Suggested+reading

=Suggested reading= Please add suggested books and articles and other reading materials, either paper-based or online. You might like to add a brief summary of the work in question and why you think it is worth reading. Suggested sequence: alphabetical, by surname of first author, under the appropriate major heading.

= PRINTED BOOKS & JOURNALS =

The Social Life of Information
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid Harvard Business School Press, 2000 & 2002. ISBN 1–57851–708–7 (paperback) [[|Amazon link]]

Wikipatterns
Stewart MaderJohn Wiley and Sons, 2007. ISBN 0470223626[[|Amazon link]]
 * The [|Wiki Patterns] web site, developed by Atlassian software 'wiki evangelist' Stewart Mader provides a toolbox of behavioural 'patterns' and 'anti-patterns' displayed by those working for (or indeed against) the adoption of wikis as a collaborative tool. The website is run using a wiki, so that those who use it can actively contribute their experience. Stewart‘s book to accompany the website complements the toolbox with case studies (U.S. based) of the adoption of wikis in corporate and academic settings.

Here Comes Everybody: the power of organizing without organizations
Clay Shirky Allen Lane, 2008. ISBN 0713999896. [[|Amazon link]]
 * Includes a chapter about Wikipedia.

Communities of Practice: learning, meaning, identity
Etienne Wenger Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (Nov 1999). ISBN 0521663636 [[|Amazon link]]

= PAPERS &c related to KIDMM ‘history’ =

Making and Organising Knowledge in Communities
Conrad Taylor September 2008 >
 * Preparatory paper for the KIDMM & ISKO-UK conference of 9 Ocober 2008, MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2.0 – //Making and Organising Knowledge in Communities//. The paper is a review of literature and concepts.

KIDMM MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2007: conference report
Conrad Taylor > Detailed report of the 2007 conference organised by KIDMM, with BCS support. Topics include >
 * Information Retrieval today (Tony Rose, IRSG);
 * **Data Mining, Text Mining and the Predictive Enterprise** (Tom Khazaba, SPSS)
 * **SNOMED Clinical Terms** (Ian Herbert, BCS Health Informatics Forum)
 * **Geospatial information and its applications** (Dan Rickman, Geospatial SG)
 * **Integrating museum systems at the V&A Museum** (Christopher Marsden, V&A)
 * **Preservation of Datasets at The National Archive** (Terence Freedman, TNA)
 * **Issues in Classification** (Leonard Will, Willpower Information and ISKO)
 * **Enabling knowledge communities online** (Richard Millwood, CORE-ED).

Information Literacy, the Information Society and international development
Information for Development Forum, with BCS Developing Countries Specialist Group January 2003 >
 * Detailed report of one of the workshops which can be seen as a forerunner to the KIDMM project. The round-table workshop was convened by John Lindsay of BCS-DCSG to discuss Information Literacy in the context of the run-up to the United Nations //World Summit on the Information Society//. Note that some of the URLs quoted are no longer extant.

Dissecting our Information Society
David Penfold October 2003 >
 * Article in a journal of the British Computer Society, in which David Penfold discusses issues surrounding the organisation of and access to information and content.

= OTHER STUFF =

Streaming Media Working Party report, 2004
BCS Streaming Media Working Party >
 * The SMWP was commissioned by the BCS Member Services Board in 2004 to examine how lectures and conferences organised by BCS member groups could extend their value and outreach by making audio and video recordings of them and streaming those over the Internet. In fact the Working Group expanded its remit to look at all manner of uses of audiovisual media by BCS member groups, including DVD/CD distribution and making files available for download, and transcription to text. The report contains a wealth of technical detail and although now dated, is still very much worth reading. 93pp.

EPSG experiments in the use of digital audiovisual media
Conrad Taylor, for EPSG >
 * Written in 2005, this report sets out the experience gathered by the Electronic Publishing Specialist Group of the BCS in the field of audiovisual media: audio transcription projects, podcasting and MP3 projects, video production. 36pp

Digital Content, Media and Culture Specialist Group proposal
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 * This is a proposal to the BCS Specialist Groups Executive Committee, for the foundation of a new Specialist Group, as a replacement for the Electronic Publishing SG but with a much more encompassing agenda and a greater variety of activities. Embedded within the proposal is the idea of a working party hosted within the new Group, focussing on informatics in the museum and gallery collections and libraries domain. Draft for comment, 9 April 2010.