Information Space: Issues and Context Breakout Group 3

'Science‘, ‘Learning’, ‘Culture’, ‘Govnm’t’ Content Users Context: where Information Environment Framework (formerly DL) fits in. 'Society' 'Science‘, ‘Learning’, ‘Culture’, ‘Govnm’t’ Content Users Content Producers Interfaces Information Space mediating One instantiation per 'society‘

Vocabulary (Domain specific) Information Environment Framework: internal layering and relation to domain specific semantics Vocabulary (Domain specific) Pragmatic Semantics2 Formal Semantics1 Generic Semantics Syntax Middleware Binary Objects Bits & bytes 'Society'

Critical Issues Privacy Authenticity Trust Accessibility Metadata ‘Vocabulary’ Preservation ‘Document’ Models (complex vs. atomistic) Interpretation/ Hermeneutics Pointers & Identifiers Assign Relevancy Automation Appraisal/Selection/ ‘Forgetting’ Economics of Information Security Coordinate disjointed Input sources Learning, science, culture, administration, government Serving Diverse Communities

Critical issues: clustered Rights & Duties Information Objects/ Architectures Preservation Authenticity Trust Document models Metadata/vocabularies Pointers & Identifiers Enrichment Unifying Paradigms (= ‘Theory’) Interpretation Appraisal/Selection Relevance Assignment Annotation Heterogeneity & Context Coordination of Diverse Information Sources Serving Diverse ISs Processes Automation Usage Effort/benefit ratio Accessibility Privacy Collaboratories Economics of Information

Context again: where work needs to be bone 'Society' Content Users Content Producers Work involving Information Space and Content Communities Generic Work Information Space Work done autonomously within IS