Slides, notes and abstract for a presentation given a conference marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Sir Joseph Paxton. The presentation considers Paxton and his followers as authors, editors and publishers, establishing the knowledge base of horticulture and park design. They were participants in the wider dissemination of information…[Read more]

Purpose
The aim of this paper is to examine how and if information-seeking behaviour changes when individuals transform a hobby into a business.

Design/methodology/approach
Four hobbyists who now pursued their activities in a professional context were interviewed via semi-structured interviews. The interviewers were transcribed and analysed…[Read more]

This is an historical research project that investigates predictions of future information technology made by Paul Otlet, H.G. Wells and Vannevar Bush, specifically those described in the Mundaneum, World Brain and Memex respectively. It is carried out by means of an extended review of the relevant Library and Information Science literature and…[Read more]

This short and speculative paper considers some philosophical approaches to understanding, particularly those related to Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Information, and based on the general idea that understanding is a special kind of knowledge. It is a slightly extended and updated version of the paper presented at CoLIS9.