EuroIA Summit - Amsterdam 2008 revisited

The call for papers for this year's EuroIA Summit in Paris closes this weekend. The committee are looking for two types of submission:

• Presentations - talks that discuss principles and ideas, or provide insightful analogies and mind-opening explorations to open the minds of information architects
• Case Studies - specific examples showing the use of IA in completed projects

There is no overall theme this year, but it is always good to see talks with a broad European focus.

If you are thinking about submitting, but haven't quite come up with a topic yet, perhaps you'll find some inspiration in my notes from the 2008 EuroIA summit at the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam...

• 2008 Euro IA keynote by Adam Greenfield
• "Why information architects are needed in the kitchen" by Ruud Ruissaard
• "Integrating web analysis in the UXD process" by Erik Verdeyen
• "Content analysis: The hows and whys to understanding your content" by Chiara Fox
• "How do you re-design a business critical web application with billions of unique products" by Floris Ketel
• "Getting the right ticket before the train leaves: The challenges of user-centered design for the Swiss Federal Railways" by Andrea Rosenbusch
• "Change is inevitable: What Semantic Web and Web 3.0 mean for IA" by Claudia Urschbach
• "Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google" by Martin Belam
• "Frameworks are the future of IA" by Joe Lamantia
• "URL design for Information Architects" by Deanna Marbeck and Silver Oliver
• "Documenting Mobile 2.0 IA" by Scott Weiss
• "I'm not you - modelling and conceptualising personalization in Information Architecture" by Bogo Vatovec
• "Extending the gaming experience to conventional UIs" by John Ferrara
• "Concept design tools for Information Architecture" by Victor Lombardi