Like all communication, information arrangement persuades and dissuades. It can make or break a project because it includes both organizational strategy and visual display. Is your structured information working for you? Does your taxonomy and classification help users find data or are they fighting with it? The clues are subtle and recognized only with experience.
Katherine Bertolucci is the leading information management consultant specializing in arrangement. She recognizes arrangement details and understands how they influence users. Beginning with her first job after the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, Katherine departed from traditional librarianship and built her own classification for alternative agriculture. That began a career of taxonomy and classification constructions for many subjects and types of information. Her experience in building and observing information arrangement will help you design the most persuasive arrangement for your taxonomy, classification and other information structures.
Based in Phoenix, Katherine works on large and small projects, with such well known clients as Procter & Gamble, Thomson Financial, Iams Pet Food, and Snoopy. Services include new arrangement structures, arrangement advice, and critiques of existing arrangements.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial brings veterans together because the rules of its name arrangement reinforce community. The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme in France does the same thing, but with a different arrangement reflecting the context of a single battle in World War I. At the Memorial Temples of the Burning Man art festivals in Nevada, randomized names bring the community together. Yet at the proposed World Trade Center memorial in New York, random names dispersed communities and almost derailed the project.
