Designing Structures

Policy & Guidance Discover & Design Architecture Build Structural Schemes

Managing Content

IA
Information Architecture

Designing Structures
NARA, NIST, DoD

Managing Content
Business Processes

Records Retention Schedules, Strategy, Policy, Technical Standards, Guidance

Structures
Privacy, Privacy,Confidentiality, Confidentiality,Releasability, Releasability, Approvals, Approvals,Editing EditingRights... Rights...
Strategic Goals, Business Processes, Data Standards

Federal Enterprise Architecture

Goals, Business, Data, Applications, Technology

Models, Structures, Constraints, Business Goals, Audience Goals

Reference Models

Legislation, Regulations, Guidance

Enterprise Architecture

Security Security

Add Add metadata metadata to to content content from from business business processes processes

Create Create & & Catalog Catalog Content Content

Create & Catalog Content

Models, Stewards, Data Harmonization

File FileStructures, Structures,Quality, Quality,Fixity, Fixity,Preservation, Preservation, Disposition, Disposition,Retention RetentionSchedules... Schedules...

Records Records Management Management

Documents

Records

Content

Standards (NISO, DoD, Dublin Core)

Enterprise Enterprise Information Information Architecture Architecture

Structure Registry

Function, Function,Form, Form,Content ContentModels, Models,Content Content Objects, Objects,Style StyleGuides, Guides,Templates, Templates,Routing... Routing...

Document Document Genres Genres

Use Use metadata metadata and and structures structures to to organize organize publications publications and and collections collections

Organize Organize & & Publish Publish Collections Collections

Organize & Publish Collections

Labeling, Labeling,Layouts, Layouts,Indexes, Indexes,Guides, Guides,Topics, Topics, Sitemaps, Sitemaps,Pattern PatternLanguages, Languages,Semantic Semantic Linking... Linking...

Navigation Navigation

Records Management

Document Management

Portal/ Intranet

Web

The Public

Audiences and their goals

User Research

Mental Models, Goals & Tasks, Vocabularies

Agency Comms Strategy

Taxonomies, Taxonomies,Indexing, Indexing,Best BestBets, Bets, Extraction, Extraction,Auto-Classification, Auto-Classification,AutoAutoCategorization, Categorization,Thesauri, Thesauri,Clustering... Clustering...
Governance, Strategy, Policy, Guidance

Search Search

Use Use metadata metadata to to manage manage security, security, privacy, privacy, personalization, personalization, customization, customization, and and disposition disposition

Filter Filter & & Deliver Deliver to to Audiences Audiences

Filter & Deliver to Audiences

NARA, OMB, Congress

Staff, Partners and Contractors

The Public

EIA in Context
Enterprise Information Architecture for Enterprise Content Management in the US Federal Government Environment
Version 1.1 - James Melzer

Content Management

CM