2009/06/08: An updated version of the ecological model of information work and knowledge organisation published in the Journal of Information Science. Read more...
Research
Cultural Heritage Information in digital media
Research initiative launched in 1998/1999 for developing enhanced usability and usages of digital information media systems for presentation, storage and publication of cultural heritage information.
Concrete aim of the initiative is to study, test and adapt new digital IT/ICT technologies for use in cultural heritage sector. Despite disseminating results in scientific research reports, the initiative has strong affiliation in forwarding the research by creating and studying working end products in authentic environment.
Information architecture
The research on information architectures is developed simultaneously in line with the M-INFO-project on information processes and their management in environments incorporating communication through multiple media forms. The key aim is to discuss and develop rigid models for addressing the challenges of collaborative information work through organisational information architectures adapted for complex environments. The viewpoint is in functionalising cultural and societal variables of human information behaviour to architectural approach and design.
Archives, Libraries and Museums - Information Work Management in Cultural Heritage Sector
The issue of organising information in a functioning manner concerns equally the individuals, organisations and entire domains of knowledge. To be successful, an organisation needs to provide its members with precise information at the right moment to complete the right assignment. The problem is not to point out who is the available person, or what is the available information or what is the assignment. The problem is to make them all converge in a productive manner.
Information work management in corporate financing
The challenges of information work and organisation of information concern equally individuals, organisations and entire branches in the present day society. To be useful, usable and timely, information needs to reach its user at the right moment. The problem is not usually in making a working assessment of the available people, of the available information or of the purpose. The problem is how to make users, information, information and various associated purposes and motivations to converge in a productive and usable manner.
Library 2.0
The notion Library 2.0 has been described to place a special emphasis on users, rich experience, social richness, participation and communal innovativeness . Although the notion has its roots in the development of digital libraries, user centred information research and social computing, the practical implications of these emphases in actual user contexts is very much under debate. The need for comprehensive theorical and empirical understanding of the phenomenon is clear.
Participatory archives and humanities e-Science infrastructures
The aim of research project is to evaluate the benefits of e-Science infrastructures based on participatory digital archive in humanities oriented research and to frame the critical success factors of e-Science in small geographically dispersed research group. The study aims to answer the questions by addressing the specific issues of
Expanding horizons of Personal information management (PIM)
Personal information management is a research area with a focus on how people acquire, search, organise and use information for their daily pursuits in work and leisurely contexts. Much of the past research in information science, archival and museum studies has focused on institutional collections and organisational management of information and other assets. Only rather recently researchers have began to put more emphasis on explicating the specific characteristics of personal information management (PIM) and personal collections.
