期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2013
卷号：40
期号：1
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Since the late 1990s, the field of information architecture (IA) has played a pivotal role in shaping the structure and organization of the Internet. Although the term information architecture has been around for decades, the rise of IA as an established profession was aided in large part by the publication of Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web [1] – affectionately known as the “Polar Bear Book” due to the presence of a polar bear illustration on its cover – in 1998. Morville and Rosenfeld’s work was important not just because it was one of the first mainstream books to use the term information architecture in the context of hypertext information systems, but also because it presented core library and information sciences (LIS) concepts, including taxonomies, organization schemes and information retrieval systems, as fundamental components of IA. The perpetuation of web-based information services and a LIS-focused brand of IA was not a coincidence, as the application of LIS expertise to the design of information-rich websites was (and is) practically and theoretically consistent with the core of the LIS discipline
