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 [...]
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 [...]
Here are the slides for my 30-minute presentation at the Oz-IA conference.
Taken out of Context: old tricks, new dog
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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 [...]
At CNet.news, Matt Asay summarises my own reservations about the value of large IT market analysis companies like Forrester and Gartner: “Analysts… are a lagging indicator of success. They tell an enterprise buyer from whom she should have purchased software and hardware a few years ago, not where she should invest IT dollars tomorrow… [In [...]
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has asked universities to provide information about their researchers’ publication records, so that it can test a suite of performance indicators. The aim, apparently, is to propose that the new performance indicators form part of the Commonwealth Government’s proposed Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) framework.
Peter Merholz observes that conferences [...]