Defining Information Spaces

An information space is the application of a spatial metaphor to a set of units of information. The domain definition of an information set is ontologically associated with the sources of information that generate the content of the set. These fundamentally stem from a society of participators engaged in a interaction that follows the cyclic form of broadcasts, receptions, and reactions. Such activity constitutes a fundamental property of the blogosphere [1] where information spaces center on several types of blogs and forums that host the ever-increasing amount of articles, their associated comments, and the multimedia elements and hyperlinks that they contain. These articles or posts are generally archived whenever new ones get published on the hosting blog. They are either accessed by navigating through the archive's structure, or queried after by using a semantic search mechanism when provided on the hosting blog. Navigating information spaces of this sort signifies moving between different blogs and going to the archives and back to the main pages. It could also get lured into external hyperlinks that take surfers away from the context of their information niches [2].

References:
[1] Defining the blogosphere
[2] information ecologies, Nardi