davidbawden.bsky.social
@davidbawden.bsky.social
Occasional informationist. Academic. Londoner.
Website and blog at www.theoccasionalinformationist.com.
Website and blog at www.theoccasionalinformationist.com.
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Lovely to see this nod from somebody whose work is central here.
Great reading for LIS folks - covers development of LIS related disciplines through to contemporary concerns for information professionals and LIS students.
I like the 'boots of concrete' phrase :-) > 'Large companies have built vast consolidated infrastructure - we are used to thinking of information as immaterial, however, AI has also emphasized how the cloud has boots of concrete.' buff.ly/MAzHirK
October 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Lovely to see this nod from somebody whose work is central here.
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Great reading for LIS folks - covers development of LIS related disciplines through to contemporary concerns for information professionals and LIS students.
I like the 'boots of concrete' phrase :-) > 'Large companies have built vast consolidated infrastructure - we are used to thinking of information as immaterial, however, AI has also emphasized how the cloud has boots of concrete.' buff.ly/MAzHirK
Information: a brief schematic history
In a piece on the informational disciplines and the iSchool, I sketched this very schematic and informal overview of information, broadly construed. My focus is pragmatic, related to library…
www.lorcandempsey.net
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Great reading for LIS folks - covers development of LIS related disciplines through to contemporary concerns for information professionals and LIS students.
Information re-reviewed. A thorough and insightful review of concepts and theories of information by Luke Tredinnick ... new blog post theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/09/27/i...
Information re-reviewed
The nature of information has been reviewed and analysed many times, and from different perspectives, as noted in a previous article by myself and Lyn Robinson. New reviews can always give new insi…
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September 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Information re-reviewed. A thorough and insightful review of concepts and theories of information by Luke Tredinnick ... new blog post theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/09/27/i...
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The autumn equinox is here in the northern hemisphere, meaning that the new season has officially begun.
This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully.
🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Utagawa Hiroshige 1 (1797 - 1858) , 1857. EAX.4362
This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully.
🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Utagawa Hiroshige 1 (1797 - 1858) , 1857. EAX.4362
September 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The autumn equinox is here in the northern hemisphere, meaning that the new season has officially begun.
This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully.
🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Utagawa Hiroshige 1 (1797 - 1858) , 1857. EAX.4362
This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully.
🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Utagawa Hiroshige 1 (1797 - 1858) , 1857. EAX.4362
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The term ‘hobbyist’ applied to unfunded research is derogatory. This would seem to be about allowing only academics with grants time to undertake research, and increasing those on teaching only contracts, in order to reduce overall staffing. The result is a much diminished uni sector.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The term ‘hobbyist’ applied to unfunded research is derogatory. This would seem to be about allowing only academics with grants time to undertake research, and increasing those on teaching only contracts, in order to reduce overall staffing. The result is a much diminished uni sector.
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Proceedings from our 5th FanLIS Symposium held earlier this year, 2025. Huge thanks to @ludiprice.bsky.social and Tim Gorichanaz 😎 ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol12/...
Proceedings from the Document Academy | Vol 12 | Iss 1
ideaexchange.uakron.edu
September 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Proceedings from our 5th FanLIS Symposium held earlier this year, 2025. Huge thanks to @ludiprice.bsky.social and Tim Gorichanaz 😎 ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol12/...
Dark matter and information revisited. Gravity and entropy. Einstein and railway timetables. New blog post. theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/08/29/d...
Dark matter and information revisited
In a previous post, I described as “over excited” the idea that the mysterious “dark matter”, that hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with lig…
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August 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Dark matter and information revisited. Gravity and entropy. Einstein and railway timetables. New blog post. theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/08/29/d...
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🎉Amazing news! We are thrilled to announce that Introduction to Documentation Studies by Niels Windfeld Lund has won the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award 2025 🏆
Learn more about the book and the award 👇 www.asist.org/2025/08/13/i...
Learn more about the book and the award 👇 www.asist.org/2025/08/13/i...
August 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉Amazing news! We are thrilled to announce that Introduction to Documentation Studies by Niels Windfeld Lund has won the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award 2025 🏆
Learn more about the book and the award 👇 www.asist.org/2025/08/13/i...
Learn more about the book and the award 👇 www.asist.org/2025/08/13/i...
Why everything is complex. The law of increasing functional information. New blog post. theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/08/16/w...
Why everything is complex
A recent article in Quanta magazine reminds us of the on-going interest in a rather startling proposal regarding the status of information, its relation to complexity, in the physical and biologica…
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August 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Why everything is complex. The law of increasing functional information. New blog post. theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/08/16/w...
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Pleased to have spent time earlier today with colleagues from @unistrathclyde.bsky.social as external examiner for Salah Kashlot. “Exploring the influence of information overload in the context of digital learning tools. Congratulations to Salah and the supervisory and examination teams.
August 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Pleased to have spent time earlier today with colleagues from @unistrathclyde.bsky.social as external examiner for Salah Kashlot. “Exploring the influence of information overload in the context of digital learning tools. Congratulations to Salah and the supervisory and examination teams.
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'Floral Hall, Covent Garden' (1965) by Edward Bawden
July 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
'Floral Hall, Covent Garden' (1965) by Edward Bawden
An intriguing editorial letter from @floridi.bsky.social in Philosophy and Technology, proposing a new academic discipline of 'Content Studies', as a response to the increasing complexity of digital content [well-formed, meaningful data, conveyed through media). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Content Studies: A New Academic Discipline for Analysing, Evaluating, and Designing Content in a Digital and AI-Driven Age - Philosophy & Technology
Philosophy & Technology -
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July 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
An intriguing editorial letter from @floridi.bsky.social in Philosophy and Technology, proposing a new academic discipline of 'Content Studies', as a response to the increasing complexity of digital content [well-formed, meaningful data, conveyed through media). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Wishing @shannonmattern.bsky.social everything good from here on. I recommend her post to any and all UK academics wondering how their values can ever align with those of their institution right now. And of course, for all those academics who chose to leave.
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Wishing @shannonmattern.bsky.social everything good from here on. I recommend her post to any and all UK academics wondering how their values can ever align with those of their institution right now. And of course, for all those academics who chose to leave.
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If you don’t want your child to read a certain book, then don’t let them. Other parents may wish to make a different choice, and should be free to do so.
Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat
Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat
Paul Webb said he ensured books and material were pulled from children’s section of Kent libraries, but it emerges they were never there
A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of “trans-ideological material and books” from the children’s section of his county’s libraries has fallen flat after it emerged that no such material ever existed there.
Paul Webb, the cabinet member for communities at Kent council, whose portfolio covers libraries, posted a video to X in which he said he had been “recently contacted by a concerned member of the public who found trans-ideological material and books in the children’s section of one of our libraries”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If you don’t want your child to read a certain book, then don’t let them. Other parents may wish to make a different choice, and should be free to do so.
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More good news! Oz Ablett-Webb has been awarded his PhD “Building Documents - considering the role of document theory in experiencing the built environment” Thanks to Tim Gorichanaz as external exam. V proud to have established such a fabulous group of research students w @davidbawden.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
More good news! Oz Ablett-Webb has been awarded his PhD “Building Documents - considering the role of document theory in experiencing the built environment” Thanks to Tim Gorichanaz as external exam. V proud to have established such a fabulous group of research students w @davidbawden.bsky.social
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This is super news! We are all delighted for Ian 📚🎓😎
Major congrats to my PhD student Ian Rodwell for successfully defending his doctoral thesis on liminal spaces, requiring no amendments! 🤩🎉
June 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is super news! We are all delighted for Ian 📚🎓😎
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London has been ranked the world’s #1 city for 2025—for the 10th year in a row.
This recognition speaks to the strength and vibrancy of our capital. From our cultural institutions to our nightlife, London remains a place for everyone.
This recognition speaks to the strength and vibrancy of our capital. From our cultural institutions to our nightlife, London remains a place for everyone.
The World's Best Cities
www.worldsbestcities.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
London has been ranked the world’s #1 city for 2025—for the 10th year in a row.
This recognition speaks to the strength and vibrancy of our capital. From our cultural institutions to our nightlife, London remains a place for everyone.
This recognition speaks to the strength and vibrancy of our capital. From our cultural institutions to our nightlife, London remains a place for everyone.
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Consequences of turning UK universities into commercially driven enterprises, run by not so great management.
Now published! Universities Degraded, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, reveals the scale of job losses in UK universities, exposes employer practices & shares testimonies of those made redundant & their colleagues.
Warning: some of the content is distressing.
zenodo.org/records/1563...
Warning: some of the content is distressing.
zenodo.org/records/1563...
June 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Consequences of turning UK universities into commercially driven enterprises, run by not so great management.
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'The Albert Bridge' (1966) by Edward Bawden
May 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
'The Albert Bridge' (1966) by Edward Bawden
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For any @fanlis.bsky.social folks who have not seen this! #FanLIS2025
The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection"
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
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May 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
For any @fanlis.bsky.social folks who have not seen this! #FanLIS2025
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Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.
May 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.
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Not surprising. Carla Hayden is a highly educated woman who encourages reading and thinking.
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Not surprising. Carla Hayden is a highly educated woman who encourages reading and thinking.
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Thanks to David Bawden & @lynrobinson.bsky.social for their review doi.org/10.55741/knj... of my book, ‘Achieving global open access’ doi.org/10.4324/9781... “recommended for anyone seeking an insightful analysis of the current problems of global open access, and thoughts...[on] future solutions”
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April 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thanks to David Bawden & @lynrobinson.bsky.social for their review doi.org/10.55741/knj... of my book, ‘Achieving global open access’ doi.org/10.4324/9781... “recommended for anyone seeking an insightful analysis of the current problems of global open access, and thoughts...[on] future solutions”
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LIS folks interested in the author/creator component of the information communication chain will want to read this. Note the concept of meta-author accompanying wrAIting. #DocumentTheory @floridi.bsky.social
What does it mean to be an author when using AI to produce a text?
"Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
new paper freely available at SSRN
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
"Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
new paper freely available at SSRN
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
April 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
LIS folks interested in the author/creator component of the information communication chain will want to read this. Note the concept of meta-author accompanying wrAIting. #DocumentTheory @floridi.bsky.social
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One more time: libraries are essential infrastructure for civil society. They keep the record and make it available to all. UK government must be mindful of this in light of the erosion of democracy in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration
Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracy
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
One more time: libraries are essential infrastructure for civil society. They keep the record and make it available to all. UK government must be mindful of this in light of the erosion of democracy in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...