What an information architect could learn from Plato

WHAT AN IA COULD LEARNFROM PLATOBARCAMP HASSELT#BCHASSELT - OCTOBER 22, 2011WOUTER WALGRAEVE - NASCOM

HI!I AM WOUTER WALGRAEVE AND I WORK AT NASCOM

PLATOINFORMATION ARCHITECT

ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE PLATO’S THEORY OF FORMS

PLATO NEOINFORMATION ARCHITECTINFORMATION ARCHITECT

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

ALL OBJECTS WE RECOGNIZE AS “CHAIRS”

A CHAIRTHE CHAIR

A THINGTHE OBJECT

EVERYTHING WE SEE IS AN INSTANCE OF AN OBJECT

PERCEPTION OF AN OBJECT IS LAYERED IN MATERIAL STRUCTURE VIEW

OBJECTTRANSLATED INTO IT LINGO… DATA LOGICS INTERFACE

THAT’S THE CORE OF OBJECT ORIENTATIONAND MULTI-TIER THINKING

OBJECTCONCEPT VALUES LOGICS INTERFACE

INSTANCE:CLASS UML (KINDA) STYLE ATTRIBUTES BUSINESS METHODS INTERFACE METHODS

OBJECT » APPLICATION WITH OBJECTS, WE MODEL APPLICATIONS.

APPLICATION 3-TIER THINKING DATA BUSINESS LOGICS USER INTERFACE

OBJECT » APPLICATION »SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE APPLICATIONS LIVE IN SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES

SOA3-TIER THINKING DATABASE API WEBAPPS

SOA 3-TIER THINKING DATA, VALUESDATABASE RELATIONSHIPS TABLES, RECORDS… 3-TIER THINKING SQL API PHP, ROR REST, SOAP 3-TIER THINKING JSON, XMLWEBAPP JS HTML, CSS, JS

OBJECT MATERIAL STRUCTURE VIEWALL OUR IT BEST PRACTICE DESIGN PATTERNS ARE BASED ON PLATO’S OBJECT MODEL THINKING

OBJECT ORIENTATION ININFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

THESE ARE ALL BLOCKS.ARE THEY ORDERED BY SHAPE, COLOR OR HEIGHT?

BLOCKTHIS IS OUR OBJECT.

HEIGHT BLOCKCOLOR SHAPE WITH ITS TAXONS.

HEIGHT 1 2 3 4 5 BLOCK RED RECTANGLE YELLOW BLUE SQUARE TRIANGLE GREEN ROUNDCOLOR SHAPE AND ITS TAXON TERMS.

YOU CAN DEFINE AN OBJECT USING TAXONOMY

HEIGHT 1 2 3 4 5 BLOCK RED RECTANGLE YELLOW BLUE SQUARE TRIANGLE GREEN ROUNDCOLOR SHAPEYOU CAN FILTER A SET OF OBJECTS BY NAMING A TAXON TERM.

“SHOW ME ALL THE BLUE,ROUND BLOCKS OF HEIGHT 2”

HEIGHT 1 2 3 4 5 BLOCK RED RECTANGLE YELLOW BLUE SQUARE TRIANGLE GREEN ROUNDCOLOR SHAPEWHEN YOU COMBINE THEM, YOU CREATE A FACET OF OBJECTS.

CAN YOU IDENTIFY OTHER TAXONS?

HEIGHT 1 2TYPE 3 MATERIAL 4 5 PAINTED WOOD BLOCK RED RECTANGLE YELLOW BLUE SQUARE TRIANGLE GREEN ROUND COLOR SHAPE A TAXONOMY CAN ALWAYS BE EXPANDED WITH OTHER TAXONS, ADDING MORE DETAILS & IDENTIFYING ELEMENTS TO THE OBJECT.

SO, INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE IS DEFINING HOW YOU LOOK AT OBJECTS AND THAT’S WHAT I LEARNED FROM…

PLATOINFORMATION ARCHITECT

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