A documentary of the Steven Levitt book, Freakonomics is due for release on October 1st in the US.
Information Visualisation in Design Practice
A great paper from Joanne Mendel and Jan Yeager on Information Visualisation (knowledge) as a design activity in problem solving. This paper discusses the increasing complexity of problem solving in …
Clay Shirky on information overload versus filter failure
A really interesting Clay Shirky talk from Web 2.0 Expo NY. His talk “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure” challenges the idea that we’ve got information overload problems (we’ve …
What is etymology and folk-etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Through old texts and comparison with other languages, etymologists reconstruct the history of words – when they entered a language, from …
Programme for OZ-IA conference in Sydney (Sept 2006)
Following my previous post on the OZ-IA conference in Sydney next month, the conference programme has now been announced with some exciting practical sessions. Eric Scheid forwared me an e-mail …
Oz-IA 2006 Conference, Sydney (September)
Eric Scheid forwarded me an email on the forthcoming OZ-IA conference in Sydney later this year. :) It’s great to hear this conference is happening back home! I remember (while …
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Peter Merholz posted an interesting dicussion the other day on the classification of systems becoming invisible through use. Bowker and Star showed that classification systems become invisible through use, but …
The new ISBN 13-digit numbers and the history of ISBN
I was reading up on the introduction of the new 13-digit ISBN numbers and I was curious about its history. Here are some articles which comment on the history of …
An introduction article on Taxonomies
Liz Edols has written a great introductory article on what exactly are Taxonomies? …’structures that provide a way of classifying things – living organisms, products, books – into a series …
D-Lib Magazine on digital library research
D-Lib Magazine is a publication focused on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues. The magazine is published …
IAWIKI Sydney Meet on Wednesday
Thank you to the 20 or so people who came to the IA meet in Sydney organised by Eric from IAWiki. It was great to meet with fellow peers both …
Tools by Pat Ensor for academic library searching
Pat Ensor maintains and develops a list of search resources intended for the expert searcher. Her Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher, includes search tips and resources for Subject …
The Use of Faceted Classification
Heidi Adkisson has posted on the Use of Faceted Classification in Web Design Practices which examines how e-commerce sites use faceted classification to help people find products. A series of …
Peter Morville 2004 IA research and literature
Peter Morville has posted a summary of his summer research findings within Information Architecture, grouping university papers, readings and journals he has found most valuable and useful. His summary includes, …
User and community driven vocabularies
Michael Angeles has posted a blog post describing user and community driven vocabularies. The processes discussed includes centralising vocabularies and using requests to either push and/or pull information.