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As We May Think by Vannever Bush, published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1945; in other words, a classic article

Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture is a recently created organisation 'dedicated to advancing and promoting informaiton architecture'

Boxes and Arrows publishes articles about information architecture and interaction design

Faceted classification gives a good introduction to the topic and links to a new discussion list

Glossary of information architecture at the IAwiki

Information design using card sorting by James Robertson of Step Two Designs, Australia

jjg.net is the home of Jesse James Garrett's extensive collection of IA material. (Spanish and Italian translations available too, courtesy of Javier Velasco and Antonio Volpon respectively)

The Navigation & Usability Guide from WebReview provides some introductory guidance on navigation issues

Ontologies and Knowledge Bases: Towards a Terminological Clarification, by Guarino & Giaretta (pdf)

Ontology Development 101

The Problem(s) with Sitemaps and Sitemaps: map the user's experience by Peter van Dijck

SIGIA-L is a fairly high-volume discussion list primarily about information architecture

Ten Taxonomy Myths in Montague Institute Review

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