Craig McDonald
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 and patterns
Ethics and Quality 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 (2006-8) editor. Australasian Journal of Information Systems Vols 13 - 15
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 and Expert Systems Taylor Graham.
B. Book Chapters
Shirley Gregor, Edward Lewis, Craig McDonald (2008) "The information systems discipline in Australia's capital" in The information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia ed. Gable, Guy et.al. ANU ePress.
Craig McDonald (2005) "Research as an Information Systems Domain" in Gregor, S and Dennis N Hart Information Systems Foundations: Constructing and Criticizing ANU Press.
Key Work 4 - Informatics practice involves the application of informatics theory, technique and technologies over a wide range of human activities (including e-commerce, health informatics, educational informatics, etc). One human activity system, 'research', has had little systematic attention. e-Research has been developing as an application of information technology to research, but this paper argues that an information systems approach is required if coherent, sustained change is to be made to the system in which research is conducted. A research program is underway to test the ideas.
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 McDonald (1991) "Distref: a prototype distance referral system" in Craig McDonald and John Weckert eds. Libraries and Expert Systems. Taylor Graham.
C1. Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Campbell, J. and McDonald, Craig, (2009) "Defining a Conceptual Framework for Telework and an Agenda for Research in Accounting and Finance" International Journal of Business Information Systems, (4:4), pp. 387-402.
Campbell, J., McDonald, Craig. and Sethibe, T. (2009) "Public and Private Sector IT Governance: Identifying Contextual Differences", Australasian Journal of Information Systems,(16:2)
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
Key Work 1 - Popper's 3 worlds, modelled after Plato's Cave Analogy, turns out to be a powerful Informatics theory. It provides a unifying account of the diversity of informatics disciplines in a way that allows for integration and coherence at both the disciplinary and practice levels. This paper formulates the theory in informatics terms and demonstrates its efficacy. The paper has been used extensively in education and underlies current research in virtuality.
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 McDonald (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. Conference, Full written paper – refereed
Srinivasaraghavan, N., C. McDonald and John Campbell (2010). "Smarter Software Engineering: Knowledge factors contributing to improved Individual Performance" International conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'10). San Francisco, Knowledge Systems Institute.
S. Adikari, C. McDonald, and J. Campbell (2009) "Little Design Up-Front: A Design Science Approach to Integrating Usability into Agile Requirements Engineering" 12th International HCI Conference, LNCS 5610, p. 549 ff.
J Weckert & Craig McDonald (2008) "The Shaping of Human Cognition by Information Technology" Tenth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technology, University of Pavia, Mantua, Italy September 2008.
Craig McDonald (2008) "Ethics by Design: embedding ethics in ICT governance" Ethical Governance of ICT and the Role of Professional Bodies. ANU May 2008.
Craig McDonald (2008) "Quality by Design: Towards the One-page Quality Portfolio" AUQF2008 Canberra July 2008.
Key Work 2 - This paper argues that quality assurance systems are not well grounded in theory and have become separated from the phenomena they purport to assure. It offers an approach to addressing the issue.
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.
Key Work 3 - Ethical action is a key aspect of information systems because the implementation of these systems makes a dramatic change to the working lives of people. The issue is addressed squarely in this paper which presents a method of embedding ethics in practice and in the technologies which support practice. The method, supported by software, is used effectively in the education of information professionals.
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 McDonald, (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 McDonald (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.
E2. Conference, Full written paper – non refereed
Craig McDonald (2010) "The Responsibility of the ICT Professional for Systems Content" Information Age June 2010
Craig McDonald (2008) "A Method of Concept Analysis and its Possible Use in Drug Policy Modelling" NCEPH, Seminar ANU March 2008.
Craig McDonald (2008) "Ethics by Design" Conference on the Ethical Governance of ICT and the role of Professional Bodies, Canberra May 1-3.
Craig McDonald (2007) "The Value of Information Management" Public Sector Information Management Strategy Conference Canberra.
Craig McDonald (2007) "e-Government: transformation or business-as-usual?" European Agenda for e-Government ANU
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
John Weckert, Craig McDonald (2003) "Ethics: what ACS members think" Information Age April 2003
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.
Various published book reviews in software engineering and knowledge-based systems.
E3. Extract of paper
Craig McDonald (2010) "An Information Systems View of Theory-building" Foundations of Information Systems, ANU, Sept 30-Oct 1. Invited Paper
Key Work 5 - The discipline takes the role and articulation of theory seriously. This presentation critiqued the hard-line approach being taken by many discipline leaders and proposed an alternative view. This issue is now near the top of my research agenda.
Craig McDonald, Jennifer Bradley (2010) "Aligning Informatics Courses with Industry" Australian Collaborative Education Network Conference, Perth, Sept 27-30.
Craig McDonald, Dale Kleeman (2010) "The Use of Patterns in Work Integrated Learning" Australian Collaborative Education Network Conference Perth, Sept 27-30.
G. Computer Software
Craig McDonald (2004, 2007) Project Management Support System
Craig McDonald (2000) Domain Meta-Analysis
Craig McDonald, N Hermann (1994-9) AusVit CRC Viticulture
Craig McDonald (1984) MARC Cataloguing Educational System, Kuringai CAE.
D - Major Review
Campbell, J., McDonald, C. & Davies, D. J. (2007). Telework: The impact of information and communication technology on work practices and business activity in the accounting profession. Information Technology & Management, CPA Australia ( Melbourne, Australia)