What is a UW Information Science dissertation?

Bob ran a panel with current PhD Candidates (4th and 5th years) and professors, asking: What makes a good Information Science dissertation?

Each of the current students told the story of how they picked their topic. The professors then shared their expectations for a dissertation.

Brainstorming Session & What is an Information Science dissertation?

We brainstormed future topics. Some include:

• What are different disciplinary perspectives on fundamental concepts of Information Science? E.g. “mediation” or “search” etc…
• How do the information practices of organizations protect or violate the privacy of individuals? What does the literature in Info. Sci. have to say about it?
• What are the social effects of the changing landscape for private information?
• Consider scientists as a user population. How does Information Technology play a part in their knowledge production. Do scientists with technology expertise have significant advantage over others?
• What is the relationship between entrepreneurship and IT tools?
• How do communities collaborate online to design something (e.g. OSS)?
• How can Information Visualization techniques encourage sustainable behavior-change?

We spent half an hour discussing “What is an Information Science dissertation?”

FRBR and Topic Maps in Designing a Semantic Digital Library

Sam Oh [Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul Korea] sought to improve the digital catalog of the National Library of Korea. To do this, he sought to apply two models of library cataloging to the corpus: the FRBR model and Topic Maps.