Research Students Profile

Mr Adrian Heok Kay Heng 

Mr Adrian Heok Kay Heng
PhD Student (Information Studies) 

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information
Nanyang Technological University
31 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637718

Email: heok0001@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (65) 67905075
Office: 05-12, WKWSCI
 
Research, Teaching & Professional Experience
  • Adrian's first degree was a Bachelor of Arts (History and Political Science) from the National University of Singapore. He started his working career with the European Export team at Danish shipping giant Maersk in Singapore. He left the private sector to join the Civil Service and was placed in the enforcement department of the Ministry of Labour. Later, he was posted to headquarters to work on corporate communications for the Ministry of Manpower. During his time there, he won the inaugural Marine Parade CDC - Singapore Institute of Management Scholarship to read Marketing Management at the Institute. Selected to kick start knowledge management in the Ministry, he embarked on a Master of Science (Knowledge Management) at Nanyang Technological University. The knowledge obtained during his course was put to use in his next job at the DSO National Laboratories' Business Development Division, where he specialized in internal communications to support KM initiatives in the organization. His last office before taking up full time research work was at the Health Promotion Board where he held two concurrent portfolios, Workplace Health Promotion and Communicable Disease Education.
  • He is now a PhD student in the Division of Information Studies. He divides his time between dissecting discourses he finds around him and accompanying whomever is willing to have him around. His supervisors are Dr Brendan Luyt and Dr Lee Chei Sian.
 
Publications
  • Heok, A., & Luyt B. (forthcoming) Learning and Access: Internet in Singapore’s Public Libraries. Journal of Documentation.
  • Heok, A., & Luyt B. (2009) Perceptions of Education, Learning and Access: Public Libraries and the Internet in Singapore. Paper presented in Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice,6-8 March 2009, Tsukuba, Japan.
  • Wu, H. J. P, Heok K. H. A, Tamsir, P. I., (2007) "Annotating Web Archives - Structure, Provenance and Context through Archival Cataloguing." New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 13(1), 55-75.
  • Wu, P. H. J., Heok, A., & Tamsir, I. P. (2006). Annotating the Web Archives - An Exploration of Web Archives Cataloging and the Semantic Web. Paper presented at the ICADL 2006, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Wu, P. H. J., Tamsir, I. P., & Heok, A. (2006). Applying Context-Sensitive Web Annotation in Evidence-based, Collaborative Web Archives Cataloging. Paper presented at the IWAW 06, Alicante, Spain.
  • Wu, P., & Heok, A (2006). A case study of web archiving: The Asian tsunami web archives. Paper presented at the General Conference of the Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL) XIII, Manila, 25-30 March 2006.
  • Wu, P., & Heok, A (2006). Is web archives a misnomer - How web archives can become digital archives? In Khoo, C., Singh, D. & Chaudry. A.S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice 2006: Preparing Information Professionals for Leadership in the New Age, 298-350.
  • Wu, H. J. P., & Heok, A (2006) Accessing and Cataloguing Issues in Web Archives. Courtyard, 1(1).
  • Wu, P. H. J., & Heok, A. (2005). Documenting Online Collaboration between Researchers and Information Professionals: The Case of the Asian Tsunami Web Archive. Singapore Journal of Library and Information Management. 34, 75-90.
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