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Speaking at World Information Architecture Day in Zurich

January 3, 2015February 26, 2015 Adam Ungstad Announcements
World Information Architecture Day 2015

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 […]

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Enterprise Taxonomy of Official Documents for FIFA

July 5, 2014January 31, 2015 Adam Ungstad Projects
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association)

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. […]

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Metadata Dot-Mocracy

August 13, 2013January 29, 2015 Adam Ungstad Articles
Using Dot-Voting to determine enterprise priorities in classification projects.

At a project kick-off for an enterprise information architecture project we started this summer for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) we used a useful technique to determine enterprise priorities for classification and taxonomy projects. I call the exercise “Metadata Dot-Mocracy.”

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IA Summit 2013: Metadata in the Cross-Channel Ecosystem

April 27, 2013January 29, 2015 Adam Ungstad Slides
a diagram showing collections of systems inside of collections of organizations communicating with each other by using metadata standards for their data.

This April I had the pleasure of speaking at the annual Information Architecture Summit in Baltimore, Washington. My talk was called ‘Metadata in the Cross-Channel Ecosystem’, and these are the slides.

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UX Romandie Episode 14

March 26, 2013January 29, 2015 Adam Ungstad Slides
Adam Ungstad presenting at the Hotel Bristol for UX Romanide Episode 14

Slides from my talk for UX Romandie at the Hotel Bristol in Geneva, Switzerland March 26 2013 are on slideshare – please see below! Thank you to UX Romandie for being fantastic hosts for the eveing and providing a great venue. And thank you also to everyone that came to the talk – I had a […]

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Information Architecture and Yona Friedman’s La Ville Spatiale

November 30, 2012January 29, 2015 Adam Ungstad Articles

Today I had the pleasure of visiting the University of Laussane, Switzerland to see an exhibit on Hungarian architect Yona Friedman, called the Genesis of a Vision.  I’m certainly no expert on Mr. Friedman’s work, but I found the exhibit interesting coming from the perspective of someone who designs space with information. There were a […]

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Euro IA Poster: The Information Architecture of Exchange

September 20, 2012January 29, 2015 Adam Ungstad Articles
Adam Ungstad's Euro IA Poster Showing Semantics, Syntax, and Lexicon

This poster is a follow up to “Better Cross-Channel Experiences with Metadata,” a presentation delivered by Adam Ungstad to the IA Summit in New Orleans 2012.  It was Adam Ungstad’s submission to Euro IA 2012 poster night. Here’s the original description: To date, the Information Architecture and User Experience fields have focused largely on how information should […]

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IA Summit 12: Better Cross-Channel Experiences With Metadata

May 8, 2012January 29, 2015 Adam Ungstad Slides
Detail of a slide from Adam Ungstad's talk, breaking down mediums, channels, interactions and touchpoints.

Adam Ungstad was lucky enough to speak at the Information Architecture Summit in New Orleans 2012, tackling the subject of metadata.  Slides from the presentation are presented below, and the original session description follows: Metadata provides a foundation for the cross-channel experiences we consume in the dawn of the 21st century by enabling consistency, context […]

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