Authors:
Antonia M. Reina-Quintero
and
Jesús Torres-Valderrama
Affiliation:
University of Seville, Spain
Keyword(s):
Metamodelling, Model transformations, Information architecture, Navigation design, Sitemaps, Web design.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Metadata and Metamodeling
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
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.
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