In his article for Boxes and Arrows entitled "Visible Narratives:
Understanding Visual Organization"
(http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/visible_narratives_understanding_visual_organization),
Luke Wroblewski
(http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/66-lukewroblewski) came up with
an interesting distinction for site-maps, classifying it as part of a
group he calls "site-wide utilities", which includes:
-Shopping Carts;
-Site-map;
-Search (I've included this one!)
I think is just brilliant, in a sense that such links don't belong
to the "main" information architecture of a application... or we
could say they work "across" the information architecture.
...
{ Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer
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caring to structure, context, and presentation
of data and information
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