New tools
Posted in: Information Architecture on May 5
The AIfIA tools initiative continues to expand. One of the best new tools is Sarah Rice's content inventory template (6.6 MB Excel file). It uses Excel's grouping and outlining feature (didn't even know that existed) to create a hierarchical, collapsible inventory. This is great stuff, and certainly a leap beyond other templates.
I think there would be a market for an content uber-tool that can do inventories, manage metadata, map content to different site structures and then export a final product in a format that CMSs could understand. I know that would save me a lot of effort doing an inventory in Excel, building a site map in Visio and explaining it all to recalcitrant developers.
Posted by Gene Smith on May 5, 2004
