[Sigia-l] Dreaming of a career in IA: Any advice welcome! - R edirect to Navigating the Real World

[Seys, Debora]

Wow, two posts in one day - it's a record for me.

This conversation reminds me of the efforts within HP (forgive the plug) to create "Cooltown" - the idea of web presence in the real world.  Read more about it at http://www.cooltown.com/research/ 

Deb Seys

Debora Seys
Information Consultant
Global Library & Information Services
650/857-3895
debora.seys at hp.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Morville [mailto:morville at semanticstudios.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: 'Sean Lawrence'; sigia-l at asis.org
> 
> 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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