Don Turnbull, Ph.D.

This is Don Turnbull's web site at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

I'm doing research and development for software that will change how we manage and interact with information. My specific research includes:

Information Architecture Design and Development Methodologies
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (including Data Mining)
(Web) Informetrics and Quantitative Analysis
Information Seeking and Web Use
Information Retrieval Interfaces and Applications
Collaborative Filtering (Recommender Systems)
Knowledge Management Systems, Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) and Social Computing

What's New

OpenChoice: A Platform for Web Content Classification & Filtering Workshop paper for the Open Source Workshop at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 23, 2006.
How technology can move in concert with organizational change. Presentation at the American Society of Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting. 2005.
How to Leverage Solipsism panel at SXSW 2005 with Jeffery Veen, Tantek Celik and Thomas Vander Wal. My presentation: Leveraging and Augmenting Solipsism (aka "Lots of questions and implications about tagging").
IA @ iSchools - Possibilities & Problems panel at the 2005 ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 3-7, 2005.
A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator article in the Journal of Digital Information.
XIA: eXtreme Information Architecture presentation at the 2004 ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit.
I'll be talking about the Design and Development of Mobile Applications at the Austin Mobility Roundtable on March 12th, 2004.
SXSW Panel: Revolutionary Search Technologies for South by Southwest (SXSW) 2004.
SIGUSE Workshop on Information Seeking theory for the American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2003 Annual Meeting, Oct 18, 2003.
UTNetCAT Library Lookup Bookmarklet- check to see if a book listed on amazon.com is available in the UT Library System.
Google Donates Search Appliance to UT-Austin School of Information. Read all about it:
- UT School School of Information News
- Google Donates Search Appliance to UT-Austin School of Information

Publications

Personalized Search: A Contextual Computing Approach May Prove a Breakthrough in Personalized Search Efficiency by Jim Pitkow, Hinrich Schutze, Todd Cass, Rob Cooley, Don Turnbull, Andy Edmonds, Eytan Adgar and Thomas Breuel. ACM Press, 2002.
Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web by Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull. Kluwer Academic Press, 2000. Purchase this book
Information Seeking and the Web: An Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching in First Monday by Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull. Archive copy
Working The Web: An Empirical Model of Web Use at the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, Jan 4th-7th 2000 by Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull.
Interacting with Recommender Systems a paper for the ACM SIGCHI (Computer-Human Interface) 1999 Workshop on Recommender Systems
Information Seeking on the Web - An Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching a paper for the ASIS '99 Annual Meeting by Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull.
A Behavioral Model of Information Seeking on the Web - Preliminary Results of a Study of How Managers and IT Specialists use the Web a paper for the ASIS '98 Annual Meeting by Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor and Don Turnbull.

Research Papers

Augmenting Information Seeking on the World-Wide Web using Collaborative Filtering Techniques
Bibliometrics and the World-Wide Web, using Information Science techniques to measure and design Web resources.
Digital Libraries: Archetypes, Metaphors and Impacts, an informal view of the future of digital libraries.

Courses

Projects

Contact

You can email me at donturn(at)ischool(dot)utexas(dot)edu