Reference library

0 Backlog (to be read) > Books

0 Backlog (to be read) > ​​Journal articles

0 Backlog (to be read) > ​​​​​Grey literature

0 Backlog (to be read) > ​​☆ Low priority

0 Backlog (to be read) > ​★High priority

• – A survey of context engineering for large language models — Mei, Yao, Ge, Wang, Bi, Cai, Liu, Li, Li, Zhang, Zhou, Mao, Xia, Guo, Liu — 2025 · Link

1 Archer > Articles and papers

• – Archer, Bruce. 1995. The Nature of Research. Co-design, interdisciplinary journal of design. 6-13
• – Time for a revolution in art and design education — Archer — 1978

1 Archer > Monographs and thesis

• – Technological innovation–a methodology — Archer — 1971
• – Design awareness and planned creativity in industry — Archer — 1974
• – The structure of design processes — Archer — 1968
• – Systematic method for designers — Archer — 1963 — Design

1 Archer > Secondary commentary

• – A dialogue between the real-world and the operational model–the realities of design in Bruce Archer's 1968 doctoral thesis — Boyd Davis, Gristwood — 2017 — Design Studies · DOI
• – Computing, design, art: Reflections on an innovative moment in history — Davis, Gristwood — 2016 · DOI

2 DDR archive > Primary documents

2 DDR archive > Related archives (V&A, Design Council, BL)

2 DDR archive > Secondary analysis

3 Archival Research | foundational > Historiography and philosophy of archives

• – Building an infrastructure for archival research — Gilliland, McKemmish — 2004 — Archival Science · DOI

4 Archival Research | emerging > AI/ML in archives (humanities perspective)

• – Archives and AI: An overview of current debates and future perspectives — Colavizza, Blanke, Jeurgens, Noordegraaf — 2021 — Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) · DOI · Link
• – Supervised and unsupervised: approaches to machine learning for textual entities — Hodel — 2022 — Archives, access and artificial intelligence working with born-digital and digitized archival collections · Link
• – Inviting AI into the archives: the reception of handwritten recognition technology into historical manuscript transcription — Terras — 2022 — Archives, access and artificial intelligence working with born-digital and digitized archival collections

4 Archival Research | emerging > Contemporary archival theory

• – Are users of digital archives ready for the AI era? Obstacles to the application of computational research methods and new opportunities — Jaillant, Aske — 2024 — Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage · DOI
• – Archival research methods — Ventresca, Mohr — 2017 — The Blackwell Companion to Organizations
• – Archives, access and artificial intelligence - working with born-digital and digitized archival collections — Jaillant — 2022 · Link

4 Archival Research | emerging > Digital humanities

• – Towards critically addressable data for digital library user studies — Gooding — 2022 — Archives, access and artificial intelligence working with born-digital and digitized archival collections · Link
• – Towards a new discipline of computational archival science (CAS) — Marciano — 2022 — Archives, access and artificial intelligence working with born-digital and digitized archival collections · Link
• – Research through design and digital humanities in practice: What, how and who in an archive research project — Schofield, Whitelaw, Kirk — 2017 — Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · DOI

4 Archival Research | emerging > Open access and infrastructures

5 Theoretical framework > Critical theory

• – Pedagogy of the oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition — Freire, Macedo — 2014
• – Critical theory: selected essays — Horkheimer, Horkheimer — 2002

5 Theoretical framework > Design research paradigms

• – Rethinking design thinking: part II — Kimbell — 2012 — Design and Culture · DOI
• – Design and the new rhetoric: Productive arts in the philosophy of culture — Buchanan — 2001 — Philosophy & Rhetoric · DOI · Link
• – Forty years of design research — Cross — 2007 — Design Studies · DOI

5 Theoretical framework > Interpretivism

• – The interpretation of cultures: selected essays — Geertz — 2009
• – Designing social inquiry: Scientific inference in qualitative research — King, Keohane, Verba — 1994
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6 Methodological toolkit > Hybrid / systems approaches (decision-support, prototyping)

• – Reframing digital curation practices through a computational thinking framework — Marciano, Jain, Mckinley, Pradhan, Silva, Agarrat, Kocienda, Mir, Santos, Suri, Frisch, Krauss, Mullane, Schams, Turabi, Hunt, Liu, Patterson, Szu, Shiue, Vasselli, Xu · Link

6 Methodological toolkit > Qualitative (interviews, ethnography, discourse analysis)

• – The SAGE Handbook of qualitative business and management research methods: methods and challenges — Cassell, Cunliffe, Grandy — 2018 · Link

6 Methodological toolkit > Quantitative (stats, modelling, surveys)

7 AI/ML/CE/RAG/NLP > Academic CS papers

• – Vancouver statement on collections as data — Padilla · Link
• – Efficient LLM context distillation — Upadhayaya, Osti, Smith, Kottmyer — 2024 (arXiv submission date)
• – A survey on bias and fairness in machine learning — Mehrabi, Morstatter, Saxena, Lerman, Galstyan — 2021 — ACM Computing Surveys · DOI
• – Exploring the landscape of natural language processing research — Schopf, Arabi, Matthes · Link

7 AI/ML/CE/RAG/NLP > Applications in design and archives

• – Comment: the FAIR guiding principles for scientific data management and stewardship — Wilkinson, Dumontier, Aalbersberg, Appleton, Axton, Baak, Blomberg, Boiten, da Silva Santos, Bourne, Bouwman, Brookes, Clark, Crosas, Dillo, Dumon, Edmunds, Evelo, Finkers, Gonzalez-Beltran, Gray, Groth, Goble, Grethe, Heringa, t Hoen, Hooft, Kuhn, Kok, Kok, Lusher, Martone, Mons, Packer, Persson, Rocca-Serra, Roos, van Schaik, Sansone, Schultes, Sengstag, Slater, Strawn, Swertz, Thompson, Van Der Lei, Van Mulligen, Velterop, Waagmeester, Wittenburg, Wolstencroft, Zhao, Mons — 2016 — Scientific Data · DOI

8 Taxonomy > Design methods taxonomies

8 Taxonomy > Knowledge organisation theory

• – Automatic taxonomy construction from keywords — Liu, Song, Liu, Wang — 2012 · DOI · Link

8 Taxonomy > Library / archival taxonomies

8 Taxonomy > Taxonomic theory

• – Design history: understanding theory and method — Fallan — 2010
• – Design research through practice: from the lab, field, and showroom — Koskinen — 2011
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• – Copyright_2012_Design-Research-Through-Practice
• – Acknowledgments_2012_Design-Research-Through-Practice
• – Front-matter_2012_Design-Research-Through-Practice
• – Foreword_2012_Design-Research-Through-Practice
• – 10---Building-Research-Programs_2012_Design-Research-Through-Practice
• – 9---Constructive-Design-Research-in-Socie_2012_Design-Research-Through-Pract
• – 8---Design-Things--Models--Scenarios--Prot_2012_Design-Research-Through-Prac
• – 7---How-to-Work-with-Theory_2012_Design-Research-Through-Practice
• – 6---Showroom--Research-Meets-Design-and-A_2012_Design-Research-Through-Pract
• – 5---Field--How-to-Follow-Design-Through-So_2012_Design-Research-Through-Prac
• – 4---Lab--Can-You-Really-Study-Design-in-the-L_2012_Design-Research-Through-P
• – 3---Research-Programs_2012_Design-Research-Through-Practice
• – 2---The-Coming-of-Age-of-Constructive-Design_2012_Design-Research-Through-Pr
• – Records and their imaginaries: imagining the impossible, making possible the imagined — Gilliland, Caswell — 3/2016 — Archival Science · DOI · Link
• – Archival and recordkeeping research — Gilliland, McKemmish — 2018 — Research Methods · Link
• – Sorting things out: classification and its consequences — Bowker, Star — 1999

9 Critical librarianship > Classification and power

• – What is critical about critical librarianship? — Drabinski — 2019 — Art Libraries Journal · DOI

9 Critical librarianship > Information ethics

10 Thesis > MIT

• – Enhancing muscle sensing modalitiesfor advanced bionics — Yeon — May 2024

10 Thesis > Other institutions

10 Thesis > RCA

• – Corporveillance: dancing with A.I. — Guérin-Garnett — July 2024

10 Thesis > RMIT

11 Context > Design Issues

• – Rethinking design ethics from the perspective of spinoza — Song, Jun — 2025 — Design Issues · DOI · Link
• – Design and making things better: relating the pragmatism of John Dewey and Richard McKeon in design inquiry — Dixon, Kaszynska — 2024 — Design Issues · DOI · Link
• – New design knowledge and the fifth order of design — Mortati — 2022 — Design Issues · DOI
• – Surroundings and environments in fourth order design — Buchanan — 2019 — Design Issues · DOI
• – Investigating design: A review of forty years of design research — Bayazit — 2004 — Design Issues · DOI

11 Context > Design Studies

11 Context > Others

• – Exploring the dynamics of design thinking in management education and training: A critical review, taxonomic analysis and practical implications — Bathla, Chawla, Hofaidhllaoui, Dabic — 2024 — European Journal of Innovation Management · DOI
• – Theory and practice of design thinking: Perspectives of designers and business consultants — Bongiovanni, Louis — 2021 — International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation · DOI
• – Practice research in design: Towards a novel definition — Kaszynska, Kimbell, Bailey — 2022 · Link

11 Context > She Ji

• – The future end of design work: A critical overview of managerialism, generative AI, and the nature of knowledge work, and why craft remains relevant — Hernández-Ramírez, Ferreira — 2024 — She ji: the journal of design, economics, and innovation · DOI · Link
• – Dealing with wicked problems: normative paradigms for design thinking — van Uffelen, Vermaas, Pesch — 2024 — She ji: the journal of design, economics, and innovation · DOI
• – Approaching change with and in design — Valtonen — 2020 — She ji: the journal of design, economics, and innovation · DOI
• – Critique of design thinking in organizations: strongholds and shortcomings of the making paradigm — Lee — 2021 — She ji: the journal of design, economics, and innovation · DOI
• – Responsible use of large language models: an analogy with the oxford tutorial system — Lissack, Meagher — 2024 — She ji: the journal of design, economics, and innovation · DOI · Link
• – Institutions as objects in fourth order design — Lee — 2024 — She Ji · DOI
• – She ji: the next five years — Friedman, Lou, Ma — 2020 — She ji: the journal of design, economics, and innovation · DOI

11 Context > Visible Language

12 Not applicable > Admin / misc.

12 Not applicable > Off-topic

• – Design in principle and practice: A reconsideration of the terms of design engagement — Cope, Kalantzis — 2011 — Design Journal · DOI
• – Design for action how to use design thinking to make great things actually happen — Brown, Martin — 2009 — Harvard Business Review