Findability

Findability

Findability refers to the quality of being locatable or navigable. At the item level, we can evaluate to what degree a particular object is easy to discover or locate. At the system level, we can analyze how well a physical or digital environment supports navigation and retrieval.

Findability is not limited to the World Wide Web. The concept of findability is universal and timeless. However, with a distributed, heterogeneous collection of several billion items, the Web does present unique and important findability challenges.

Findability is not a synonym for information architecture (IA). Information architecture is a discipline concerned with the structural and semantic design of shared information spaces. Findability is a goal of IA, along with usability, desirability, credibility, and accessibility. Many people contribute to the findability of websites and intranets, including writers, designers, and developers.

ee also

* Annotation
* Information retrieval
* Knowledge mining
* Knowledge representation
* Semantic web
* Usability
* User interface
* Web indexing

External links

* [http://findability.org/ findability.org] : a collection of links to people, software, organizations, and content related to findability
* [http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the_age_of_findability The age of findability] (article)
* [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/search-keywords.html Use Old Words When Writing for Findability] (article on the findability impact of a site's choice of words)
* [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ambient/ Ambient Findability] (book)
* [http://buildingfindablewebsites.com/ Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond] (book)
* [http://www.wsiwebedge.com/building_an_online_presence.aspx Building an Online Presence] , Research Article

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