Information Management
The iSchool’s research in information management ranges from how individuals deal with information in their everyday lives to organizational applications of information in setting strategies and improving productivity. Researchers are examining how information and knowledge are created (the ontology and epistemology of knowledge) and how they are made accessible (issues of information architecture and taxonomies). These topics have become even more relevant as web-based services and systems become core components of an organization’s operation.
Researchers
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Institute for Innovation
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Current Projects
Wanda Pratt, Principal Investigator
This research seeks to promote the use of published information by facilitating fast, easy, and effective access to the scientific literature. Existing knowledge bases will be used to incorporate text-mining and categorization techniques into search and document-management interfaces. The goal is to develop intelligent interfaces that allow users to see a summary search results, explore the topics that they find most interesting, share information with others, and manage document collections.
Kevin C. Desouza, Principal Investigator
Through the manipulation of a family of network variables, it should be possible to maximize the advantages of two models of organizational design: hierarchies and edge organizations. The resulting hybrid model offers potential insight into how network properties—robustness to attacks, error tolerance, end-to-end delay, and flow throughput—are affected by differences in these qualities and how organizations adapt dynamically from one extreme (hierarchy) to another (edges). This project will take draw on the fields of information science, organization science, telecommunications network theory, mathematical statistics, and network simulation to examine these phenomena.