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This panel focuses on expanding concepts of health literacy by exploring how the acquisition and use of health information through the context of people's daily lives significantly enhances their understanding and implementation of both acute and chronic health treatment and management. Prevalent health literacy initiatives emphasize core information literacy skills and concerns by addressing issues...
Flattery citations of editors, potential referees, etc. is recurrently claimed to be a common strategy among academic authors. From a sociology of science perspective, as well as from a citation analytical perspective, it is both an interesting claim and a consequential one. Consequently, the claim deserves further analyses. The present paper presents a citation analysis of the editorial board members...
In this paper we describe preliminary results of a three‐year project that examines the enculturation of doctoral students in life science programs in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore. The purpose of the study is to examine how doctoral students in life science enrolled at universities in these three countries learn to become scientists and how information and communication technologies affect such processes...
The texts of 630 knowledge management articles were analyzed to address the question of what research methodologies are used in the knowledge management literature. It was found that 27.8 percent of knowledge management‐related articles in knowledge management journals used no identifiable research method. Of the remaining 455 refereed articles, 60 percent employed mainstream social sciences research...
Social feedback in the form of audience ratings, community tags, recommendations, and text comments is becoming increasingly commonplace on the Web. Prior research has uncovered a number of Web site features that can impact its perceived credibility. However, to date research has not investigated whether social feedback on a Web page can influence the perceived credibility of the information on the...
The paper presents the results of a comparison of two interfaces, one a conventional taxonomy of terms relating to Canadian history, and the other a 3D information visualization of the same terms. Both interfaces were used by volunteer students from grades five and six of an elementary school to locate terms within the taxonomy. The interfaces were evaluated according to whether the task was successfully...
By revisiting the notion of “information‐as‐thing” (Buckland, 1991) and investigating the notion of “regimes of information” (Ekbia and Evans, 2009), this paper shows that “information” is constituted by community consensus and is influenced by economic and political structures of social systems. As such, “information” should be understood as discursive construct. Understanding “information” as discursive...
The IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) conceptual model, published in 1998, focuses on the representation of the bibliographic universe, using an entity‐relationship model [1]. It has direct and great impact to the whole area of knowledge organization, especially the description, access, and sharing of bibliographic resources. As a conceptual model, FRBR is subject to various...
We survey core and peripheral journals in library and information studies (LIS) to identify conceptualizations and dimensions of heritage research. We identify the knowledge structure of the heritage literature in information science with its adjoining fields including museum studies, archival, and computer science.
Based on an international need for greater understanding of knowledge organization systems in science, this study is designed to show the differences and similarities found when comparing formalized knowledge organization systems in libraries with scientific personal organization schemes. This poster reports findings from a study that compares the knowledge organization practices of both scientists...
We are introducing to the ASIS&T community what will be, to date, the most extensive study of data practices for astronomy and astrophysics from the Information Science field. We approach astronomy data curation with three questions: 1) What are the data management, curation, and sharing practices of astronomers and astronomy data centers, and how have they developed? 2) Who uses what data when,...
This research project addresses the design process for creating knowledge organization schemes and presents novel means of supporting the sketching of collections. Based on a recent experience designing a digital media collection using the Open Video Digital Library Toolkit, this research analyzes the two major obstacles encountered in sketching collections.
This study investigates the visual features that should be incorporated in a mobile device interface from a user's perspective. Fifteen project managers were interviewed and asked to describe their tasks, resources and processes. Data collected from the interviews was analyzed, identifying three themes related to project management information. Users were then given a survey to analyze 12 screenshots...
The information horizon is an imaginary field that users position their information sources according to their perceived importance (Sonnenwald, 1999), and social network is one of the critical concepts in information horizons. Steffes and Burgee (2008) pointed out that the stronger tie sources are more likely to be use as a preferred or primary information source. Previous research on graduate students'...
The purpose of this longitudinal research study is to assess the information literacy (IL) skills of grade 12 students as they transition to university in order to determine their preparedness for academic work in the digital age. This poster reports the results of the first phase of this study which included a university‐wide information literacy instruction (ILI) audit, as well as the administration...
We present early findings from an ethnographic study of the information behaviors of nine groups with three to eight members each, conducted during a ten day interdisciplinary design Charrette (period of intense, collaborative design activity). Information from the organizers is shared using a portal that includes a rich set of social awareness, social navigation and information production tools....
Large volumes of textual data pose considerable challenges for manual qualitative analysis. We explore semi‐automatic coding of textual data by leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP). We compare the performance of human‐developed NLP rules to those inferred by machine learning (ML) algorithms. The results suggest that NLP with ML may be useful to support researchers coding qualitative data.
Continued growth in popularity of online education calls for more research in its various aspects. One such aspect concerns online course design, which can differ substantially from traditional academic course development in the use of technology, the design process and the pedagogical approaches applied. This poster presents a draft framework for analyzing the design of an online academic course...
The production of scientific knowledge has evolved from a process of inquiry largely based on the activities of individual scientists to one grounded in the collaborative efforts of highly specialized research teams, which have become an increasingly prominent means of knowledge production. This study examines data from 1,415 experiments conducted by scientific teams at the National High Magnetic...
This poster reports results of a survey conducted recently at a Canadian business school concerning factors affecting student learning outcomes of information literacy instruction (ILI). Specifically, the effects of demographics, learning environment factors, and information literacy components on behavioral, psychological, and benefit outcomes of ILI are examined. Results test qualitative findings...
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