Fifth Annual ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit - Breaking New Ground
27-29 February, 2004 - Austin, Texas

Summit History

It all began in 2000 in Boston where three conference Chairs, Lou Rosenfeld, Gary Marchionini, and Victor Rosenberg invited speakers to talk about an emerging discipline. The topic... Defining Information Architecture. This was the conference that spawned SIG-IA and drew together a group of practitioners to become the information architecture community.

The conferences have continued to be held every year since then. To date, the IA conferences are:

• Defining Information Architecture (2000) - What is IA?
  
  
• Practicing Information Architecture (2001) - A conference devoted to how we actually do IA.
  
  
• Refining our craft (2002) - Meeting, discussing and sharing with other IAs our experiences.
  
  
• Making Connections (2003) - Finding ways to make connections between fields within the umbrella of information architecture.
  
  
• Breaking New Ground (2004) - Strengthening the foundation of the discipline and widening the scope of IA practice.

The ASIS&T IA Summit is the only conference dedicated to information architecture in all its forms, to promote networking, discussion and thought for practitioners, students and academics.