Tue 20 Dec 2005
How to summarize - grab hold of - a productive year so it not only adds to individual recollections but also appears as a common foundation for next year’s endeavors? How to merge our interdependent discoveries/perspectives/understandings? Creating a set of our own ‘informatics principles’ seems a bit lofty - off-putting even or premature - so maybe we cam grpw a collection of lessons learned along with some resolutions instead.Here’s a list begun as we dispersed from the oceaninformatics year end story hour - trailing AmoebaLikeBacteriaShapedMarineSnowflake balloons.
Ocean Informatics 2005
Retrospective: A Lesson Learned
Some ‘one’ may provide ‘A Data Solution’ but no ‘one’ can provide ‘The Data Solution’. That is, there is much to be learned for those focusing on a one-stop shop/one-stop system data solution, and much else to be learned for those focusing on new approaches to design/integration/interoperability.
Prospective: Some New Year Resolutions
-to identify and articulate our own assumptions while learning to learn
-to work on recognizing the loss of fundamental categories and perceptions evident with technology
-to learn from diversity and difference, tending to our language, its ambiguities, and our local needs
-to aim for sustainability: think global, design local
-foreground the learning and the design /learning environment making use of collaborative, interdisciplinary prototyping
-to continue creating and articulating the multiple dimensions of infrastructure
-to focus on opening up new roles, ie of information manager, information scientist, data curator/mediator/liason, social informaticist, and environmental scientist
-to contribute to the dialogue about responsibilities and ethics of data producers (ie a change from being data users) while cultivating the enviornomental science-information science communications
-to consider data (flow, sustainability, synthesis), data support (IT, sustainability, alignment) and data use (local, public, long-term)
-to develop and inform ourselves about methods, approaches and perspectives for informatics, technology interfaces, communities of practice, and learning environments
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December 21st, 2005 at 12:34 pm
may i add under the retrospectives:
- continue to maintain and strengthen current communication channels and bridges that already exist within our community, while looking outward towards new possibilities. integrating new perspectives and ideas can help us if we remain flexible and adaptive, but also closely connected to our own infrastructure.
and to the existing Prospective, i would like to propose an edit:
-to consider data (flow, sustainability, types, QA), data integration (synthesis, standards, interoperability, QC), data support (IT, sustainability, alignment, documentation) and data use/data access (local, academic, public, long-term, findability)
one more addition that fits in with learning from diversity and difference, tending to our language:
- to design and develop a way to more effectively communicate with those who may not have the same language, goals or scope.
thoughts?
January 3rd, 2006 at 1:33 pm
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