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 [...]
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 [...]
Now in its third year, the Oz-IA conference 20-21 September 2008 is a weekend full of insight, ideas and camaraderie for information architects, usability specialists, content developers, web and application developers, and others with an interest in design, human factors, search, Web2.0 and related topics.
Plus it’s a great excuse to spend a few spring days [...]
In project management terms, the Information Futures Commission achieved sign-off last month.
The Commission delivered three key documents to the University community:
Final Report of the Steering Committee, describing the consultation process, summarising what we learned, and analysing the major areas of contention
Melbourne’s Scholarly Information Future: a ten-year strategy (”Zis iss ze big vun,” as Otto von [...]
