First IA Summit in Europe in 2005
The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) held the first European Information Architecture Summit, Building Communities, at the Tulip Inn, Brussels, Belgium, 15-16 October 2005.
The objective of the Summit was to build the IA community in Europe by bringing together a number of disciplines and practitioner communities in a stimulating environment for debate with opportunities to establish cooperation. This community is not limited by language or region, and encompasses specialisations including designing for mobile devices and multilingual solutions.
Examples of activities of community members include, but are not limited to, developing the IA practice in an organisation or country by documenting methods, applying IA principles to European-focused platforms, providing multilingual solutions and designing devices like interactive TV or mobile devices. The goal was to explore work concerning new features, design elements, methods or processes, controversial topics, and work in progress. The call for papers was posted in June, 2005 by the ID-IA SIG.