Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Scenario-based design
Alexandria digital library: user evaluation studies and system design
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: access to information in the networked world
Better home shopping or new democracy?: evaluating community network outcomes
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ethnomethodologically informed ethnography and information system design
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Virtual Society? Get Real!: The Social Science of Electronic Technologies
Virtual Society? Get Real!: The Social Science of Electronic Technologies
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Fluid ontologies for digital museums
International Journal on Digital Libraries - Special section on Digital Museum
Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge
The Information Society
Creating conditions for participation: conflicts and resources in systems development
Human-Computer Interaction
A clustering-based semi-automated technique to build cultural ontologies
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledges: Moving Past the Traditional Catalog
The Information Society
Information practices of immigrants
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Participatory personal data: An emerging research challenge for the information sciences
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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As networked digital systems are rapidly created and deployed, social, cultural, and community-focused issues are often neglected. Indeed much research has focused on the “effects” these systems hold rather than viewing systems as tools to be designed given an understanding of sociocultural context. Acknowledging the cultural practices and belief systems of a set of users may allow systems to be more effectively created and deployed into particular contexts. Emerging research in community information systems and archives has highlighted possible interactions between system design and ethnographic research. These bridges include understanding how communities can begin (1) to create content for their own information systems, (2) to design the database architectures, and (3) to integrate systems within community infrastructures. In this article, I allude to several cultural criticisms that accompany the global proliferation of information technologies. These criticisms can be answered by research that focuses on developing systems based on ethnographic insights. Specifically, I present the research example of Tribal Peace, a cultural information system designed for and by community members of the 19 Native American reservations of San Diego County (California, United States). This case has demonstrated the potential for a community to create an information system that satisfies its own priorities. This precedent points to the need for further research that investigates this convergence. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.