PLACE-BASED
NODEInformation states
RESEARCH & PRACTICE
IQB
An institute,
viewed as a single informational whole.
Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo
A model generated from IQB’s information configuration.
Another viewOne institute.
Many relationships.
Information at the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo (IQB), is approached through its roles, configuration and relationships with people. Information direction in practice is presented alongside research into the institute as a single informational whole.
02 / OBSERVATIONGENERAL TIAS / PIM
Explore configuration
and relationships in three dimensions.
IQB’s information configuration and relationships are analysed and represented in the current model as 15 molecules. Individual elements and their overall organisation provide a way to explore the institute as a single informational whole.
Information configuration factors
Research fields and organisation; experiments, measurement and analysis; shared technology and facilities; education and training; research data and integrity; and international and industry collaboration, among others. The structure of the information that constitutes the institute, and the relationships within it, are analysed.
03 / STATEIQB
STATE
Information developed through collaboration with the institute is shown through how it exists within the institute. The states of information serving as connection points are understood as STATE and classified according to their characteristics. PLACE-BASED, PORTABLE and COORDINATED are presented here in relation to the information factors shown in PIM and to FORM.
04 / CONTINUITYIQB
2018—ONGOING
INFORMATION DIRECTION SINCE 2018
From formation
to operation and renewal.
Information direction at IQB has continued since 2018, from configuring information for its roles and surroundings to ongoing operation and renewal.
05 / OPEN RESEARCHINFO-VIRONMENT
INFO-VIRONMENTOPEN LABINFO-VIRONMENT OPEN LAB presents research into the configurations and relationships of information through models and observation records.
Information R&D and collaboration ↗