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| Talks and interviews by KIDMM members |
Interview with David Sless
Professor David Sless is Director of the Communication Research Institute in Australia, a visiting professor in Information Design at Coventry University, and a frequent conference speaker.
Here in conversation with Conrad Taylor, he explains how for him ‘information’ only has a meaning within a context; how information designers improve data collection and presentation by redesigning ‘pathological’ forms and statements; the historical roots and ethical stance of the information design movement; how the automated production of text layouts from computer systems (bank statements, dynamic Web pages) calls for a closer relationship between professionals in IT and design; and how all designers of information systems have an obligation to use benchmarking and testing to prove that they are making things better.
David also explains his philosophy of design with reference to an approach to linguistics that emphasises pragmatics rather than semantics and syntactics; the later thought of Wittgenstein; an understanding of language as a collaboratively designed artefact; and Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas about the relationship between reader and text.
This recording has a duration of one hour and four minutes.
Conference address by Conrad Taylor
Conrad Taylor was invited to contribute a presentation to the 4 September 2007 seminar of the UK Chapter of ISKO, the International Society for Knowledge Organization.
Conrad describes the origins and character of the British Computer Society, and its Specialist Group communities; and how as a result of the growing use of computers in publishing, information storage, information management and search and retrieval, various kinds of knowledge and information worker found themselves belonging to BCS Specialist Groups.
KIDMM is an experimental ‘knowledge community’ project that has emerged, building bridges and conversations between a number of BCS Specialist Groups, and information workers in other organisations, around shared interests in knowledge, information, data and metadata management. Conrad describes how it has emerged, the structures it has created, and hopes for the future.
This recording has a duration of less than 18 minutes.
Talk on Data Management by Keith Gordon
Keith Gordon, secretary of the BCS Data Management Specialist Group, gave a talk on 12th September 2007 to mark the launch of his book Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing, published by the British Computer Society.
In this 37-minute talk, Keith explains why it is so important to manage data and information, and gives case studies illustrating typical problems and their consequences. He also unpicks the differences between data, information and metadata, and gives his own definition of the relationship between them.
Download MP3 recording — 12.8 MB
