Video now available: Rhys Francis on e-research

10 April 2008 – 6:43 am

Video of last month’s Information Futures Forum is now available online — well worth a look!
The feedback from those who attended this event was overwhelmingly good — guest speaker Rhys Francis was rated as “excellent” for his knowledge of the subject, his presentation style, the content of the presentation and the relevance of the topic [...]

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Questioning authority in an EPIC future

4 March 2008 – 6:48 am

Following my post last month (four short videos about scholarly information and technology), here’s another one for you to enjoy.
EPIC was first released in 2005. It was made for the (fictional) Museum of Media History. It’s a timeline for the next decade, imagining what might happen to news media as the Internet became more ubiquitous. [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Posted in access, publishing, users | Comments (0)

Four videos about scholarly information and technologies

30 January 2008 – 2:35 pm

If you follow all the links, this post will take up about 30 minutes of your life. If you’re interested in the broad field of scholarly information, or if your focus is on user experience or customer service, I think you’ll find it an entertaining and thought-provoking half-hour.
Anthropologist Michael Wesch made a splash in the [...]

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