An Introduction to the readers let me characterized the meaning of Information Environment. An Information Environment can be describe as the set of network or online services that support publishing and use of information and learning resources. At the moment online services providing digital resources tend to operate in a stand-alone manner. The user is therefore required to navigate a complex set of different websites with different search interfaces in order to locate relevant resources. Similarly the resources offered tend to be characterized by a lack of mediation to provide vital signposts to explain context and relevance to the user. It has been recognized that this is one of the key features limiting take up of digital resources. In other words Information Environment is an environment where you can find the information you need in the easiest way.
To take part of the Information Environment services I will allow my self to be in a role of a user like a student user as of my current state now, but not just an ordinary student user but also a good contributor of comments and suggestions to the developer about the services they made.
As a student specially an Information Technology (IT) student there are many things I want to know about the changing technology, I want to know more about things that I’m not aware of specially things that are related to my course. An Information Environment services can help me in my goals because here I can find the answers to my questions not just that I can have my advance research in a simpler way without any delayed, well aside for the speed connection that I’m using. With my teachers that gives us many electronic assignment researches its hard for me to research in an environment that so confusing. So I need a better way to research without puzzlement in my mind. Information Environment could be a great help not just for me but to all students who will going to use it. It allows us to gain knowledge and to advance our mind to things that we are not aware of.
Being a user well a very observant user I just can say that the service I was using is a perfect search engine there should be some bugs and disrupt that I dislike or I’m not convenient with. As a good student (tsar) I just can’t leave things behind or outpace that problem, I will leave some comments about my observations not just my poor observation about the software but also my good observations about it. By doing this I can help the developers improved their programs by fixing those problems. I can send my suggestions so that they can think about it when they will go to update their search engine environment.
Now let’s move on and characterize the meaning of Information Organization and how it will help me in performing my role as a simple user and a contributor. Information Organization is simply organizing information to bring essentially like information together and to differentiate what is not exactly alike. To be simple, Information Organization based in what I read and know it is a way of organizing the things that should be done and needed by a user or even a information environment developers.According to an article that I read there are three key principles of Information Organization: Knowledge needs to be organized for communities (Communities), In designing tools to support the organization of knowledge, guiding principle must be that of user orientation and predominant usage (User Orientation), Standardization and networking provide infrastructures, which facilitate effective and efficient access to information and documents (Standardization and Networking). The list below are the sub-principles of the three principles, each principles contains break parts that will help me understand further the thoughts of the three major principles.
Communities:
• Libraries have always been established to serve a community
• Needs of the community for information, documents, education and recreation are established through user studies, service delivery, committees ('focus groups'), involvement with stake holders in the community and other interactions with the community
• Libraries deploy their resources (human, financial, documents) according to this need
• Similarly the producers of databases and publishers, who organize knowledge embedded in document and databases, do so with the understanding of the marketplace, and the type and format of information that is likely to cultivate and maintain a loyal customer base
• Portals could be viewed as the electronic agency that tailors document access and information services for specific communities
• Nature of communities varies with the type of portal - public, commercial, internal, etc.
• However, the imperative to develop a community is clear.
• Public service needs to be offered to an identifiable community for resources to continue to support the portal
• Commercial portals need to be convinced that their Internet activities are having a positive effect on awareness, reputation and trade
• Creation of communities cannot be left to chance
• E-organizations need to go beyond defining relationships with the customers, to taking a lead in the definition of the culture and values of the community they are seeking to create
• This definition will assist consumers to identify with a community to which they can contribute
User orientation:
• In the design of access points, index terms, search keys, and, more traditionally, headings, the principles of user orientation and reference to the user's cognitive and semantic frameworks has been long established o E.g.: AACR for rendering personal and corporate names
• Literary warrant or basing subject access on the literature of a subject is a well-established principle
• Most subject-based tools offer both alphabetical access (through natural language terms) and hierarchical access through a series of related topics
• Classification schemes have been the primary mode of offering access to related subjects
• Traditional classification schemes were hierarchical in nature, as are the menu structures embedded in many web sites
• Limitations of classification schemes has become evident with the growth of knowledge - resulting in cross-classification (location of a topic in multiple hierarchies)
• Many menu-based hierarchies do not use a classification notation - rather use natural language to represent subjects (alphabetic-classed approach)
Standardization and networking:
• Global L&I community has achieved great success in international networks and networking activities
• Support exchange of bibliographic data and documents and a host of other services o Examples: MARC, ISBD, Dublin Core, Z39.50, OAI, etc.
• Demonstrate the sharing of expertise and perspectives in relation to the organization of knowledge
• Use of these standards also leads to standardization in the interfaces offered to the user: o Searching effectively across a range of different libraries and databases, so that search skills learned in one environment are transferable to other environments o Locating documents or information on the basis of citations in other sources
I can tell that the three key principles of Information Organization stated above can help me perform my role in the sense that I can easily distinguished the right and wrong or the “I must” and “I must not”. I can say that because these principles tell us the right things an information environment should do. It helps me realize and know what our community needs. It also provides a simple and friendly ways to the user because of the organized design and nature friendly systems that make it simpler for me to use. It provides me also a high limitation of data searching because menu structures embedded in many web sites. And also classification schemes have been the primary mode of offering access to related subjects I want to hunt. Also as the principle discuss about networking it will be easy for me to connect and to exchange data through the net. I can easily stored and locate my data in their database, not just that, I can also transfer my data easily and safely.
Base on what I know about the three key principles of Information Organization stated above and in the conclusion that I made I can now decide what I should do about making my information environment system more effective to the user. Thanks to the ideas that I gathered from the principle. It will be easy now for me because I have a guideline. Well that is, if my role is an Information Environment programmer and developer. But base in the role that I have given above, I’m just a simple user like student user and a contributor of ideas. The three key principles of Information Organization can help me perform my role by simply ahmm…it serve as a parameter for me to know what should an information environment services contains of. I can justify whether it gives the right ideas or provides the right things and information needed by a simple user like me or does it serve its community well, by giving the correct information and not just a false statements. It will help me in my observations and contributions, if they are lack of things that the principle provides, I can send comments to them that they are lack of these things and so on… and they should be providing these things. Well I guess that’s what the three key principles of Information Organization used to be, a guide and point towards knowledge. That’s why the three principles of Information Organization help me a lot in performing my desired role.
Now let’s proceed to the challenges and consequences that I will be dealing with in performing my desired role.
There are lots of challenges that a user will be facing in performing his simple role. Being a student user there are lots of challenges that I will be going to encounter especially in finding or researching hard topics, and hard understanding about the topic. Even if Information Environment services gives all the necessary answers to my questions I can’t guarantee that all those answers are correct and that will satisfy my needs. The real challenge is that I will have to read and understand those answers so that I can come up with a right solution. Well patience is important with research; I should keep my patience so that I can manage my work well.
As a contributor there are lots of challenges that I will be dealing with in my contributions. I can tell that because I can’t assure that my comments and suggestions will be read by the developer. I can say that because I’m not the only person who uses and contributes in the engine so I have to be patient and persistent in giving contributions. To gain fame and name in the environment I have to be active in their forums and activities so that I will be known as a well contributor. There is also a possible chance that my suggestions is too high and ambiguous that they can’t provide it, or my comments are so harsh that they can’t accept it so I need to be more observant and open minded about those things so that I will not embarrassed my self.
I can say that my role in the Information Environment of my choice is not that hard and challenging unlike those who made and developed it which is more far from my ideas because my role is just a finishing in their services and a client to test it. But without me or any user they can tell that their information environment service fails because recognition can be given for those who gain more comments and suggestions and visited and used by most people who are interested with the environment. And I know they needed me because they know their work is not perfect and there should be problems that they did not notice in making it so they need some observant user to help them out. So I can say that I’m a real BIG part of the Information Environment without me, there will be no Information Environment services. Thank you!! (whew) ^_^
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