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 [...]
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19-Sep-08Oz-IA: earlybird registrations extended
01-Sep-08Just a reminder that the Oz-IA conference is approaching fast…
Earlybird registrations are open now, and close next Tuesday 9 September.
Earlybird registrations are A$660, or A$550 if you quote the discount code MR0243. Register online at the conference web site.
The conference will be held in Sydney, on the weekend of 20-21 September.
Who should attend?
Designers of navigation, [...]
Aurora: a new way of web?
05-Aug-08Adaptive Path and Mozilla have released the first in a series of concept videos describing Aurora, a concept for new ways to browse and communicate via the web.
For interaction designers and information architects, some of the interest is in the design process itself — see Jesse James Garrett’s comments on the Aurora web page about [...]
The lovely people at A List Apart are running a demographic survey about people who build web sites.
Here’s a bit of the ALA blurb about why the survey is important:
“Possibly the most important invention of the past century, the web is undeniably one of the most robust engines of knowledge transfer, political and social change, [...]
Over the years, a typical organisation’s web site grows like a garden.
Some parts of the web site flourish, becoming lush with useful content and links. Other areas suffer from neglect, developing bare patches or sprouting thickets of weed-like content that is outdated, superseded or simply not appealing to visitors.
Eventually, minor niggles add up to a [...]