Much of the development that had been takin place on the sub-pages of Information Habitat has now been moved to a new Wikibook on Information Ecology - please visit Information Ecology for more information.
* Restoration project
* Information species & information habitat
Please note: there have been two recent deletions - of information habitat & information species - attributable to beginner's errors in learning the ways of Wikpedia, compounded with a lack of familiarity and ease with Wikipedian communication culture, and process of the voting for deletion of Wikipedia entries.
Information habitat and information species are both core concepts in information ecology, and while there may have been serious shortcomings in the earier pages, these concepts are too important to be banished from Wikipedia.
Also note that a large number of subpages Information Habitat has contributed have also been threatened with votes for deletion. While many of these pages have been vacated and transfered to the corresponding subpage of Information Habitat, some of wikipedians voting for deletion also appear to be supporting deletions of the Information Habitat subpages - even though no votes for deletion have been directly places on these subpages.
Please revisit this page soon, as there is much on Information Habitat's web sites - as well as in heretofore unreleased images and documents that has not yet been planted in Wikipedia's interactive global digital commons.
Please invite your family, friends, co-workers and colleagues to explore who and what lives in these gardens - and in their currents - and their progressively cascading styles - in deep and barely charted conceptual forests - mindful that almost all are best compared to small drops in the vast oceans of digitalknowledge.
If you are a budding information ecologist, you may want to pay particular attention to some of the newly evolving species, eg the googlie - as well as evolving conceptual landscapes and languages and to the fertile borders between ecosystems - the equivalents of hedges, riverbanks, marshes and wetlands in a digital environments - for example, the increasingly fluidboundaries and borders between words and images, as well as the red links - each a gateway to digital territory as yet undefined in Wikipedia.
The collection also includes a substantial focus on the Information Habitat/Light cubes that were discovered in the follow up to Habitat II, in response to a suggestion from the Secretary-General of Habitat II, Dr. Wally N'dow, to explore the use of color to highlight the role and contribution of non-governmentalpartners in developing an online framework for follow-up to Habitat II.
Digital information species are are a form of pure information species - able to realize - or harness the freedom from the laws of conservation of mass and energy that is made possible by fundamental properties of information: zero mass, clearly the most rapidly evolving species
Several acronym mnemonics have been made for these, for instance King Phillip called out for good soup, or Kings Play Chess On Funny Green Squares. Intermediate ranks may be created by adding prefixes, for instance:
The headings below - for initial purposes, at least - may be considered as Classes, with the file types defining the Family in which the species is classified.
The nature of information habitats - where information lives - have experienced remarkable growth and evolution in the context of developments in the realms of information & communications technology and relational database design and development and database-generated web sites.
Of particular significance as a form of emerging information habitats are interactive information habitats powered by database web-servers - of which Wikipedia is a prime example. Such interactive habitats permit:
unprecedented direct access to relationship among and between the information elements that live in them
significant cross-species interaction between information elements and human beingss - that may involve transformative changes in both species
complex relationships betwen and among human beings - particularly for people who live in the interactive habitat for much of their waking hours, and sometimes also in their dreams.
