Information Access Seminar

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.

Coye Cheshire explores the trustworthiness of health information in online environments.

Jevin West studies misinformation and how it spreads in science and society.

The Open Book Collective is a partnership of open access publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, and other non-profit organizations.

The concept of relevance is central to information studies but has resisted clear analysis.

Ron Day explores a new philosophy of information and documents based on Robert Pagès, Bernd Frohmann, and Suzanne Briet.

Clifford Lynch summarizes recent report releases and other publications and conference reports.

Clifford Lynch outlines emerging trends and issues in networked information and related technologies.

Jeffrey A. Hart presents an overview of his new book, Essays on the History and Politics of the Internet: Cyberpolitics.

Cybersecurity Futures 2030 is a foresight-focused scenario-planning exercise considering how cybersecurity is set to transform over the next five to seven years.

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 105th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Johanna Drucker is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at UCLA and is internationally known for her work in digital humanities.