I’ve been on the road a bit over the last month, and realized that it was interfering with my blog updating, so I’ve gone ‘higher tech’- I’m now signed up on the CISRI twitter feed, and I’ll be tweeting my i-sci thoughts as they pop up. You can find me under CognivaResearch on twitter. I think this will be a lot of fun, and I hope it will generate some return discussion- if people see me tweeting about a topic of interest, let me know and I’ll be happy to expand upon it in a blog entry.
Bonjour,
Nous souhaitons vous remercier de votre présence et de l’intérêt que vous avez témoigné lors du lancement mardi soir de l’Institut de recherche Cogniva en Sciences de l’information (IRCSI). Nous pouvons certainement affirmer que l’évènement à été un franc succès par le nombre de professionnels qui y ont assisté ainsi que par la qualité des échanges qui on eu lieu. Il nous a fait grand plaisir de tous vous accueuilir et de vous rencontrer.
Nous vous suggérons fortement de visiter régulièrement sur le site internet pour avoir des nouvelles sur les projets de recherche et suivre les annonces que fera l’institut au cours des prochains mois.
Nous avons plusieurs projets de recherche planifiés, et avec votre soutien et votre collaboration, l’IRCSI sera bien positionné pour offrir un contribution significative à la communauté de professionnels en science de l’information, et ce, pour les années à venir.
Votre partenaire dans la recherché, la collaboration et l’innovation,
L’équipe de l’IRCSI
Hello all,
We would like to express sincere thanks for your interest and attendance Tuesday evening at the official launch of the Cogniva Information Science Research Institute. It was a huge success. It was fantastic to see the large number of fellow professionals who came out to support of the event, and we really enjoyed the opportunity to meet and greet many of the attendees.
If you have further or future interest in the Cogniva Information Science Research Institute, we invite you to contact us today.
We have many exciting and innovative projects planned, and with your continued support and collaboration, CISRI is well-positioned to make significant and ongoing contributions to the Information Management community for many years to come.
Yours in research, collaboration and innovation,
The CISRI team
Hi Everyone.
This is a first post to introduce myself. I’m the Scientific Director of the “Semantic Technologies” research stream. I look forward to sharing my thoughts and hopefully generating some interesting discussions.
Cheers,
Craig.
CISRI launch preparations have been accelerating — we’re less than a month away from the launch and everything is falling into place. Having the website up is great — it’s nice to have a spot where people can go and look into our projects. On the research side, we’ve got a number of things already on the go, but I’ll hold off discussing them until after launch.
As someone who works in an interdisciplinary area, I find that I’m a bit of a hoarder of review articles, and now, judging by my favourites list, research review web sites. While writing an upcoming blog entry on certain aspects of organizational theory (to appear… soonish…), I came across <A href=”http://www.fsc.yorku.ca/york/istheory/wiki/index.php/Main_Page“>this very nice information science theory wiki</a>, with concise summaries and really quite amazing reference lists for a vast list of IS theories. What a great website. And, hey, since it’s a wiki, while perusing the research reviews, you could always contribute something to it yourself, as well.
Being interested in the functioning of organizations as complex systems, from time to time I like to get into the debate about how much organizations are like organisms. Some people have gone so far as to say that organizations *are* organisms, while other people take the approach that there are useful analogies to be made between the two, but that’s as far as it goes. I can certainly say that in my own work I find drawing analogies between the two to be extremely useful, but I’ve always been reluctant to go farther than that- there’s no doubt that organizations and organisms are both complex systems, but I’m not sure if one is really a type of the other.
Having said that, I’m currently reading “The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies” by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson and I find that I’m quite intrigued by the notion of super organisms and how this concept might be related to human organizations. I was familiar with the concept prior to reading the book, but Hölldobler and Wilson give some excellent detailed examples of the inner workings of a super organism that make the concept much more tangible and concrete. Coming out of the more specific data they present, I can see many interesting similarities between human organizations and social insect super organisms, particularly with respect to the communication systems present in both, so I think I’ll be investigating these similarities a bit more rigorously in the future.
For my first blog entry I thought I would start by saying how much I’m looking forward to using this blog to review and discuss interesting research findings from the information sciences and systems sciences research communities, and talk a bit about how these findings relate to information flow within organizations. I think it will also be a great place to talk about ongoing CISRI (Cogniva Information Science Research Institute) research projects, and how they might be relevant to this larger discussion. I’m sure my fellow CISRI research bloggers will also have a lot of interesting things to say on these on these topics.
My own background as a researcher is in modelling complex cognitive systems, focusing on the role that information plays in shaping the behaviour of these systems. I find this to be a highly interdisciplinary area of research, with relevant work taking place within information science, cognitive science, biology, sociology, organizational and business theory, complex systems studies and economics, to name a few of the major research areas. In turn, research findings from these areas then flow back into applied research relating to the design and management of information systems, organizational design and management and human-computer interfaces. With both fundamental and applied research opportunities, I think it’s a pretty exciting field to be in- and one that’s only getting more so as technology begins to reflect and implement what information science discovers.
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