The beginning of the 21st century attested to the first movements toward information architecture (IA), originating from the field of library and information science (LIS). IA is acknowledged as an important meta‐discipline concerned with the design, implementation, and maintenance of digital information spaces. Despite the relevance of IA, there is little research about the subject within LIS, and still less if one considers initiatives for creating a theory for IA. In this article, we provide a theory for IA and describe the resources needed to create it through ontological models. We also choose the “document” as the key entity for such theory, contemplating kinds of documents that not only serve to register information, but also create claims and obligations in society. To achieve our goals, we provide a background for subtheories from LIS and from Applied Ontology. As a result, we present some basic theory for IA in the form of a formal framework to represent corporations in which IA activities take place, acknowledging that our approach is de facto a subset of IA we call the enterprise information architecture (EAI) approach. By doing this, we highlight the effects that documents cause within corporations in the scope of EIA.

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走向以文档为中心的企业信息架构本体论

21 世纪初见证了信息架构 (IA) 的第一次运动，起源于图书馆和信息科学 (LIS) 领域。IA 被认为是与数字信息空间的设计、实施和维护有关的重要元学科。尽管 IA 具有相关性，但在 LIS 中很少有关于该主题的研究，如果考虑为 IA 创造理论的举措，则更是如此。在本文中，我们为 IA 提供了一个理论，并描述了通过本体模型创建它所需的资源。我们还选择“文件”作为这种理论的关键实体，考虑不仅用于登记信息，而且在社会中创造要求和义务的各种文件。为了实现我们的目标，我们为 LIS 和应用本体论的子理论提供了背景。因此，我们以正式框架的形式介绍了 IA 的一些基本理论，以表示发生 IA 活动的公司，并承认我们的方法实际上是 IA 的一个子集，我们称之为企业信息架构 (EAI) 方法。通过这样做，我们强调了文件在 EIA 范围内对公司造成的影响。