name.  Both wars have Addenda pages.  Book 3 includes a number of decorative pages.

Book 4 – The Korean War (516 names).  These names are in alphabetical order, with rank, name (last name first), regiment and date of death.  There is no Addendum.

Book 5 – South African / Nile Expedition (266 names from two 19^th Century and early 20^th Century military deployments).  The names are divided between the two deployments with the South African War (1899-1902) first, then the Nile Expedition (1884-1885).  The names are then in alphabetical order.  South African War names include rank, name (last name first), regiment and date of death.  Nile Expedition names include only the name and the date of death.  No Addendum.

Book 6 – Merchant Navy (more than 2170 men and women who died during the two World Wars).  These names are divided between the two wars, then in alphabetical order, with rank, name (last name first), ship’s name and date of death.  There are several Addenda, which indicates multiple additions of names.  There are also decorative pages.

Gisèle Michaud, the 2014-15 National Memorial Cross Mother wearing the Silver Cross. Her son Master Corporal Charles-Philippe Michaud died in 2009 from wounds received in Afghanistan.

Book 7 – In the Service of Canada (an ongoing book, currently with more than 1700 names of military personnel who died since World War II [excepting the Korean War] “in times of conflict, or during peacetime training exercises, peacekeeping deployments abroad or other military duty” ²)  The names are organized by year only.  The listing includes rank, name (last name first), regiment, and date of death.  There are also decorative pages.

Pages in the Books of Remembrance are turned daily in a ceremony.  Each page is shown for at least one day every year.

The names of Warrant Officer Vincent and Corporal Cirillo have not yet been added to Book 7, so as our example, we will use Master Corporal Charles-Philippe Michaud, whose mother Gisèle is this year’s National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother.  She represents all Canadian mothers who have lost children in war.  Master Corporal Michaud was wounded by an explosive device near Kandahar, Afghanistan on June 23, 2009.  Five days later he arrived at a Quebec City hospital where he died on July 4.

By placing Charles-Philippe Michaud’s name into the search interface, we can see him on page 234 which is open in the Memorial Chamber on April 19, August 14 and December 9.  Book 7 begins in 1947 with all entries in English.  Current practice enters some names in French and some in English.

Isis protecting Osiris

Isis and ISIS

Since the name of my business is Isis Information Services, I want to share thoughts about my business name being adopted by mass rapists.  My name reflects the Egyptian goddess Isis who saved the world by putting her dismembered husband Osiris back together and breathing life into him.  It seemed like a good metaphor for putting together an information system.  A lot of people agreed and there are many information companies, systems and services named with the acronym ISIS.  I tried to differentiate myself by using the word Isis not the acronym.

The actual name of the terrorist group ISIS is ad-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah fīl-ʻIraq wa ash-Shām, so we should be calling them DIIS, but the acronym in English is ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) and that’s what we’re mostly using.  Another variation is ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and for awhile I was using that as a diversion away from my own name.  But now I realize DIIS simply forgot their due diligence in language translation and managed to name misogynist rapists after a powerful ancient Egyptian goddess.

¹ The Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada Regiment served at the Battle of the Somme in World War I, a battle much discussed in this blog.  This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I.  The ceramic poppies surrounding the Tower of London are an especially beautiful memorial installation.

² http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/books/history

Photo Credits:  Parliament, Book of Remembrance, Second World War 1947, Gisèle Michaud, Isis and Osiris

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(Katherine presents the keynote address at Arizona SLA’s “Power of Taxonomy” program on Friday, January 20 in Tempe.)

As a taxonomist, my role is to help people organize their own information.  Part of that skill is explaining concepts with clarity.  As a writer and speaker, my goal is to help you understand the power of taxonomy for increased findability, subject knowledge, relation identification, and persuasion.  I use stories, humor and pictures to take you there.

Clarity comes from building taxonomies for non-librarians and from the dedication to service that infuses the library profession.  I built my first taxonomy decades before the Internet made taxonomy hot.  It was my first job after library school at the University of Chicago.  The recently founded California Institute for Rural Studies was developing something new.

Alternative agriculture was not covered in the standard classifications. LC or Dewey would require tearing apart the collection and rearranging the subject to fit the classification.  It seemed more logical to design the classification for the subject.  So I built my own.  At the time, I didn’t realize what a radical step I had taken.

I started looking for projects that would benefit from a taxonomic approach to classification.  I found some good ones, including a few years as Snoopy’s librarian.  In almost all of these projects, I was the only librarian on staff.  I knew the collections would eventually be maintained by non-librarians so I built intuitive systems they could easily understand.

By the time the Internet created interest in taxonomy, I already had decades of field experience.  This involved working closely with users and with the material being organized, so I gained insights into how people interact with information, developing techniques to enhance the power and persuasive capabilities of taxonomy.

As I matured in the profession, I began to see the importance of sharing these insights with the wider community.  I moved to Arizona in 2002 and started writing.  Early in this phase, it was announced that the names on New York’s World Trade Center memorial were to be listed at random.  Random is just about the worst organizing strategy for those names and I started writing about that in this blog.

The New York memorial committee eventually changed to a different arrangement structure, but it gave me the impetus to began an analysis of names on other memorials.  Like taxonomy, a memorial’s arrangement structure reflects a specific situation and a specific set of users.  It guides those users in their understanding of the event being memorialized and can therefore provide valuable insights into the nature of organized information.

The best example is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which arranges names in chronological order.  This allows survivors of the war to view the names of their fallen comrades on contiguous panels.   In effect, it gives an individual survivor his own personal space on The Wall.  I believe chronological order is the primary element of this memorial’s extraordinary power.

While writing my ongoing series, “Names on a Memorial,” I learned how to verbally express the details of an arrangement structure.  Clarity and precision are required to describe both the nuances of an arrangement and the consequences of decisions made by a designer to guide visitors toward the desired response.  Taxonomists make similar decisions when developing powerful organizational structures that promote findability, connect relational elements, or present a viewpoint.

When I give presentations, as I will on January 20 for the Arizona SLA Chapter, I bring the elements of clarity I have gained through experience and practice.  If you are new to taxonomy, you will understand the logic of the technique.  If you are an experienced taxonomist, you will learn new concepts about the power of arrangement structures and perhaps get some ideas for your own taxonomic clarity.

Register here for “The Power of Taxonomy.”

Many thanks to “The Power of Taxonomy” sponsors DowJones and Safari Books Online.

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Online CE Course at Simmons College in May, 2011
Instructor:  Katherine Bertolucci
Fee:  $250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200) for the four week online course.
Registration:  http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb/workshop.php?id=15

According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, “the measure of order is the measure of how well the information fits the purpose.”  Strategic Information Arrangement shows you how to fit purpose to your order with an entertaining look at basic information structures and their value as persuasive tools.

Communication persuades.  Arranged information, as communication, provides a persuasive opportunity.  When you understand this, you can use it to your advantage for building taxonomies, classifications, and structured lists.  Lack of understanding may cause accidental persuasion in unintended directions.

We examine 17 list structures and 6 forms of hierarchy, defining how each fits a purpose.  Then we apply the seven persuasive technology strategies (plus 1) identified by Stanford’s B. J. Fogg in his book, Persuasive Technology:  Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do.  For example, the chronology of names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial builds community with six of Fogg’s seven strategies.  Perhaps this explains why it is our most powerful memorial.

Architect Maya Lin was influenced by the WWI Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, in France.  Yet, because of the differences in the two wars, that memorial uses another arrangement to achieve the same goal of building community.  In a different context, the Memorial Temples at Nevada’s Burning Man art festivals (pictured) build community with a random arrangement.  Each of these three memorials fits its purpose by understanding the community it honors.

Katherine’s client Snoopy is on hand during the course to explain some of the concepts.  The Rolling Stones and Joe Walsh from the Eagles also make appearances.  You can explore memorials in your local area for possible inclusion in a Memorial or Veterans Day blog post.  The course includes an optional exercise in building hierarchical structures, to be critiqued by Katherine, the only information strategist focused on persuasive arrangement.

Instructor: Katherine Bertolucci is an information management consultant and owner of Isis Information Services in Phoenix, AZ. She specializes in the development and arrangement of subject-based classifications, taxonomies, and other formats for persuasive information presentation. A pioneer in non-traditional classification, Katherine built her first taxonomy in 1978. Clients include poets and transnational corporations such as Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Procter & Gamble, and Thomson Financial. Known for her work with Snoopy, Katherine’s programs are entertaining and informative. She is former Chair of SLA’s Library Management Division and Information Futurists Caucus. Katherine’s essays on information arrangement appear in IsisInBlog. Print publications include “The Future Still Awaits Us: Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street” (Searcher, July-August, 2009),”Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous” (Searcher, February, 2009), and “Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy” (Information Outlook, March, 2004). Contact her at katherine@isisinform.com

Photo Credit: The Temple of Joy at Night, © Jim Hammer and Burning Man. More photos by Jim Hammer at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrscience

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The Temple of Joy at Night by Jim Hammer and Burning Man. More photos by Jim Hammer.

Strategic Information Arrangement: Theory and Techniques

Online CE Course at Simmons College in November, 2010

Instructor:  Katherine Bertolucci

Fee:  $250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200) for the four week online course.

Registration:  http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/workshops/online.php#strategic
(Click “Register,” top of the page on the left)

“Strategic Information Arrangement” takes an entertaining look at the building blocks of order, especially arrangement styles for organized information.  These are the skills you need to display information, whether in taxonomy, classification, or structured lists. Understanding these strategies helps you build ordered arrangements that persuade users. Lack of understanding can inadvertently send users in the opposite direction. Since all information has order, even if only random, each arrangement structure you build is an opportunity to persuade or to accidentally dissuade.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes “order is more profound than information” because it “fits a purpose.” This course helps you develop profound order with fifteen list structures, six hierarchic methods, and five persuasive strategies. Katherine’s client Snoopy is on hand to explain some of the concepts. Nevada’s Burning Man art festival and the Rolling Stones also make an appearance. You learn how each technique fits a unique purpose and how to persuasively exploit these techniques.

We also review the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme from World War I, each with similar information and goals, yet requiring different name arrangement strategies.  Memorials reviewed by members of the May class are featured in Katherine’s blog post, “Names on a Memorial:  Into the Earth (Memorials Discovered by the Strategic Arrangement Class).”

In the optional assignment, you design a hierarchic structure with provided material.  Assignments are critiqued by Katherine, the only organizationalexpert focusing on persuasive arrangement.  See her Arranging to Persuade series on persuasive technology tools in this blog and at Discover the Region.

Instructor: Katherine Bertolucci is an information management consultant and owner of Isis Information Services in Phoenix, AZ. She specializes in the development andarrangement of subject-based classifications, taxonomies, and other formats for persuasive information presentation. A pioneer in non-traditional classification, Katherine built her first taxonomy in 1978. Clients include poets and transnational corporations such as Procter & Gamble and Thomson Financial. Known for her work with Snoopy, Katherine’s programs are entertaining and informative. She is former Chair of SLA’s Library Management Division and Information Futurists Caucus. Katherine’s essays on information arrangement appear on IsisInBlog. Print publications include “The Future Still Awaits Us: Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street” (Searcher, July-August, 2009),”BeyondFindability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous” (Searcher, February, 2009), and “Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy” (Information Outlook, March, 2004). Contact her at katherine@isisinform.com

Photo Credit: “The Temple of Joy at Night,” © Jim Hammer and Burning Man. More photos by Jim Hammer at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrscience

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Strategic Information Arrangement: Theory and Techniques

Online CE Course at Simmons College in May, 2010

Instructor:  Katherine Bertolucci

Fee:  $250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200) for thefour week online course.

Registration:  http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/workshops/online.php#strategic (Click “Register,” top of the page on the left)

“Strategic Information Arrangement” takes an entertaining look at the building blocks of order, especially arrangement styles for organized information.  These are the skills you need to display information, whether in taxonomy, classification, or structured lists. Understanding these strategies helps you build ordered arrangements that persuade users. Lack of understanding can inadvertently send users in the opposite direction. Since all information has order, even if only random, each arrangement structure you build is an opportunity to persuade or to accidentally dissuade.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes “order is more profound than information” because it “fits a purpose.” This course helps you develop profound order with fifteen list structures, six hierarchic methods, and five persuasive strategies. Katherine’s client Snoopy is on hand to explain some of the concepts. Nevada’s Burning Man art festival and the Rolling Stones also make an appearance. You learn how each technique fits a unique purpose and how to persuasively exploit these techniques.

For Memorial Day, we review the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme from World War I, each with similar information and goals, yet requiring different name arrangement strategies.  In the optional assignment, you design a hierarchic structure with provided material.  Assignments are critiqued by Katherine, the only organizational expert focusing on persuasive arrangement.

Instructor: Katherine Bertolucci is an information management consultant and owner of Isis Information Services in Phoenix, AZ. She specializes in the development and arrangement of subject-based classifications, taxonomies, and other formats for persuasive information presentation. A pioneer in non-traditional classification, Katherine built her first taxonomy in 1978. Clients include poets and transnational corporations such as Procter & Gamble and Thomson Financial. Known for her work with Snoopy, Katherine’s programs are entertaining and informative. She is former Chair of SLA’s Library Management Division and Information Futurists Caucus. Katherine’s essays on information arrangement appear on IsisInBlog.  Print publications include “The Future Still Awaits Us: Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street” (Searcher, July-August, 2009),”Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous” (Searcher, February, 2009), and “Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy” (Information Outlook, March, 2004). Contact her at katherine@isisinform.com

Photo Credit: “The Temple of Joy at Night,” © Jim Hammer and Burning Man.  More photos by Jim Hammer at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrscience

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CE Course at Simmons College in October, 2009.

More Information and Registration:  http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/workshops/online.php#strategic

Edward Lutyens’ Memorial to the Missing of the Somme in Thiepval, France honors 72,000 British Commonwealth soldiers missing from the Battle of the Somme in WWI.  This memorial influenced Maya Lin’s design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  Both have the goal of keeping comrades together.  Because the two wars were so different, they each use unique arrangements to achieve the same goal.  (Photo:  Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This four week course looks at arrangement methods and persuasive strategies that help you organize information to promote your goals.  Included is a unit on the arrangement of names at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme from WWI.  The course also features Snoopy, the Rolling Stones, and the Burning Man festival in Nevada to show you how to successfully and persuasively arrange information.   

Audience:  Librarians and anyone else who organizes information.  Many supervisors believe all librarians know exactly how to organize everything.  They are often chosen for an arrangement project even if their specialty is search rather than classification.  This course will help you meet that expectation.     

Purpose: Students learn the basic methods of organizing information.  They also learn persuasive strategies that complement an organizational structure.    

Format:  The online fourweek course uses weekly PowerPoint slides with textual notes, and optional readings.  There is an optional online discussion each week and an optional final project of organizing a list of titles in an entertaining topic.   

Hours to complete: That depends on the student.  The PowerPoint slide shows are relatively short, with notes written in an entertaining style.  Students can read as many or as few of the resources as they want.  Most of the additional readings are essays about information organization from Katherine’s blog, IsisInBlog.  Optional online discussions are one hour each week.  Timing for the optional final project again depends on the student, mostlikely a few hours.    

The instructor will provide feedback on the readings during the weekly online discussions.  Final projects also receive extensive feedback.
 

More Information and Registration:  http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/workshops/online.php#strategic

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My newest print article, “The Future Still Awaits Us:  Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street,” is published in the July-August 2009 issue of Searcher.  There’s a very attractive robot on the cover.

The article looks at the concept of the Singularity, which in this context surmises that machines will overtake human intelligence, with an effect so profound we cannot even imagine what life will be like after the event.  I suggest that automated financial trading, which contributed to the current economic crisis, may be a sign that the Singularity is approaching.

In his 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil predicted events in 2009, 2019, 2029 and 2099, with a chapter for each year and also in a time line format.  In a sidebar to my article, I look at all of the 2009 Time Line predictions and evaluate their accuracy.  In addition, I have categorized his predictions for the four years so readers can easily see Kurzweil’s evolving vision.  I believe this is to date the most thorough published analysis of Kurzweil’s 2009 Time Line predictions.

 Another sidebar discusses environmental or horizon scanning as a futurist technique well suited to librarians.  The article includes further resources and a reference list.

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My latest print article, “Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous,” is now available in the February 2009 issue of Searcher. 

In addition to discussing logic discrepancies in David Weinberger’s book Everything Is Miscellaneous, the article addresses the value of arranged information for reasons other than findability.  The organizing process itself often leads to new knowledge.  Like any form of communication, organized information expresses a knowledge perspective.  The presentation of that perspective can be a valuable service to users.  Physical arrangements of organized information are often symmetrical, perhaps neurologically enhancing knowledge acquisition.  The article opens with a description of Michael Wesch’s video, Information R/evolution,” which implies that libraries still use typewriters.

Subsequent to publishing the article, I discovered I am not the only one thinking “Beyond Findability.”  On October 31, Jonathan Young published “Beyond Findability: The Search for Active Intelligence” on ZDNet News.  Young is a Senior Research Engineer at Attivio.  His article is about the future of search engines, “As we move beyond the search box (the ‘user interface of last resort’), enterprise search solutions are beginning to support many different search modalities, including exploratory search, information discovery, and information synthesis.”

On March 18, “Beyond Findability: Reframing IA Practice & Strategy for Turbulent Times” will be a pre-conference workshop at the ASIST Information Architecture Summit.  The workshop is sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute with co-presenters Andrew Hinton, Livia Labate, Joe Lamantia and Matthew Milan,.  They will be discussing the future of information architecture and user design, looking at “new, emerging ideas that have shown promise ‘in the wild’ of design practice.” 

Michael Wesch will be a keynote speaker at the Summit, so we’ve got a circle going here.  This year the Summit is at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, a great venue.  If you attend, be sure to check out the ducks.

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Writings by Katherine Bertolucci

January 5, 2011

A Note on the Arrangement:  A hierarchical arrangement with categories in alphabetical order within each group.  Within each category, titles are in reverse chronological order.  Chronologic because some posts build upon each other; reverse because it places recent items first.  The directory includes print publications and postings from my previous blog service.

(Bloglines recently changed its service and Bloglines URLs now go to the Bloglines home page.  My apologies.  I am tring to fix that.)

ARRANGEMENT PRINCIPLES

CATEGORIES
Categorical Emotion (6.30.08)
Families’ Affiliation (11.11.06)
Apples and Tomatoes (7.26.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Strategy (1.1.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Species (1.1.06, originally posted 12.21.05)
Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy, Information Outlook (3.03)

FINDABILITY
Arranging to Persuade:  Reduction or Persuading through Simplifying(8.15.10)
Reinventing Knowledge: The Medieval Controversy of Alphabetical Order (7.5.09)
Reinventing Knowledge: Early Information Architecture in the Page of a Book (6.13.09)
Reinventing Knowledge, Inventing Findability (6.8.09)

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Reinventing Knowledge: Early Information Architecture in the Page of a Book (6.13.09)

PARAMETERS
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Practice What You Preach: Manipulating First Place (3.27.10)
All Things Being Equal: Sorting Articles in One Issue of a Journal (5.13.09)
Comrades in Vietnam and the Somme (1.15.07)
Working with Parameters (1.5.06)

PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES
Arranging to Persuade: Tailoring or Persuasion Through Customization (1.5.11)
Arranging to Persuade: Tunneling or Guided Persuasion (9.12.2010)
Arranging to Persuade:  Reduction or Persuading through Simplifying (8.15.10)
Arranging to Persuade:  Seven Persuasive Tools (7.27.10)
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Practice What You Preach:  Manipulating First Place (3.27.10)
Creative Literary and Pragmatic Lists (3.21.10)
Persuasion by Arrangement:  Intended and Unintended Consequences (1.21.09)

SERVICE
“Beyond Findability” Published in Searcher (2.17.09)
Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous, Searcher (2.09)
Stealth Organizing (11.16.08)
Information Arrangement in the ER (8.17.06)

STRATEGIC ORGANIZING
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Practice What You Preach: Manipulating First Place (3.27.10)
Creative Literary and Pragmatic Lists (3.21.10)
The Wittenbergplatz Concentration Camps Sign (11.27.09)
All Things Being Equal: Sorting Articles in One Issue of a Journal (5.13.09)
Stealth Organizing (11.16.08)
Oklahoma City (5.2.07)
Jessie C. Alba (4.3.07)
Twelve Columns (3.22.07)
A Path Among the Missing (2.4.07)
Apples and Tomatoes (7.26.06)
An Explorer in Taxonomy (4.30.06)
Domain Analysis: Logic in Chronological Order (3.8.06)
Working with Parameters (1.5.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Strategy (1.1.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Species (1.1.06, originally posted 12.21.05)
Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy, Information Outlook (3.03)

SYMMETRY
“Beyond Findability” Published in Searcher (2.17.09)
Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous, Searcher (2.09)
Symmetry: The Calm Before the Structure (2.9.06)
Puzzle in Hollywood: Discovering Nathanael West’s Hidden Structure (1.24.06)

TAXONOMY
Steps to an Ecology of Similarity and Difference (6.28.06)
An Explorer in Taxonomy (4.30.06)
Working with Parameters (1.5.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Strategy (1.1.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Species (1.1.06, originally posted 12.21.05)
Taxonomy Design for Snoopy (12.12.05)
Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy, Information Outlook (3.03)

ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURES

ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Arranging to Persuade:  Reduction or Persuading through Simplifying (8.15.10)
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Practice What You Preach: Manipulating First Place (3.27.10)
Creative Literary and Pragmatic Lists (3.21.10)
The Wittenbergplatz Concentration Camps Sign (11.27.09)
Reinventing Knowledge: The Medieval Controversy of Alphabetical Order (7.5.09)
“Beyond Findability” Published in Searcher (2.17.09)
Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous, Searcher (2.09)
Findability and the Alphabet (11.11.06)
Information Arrangement in the ER (8.17.06)
Apples and Tomatoes (7.26.06)
Symmetry: The Calm Before the Structure (2.9.06)
Taxonomy Design for Snoopy (12.12.05)

CANONIC ORDER (based on another work)
Reinventing Knowledge: The Medieval Controversy of Alphabetical Order (7.5.09)
Twelve Columns (3.22.07)
A Path Among the Missing (2.4.07)
Comrades in Vietnam and the Somme (1.15.07)

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
Arranging to Persuade: Tunneling or Guided Persuasion (9.12.2010)
Arranging to Persuade:  Reduction or Persuading through Simplifying (8.15.10)
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
The Wittenbergplatz Concentration Camps Sign (11.27.09)
All Things Being Equal: Sorting Articles in One Issue of a Journal (5.13.09)
Jessie C. Alba (4.3.07)
Comrades in Vietnam and the Somme (1.15.07)
Circles and Spirals (12.7.06)
Vietnam’s Chronology (11.22.06)
Domain Analysis: Logic in Chronological Order (3.8.06)

HIERARCHY
Categorical Emotion (6.30.08)
Steps to an Ecology of Similarity and Difference (6.28.06)
Taxonomy Design for Snoopy (12.12.05)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Strategy (1.1.06)
Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy, Information Outlook (3.03)

POPULARITY ORDER
Reinventing Knowledge: The Medieval Controversy of Alphabetical Order (7.5.09)

RANDOM ORDER
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Meaningful Adjacencies (10.12.09)
Reinventing Knowledge: The Medieval Controversy of Alphabetical Order (7.5.09)
Lutyens at Burning Man (5.28.07)
Reflecting 9/11’s Random Absence (11.7.06)

RELEVANCE
All Things Being Equal: Sorting Articles in One Issue of a Journal (5.13.09)

SPATIAL ORDER
Meaningful Adjacencies (10.12.09)
Oklahoma City (5.2.07)

DIGITAL EXPLORERS AND PIONEERS
Expanding the Metaphor (1.6.09)

DIRECTORY OF POSTINGS
Practice What You Preach: Manipulating First Place (3.27.10)

FINANCIAL CRISIS, 2008-09
“The Future Still Awaits Us” Published in Searcher (7.18.09)
The Future Still Awaits Us:  Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street, Searcher (7-8.09)

FOGG, B.J.
Arranging to Persuade: Tunneling or Guided Persuasion (9.12.2010)
Arranging to Persuade:  Reduction or Persuading through Simplifying (8.15.10)
Arranging to Persuade:  Seven Persuasive Tools (7.27.10)

ISIS INFORMATION SERVICES PROJECTS

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RURAL STUDIES
An Explorer in Taxonomy (4.30.06)

CE COURSES
Names on a Memorial:  Into the Earth (Memorials Discovered by the Strategic Information Arrangement Class) (5.31.10)
Strategic Information Arrangement Returns to Simmons in May (2.14.10)

DETERMINED PRODUCTIONS
Working with Parameters (1.5.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Strategy (1.1.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Species (1.1.06, originally posted 12.21.05)
Taxonomy Design for Snoopy (12.12.05)
Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy, Information Outlook (3.03)

DISASTER AID
Stealth Organizing (11.16.08)
Information Arrangement in the ER (8.17.06)

KURZWEIL, RAY
“The Future Still Awaits Us” Published in Searcher (7.18.09)
The Future Still Awaits Us:  Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street, Searcher (7-8.09)

KNOWLEDGE
Reinventing Knowledge: Early Information Architecture in the Page of a Book (6.13.09)
Reinventing Knowledge, Inventing Findability (6.8.09)
Reinventing Knowledge in Times of Change (5.28.09)
“Beyond Findability” Published in Searcher (2.17.09)
Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous, Searcher (2.09)

MEMORIALS
Names on a Memorial:  Into the Earth (Memorials Discovered by the Strategic Information Arrangement Class (5.31.10)

BURNING MAN
Strategic Information Arrangement Returns to Simmons in May (2.14.10)
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Lutyens at Burning Man (5.28.07)

CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL
Circles and Spirals (12.7.06)

MAN WITH TWO HATS
Oklahoma City (5.2.07)

MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING OF THE SOMME
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Lutyens at Burning Man (5.28.07)
Twelve Columns (3.22.07)
Honor for the Individual (2.22.07)
Follow the Leader (2.12.07)
A Path Among the Missing (2.4.07)
Comrades in Vietnam and the Somme (1.15.07)

OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL
Oklahoma City (5.2.07)

VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL
Arranging to Persuade: Tunneling or Guided Persuasion (9.12.2010)
Arranging to Persuade:  Reduction or Persuading through Simplifying (8.15.10)
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Persuasion by Arrangement:  Intended and Unintended Consequences (1.24.09)
Jessie C. Alba (4.3.07)
Comrades in Vietnam and the Somme (1.15.07)
Vietnam’s Chronology (11.22.06)

WITTENBERGPLATZ
The Wittenbergplatz Concentration Camps Sign (11.27.09)

WOMEN’S TABLE
Circles and Spirals (12.7.06)

WORLD TRADE CENTER MEMORIAL
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
Meaningful Adjacencies (11.27.09)
Families’ Affiliation (11.11.06)
Findability and the Alphabet (11.11.06)
Reflecting 9/11’s Random Absence (11.7.06)

NAMES ON A MEMORIAL SERIES
Names on a Memorial:  Into the Earth (Memorials Discovered by the Strategic Information Arrangement Class (5.31.10)
The Power of Information Arrangement (5.15.10)
The Wittenbergplatz Concentration Camps Sign (11.27.09)
Meaningful Adjacencies (10.12.09)
Lutyens at Burning Man (5.28.07)
Oklahoma City (5.2.07)
Jessie C. Alba (4.3.07)
Twelve Columns (3.22.07)
Honor for the Individual (2.22.07)
Follow the Leader (2.12.07)
A Path Among the Missing (2.4.07)
Comrades in Vietnam and the Somme (1.15.07)
Circles and Spirals (12.7.06)
Vietnam’s Chronology (11.22.06)
Families’ Affiliation (11.11.06)
Findability and the Alphabet (11.11.06)
Reflecting 9/11’s Random Absence (11.7.06)

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
“The Future Still Awaits Us” Published in Searcher (7.18.09)
The Future Still Awaits Us:  Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street, Searcher (7-8.09)
“Beyond Findability” Published in Searcher (2.17.09)
Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous, Searcher (2.09)
Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy, Information Outlook (3.03)

REINVENTING KNOWLEDGE SERIES
Reinventing Knowledge: The Medieval Controversy of Alphabetical Order (7.5.09)
Reinventing Knowledge: Early Information Architecture in the Page of a Book (6.13.09)
Reinventing Knowledge, Inventing Findability (6.8.09)
Reinventing Knowledge in Times of Change (5.28.09)

SINGULARITY
“The Future Still Awaits Us” Published in Searcher (7.18.09)
The Future Still Awaits Us:  Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity on Wall Street, Searcher (7-8.09)

SNOOPY SERIES
Working with Parameters (1.5.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Strategy (1.1.06)
Snoopy in Subphylum Vertebrata: The Species (1.1.06, originally posted 12.21.05)
Taxonomy Design for Snoopy (12.12.05)
Happiness is Taxonomy: Four Structures for Snoopy, Information Outlook (3.03)

UTOPIANS AND MILLENARIANS
The Quest for Knowledge (7.22.08)
Big Brother at Wired (7.5.08)

WEINBERGER, DAVID
Reinventing Knowledge: The Medieval Controversy of Alphabetical Order (7.5.09)
Reinventing Knowledge in Times of Change (5.28.09)
“Beyond Findability” Published in Searcher (2.17.09)
Beyond Findability: Organizing Information in the Age of the Miscellaneous, Searcher (2.09)

WEST, NATHANAEL
Puzzle in Hollywood: Discovering Nathanael West’s Hidden Structure (1.24.06)
Dantzig and Isis: Real Urban Legends (1.11.06)

WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia as a Research Tool (12.2.08)

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