Associate Professor Craig McDonald 
Office: 11C16
Phone: (02) 6201 5285
Fax: (02) 6201 5231
Email: Craig.Mcdonald@canberra.edu.au
Mail:
11C16, Building 11
Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering
University of Canberra, Bruce ACT 2601
Research Areas
Underlying Theory in Informatics
The 3-world theory, Virtuality
Ethics in Informatics: especially the ethical development of systems and in project management (see Project Management Support System).
Ontology (examining the concepts and facets of a knowledge domain): methods of concept analysis and their use in education, research and systems analysis.
e-Government - ontology and inter-operation
Health Informatics - ontology and policy analysis (see drug Pollicy Modelling Program)
e-Research: use of informatics in the research process and in the mobilization of research results by industry and society
Knowledge Management, Integration of informatics disciplines.
Recent Publications
A3: Books - Edited (including journal editions)
Craig McDonald (2006-) ed. Australasian Journal of Information Systems Vol 13 No 2, vol 14 No 1& 2, Vol 15 No 1 ...
Weckert, J and Craig McDonald eds. (1993) Intelligent Library Systems Centre for Information Studies.
McDonald C. and Weckert, J eds. (1992) Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Systems and the Future Library, Special Edition Library Hi-Tech Vol 10 No 1-2.
McDonald C. and Weckert, J eds. (1991) Libraries an Expert Systems Taylor Graham.
B: Book Chapters
Shirley Gregor, Craig McDonald, Edward Lewis (2006) "The State of Information Systems in Australian Capital Territory Universities" Australian Journal of Information Systems Vol. 14 No.1 Dec 2006.
Craig McDonald (2005) "Research as an Information Systems Domain" in Gregor, S and Dennis N Hart Information Systems Foundations: Constructing and Criticizing ANU Press.
Craig McDonald (2002) "Karl Popper's Third World: One foundation for Informatics" in Gregor, S and Dennis N Hart Information Systems Foundations: Building the theoretical base, ANU Press.
Craig McDoanld (1991) "Distref : a prototype distance referral system" in Craig McDonald and John Weckert eds. Libraries and Expert Systems. Taylor Graham.
C1: Refereed Article in Scholarly Journal
Shirley Gregor, Craig McDonald, Edward Lewis (2006) "The State of Information Systems in Australian Capital Territory Universities" Australasian Journal of Information Systems Vol. 14 No.1 Dec 2006
Craig McDonald (2003) "Information Systems Foundations - Karl Popper's Third World" Australasian Journal of Information Systems Vol 10 No 2
P. Ellison, G. Ash, Craig McDonald (1998) "An Expert System for the Management of Botrytis Cinerea in Australian Vineyards: I Development" Agricultural Systems Vol 56 No 2 1998.
P. Ellison, G. Ash, Craig McDonald (1998) "An Expert System for the Management of Botrytis Cinerea in Australian Vineyards: II Validation" Agricultural Systems Vol 56 No 2 1998.
Craig McDoanld (1997) "Expert Systems and the Pest Research Literature" Agricultural Systems and Information Technology, Vol 7 No. 1, March 1997.
Craig McDonald (1994) Capturing the Conceptual Structure of an Academic Field: A Method for the Analysis of Textbooks. CIS Occasional Paper 94/1
Craig McDonald (1992) "From Shared Data to Shared Knowledge” in John Weckert and Craig McDonald eds. Intelligent Library Systems. CIS, 1992.
Craig McDonald (1992) "A Knowledge-based System for Local Classification" Cataloguing Australia Vol. 17 Nos. 3/4: 93, 1992.
E1 - Refereed Conference Papers
Craig McDonald (2007) "Embedding Ethics in Systems Development" 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Dec 2007.
J Campbell, Craig McDonald (2007) "Defining a Conceptual Framework for Telework Research" 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Dec 2007.
T Sethibe, J Campbell, Craig McDonald (2007) "IT Governance in Private and Public Sector Organisations: Examining differences and defining future research directions" 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Dec 2007.
Sisira Adikari, Craig McDonald, Neil Lynch "Design Science-Oriented Usability Modelling for Software Requirements" Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2007), Beijing, China, 22–27 July 2007
J Campbell, Craig McDonald, D Davies (2007)"The Development of a Theoretical Framework for Telework and an Agenda for Research in Accounting and Finance" 3rd Asia/Pacific Symposium on Accounting Information Systems, Brisbane, June 2007
Craig McDonald (2006) "Information Systems Projects: An Enhanced Product-Process Pattern and Supporting System" 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide, December 2006.
Sisira Adikari, Craig McDonald, Neil Lynch (2006) "User and Usability Modelling for Software requirements: a design science approach" 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide, 2006.
Sisira Adikari, Craig McDonald (2006) "User and Usability Modelling for HCI/HMI: A Research Design" Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2006), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 15–17 December 2006.
S. Grewell, Craig McDonald (2006) "Issues in IT Governance & IT Service Management - A study in their adoption in Australian Universities" European Conference on IT Evaluation, September 2006, Genoa, Italy.
Sisira Adikari, Craig McDonald, Penny Collings (2006) "A Design Science Approach to an HCI Research Project" Proceedings of the 20th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI 2006), Sydney, Australia, 20–24 November 2006.
Craig McDonald (2005) "Developments in e-Research: the need for a coherent IS approach" 16th Australian Conference on Information Systems, Manly, NSW, 2005.
Craig McDonald (2005) "Ethics and Systems Quality" Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference, Geelong, 2005.
Mike Bowern, Craig McDonald and John Weckert (2004) "Stakeholder Theory in Practice: Building better software systems" 7th. International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (EthiComp), Athens, 2004
Craig McDonald (2003) "s-Science and e-Practice: Reflections on a KMS Development" Australian Conference for Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support, Monash, December 2003
Craig McDonald (2003) "Concept Analysis: Methods and Applications in Education and Systems Analysis" Computers and Philosophy, ANU, October 2003.
Craig McDonald (2002) "Karl Popper's Third World: One foundation for Informatics" Information Systems Foundations, ANU, October 2002
Craig McDonald, Wai Keung Pun and J. Weckert (2005) “Knowledge Management for the Applied Sciences” Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium Series Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management, Stanford University, March 1997.
Wai Keung Pun, Craig McDonald, J. Weckert (2005) “A Framework for Knowledge Management Systems” Proceedings of KBS for Knowledge Management in Enterprises, International Workshop with the 21st. Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-9), Freiburg, Germany.
Craig McDonald, (1996) "Information Systems Modelling and Conceptual Graphs" 7th.Australian Conference on Information Systems, Hobart, December 1996.
D. Richards, Craig McDonald (1996) “Adapting Expert Systems to Behave Like Decision Support Systems” AI'95 - Workshop on Intelligent Decision Support Systems, University College, University of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy, ADFA, Canberra, 13-17 November, 1995.
D. Richards, Craig McDonal, (1995) "Bridging the ES - DSS Gap: Reuse of Knowledge in an Existing ES” AI'95 Poster Proceedings, ADFA, Canberra, ACT, 13-17 November, 1995.
D. Richards, Craig McDonald (1995) "Changing the System Style of Expert Systems" AI'95 - Workshop on AI and the Environment, University College, University of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy, ADFA, Canberra, 13-17 November, 1995.
D. Richards, Craig McDonald (1995) "Bridging the Expert System - Decision Support Gap: Knowledge Base Re-use" Proceedings of 6th. Australian Conference on Information Systems, Perth, September 1995.
Craig McDonald, (1995) "Second Generation Expert Systems” 4th. Decision Support Systems in Farming, Wagga 1995.
Craig McDonald, P Ellison (1994) "Knowledge Acquisition from Domain Literature” Proceedings of AI'94, Artificial Intelligence Conference, Armidale, November, 1994
J. Weckert, Craig McDonald (1994) "Knowledge Based Systems in Libraries; the way ahead" International Seminar on Information Technologies and Information Services, Shanghai, China, October 1994.
D.L. Lindley, Craig McDonald (1993) “Managing Newswire Databases by Dynamic Hierarchical Clustering” Online '93. London, December 1993.
Michael Whitelaw, J Weckert, Craig McDoanld (1992) "Is Information Technology Shaping Human Cognition?" Proceedings of ANZAAS Convention, Brisbane, 1992.
“Browsing the Conceptual Structure of an Academic Field” in R. Godfrey Simulation and Academic Gaming in Tertiary Education, The Proceedings of the 8th. Annual conference of ASCILITE, Launceston, 1991, Dept. Applied Computing, University of Tasmania.
G: Software
Craig McDonald (2004, 2007) Project Management Support System
http://release.ise.canberra.edu.au/
Craig McDonald (2000) Domain Meta-Analysis
http://release.ise.canberra.edu.au/
Craig McDonald, N Hermann (1994-9) AusVit CRC Viticulture
Craig McDonald (1984) MARC Cataloguing Educational System, Kuringai CAE.
Other: Significant non-refereed publications
Craig McDonald (2007) "The Value of Information Management" Public Sector Information Management Strategy conference 2007
Craig McDonald (2007) "e-Government: transformation or business-as-usual?" European
Craig McDonald (2006) "Governance, Systems and Responsibility" Information Age December 2006
Craig McDonald (2005) "Building Ethics into Quality Assurance" Information Age August 2005
John Weckert, Craig McDonald (2004) "Ethical Attitudes of Members of the ACS: A survey of professional practice" Report of research commissioned by the Australian Computer Society.
Craig McDonald (2004) "Knowledge Sharing and Governance" National Institute for Governance, 21 July 2004
Craig McDonald (1997) "Knowledge Management Systems in the Grape industry" Proceedings of conference - Creating Value through Effective Knowledge Management, ICM Sydney, September 1997.
Craig McDonald (1996) "Knowledge Management for the Sciences" the Riverina Academy of Sciences, July 1996.
Craig McDonald (1987) "The Design of Commercial Computer Programs" NSWIT.
