Re: [Air-l] researchers ???
I’ve never been ‘internet researcher’ but I used to be ‘global head of commercial internet strategy’ when I was at (at the time) the worlds biggest ‘isp’. Previous to that I was at British Telecommunications who have a large research facility at Martlesham Heath in the UK and there I’m sure there were entire departments called internet research and room-on-room of people called internet researchers – the kinds of stuff done in the labs ranged from basic research into things like protocols (resulting in RFCs etc) all the way up to commercial applications of technology, and, pause – futurology, shudder. BT labs home page is here: http://www.labs.bt.com, I’m sure their PR people would be happy to help if you were interested in job titles and stuff there. Ren www.renreynolds.com terranova.blogs.com ---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:30:03 +0930 From: ET <et@tarik.com.au> Subject: [Air-l] researchers ??? To: air-l@aoir.org
hi all,
just a question for the groups members - hopefully some may wish to reply.
The "modern" internet has now been going for about 10 years. As a result we have many new professions... we have web designers, programmers and a host of specialist IT positions.
Does anyone in here work full time in a position that is called "Internet Researcher" or that one could take to be, from the job responsibilities, to be a full time internet researcher? Does anyone know of another person who has the above role? I am particularly interested to know if anyone works for a company in such a role.
thanks in advance for your time,
regards
Eero Tarik Adelaide
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The problem with "internet" is that it is such a big term - from the IP protocol to community groups. So saying "internet researcher" is so broad as to be almost meaningless without further qualification? For example, I work with people at BT labs on a project called SEKT (http://sekt.semanticweb.org/) that develops semantic technology for knowledge management; I work with people at the BBC on a project called PrestoSpace (http://prestospace.ina.fr) about preserving and accessing audiovisual media in digital libraries. Just accross campus from me are historians busily transcribing 18th Century court reports for on-line access. Upstairs people are modelling complex mathematical entities called X-machines that may help verify the correctness of net servers. All are clearly "internet research", but are quite diverse - and that's just stuff that I personally have at the top of my head. I suppose that if you work on the statistics of net usage, or similar, then you might end up shortenning your description to net researcher, but it wouldn't be very meaningful? Best, Hamish -- Dr. Hamish Cunningham Senior Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield [I get too much email, and I use Regent Court junk filters. If I don't reply, 211 Portobello St. please resend, or phone!] Sheffield S1 4DP United Kingdom http://gate.ac.uk/hamish/ ren@aldermangroup.com wrote:
I’ve never been ‘internet researcher’ but I used to be ‘global head of commercial internet strategy’ when I was at (at the time) the worlds biggest ‘isp’.
Previous to that I was at British Telecommunications who have a large research facility at Martlesham Heath in the UK and there I’m sure there were entire departments called internet research and room-on-room of people called internet researchers – the kinds of stuff done in the labs ranged from basic research into things like protocols (resulting in RFCs etc) all the way up to commercial applications of technology, and, pause – futurology, shudder.
BT labs home page is here: http://www.labs.bt.com, I’m sure their PR people would be happy to help if you were interested in job titles and stuff there.
Ren www.renreynolds.com terranova.blogs.com
---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:30:03 +0930 From: ET <et@tarik.com.au> Subject: [Air-l] researchers ??? To: air-l@aoir.org
hi all,
just a question for the groups members - hopefully some may
wish to reply.
The "modern" internet has now been going for about 10 years. As a result we have many new professions... we have web designers, programmers and a host of specialist
IT positions.
Does anyone in here work full time in a position that is
called
"Internet Researcher" or that one could take to be, from the
job
responsibilities, to be a full time internet researcher? Does anyone know of another person who has the above role? I am particularly interested to know if anyone works for a
company in
such a role.
thanks in advance for your time,
regards
Eero Tarik Adelaide
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-- Hamish [I get too much email, and I use junk filters. If I don't reply, please resend, or phone!]
I agree that "internet researcher" may be to vague or broad... For example, in 1999, in my native country, Argentina, I started acting as an internet researcher by my own and later my work became a company that worked as consultants in the online communications field. I was the head of the "research team" but in our case the research was not technical at all... the idea was to work comparing sites by categories (i.e. financial, retail, etc.) and also by countries. We used to made a preliminary research (which are the principal players where) and after that a deeper research comparing sites (tools, communication tone, practical use, etc). We also asked our researchers to act as buyers/clients to compare effectiveness in each case. That help us "benchmark" companies or organizations in their online side. Now I am working in the US at www.latpro.com , always in the online communications field and even when my title is not "researcher" I still consider research a big part of my job. Hope this helps, Sandra :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hamish Cunningham" <H.Cunningham@dcs.shef.ac.uk> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:21 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] researchers ???
The problem with "internet" is that it is such a big term - from the IP protocol to community groups. So saying "internet researcher" is so broad as to be almost meaningless without further qualification?
For example, I work with people at BT labs on a project called SEKT (http://sekt.semanticweb.org/) that develops semantic technology for knowledge management; I work with people at the BBC on a project called PrestoSpace (http://prestospace.ina.fr) about preserving and accessing audiovisual media in digital libraries. Just accross campus from me are historians busily transcribing 18th Century court reports for on-line access. Upstairs people are modelling complex mathematical entities called X-machines that may help verify the correctness of net servers. All are clearly "internet research", but are quite diverse - and that's just stuff that I personally have at the top of my head.
I suppose that if you work on the statistics of net usage, or similar, then you might end up shortenning your description to net researcher, but it wouldn't be very meaningful?
Best,
Hamish
-- Dr. Hamish Cunningham Senior Research Scientist Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield [I get too much email, and I use Regent Court junk filters. If I don't reply, 211 Portobello St. please resend, or phone!] Sheffield S1 4DP United Kingdom http://gate.ac.uk/hamish/
ren@aldermangroup.com wrote:
I’ve never been ‘internet researcher’ but I used to be ‘global head of commercial internet strategy’ when I was at (at the time) the worlds biggest ‘isp’.
Previous to that I was at British Telecommunications who have a large research facility at Martlesham Heath in the UK and there I’m sure there were entire departments called internet research and room-on-room of people called internet researchers – the kinds of stuff done in the labs ranged from basic research into things like protocols (resulting in RFCs etc) all the way up to commercial applications of technology, and, pause – futurology, shudder.
BT labs home page is here: http://www.labs.bt.com, I’m sure their PR people would be happy to help if you were interested in job titles and stuff there.
Ren www.renreynolds.com terranova.blogs.com
---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:30:03 +0930 From: ET <et@tarik.com.au> Subject: [Air-l] researchers ??? To: air-l@aoir.org
hi all,
just a question for the groups members - hopefully some may
wish to reply.
The "modern" internet has now been going for about 10 years. As a result we have many new professions... we have web designers, programmers and a host of specialist
IT positions.
Does anyone in here work full time in a position that is
called
"Internet Researcher" or that one could take to be, from the
job
responsibilities, to be a full time internet researcher? Does anyone know of another person who has the above role? I am particularly interested to know if anyone works for a
company in
such a role.
thanks in advance for your time,
regards
Eero Tarik Adelaide
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-- Hamish
[I get too much email, and I use junk filters. If I don't reply, please resend, or phone!]
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