Minutes for May 16, 2011
IA Institute Board Conference Call – NO QUORUM
May 16, 2011
Attendees
Board: Dorian Taylor, Shari Thurow
Other: Tim Bruns, Noreen Whysel
Meeting convened at 4:15pm EST.
Summary: There being no quorum, attendees instead chatted about positive experience at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York, where former IA Institute president, Eric Reiss, and IA Institute founder, Thomas Van der Wal, each had a keynote, setting the tone for the role of information architecture in enterprise search. See our news archives for articles from Noreen Whysel and Shari Thurow on the ESS experience. No decisions were made.
Agenda:
Administrative Matters:
- Melissa Weaver asked us to confirm that she is no longer listed as Administrative contact for our MemberClicks account.
- Noreen and Dorian discussed errors on Wordpress 2006 IDEA blog. He was not able to access it. Noreen gave him some pointers and names.
- Noreen noted that Melissa has requested we tweet about an upcoming ASIS&T webinar. Noreen will post a request for a vote in a separate message.
Enterprise Search Summit:
Noreen and Shari reported on the ESS:
- Avi Rappoport challenged Google for using terms “facet” when they mean “filter.”
- Shari will try to get a quote from her on that. Shari thought Eric’s keynote on the Dumbing Down of Intelligent Search was the best presentation. Very informative.
- Google does accommodate searcher behavior, but could be better. Enterprise search site search engine particularly dumbed down. Shari will write about that.
- Takeaways: Sharepoint stuff may not be of help to our group. Shari thought the NASA woman shouldn’t be invited back – boring, required a very strict controlled vocabulary, versus Citigroup’s system which allows user input hashtags and a clever system for referencing the tags by the person’s group id to assist in findability.
Adjourned at 4:46pm EST