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Rosenfeld and Morville’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd ed. remains the most canonical text for the study of information architecture. I intended to use it as the centerpiece of my independent study, as I’ve regularly skimmed it and used it as a reference, but have never made a systematic effort to read it cover to cover.

I was pleased to find that Peter Morville himself has published a syllabus that focuses on his book, but also offers further readings and case studies. I intend to use his syllabus as my main reading list, but because it appears to be a few years old, I’ll be supplementing it with some more recent case studies and articles drawn from other sources.

Below you’ll find citations and links to the syllabi, articles, and other resources I’ll be studying from now until mid-December. I’ll likely be making additions and subtractions, and would appreciate any suggestions for further readings.

(Citations are listed in the order I’ll be reading them rather than in alphabetical order.)

Main Syllabus:

Morville, Peter. “Information Architecture Syllabus.” Semantic Studios. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://www.semanticstudios.com/publications/iasyllabus.html.

Garrett, Jesse James. “The Elements of User Experience.” Jesse James Garrett’s Hidden Agenda. 2000.
http://jjg.net/ia/elements.pdf.

Bates, Marcia J. “The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the Online Search Interface.” University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Library and Information Science. 1989. 22 July 2006.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/berrypicking.html.

Berners-Lee, Tim, James Hendler and Ora Lassila. “The Semantic Web.” Scientific American May 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21.

Merholz, Peter. “Innovation in Classification.” Peterme.com. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000063.html.

Leise, Fred, Karl Fast and Mike Steckel. “All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies.” Boxes and Arrows. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/all_about_facets_controlled_vocabularies.

Flamenco Search. http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/. UC Berkeley School of Information. 9 September 2006.

Nielsen, Jakob. “First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Users.” Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010805.html.

Willis, Dan. “Classic IA Tools.” Boxes and Arrows. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/images/042103_willis/dswilliscom_classictools.pdf.

Crotty Fraser, Janice. “Taking a Content Inventory.” New Architect. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://adaptivepath.com/events/training/complete/files.php.

Garrett, Jesse James. “ia/recon.” jjg.net. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://jjg.net/ia/recon/.

Shirky, Clay. “Social Software and the Politics of Groups.” Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html.

Morville, Peter. “Social Network Analysis.” Semantic Studios. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000006.php.

Morville, Peter. “Ambient Findability.” Semantic Studios. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000008.php.

Saffo, Paul. “Untangling the Future.” Business 2.0 June 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://www.saffo.com/essays/untangling.php.

The Long Now Foundation. 22 July 2006.
http://www.longnow.org/.

Case Studies:

Rosenbaum, Howard. “L571: Information Architecture for the Web Syllabus: Spring 2006.” 2006. Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. 22 July 2006.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/L571/syll/outline.html.

Fox, Chiara. “PeopleSoft.com Case Study Enterprise Information Architecture.” Adaptive Path. 2001. 22 July 2006.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/hrosenba/www/L571/pdf/fox_peoplesoft.ppt.

Lippell, Helen. “The ABCs of the BBC: A Case Study and Checklist.” Boxes and Arrows. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the_abcs_of_the_bbc_a_case_study_and_checklist.

Parrish, Hannah. “Customer Storytelling at the Heart of Business Success.” Boxes and Arrows. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/customer_storytelling_at_the_heart_of_business_success.

Rampoldi-Hnilo, Lynn. “Uncovering Users In Your Own Organization.” Boxes and Arrows. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/uncovering_users_in_your_own_organization.

Story, Greg. “Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason).” A List Apart. 2005. 22 July 2006.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/landwarinasia.

Other resources:

Miller-Francisco, Emily. “A Brief Bibliography on Information Architecture.” Southern Oregon University. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://home.sou.edu/~millere/ia/handout.html.

Jacob, Elin. “L540 : Foundations of information architecture.” Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. 2003. 22 July 2006.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/syllabi/fall_2003/L540_jacob.html.

Morville, Peter. “Information Architecture Research.” Semantic Studios. 2004. 22 July 2006.
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000030.php.

Turnbull, Don. “LIS385T Information Architecture and Design.” University of Texas Graduate School of Library and Information Science. 2002. 22 July 2006.
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l385tdt/.

Brown, Mary E. “Course Syllabus: ILS 599 Information Architecture.” Southern Connecticut State University. 2006. 22 July 2006.
http://www.southernct.edu/~brownm/599ia_Sp2006_syllabus.html.