The world of technology and information science changes so quickly, it's a huge challenge to keep up. iEdge can help. The iEdge mission is to provide a forum where students research and share information about cool stuff in the areas of technology, information science and the library world.
We meet bi-weekly throughout the school year
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Past Events:
- Weds, Nov 8, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm in MGH420
iEdge presents an IA practical session
- Interested in Information Architecture but don't really understand what it means day-to-day?
- Heard of a wireframe but don't really know what it is and definitely never seen one?
- Intrigued by Information Architecture but not sure if you should pursue it as a career option?
Then you should come to ASIS&T's second iEdge event of the year!!!
Samantha Starmer (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft), and Aaron Louie (Information Architect, Ascentium) are going to walk us through an IA project, emphasizing their roles as client (Microsoft) and vendor (Ascentium). They will tell us about how Microsoft picks a vendor like Ascentium, what information is exchanged to kick off the project, the nuts and bolts of the project work and what Ascentium delivers to Microsoft at the end. All this and much more!! Snacks will be provided.
- Tuesday, October 31, from 10 to 11am in MGH420!
Sara Seely and Jill Fairlee Kobayashi will present on educational blogging, and how blogs are being used in school libraries and K-12 classrooms. This is an abbreviated version of the presentation Jill and Sara gave at the Washington Library Media Association annual meeting a few weeks ago.
Andrew Szydlowski will teach us about RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS is alternative means of presenting and accessing information on the Internet using XML. Instead of the user browsing websites for information of interest, the information is sent directly to the user via RSS.
Betsy Rolland will talk about her experience this summer working on the Bio-Mediator project in the Biomedical & Health Informatics department. Bio-Mediator is a project that allows researchers to use one interface to query multiple datasources using a central ontology and mediated schemas. Betsy will also talk about its implications for other domains.
- June MLIS students Tyan Hines and Caroline Dombrowski led a tutorial on wikis and introduced iWiki, an iSchool student wiki
- May 30, Mike Simon of Creation Logic gave a presentation on information
security
- May 16 Gary Knopp, SoftwareQuality Engineer at Digeo spoke about Web Services and what they are used for.
- Tuesday, May 2 Randy Henne from Amazon talked about
how personalization works at Amazon and how their information design is changing.
- Tuesday, April 11 iSchool professor Terry Brooks talked about Greasemonkey and the user driven web experience.
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ASIS&T UW Chapter | american society for information science & technology