Errata

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Errata for Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page xv
4th line from the bottom: changed "SunOS 4.2" to "SunOS 4.1.4"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
Printed
Page xix
7th paragraph: (at the author's request) reversed

"Ed Vielmetti" and "Rich Wiggins" so that the list would
be alphabetized

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 1998
Printed
Page 11
line -1: "copyrighting" now reads "copy editing"

Anonymous    May 01, 1999
Printed
Page 134
first paragraph

This paragraph refers to the suggested meeting agenda as being in the "sidebar
on the following page." It's not in a sidebar and it's on the preceding page.

Therefore,

"on the following page"

Has been changed to:

"Information Architecture Meeting Agenda"

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2001
Printed
Page 142
In the footnote, the URL

http://www.sitemap.com/

was changed to

http://www.jazzsoft.com/

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 1999
Printed
Page 143

The URL in Figure 7-2 used to read:

http://www.sitemap.com

It now reads:

http://www.jazzsoft.com/

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 1999
Printed
Page 145
Bottom of page

Recall and precision are defined incorrectly. They are defined
correctly on page 180 in figure 9-5. That same figure should replace
the inaccurate definitions on page 145.

The definitions on page 145 should read:

Recall = # relevant documents retrieved / total # relevant documents in collection
Precision = # relevant documents retrieved / total # documents retrieved

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 162
line -7, "location information and papers video proceedings"

now reads:

"Contact Us About Papers and Contact Us About This Web Site".

 Anonymous    May 01, 1999
Printed
Page 163
FIGURE CHANGE - The rectangle around

"Contact Us about Papers (mailto)" and "Contact Us About this
Web site"

is now dashed, not solid.

 Anonymous    May 01, 1999
Printed
Page 174
"contant" now reads: "constant"

Anonymous    May 01, 1999
Printed
Page 180
top of page

The definitions given for Precision Ratio and Recall Ratio, both in
the text and in Figure 9-5 on p. 180 differ substantially from those
given at the bottom of page 145.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 186
Figure 10-9: upper left gray box

"AFMS" now reads "HFMS"

 Anonymous    Mar 01, 2000
Printed
Page 192
3rd citation under "Organization" and

Anonymous    Jun 01, 1998
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Page 193
3rd citation under "Labeling": changed the URL from

http://www.oclc.org/olcl/fp/ddchome.htm
to
http://www.oclc.org/fp/

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 1998
Printed
Page 193
removed 3rd citation under "Navigation"

(Hoffman, Michael. "Information Structuring....)

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 1998
Printed
Page 201
column 2: swapped "see also" items under "when to make sites

searchable"

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
Printed
Page 204
3rd para. from the bottom: changed "21,00" to "21,000"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998