One of the challenges facing public health is the early recognition of problems. With the benefit of hindsight, we look back at outbreaks such as SARS and now more recently Swine Flu (H1N1) and we can see the information trail that precedes the Eureka moment or discovery point. In retrospect, with SARS, there was chatter [...]
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Swine Flu (H1N1) – An Information Problem?
May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Categories: Healthcare informatics · information Management · KM
Tags: information, Information Science, KM
Watching Swine Flu evolve
May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
As swine flu (or should I be calling this H1N1) was at the top of the news, I saw this story on TV about a genetic scientist who was riveted to his computer screen watching the genetic sequence of the virus as it was changing. He has these strings of numbers and characters coming up [...]
Categories: information Management · Information Technology · KM
Tags: Bio-Informatics, Information Science
The Need to Forget
March 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Here is a presentation I gave at the Housing Memory student conference at the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto. Enjoy. The Need To Forget View more presentations from Joel Alleyne.
Categories: information Management · Information Technology · KM · Knowledge media
Tags: KM, memory, organizational memory
Semantic web comes to life
February 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Scientific American had a great article in the December issue on the Semantic Web (see: The Semantic Web in Action for a preview of this article – or perhaps you can find a copy at a library). This article describes a number of real life exemplars of the semantic web in action. Of particular interest, [...]
Categories: information Management · KM
Tags: Semantic Web