- GROUPING - The process of placing like content objects together so users can access them effectively, thereby defining content areas. Grouping is performed in conjunction with labeling and is part of the process of organizing.
- VALIDATION - Quality control for the indexing process. This includes checking for empty attribute values and looking at each attribute value for accuracy and consistency.
- CONTENT AREA - A collection of content objects that share a common grouping method. A content area is one part of a site. Content areas may be buckets, silos and sub-sites. Example: the “Human Resources” area of a site or the search tool for a site, but not an audio clip or a document.
- BUILDING BLOCKS – The components of a bottom-up information architecture, namely the attribute and attribute values for content objects.
- CONTENT - Information that has a tangible aspect because it has been collected and contained in a content object. Content can be unstructured (usually text) or structured (in a database). Content can be collected at differing levels of granularity.
Hagedorn, Kat. The Information Architecture Glossary, http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/iaglossary.html, 2000.
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