Posted on Fri 03 September 2010 in Situation Theory • Tagged with information, information architecture, ritual
(published and featured at the Open Anthropology Cooperative 09/03/10)
In a series recent blog posts, here, here and here, I have explored John Perry and David Israel's notion of an information architecture given in their paper Information and Architecture (pdf). In particular I have been exploring their notions …
Posted on Thu 02 September 2010 in Situation Theory • Tagged with information, information architecture, programming languages
In my previous two posts, Architecture of Information, some notes and More on Combinative and Coincident Information Architectures, I introduced John Perry and David Israel's notion of information architectures. In this post I would like to explore how they can inform us about the semantics of some common programming language …
Posted on Fri 27 August 2010 in Situation Theory • Tagged with information, information architecture
In the interest of exploring Perry and Israel's information architectures further, I will elaborate upon my previous post on the topic, and give a more fine-grained account of some of their ideas.
Suppose that we take as signal the presence of smoke, and its indicated content that there is a …
Posted on Fri 06 August 2010 in Situation Theory • Tagged with information, information architecture
Notes on "Information and Architecture" by John Perry and David Israel
David Israel and John Perry build upon the idea of pure and incremental content (developed in previous work) to introduce their notion of an information system of signal structures, describing three general kinds of information architectures: coincident architectures, combinative …