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This study proposes a new informetric indicator P‐Rank for measuring the status of articles, authors, and journals in heterogeneous scholarly networks. P‐Rank differentiates the weight of each citation based on its citing journals, citing authors, and time of publication. Articles from 16 library and information science (LIS) journals are selected as the dataset. We compare the top 10 lists for authors,...
This paper examines an approach to knowledge organization that is fundamentally different from the analytic model evolved from ancient Greek philosophy. The classification being studied is the scheme used in a catalog, entitled the Seven Epitomes (Qilue), for organizing the Chinese imperial library collection in the Former Han dynasty over 2,000 years ago. Its knowledge organization model influenced...
This paper explores if a constructionist learning approach to digital archives education can positively influence student perceptions of their learning. Constructionism is a learning theory that places students in the role of designers and emphasizes creating physical artifacts in a social environment (Papert, 1980, 1991; Kafai, 2006). This theory is used in the instructional design of the Digital...
Researchers have begun exploring techniques to promote social values within the technology design process. Increasingly, such projects include interventions: action research that inserts social scientists into design to promote values of interest. This article evaluates interventions to promote privacy and anti‐surveillance values in a ubiquitous computing laboratory. Data from two years of participant...
This paper has two goals: (1) to introduce the Person‐in‐Environment (PIE) framework, which the author developed to measure the relative impacts of socio‐structural and individual factors on individual information behavior; and (2) to demonstrate PIE's applicability. An empirical study on the factors of students' library usage is presented. PIE addresses a research gap in the information behavior...
This classic panel session will review recent trends and issues in the study of the history of information science and technology and present findings from the first awards given by the ASIST History Fund. It will consist of three presentations: (1) an overview, by Robert V. Williams, of recent trends and issues and identify some of the major gaps that need to be addressed in future work; (2) a presentation...
In this poster we clarify concepts related to citations and citer analysis that are often overlooked or vaguely addressed by researchers. How one addresses concepts such as citers, self‐citations, and recitation can affect outcomes, so it is important to be clear about what is being measured. We outline the different types of citations as self‐citations, recitations and their overlap. New areas related...
DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) aims to ensure the preservation of and access to multi‐scale, multi‐discipline, and multi‐national earth observation data to enable advances in science and science education. DataONE is being designed and built to manage scientific data across a range of disciplines, including atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, oceanographic and other earth sciences,...
This project examines the metadata practices of YouTube users who take and share videos of live music events. Situated within library and information science scholarship addressing the utility of and applications for harnessing participatory metadata (also called user‐generated metadata), it is argued that taking a qualitative approach to this phenomenon allows for a more complex understanding of...
Investigating the current status of the deep web is important for both the general public and researchers. Several deep web surveys have recently been conducted on institutional repositories (IRs). We calculate the extent of the deep web based on the content of searchable IRs in Japan, but using a more appropriate interval and exhaustive search with three major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, and...
Serendipity has received much attention from library and information science, psychology, and computer science. Yet not much is known about serendipity in the context of everyday information behavior. In general, a key challenge in the study of serendipity is obtaining accounts of serendipitous experiences that provide insight into the phenomenon. The exploratory research reported here approaches...
Social network sites are quickly becoming ubiquitous across the Internet. While research has explored user behaviors in relation to the sites, supporting functions, largely has been overlooked. However, the functions encourage or prohibit user behaviors. In this paper a matrix of social network sites and functions is identified. This illustrates the functions common to these websites. This further...
In this system demonstration two software applications will be shown. One application turns plain text biodiversity literature (using Flora of North America as an example) into semantically annotated documents in XML. The second application turns the XML annotations to a RDF triple store and provides query capabilities to allow a user to search a volume of Flora of North America by biological characters...
Few studies have examined the relationships among personal factors, help‐seeking behaviors, and task performance within the context of accomplishing a novel computer task. This article reports preliminary findings from a dissertation study focusing on identifying personal factors influencing help‐seeking effectiveness and task performance as well as perceived usefulness of different help types.
We present a comparative study of abstracts and machine‐generated summaries. This study bridges two hitherto independent lines of research: the descriptive analyses of abstracts as a genre and the testing of summaries produced by automatic text summarization (ATS). A pilot sample of eight articles was gathered from Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database, with each article including...
Many initiatives encourage investigators to share their raw research datasets in pursuit of increased research quality and efficiency. Despite these investments of time and money, we do not yet understand the impact of these initiatives. In this study, I use bibliometric methods to understand the prevalence and patterns with which investigators publicly share their raw gene expression microarray datasets...
In this poster, we propose a capability‐maturity model (CMM) for scientific data management that includes a set of process areas required for data management, grouped at three levels of organizational capability maturity. The goal is to provide a framework for comparing and improving project and organizational data management practices.
In this poster proposal we present results from an IMLS funded research project to compare technical support for open source software with proprietary software for Integrated Library Systems (ILS). The complete research project is being carried in three phases over a period of three years, in this poster we present the overall project plan and the results from the first phase of research. The poster...
This paper describes a simple, unsupervised bootstrapping procedure that identifies morphological description segments from heterogeneous biodiversity document collections. While the procedure is used to preprocess biodiversity literature for semantic annotation of morphological descriptions in our project, it also can be used to crawl the Web for morphological descriptions for a biodiversity niche...
This qualitative study explores the experiences of women as they respond to, make sense of, and use uncertain health information mediated by informal and formal sources encountered with the context of everyday life. A medical case in which health information is explicitly evolving provides context for the investigation. Using a social constructionist approach and social positioning theory, and based...
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