Live performance lacks the durability of art practices such as photography, film and
painting, and so definitions of ‘live’ acts have traditionally been formulated in terms
of ‘transience’ and ‘disappearance’. In this context the archive and archival documents
are often described as the antithesis of performance’s ontology. An archive’s pri…[Read more]

Documents, those materials that are reproducible and ostensibly ‘non-live’, are ubiquitous in the everyday to the degree that the experiencing and recording of life has become a tangled process. What follows the other – the act or its record? The many projects and writings that have emerged in recent years concerning the role documentation pract…[Read more]

In his 1992 essay Eftermaele: ‘That which will be said afterwards’ Eugenio Barba states that ‘[i]n the age of electronic memory, of films, and of reproducibility … performance … defines itself through the work that living memory, which is not museum but metamorphosis, is obliged to do’ (78). His mention of memory is an acknowledgement of…[Read more]

Considers the continuing relevance of the ideas of browsing, serendipity, information encountering, and literature discovery in a digital information environment.

This is an updated version of an encyclopaedia entry written in 2014. It gives a succinct overview of the discipline of library and information science (LIS).

Modified and updated version of a chapter published in ‘Theory development in the information sciences’, D. Sonnenwald (ed.), University of Texas Press, 2016, pp 281-299, with recent references included.

Coming changes in the information environment, particularly the infosphere and immersive documents are briefly reviewed, and their significance for library/information science considered, with a focus on topics addressed in the writings of Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić. Issues analysed include the nature of these new developments, new models of i…[Read more]

This paper describes a new approach to education for library/information students in data
literacy – the principles and practice of data collection, manipulation and management – as a
part of the Masters programme in library and information science (CityLIS) at City,
University of London.

This PhD thesis, now largely of historical interest, describes a then-novel method of substructural analysis of chemical structure representations, with potential application in structure-property correlation and information retrieval within chemical information systems. Structural features are generated from Wiswesser Line Notation…[Read more]

This is a blog post containing the somewhat revised text of a chapter published in a Festschrift for Rafael Capurr, with comments from Capurro on our chapter.

This is a keynote presentation given at the 50th anniversary conference of the CILIP Library and Information History Group, CILIP HQ London, 6 November 2012.
It took a presidential theme, in acknowledgement of the US presidential election happening that day.
It was intended as a short introduction to the day, showing that the study of…[Read more]

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]