INLS 180 Day 19 Notes

10/28/02

 

Report on the IA panel from last Thur

Project questions?

 

  1. one-min papers
    1. Point

One role of IAs is to coordinate activities

    1. Questions

Will we every settle on one or a few titles [consider medicine, business, other professions]

What do I call myself after graduation?

What are the next set of user needs challenges in coming years? [look at R&D research]

Who controls vocabulary (e.g., new job titles?), linguists?

 

  1. Information Overload and the need for intermediaries

See http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/index.html

            The amount of print information is now trivial in volume (93% digital each year) [next wave of sensor data not even started yet]

            Quality versus quantity? 

 

            Disintermediation

Many services changing models/roles (gas attendants, travel agents, bank tellers, cashiers, sales clerks)

Phone menu systems, WWW services

Physical services adding value (e.g., Bookstores add creature comforts, newspapers & TV add WWW interactivity)

What about publishers? (author publishing on WWW?, roles of non-commercial presses?)

What about libraries?  Online reference?  What about corporations?

            What added value services can we invent?

           

4. One-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?