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This wiki is meant to be a companion to the architected.info blog. However, the content on this site will be more static, and hopefully with a bit more detail. My writing is focused on how people, practices, and information are transformed into relationships and understanding. While I cover a lot of subjects, it seems like a lot of what I do really seems to focus on people and information architecture as a whole.
This site is still in its earliest phases, so please excuse the mess.
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Information Architecture
Information Architecture is a discipline devoted to delivering information from systems to people in order to help them to work, play, and live. This may include technology, design, asthetics, service delivery, and a number of other areas. Information Architecture is a very new, broad, and ill-defined discipline, with some confusion over exactly what it entails. However, this hasn't stopped me from leaping into the fray.
Information Quality
Information Quality is a passion of mine, both as an academic subject and a professional discipline. Building an Information Architecture without an understanding of Information Quality is like desiging a building without understanding statics.
ETL
ETL (or Extract, Transform, Load) is a programming discipline focused on large scale data operations, often in and around a data warehouse. However, it is much, much more than that. I have worked for many years as an ETL Architect, Designer, and Developer, and am intimiately familiar with it.
Metadata
Metadata is data about data. It describes exactly what an Information Architecture consumes and produces, and how this is done. I have worked with metadata quite a bit in relation to ETL and data warehousing, and have developed some very practical (although sometimes unorthodox) methods for using it.
Automation
Automation is the art and science of making processes run without human intervention. While this may seem like a no-brainer, in fact this is a very interesting and complicated part of Information Architecture.
Integration
Integration is bringing everything together. This is where the rubber hits the road in terms of Information Architecture, one of the most difficult areas to deal with.
Databases
Databases are the primary vehicle for data storage, access, and often transformation. They are a beast onto themselves and mastery of database operations takes a lot of dedication. This is a REALLY wide area of study, I focus on databases mostly in relation to ETL and Information Quality
