Editing Information science (section)

===Information architecture===
{{Main|Information architecture}}

Information architecture (IA) is the art and science of organizing and labelling [[website]]s, [[intranet]]s, [[online communities]] and software to support usability.<ref>'What is IA?' Information Architecture Institute. [http://www.iainstitute.org/documents/learn/What_is_IA.pdf IAinstitute.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070726070358/http://iainstitute.org/documents/learn/What_is_IA.pdf |date=2007-07-26 }}</ref> It is an emerging discipline and ''community of practice'' focused on bringing together principles of [[design]] and [[architecture]] to the ''digital landscape''.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Morville | first1 = Peter | last2 = Rosenfeld | first2 = Louis | title = Information Architecture for the World Wide Web | publisher = O'Reilly Media, Inc | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0-596-52734-1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/informationarchi00morv }}</ref> Typically it involves a [[Scientific modelling|model]] or [[concept]] of [[information]] which is used and applied to activities that require explicit details of complex [[information system]]s. These activities include [[library]] systems and [[database]] development.