Content AnalysisInformation Architecture – 2nd assignment

Sindre Hauge Thoresen

Gabriel Izquierdo

Table of contents

•What is Content Analysis?

•Gathering content

•Analyzing content

• Software for content analysis

•References

What is Content Analysis?

Gathering content

•Ways of gathering content

• Types of data

• Format

• Document Type

• Other factors

• Source

• Subject

• Existing Architecture

Analyzing content

• For each content data, you might begin by noting the following:

• Structural metadata: Describe the information hierarchy of this data.

• Descriptive metadata: Think of all the different ways you might describe this data.

• Administrative metadata: Describe how this object relates to business context.

Software for content analysis

• Quantitative software for content analysisWhen the units are small and clearly separated

• Qualitative softwareWhen your content units are large chunks of text

• Software for automatic content analysisThere’s software that’s so smart it will do the content analysis for you

ReferencesBook

Peter Morville & Louis Rosenfeld. Information Architecture for the World Web Side - 3rd Edition (pg 241 - 243), Chapter 10 - Research (Content Analysis)

Content analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_analysis

https://www.utexas.edu/academic/ctl/assessment/iar/research/plan/method/content.php

http://www.preciousheart.net/chaplaincy/Auditor_Manual/14conted.pdf

Content Analysis Software

http://www.audiencedialogue.net/soft-cont.html

Nud*ist, Nvivo and Atlas TI

http://campus.usal.es/~teoriaeducacion/rev_numero_04/n4_art_revuelta_sanchez.htm

Kwalitan

http://www.content-analysis.de/2007/10/01/kwalitan.html

Atlas TI and EZ-Test

http://www.content-analysis.de/software/qualitative-analysis