In an article for First Monday, Scott J Simon summarises the current environment and challenges for digital libraries. He outlines the basic concepts of information architecture and explores how IA can enhance the provision of search and other online library services. [tip o' the blogging hat to Jonathan]
At the University of Minnesota a MyLibrary portal [...]
As I ponder the manyseveral challenges of a current project — which aims to convert “80 per cent of all our forms into machine-readable format” — this Wondermark cartoon reminds me that forms are only one small part of any business process or transaction.
Similarly, the Dilbert strip for 21 December 2008 has a particular resonance [...]
In a short Educause Review article, Christine L Borgman describes several types of academic activity that are being profoundly influenced by information technologies:
information-intensive scholarship
data-intensive scholarship
distributed scholarship
collaborative scholarship
multidisciplinary scholarship
Collectively, these are known as e-scholarship practices. They are types of academic behavior. They are not descriptions of the tools or technologies used in that behavior.
If academic librarians [...]
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 [...]
About a month ago I blogged about the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Improving Access to Public Sector Information and Data.
Submissions to the Inquiry are now available online.
I’m reasonably pleased with the Melbourne University document (PDF 1.2 Mb). M’colleague Sally and I were able to gather some useful input from well-informed people on very short notice [...]