Information Access Seminar

Ofer Bergman is an associate professor in the information science department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Rob Sanderson is a semantic architect at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, and a passionate advocate for open culture, linked open data, and the digitization of cultural heritage.

What if we take the central concept of information science and see where it leads?

Reading analytics are a relatively new development but are being deployed in many contexts and at a variety of scales.

Library and bibliographical practices for discovery and access are based on now-obsolete assumptions that pre-date digital networks. So we need to go back to basics and build more useful designs based on contemporary assumptions.