Presentation of Armenian students in the TEMPUS Summer School . Tbilisi, Georgia.

1. Organization SystemsPresentation by ArusyakHarutyunyan

2. What do we need it for? We need to organize information thus enabling people to find the right answers to their questions via supporting casual browsing and directed searching. The aim is to design organization and labeling systems that make sense to users and are ease-of-use. 09.07.2010 2

3. ORGANIZING CONTENT If you want your content to be useful, well-written, and in a format that is suitable for the Web, it is important to ensure that the information is clearly organized. In some cases, the content on a site can be organized in multiple ways to accommodate multiple audiences. Organizing content includes putting critical information near the top of the site, grouping related elements, and ensuring that all necessary information is available without slowing the user with unneeded information. Content should be formatted to facilitate scanning, and to enable quick understanding. 09.07.2010 3

4. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ORGANIZION SYSTEMS? Increasingly companies are realising the importance of information architecture and are employing specialist ‘information architects’ to perform this role. But information architecture is also defined by: intranet designers and managers website designers and managers visual designers other people designing information systems programmers librarians technical writers 09.07.2010 4

6. Heterogeneity

7. Differences in Perspectives

9. Organization Scheme When you design a new website, one of the most important decisions you'll make is choosing the organization scheme for your content. Sometimes it looks obvious - you have distinct audiences (an audience scheme), lots of location information (a geographical scheme), or people do a few straightforward things (a task-based scheme). But more often than not, the obvious answer is not as easy as it looks.

14. Ambiguous Organization Schemes Ambiguous or "subjective" organization schemes divide information into categories that defy exact definition. However, they are often more important and useful than exact organization schemes. The reason why people find ambiguous organization schemes so useful is we don't always know what we're looking for. Ambiguous organization supports this serendipitous mode of information seeking by grouping items in intellectually meaningful ways.

23. Organization Structures The structure of information defines the primary ways in which users can navigate. Major organization structures that apply to web site and intranet architectures include the hierarchy, the database-oriented model, and hypertext. Each organization structure possesses unique strengths and weaknesses.

27. The Happy End? Thanks for your attention!