Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner je profesorem a vedoucím katedry informačních studií na University of California v Los Angeles. Zabývá se filozofií textů, kulturní informatikou, bibliometrií,teoretickými základy služeb poskytujících přistup k textům, obrázkům a dalším kulturním artefaktům, dále se zabývá informační etikou, metadaty.

Dosažené vzdělání 

 

Ph.D. in Information Studies.

University of Sheffield, England; October 1991 – November 1994.

Dissertation: The measurement of inter-linker consistency and retrieval effectiveness in manually-constructed hypertext

databases.

Advisors: P. Willett, D. Ellis. Examiners: S. E. Robertson, M. F. Lynch.

M.Sc. in Information Management.

University of Sheffield, England; October 1990 – September 1991.

Thesis: The design of a hypertext system for the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Advisor: N. J. Ford.

B.A. (Hons; now M.A.) in Philosophy and Social and Political Sciences.

University of Cambridge, England; October 1984 – June 1987.

Advisors: E. J. Craig, C. Fraser.

California Rare Book School.

University of California, Los Angeles; August 2010.

Coursework: Book illustration processes to 1900 (instructor: T. Belanger).

Zaměstnání

Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; July 2005 – present.

Teaching and research in cultural informatics, and the history and philosophy of information science.

Visiting Fellow, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England: May –

September 2006.

Research on collaborative indexing of cultural objects.

Assistant Editor, Dewey Decimal Classification, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Dublin, OH; April 2005

– April 2006.

Created and maintained bibliographic classification schedules for the visual arts, sociology and anthropology, and

ethnic groups; conducted training courses and edited daily blog on the use of the DDC. [Work carried out at the

Library of Congress, Washington, DC.]

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; July 1998 – June 2005.

Taught doctoral-, master’s-, and undergraduate-level courses in subject cataloging and classification, scholarly

communication and bibliometrics, art librarianship, information retrieval, information structures, information access,

database design, and theoretical traditions in information studies.

Lecturer, School of Information and Media, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland; July 1995 – June 1998.

Taught master’s- and undergraduate-level courses in subject cataloging and classification, information retrieval,

information access, search skills and techniques, information sources and services, and database design.

Research Fellow, Department for Education, UK Govt.; November 1994 – June 1995.

Conducted an investigation of the effects of individual differences in the cognitive abilities of users on the performance

of information retrieval systems. [Work carried out in Sheffield.]

Research Assistant, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, England; October 1991 – September

1994.

Conducted a study of the manual creation of hypertext links in full-text databases, and a survey of the practical

application of hypertext systems in UK libraries.

Customer Services Executive, Maxwell Online, London, England; October 1989 – September 1990.

Wrote user documentation and conducted training courses in the use of Orbit Search Service.

Library Assistant, University of London Library, London, England; October 1988 – September 1989.

Assisted subject librarians in the history and sociology departments.

Analyst / Programmer, Midland Montagu Treasury Management, London, England; October 1987 – March 1988.

Wrote software in APL providing support for derivatives traders.

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