The Information Architecture Gateway will be a portal that connects tools, libraries, and resources from different disciplines related to information architecture (IA). It will host artifacts like IA histories, methodologies, visualizations, and tools. The gateway will be developed through the Science Gateways Institute and collaborate with partners like EarthCube, the Identity Ecosystem Working Group, and the Information Architecture Institute. It aims to serve professionals, academics, and individuals working in IA and related fields.

1. IA Gateway
Noreen Whysel

2. What is an IA Gateway?
The Information Architecture Gateway will offer a set of Information
Architecture library and research tools that we bring together from different
disciplines within IA to serve other ecosystems and to help them learn and
discover IA in their own ecosystems.

3. What is an IA Gateway?
Think of the IA Gateway as a portal that helps to connect, search, find, and use
tools for IA, libraries, associations, universities, researchers, individuals, etc.
from various sectors.

4. What is an IA Gateway?
Gateways are usually implemented using web technologies, but there are also mobile
applications. A common interface integrates resources that may be geographically
distributed. Some of the components of basic CI that a gateway might access include:
• Sensors
• Instruments
• Data collections and resources
• Campus clusters (includes the Open
• Science Grid)
• Supercomputers/High-Performance Computing
(includes the eXtreme Science and
Engineering Discovery Environment)
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• Visualization
• Workflows
• Codes (community-based or from a
commercial vendor)
• Software
• Collaboration tools
• Educational resources

5. What Will the IA Gateway Host?
● History of IA
● IA Research
● IA Methodologies
● IA Visualizations
● IA Simulations
● IA Trainings
● IA Ontologies
● IA Taxonomies
● IA Glossaries
● IA Translations
● IA Tools
● Other IA Artifacts

6. Knowledge Domains
● IA of Communications
● IA of Language
● IA of Learning
● IA of Knowledge
● Social IA
● Professional Associations
● IA of Security
● IA of Privacy
● IA of Accessibility
● IA of Resilience
● IA of Identity

7. Collaboration Model
Multidisciplinary and cross-sector users:
• professional associations
• universities
• R&D organizations
• large and small business organizations
• individuals
Membership agreements will be modeled for type of entities, and negotiated
based on value propositions, benefits, collaborations, and partner activities.

8. Background
Information Architecture Gateway project will be hosted at the Science
Gateways Institute.
A Science Gateway is a community-developed set of tools, applications, and
data collections that are integrated through a portal or a suite of applications.
Gateways provide access to a variety of capabilities including workflows,
visualization, resource discovery, and job execution services.

9. Background
The Science Gateway Institute (SGI) offers an incubator service, including a
complete development environment and hosting service, consulting,
documentation, and software recommendations.
Through the Science Gateway Institute, we will have access a supercomputing
consortium XSEDE: the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery
Environment, allowing us develop an online learning and collaboration gateway
that utilizes the power of one of the largest international and virtual
supercomputer networks in the world.

10. Partners: EarthCube
Earth Cube is an NSF funded initiative to create a real time data and knowledge
management system for the 21st Century.
Members of the geospatial science community are actively engaged in
research that involves collecting and using real-time disaster resilience data,
simulating processes, and visualizing complex interacting systems.

11. Partners: ID Ecosystem Working Group
The Identity Ecosystem Working Group (IDESG) is developing standards that
will enable people to validate their identities securely, and with minimized
disclosure of personal information when they are conducting transactions. Its
User Experience, Communications, International and Security teams include
members of IA Institute and IA Gateway founders, Bev Corwin, Shari Thurow
and Noreen Whysel. Noreen Whysel is the Vice Chair of the UX Committee.
IDESG was originally a U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
initiative to implement President Obama’s National Strategy for Trusted
Identities in Cyberspace.

12. Partners: World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) engaged members of the IA Gateway and
the IA Institute to participate in preliminary user experience research for its
latest website redesign.The IA Gateway Steering Committee members also
participate in the W3C MMI, EMMA, Accessibility, and eBook standards working
groups.

13. Partners: NYSGISA and GISMO
The New York State GIS Association (NYSGISA) and its NYC regional affiliate
GISMO consulted our founders on the development of content for the NYC
GeoSymposium 2001-2011-2022 hosted by the NYC Technology Conference,
which included a panel presentation on the future of GIS technology in
emergency management and a poster/study by IA Gateway founder, Noreen
Whysel, on evolution of technology, systems, taxonomies and IA used by the
NYC Office of Emergency Management since 2001.
Noreen has developed trainings on geolocation, emergency management and
disaster resilience for a number of IA/GIS events and conferences.

14. Partners: Journal of IA
The Journal of Information Architecture is a peer reviewed journal, originally
incubated by the Information Architecture Institute and Copenhagen Business
School.
The IA Gateway proposes to engage the Journal and similar resources, like
Boxes and Arrows and UX Matters, to deposit resources.

15. Partners: Information Architecture Institute
The Information Architecture Institute (IAI) is currently developing a new
platform for the IA Library. The IAI’s crowdsourced translations initiative
secures translation rights to major Information Architecture works and delivers
content to practitioners in their local language.

16. Partners: Biblionarrator
Biblionarrator is an open source catalog system that emphasizes relationships
between records to help user understand the collection and find what they
need. It includes a keyword searchable, faceted interface that integrates non-
bibliographic information directly into the catalog.
Contextual information about authors, places, and concepts can be loaded
directly into the catalog from authority files—such as those provided by the
Library of Congress. Users explore the catalog either using traditional results
pages or with network maps showing the relationships between their results
and other records in the catalog.

17. Other Proposed Partnerships
• Small Business Administration
• Digital Public Library of America
• Europeana

18. Unique Qualifications: Infrastructure
Science Gateways Institute is an NSF funded organization that offers an
incubator service, including:
• complete development environment and hosting service
• consulting
• documentation
• software recommendations
• an extended support team

19. Unique Qualifications: Expertise
In partnership with the Information Architecture Institute, a professional
association, we will have access to volunteers with expertise in:
• information architecture
• user experience design
• website development
• knowledge management
• library and information science
• cognitive science

20. Unique Qualifications: Open Source
The IA Gateway champions Open Source technology wherever feasible.

21. Thank You
Noreen Whysel
nwhysel@gmail.com
http://www.whysel.com
@nwhysel