Dan Keldsen — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:33 GMT

Not to toot my own horn too much here, but we (Delphi Group) have training sessions that we’ve been doing for 4-5 years now, on Information Architecture, Taxonomy, Search, Portals and Content Management. The next one coming up (as of this posting) is March 7-9, 2006 in Boca Raton, Florida – and it is called, the Proving Ground on Information Architecture and Taxonomy. More details at http://www.delphigroup.com/pg – I’m the co-lead in this practice area, and happy to discuss this more online or offline. I have been involved in this area for 4-5 years formally, and more informally, for roughly a decade.

Also, as an IAI member (Information Architecture Institute), I know that there has been quite a bit of talk about this very topic on the IAI-list. I would recommend anyone interested in IA and steering the conversation join up, and help to make it happen – see http://iainstitute.org/ for more details there.

Actual degrees and diplomas are still somewhat rare from what I have seen, but that is changing as IA is (more or less) being defined and understood by degree granting institutions. This is all evolving awfully fast though, so to really “be” an IA, my opinion is that you have to be out there doing it to get the constant evolution of the real world in your blood, while having a foundation to refer to, through training/research/learning of some sort.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Dan Keldsen