Shannon Goes to the Museum: Drawing Lines Across Boundaries

Museum lnformatia and lnformation lnfrastructures Supporting Collaboration across lntra-Museum Boundaries

This paper examines the development of an information infrastructure involving collaborative technologies at the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture at the University of Illinois. It details a socio-technological system that was designed to pack and re-locate 45,000 artifacts across campus to a new museum facility. It addresses the question of how the information infrastructu...

Drawing lines in the sand: even skipped et al. and parasegment boundaries.

The pair-rule segmentation gene even skipped (eve) is required to activate engrailed stripes and to organize odd-numbered parasegments (PSs). The protein product Eve has been shown to be an active repressor of transcription, and recent models for Eve function suggest that activation of engrailed is indirect, but these models have not been fully tested. Here we identify the forkhead domain trans...

Introduction: Drawing the Boundaries of Art

ALTHOUGH FILMS occupy a central place in American popular culture, that place is also, paradoxically, difficult to understand and characterize. Watching movies has been a major leisure and cultural activity for Ameri­ cans for more than a hundred years. But for nearly the entire duration of their history, there has been an active debate about the movies and their merits. They have been criticiz...

Drawing the Boundaries of Codified Knowledge Transfer

The goal of this paper is to examine an instance of the codified knowledge transfer process in non-routine activities from the socio-organizational perspective. We examined knowledge codification, decodification and mechanisms to transfer knowledge considering two aspects: the role of context and the portion of tacit knowledge embedded in codified knowledge. The empirical evidence came from a h...

Drawing Lines in the Sand