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

Margaret Hanley mairead at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 26 12:50:54 EDT 2003


We are thinking about this a lot at the BBC with the cross
over between our GIS/ postcode resolution application and
our location tagging.

We are just at the beginning, but our thoughts are around
tagging specifically at the name or postcode level with
resolution to nearness using the GIS app. Of course we want
the unusual things of the BBC broadcast areas, odd
geographical areas like the South Downs or Yorkshire Dales
and electoral boundaries to also be tagged. So we are
thinking about tagging with different facets of location on
a location object. It's all in very early design phase. 

Mags
 --- Peter Morville <morville at semanticstudios.com> wrote: >
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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