SITEMAPS FROM A MODEL DRIVEN PERSPECTIVE - A First Step for Bridging the Gap between Information Architecture and Navigation Design

Antonia M. Reina-Quintero, Jesús Torres-Valderrama

2010

Abstract

Researchers claim that there is a disconnection between information architecture and navigation design. One way of approaching these two fields is to share deliverables. However, it is difficult to change the minds of audiences to make them use deliverables they are not used to. Thus, we propose let audiences use those deliverables they are more comfortable with, and then transform one deliverable into another, as far as possible. To get this aim, firstly, we need to have a deep knowledge of deliverables, and secondly, a set of mappings have to be defined in order to translate the information the source deliverable is covering into the target deliverable. Our approach uses metamodelling as the technique to define the pieces that compose deliverables and their relationships, and model transformations for mapping deliverables. In this context, the paper focuses on one of the most widely used information architecture deliverables, sitemaps, and its main contributions are: (1) a sitemap metamodel, which define the minimum set of elements that can be used for specifying sitemaps; and, (2) a set of model to model transformations to obtain a XHTML skeleton of structural and utility navigation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

M. Reina-Quintero A. and Torres-Valderrama J. (2010). SITEMAPS FROM A MODEL DRIVEN PERSPECTIVE - A First Step for Bridging the Gap between Information Architecture and Navigation Design . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-674-025-2, pages 111-117. DOI: 10.5220/0002804701110117

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist10,
author={Antonia M. Reina-Quintero and Jesús Torres-Valderrama},
title={SITEMAPS FROM A MODEL DRIVEN PERSPECTIVE - A First Step for Bridging the Gap between Information Architecture and Navigation Design},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2010},
pages={111-117},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002804701110117},
isbn={978-989-674-025-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - SITEMAPS FROM A MODEL DRIVEN PERSPECTIVE - A First Step for Bridging the Gap between Information Architecture and Navigation Design
SN - 978-989-674-025-2
AU - M. Reina-Quintero A.
AU - Torres-Valderrama J.
PY - 2010
SP - 111
EP - 117
DO - 10.5220/0002804701110117