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 The School of Information Sciences is
pleased to welcome Raymond Yee as he presents a colloquium
on Wednesday, September 26, 2007. Dr. Yee will
discuss “Web Mashups, Recombinatory Data
and the Academy,” beginning at 11 am in Room 501 of the
SIS Building (135 North Bellefield Avenue). Dr.
Yee is a visiting scholar at the School of Information,
UC Berkeley.
Yee will examine how, with relatively little effort,
individuals are recombining digital content from the
Web to create sophisticated mashups. The mashups
often provide entirely new understandings of that content. This
talk will survey the world of mashups, how they are created,
how people learn to make them -- and specifically, the
implications of recombinatory data and services for the
university.
Until recently, Raymond Yee was a lecturer and data
architect at the University of California, Berkeley.
While earning a Ph.D. in biophysics, he taught computer
science, philosophy, and personal development to K-11
students in the Academic Talent Development Program on
the Berkeley campus. He is the primary architect of the
Scholar's Box, software that enables users to gather
digital content from multiple sources to create personal
collections that can be shared with others. Raymond has
also been a lecturer in the UC Berkeley School of Information,
where he has taught the course "Mixing and Remixing
Information." As a data architect, he focused on
the architecture of data-oriented campus services, including
those around scholarly processes. |
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