{"id":1675,"date":"2009-08-27T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2009-08-27T06:51:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:51:56","slug":"jodi-is-a-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"JoDI is a teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, almost.\u00a0 JoDI<\/a>, the Journal of Digital Information, founded by Wendy Hall<\/a> and Gary Marchionini<\/a>, has been publishing papers online since 1997 with Cliff McKnight<\/a> as the Editor-in-Chief.\u00a0 JoDI is a peer-reviewed online journal organized into several themes, including digital libraries, hypermedia systems, hypertext criticism, information discovery, information management, social issues of digital information, and usability of digital information.<\/p>\n

JoDI started out at the University of Southampton, where its original pages<\/a> are still archived, with the first paper entitled “The World Wide Web – past, present and future<\/a>“<\/em> by Tim Berners-Lee; the paper was a transcript of his July 17, 1996 presentation to the British Computer Society when he was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship. Not a bad way to start an online publication!<\/p>\n

So twelve years on, the journal has a new home in the Texas Digital Library, and a new Editor-in-Chief in John Leggett<\/a>. While the mission has not changed in principle, the new boss is shaking things up a bit, appointing new theme editors and trying to rejuvenate the journal. The goal is to get good work published and for JoDI to be seen as a valuable resources for a number of communities.<\/p>\n

With this preamble, I am pleased to announce that I will be the new editor for the Information Discovery Theme. I guess this was John’s way of getting back at me for annoying him at all the Digital Libraries conferences. I was attracted to this position for several reasons<\/p>\n