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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 "Corrected".

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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



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

Anonymous  Apr 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 1998
Printed Page 11
line -1: "copyrighting" now reads "copy editing"

Anonymous  May 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 2001
Printed Page 142
In the footnote, the URL

http://www.sitemap.com/

was changed to

http://www.jazzsoft.com/

 Anonymous  Feb 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 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 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 1999
Printed Page 174
"contant" now reads: "constant"

Anonymous  May 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 2000
Printed Page 192
3rd citation under "Organization" and

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

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

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

searchable"

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

Anonymous  Apr 1998