The six IRB Inc. pillars are:
CITIZENS AND INFORMATION
INFORMATION RESEARCH METHODS
INFORMATION ‘NOISE’
INFORMATION POLITICS, POLICIES, and PROGRAMS
INFORMATION ALTERNATIVES TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS
INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Indicative Dimensions of the 6 IRB INC. Pillars
CITIZENS AND INFORMATION
- Personal Privacy in an Information Society
- Self-Informing Citizens
- Public Right to Know
- Free, Easy, Timely, and Direct
- Online Public Access to Public Records
INFORMATION ALTERNATIVES TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS
- Social Media
- Commercial Media
- Crowd Sourcing
- Blogs
INFORMATION ‘NOISE’
- Fake Views
- Fake News
- Fact Misrepresentation
- Invented Reality
- Information Abuse
- Misinformation
- False Claims
- Public Mischief
INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
- Spatial Data Infrastructure
- Interdependent Infrastructures
- GIS Technology
- Computer-Communication Networks
- Informal/Personal Networks
INFORMATION POLITICS, POLICIES, and PROGRAMS
- Open Government
- Open Records
- Transparency
- Accountability
- Rules of Disclosure
- Rules of Non-disclosure
- Rules of Compliance
- Public Security
- Evidence-Based Decisions
- Information Research Programs
INFORMATION RESEARCH METHODS
- Exploratory Information Research Techniques
- Confirmatory Information Research Techniques
- Data-Information- Knowledge Transforms
- Keyword Search Algorithms
- Techniques of Analysis – Synthesis
- Numeric Information v. Text Information
- Text Information v. Graphic Information
- Graphic Information v. Numeric Information
- Curiosity-Driven Research
- Client-Driven Research
- Applied Geographic Information Science