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

[Peter Morville]

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


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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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