I was lucky enough to open up the ‘IA Theory and Practice’ stream of the IA Summit this year with a presentation on an enterprise taxonomy project I did for FIFA recently in Zurich. This was my third time speaking at the conference, and as always I came away inspired and with more and more […]
I am very excited to be speaking at the annual Information Architecture Summit in Minneapolis this coming April. This will be my third time speaking at the summit, and I’ll be the first speaker in the “IA Theory and Practice” track. Whereas the other talks I’ve done for the summit have been a bit more […]
On February 21st, 2015 I had the distinct pleasure of doing a case study for World Information Architecture Day in Zurich. The talk I did was an overview of a large taxonomy project I recently completed for FIFA, the world’s football governance authority, and looks at a few of the exercises, analysis and standards I used […]
In preparation for migration of content to a new CMS the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) engaged Adam Ungstad for his expertise in information architecture and content strategy to make their web content more relevant, readable and understandable. In the initial phases of the project Ungstad completed an inventory of selected sub sites within the www.wmo.int domain […]
Through my love of information architecture and making the world easier to understand with metadata, taxonomy and classification I caught the eye of the masterminds behind the Digital Asset Management (DAM) Guru program, and was asked to answer a few questions for them. The DAM Guru program is something very unique, that I think really […]
I am very proud to have been invited to speak at World Information Architecture Day (WIAD) in Zurich this coming February 21, 2015. World Information Architecture Day is the brainchild of the Information Architecture Institute, and the idea behind the day is that different cities across the world simultaneously host a day of celebration of […]
Football’s governing body, FIFA, required a set of classifications and definitions for the official documents they’ve created – all 70,000 of them. Over the course of 6 months Adam Ungstad worked with stakeholders from across this dynamic organization to build consensus on a set of terms, classes, hierarchy and definitions that describe the content they produce. […]
I was lucky enough to attend the annual Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) seminar at the Royal Library of the Netherlands in the The Hague this October. The quality of the papers presented was very good, and I think everyone who attended took away something new and useful. Here’s a few of the interesting things that I […]
I was lucky enough to be a presenter at EuroIA in Edinburgh, Scotland this past weekend. The entire conference was a good one, with a very broad range of topics covered ranging from natural interfaces to facilitating co-creation workshops to, of course, metadata. My talk was called “Metadata in Cross-Channel Ecosystems” and explores the role […]
I’m excited to be speaking at Euro IA in Edinburgh, Scotland this September. The programme for the conference is quite diverse, covering many facets within the information architecture practice that haven’t been discussed much yet, and everyone I’ve talked to seems to really like Edinburgh. I’m looking forward to learning with my peers and bringing a […]