[NORSLIS] Revised and partly ONLINE program for NORSLIS Visiting professor Michael Buckland, Tromsø 22-26 September 2008

[Niels Windfeld Lund]

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Niels Windfeld Lund
documentation Studies
University of Tromsø


NORSLIS * Visiting professor 2008
Michael Buckland, professor emeritus,
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.

Program University of Tromsø, 22.-26. September 2008

Monday September 22, 14.15-16.00 teorifagbygget 1, 4. etasje, ROM TF-1443
"Great pioneers of Documentation: An historical introduction."?
Summary: A brief introductions to a selection of people who had?
interesting ideas about Documentation, including Martin Schrettinger,?
Paul Otlet, Wilhelm Ostwald, Suzanne Briet, Emanuel Goldberg, and Robert?
Fairthorne.

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Tuesday September 23, 12.15-14.00 teorifagbygget 1, 4. etasje på rom
TF-1443
"Selecting documents: Analyses of collecting,?searching, and retrieval
activities." Seminar - Workshop
Document selection and retrieval systems are complex. In order ?to be
effective both theory and practice depend on simplifying ?assumptions.
There is little time or energy for theoretical analysis.? However,
analyzing the processes involved can help explain the ?characteristics of
the procedures involved and may result in better ?designs. This seminar
and workshop will present analyses of collecting, searching, and?
retrieval for discussion."

Wednesday, September 24, OBS 13.15-15.00 teorifagbygget 1, 4. etasje på
rom TF-1443
"Learning in an online environment: A challenge for Documentation."?
Summary: The difference between seeing and understanding depends on
?knowing the context. In the past, the ideal learning environment of the?
would be inside library surrounded by an optimal selection of the
?reference works that are most suitable for you for explaining anything
?unfamiliar. Individual reference works now commonly exist in digital?
form, but the ideal learning environment provided by a good reference
?library has not yet been created in an online environment. I will?
demonstrate work in progress at Berkeley in two projects trying to show
?how existing resources could be used more effectively to support
?learning. The projects are:? "Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in
Context"?<http://ecai.org/imls2006/> and? "Context and Relationships:
Ireland and Irish Studies"?<http://ecai.org/neh2007/>?

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Friday, September 26, 9.00-16.00 HUM-FAK, E-0105
Mini-DOCAM, WILL NOT BE STREAMED !
9.15-10.00 Michael Buckland "Spatial ideas in Documentation -
Interrogating the analogy of spaces: Space, place and position in ?
Otlet's documentation"
more contributors from dokvit-group
full program will be online on http://www.thedocumentacademy.org/

more info: contact: professor Niels Windfeld Lund, Documentation Studies,
University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø,

*NORSLIS = Nordic Research School of Library and Information Science
Michael Buckland is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Information and
Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative at UC Berkeley.  A
former Dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at UC
Berkeley and President of the American Society for Information Science, he
holds degrees in History from Oxford and Librarianship from Sheffield
University.