Skip to content

Monthly Archives: September 2008

Noted 4

29-Sep-08

A compelling reason to weed out old content from your web site, or at least mark it clearly as outdated.
A tag cloud of more than 1000 university home pages. See also the snapshot data showing how many universities mention blogs on their home page, or use jscript, CSS for print, various coding standards, iTunes and [...]

Essential viewing

25-Sep-08

In my Oz-IA presentation I mentioned the power of video as a communication and education tool.
If you’re interested in the broad field of scholarly information, or if your focus is on information architecture, user experience or customer service, there’s about three hours of entertainment and intellectual challenge in this post (assuming you follow all the [...]

Old tricks, new dog: applying IA techniques to a non-IA project

24-Sep-08

Here are the slides for my 30-minute presentation at the Oz-IA conference.
Taken out of Context: old tricks, new dog
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: #ozia08 information)

The aim was to show how well-known IA techniques can be applied to a different type of project, in this case a strategy development project.
There had been some [...]

Noted 3

22-Sep-08

The State Library of WA provides study space and resources for Year 11 and 12 students as they prepare for year-end exams.
The University of Western Australia will adopt the Bologna model for its degree programs: five 3-year bachelor degrees will replace the current 70-odd courses and a range of professional postgrad degrees will provide specialised [...]

Improve the ROI of eprints

19-Sep-08

In an article for The Australian (newspaper), Bernard Lane points to some examples of universities re-using their publications data: publishing their research output online for easy, open access and using the repository’s bibliographic details for mandatory reports to government.
Most Australian universities have an online repository of their research papers, articles and theses. Some have adopted [...]