Information Access Seminar

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

Deirdre K. Mulligan served in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy for the past 18 months as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.

How the economics of trademarks contributed to the spread of modern notions of “information”.

The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 106th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Digital technologies have reshaped the movie industry. What are the implications for the industry’s future?

Eric T. Meyer is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information

Michael Buckland extends last semester’s seminar with an complementary model of the contexts of items deemed to be relevant.

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions generative AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

Michael Buckland explores the genesis and spread of belief and misbelief.

The world has been on a decades-long series of experiments trying to build successful decentralized systems marked almost entirely by failure.

Anushah Hossain considers what values and scripts were privileged in today’s core standards for multilingual digital communication — Unicode, OpenType, and more.

“Preserving Digital Images and Data” and “Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era”

Christine Borgman is a distinguished research professor in information studies at UCLA.

Javier Cha is a medievalist, digital historian, and technologist and principal investigator of the Big Data Studies Lab.

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.