[Sigia-l] Dreaming of a career in IA: Any advice welcome!

[Noreen Whysel]

Thanks for the information about IA & GIS, Peter.  I am looking forward to 
reading the Rheingold info and the subsequent links others have offered.

BTW, I belong to a GIS user group in NYC.  Would you mind if I forward your 
post to see what the GIS folks can add to this discussion?

FYI, their list is an open-to-viewers Yahoo Group at 
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gismonyc.  As a non-member, you can view 
messages but not post.

Noreen Whysel


>From: "Peter Morville" <morville at semanticstudios.com>
>To: "'Sean Lawrence'" <slawrence at lucidvagary.com>, <sigia-l at asis.org>
>Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Dreaming of a career in IA: Any advice welcome!
>Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:34:45 -0400
>
>Sean,
>
>I agree about the interesting, impending intersection of GIS and IA.
>Howard Rheingold covers location-based tagging and geo-coding in Smart
>Mobs (http://smartmobs.com/) and I touch on it in my Ambient Findability
>article:
>
>	http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000008.php
>
>It's intriguing to consider what we'll do with the ability to attach
>metadata to physical objects and exact locations...and how we'll enable
>others to find and use that metadata.
>
>
>Peter Morville
>President, Semantic Studios
>www.semanticstudios.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
>Of Sean Lawrence
>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:09 AM
>To: Ariel; sigia-l at asis.org
>Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Dreaming of a career in IA: Any advice welcome!
>
>
>Greetings Ariel!
>
>With a background in Urban Planning, I think you have a solid academic
>background.  IA is, essentially, planning for the Web in many of it's
>manifestations.  Personally, I have a strange notion that GIS and IA
>will be an interesting point of convergence in the near future with GPS
>enabled Mobile Phones, PDAs, laptops, Wireless hotspots, etc.  Anyone
>hear have that same feeling?  So I would say get the MLIS, and perhaps
>look in to taking any classes dealing with cartography, indexing, and
>findability, if they are offered.
>
>As far as having development experience, almost none of the IA's I know
>have any coding background and come more from a content or design
>background. I'm currently a systems analyst trying to get back in to IA.
>I think having an understanding of the uses of different technologies
>and their application is definitely a plus for anyone the Web,
>professional services fields nowadays.
>
>I would really like to know if more folks do predict a GIS/IA
>convergence, though.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sean
>
>
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