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Search engines have integrated various UX-related factors and a more precise analysis of users' search intent to better fulfil their needs. Our aims are to identify commonalities among three UX-related disciplines: usability, information architecture, web accessibility, and SEO, within the context of Search eXperience Optimization (SXO). Based on a literature analysis, common factors between SEO and the other disciplines were identified, contextualized, and justified. It has been demonstrated that specific good practices within these disciplines contribute to enhancing the visibility of web pages in search engines. Specifically, a total of 37 related factors were identified. The incorporation of these practices can result in improved crawling, indexing, and interpretation of content by search engines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Web accessibility and the availability of digital information content are analyzed from the perspective of Inclusive Digital Information Architecture. This methodology is focused on improving the quality of life of the users with special needs by facilitating their participation in digital information environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information Architecture (IA) aids in development of digital information environments aiming at facilitating the user-system interaction. Personalization and customization services are presented as modules of information architecture for digital information environments. The proposal is presenting them in a unique structure, as a catalogue of service types. This architecture consists in a table which contains a name for the service and a description of it, as well as observations about the target-public and implantation guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Content Management Systems (CMS) represent the current paradigm in the design and development of information systems and services based on the Web. One of the major challenges facing this kind of applications is to combine, at the same time, the information management processes with the implementation of a coherent structure for access to the data. This requires the use of tools near to the Knowledge Organization, usually by implementing taxonomies or, more flexibly, thesauri. Both of them have been traditionally used for classification and content description of documents. However, it is also very interesting to use them into the automatic construction of dynamic navigation systems, a procedure that can be done through the use of ontologies that, additionally, could be used to interrelate or infer the content managed in a CMS with that content located in corporate information systems (intranets). Diifferent ways to combine these emerging technologies are shown, associated with the representation of thesauri and ontologies in the Semantic Web (such as OWL and SKOS), with the aim to present a series of approaches that could guide future developments of CMS systems in order to obtain greater consistency in information structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]