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Barriers and Challenges to Virtual Reunification
Authors: Punzalan Ricardo L.
Published: April 2015

This paper presents challenges and barriers to virtual reunification as a strategy to represent dispersed ethnographic collections online. The study draws from the case of Dean C. Worcester's photos of U.S. colonial Philippines currently kept in various archives, libraries and museums. Findings presented are based on two types of qualitative data sources: two years of archival research in various owning repositories as well as semi‐structured interviews of heritage administrators and professionals directly responsible for the Worcester photographs. Representatives from grant institutions that provide funding for digitization projects as well as researchers of the collection were also interviewed. By examining several repositories and analyzing stakeholders’ pre‐reunification concerns, the study examines prevailing challenges of virtual reunification as an inter‐institutional collaborative endeavor.
Examining Practice, Structural, and Interpretive Dimensions of Technology Assemblages: The Case of Social Technology Use by Knowledge Workers
Authors: Jarrahi Mohammad Hossein
Published: April 2015

This paper theorizes on the sociotechnical dynamics and underlying dimensions of technology assemblages that emerge from the use of social technologies in organizations. This theorization reflects more precisely the information ecology around knowledge workers, which is more technologically diversified than suggested by prior studies. To that end, this work differs from the few studies of social technologies and many studies of ICT in organizations by focusing on more than one technology and by considering social technologies as an assemblage. In order to advance current theorizing about technology assemblages, this works draws on data from a study of knowledge workers’ use of social technologies for knowledge sharing and presents three complementary analytic lenses: Practice, Structural, and Interpretive. Integrating the three lenses, allows us to holistically capture the disparate dimensions of social technology assemblages enacted by knowledge workers.
Scholar‐built collections: A study of user requirements for research in large‐scale digital libraries
Authors: Fenlon Katrina , Senseney Megan , Green Harriett , Bhattacharyya Sayan , Willis Craig , Downie J. S.
Published: April 2015

To realize the great potential value of large‐scale digital libraries, we need a fuller understanding of the range of ways in which scholarly communities conduct research, or want to conduct research within them. Scholars build collections in the course of their work. How can we anticipate and support various kinds of collection‐building and ‐use, in order to support the diversity of researchers who work in libraries of digital books? This paper reports selected results of a study of how potential user groups of the HathiTrust Digital Library create and use collections in their research. This study aims to contribute to our broader understanding of scholarly practice, particularly of humanities scholars’ collecting activities. The results of the study inform ongoing work to develop a workset‐creation tool for the HathiTrust Research Center.
Understanding the types of knowledge representations that meet non‐profit organizations’ knowledge needs
Authors: Rathi Dinesh , Given Lisa M. , Forcier Eric
Published: April 2015

The not‐for‐profit sector is an important area for research, since the organizations operating in this domain contribute in many ways to our society (e.g., social value and GDP). Non‐profit organizations (NPOs) are highly knowledge‐oriented units. Knowledge management (KM) has been researched in breadth and depth in FPOs, where it has been demonstrated that KM plays a significant role in the success of these organizations. According to the literature, KM is equally important to non‐profits, and yet the sector has received comparatively scant attention in the KM literature. There is limited understanding on the knowledge needs of NPOs and thus, this paper seeks to provide insight into the NPO‐KM landscape. The authors conducted multi‐phase research with NPOs operating in different parts of Canada, including an online survey of Canadian charities. Through the analysis of survey results, twelve broad categories of knowledge types and their sub‐categories relevant to NPOs have been identified. This paper aims to contribute generally to the growing body of KM literature (i.e., beyond dichotomous model of tacit and explicit knowledge) and more specifically to the NPO‐KM space.
Perceived value of information sharing in online environments: User engagement and social reputation
Authors: Choi Dongho , Shah Chirag
Published: April 2015

Consumer reviews have received much attention both in academia and industry, since it has been found that they have significant effects on people's decision‐making behaviors relating to online shopping or choosing services. The readers/visitors on various online communities where such reviews are posted evaluate the helpfulness of a review based on the extent to which the review is helpful in their information seeking and decision‐making tasks. However, it is often not clear what makes a review useful to a reader. Several previous works have analyzed textual features relating to reviews to determine their usefulness, but given that most of these reviews are generated and shared through community‐based or social media sites, the features that incorporate social features and social engagement could have an important role to play in making a review useful. The work described in this paper uses data available from Yelp, a social review and recommendation site, to build models that examine the impact of various features, including basic, reviewer's engagement, social reputation, and business type, based on the number of votes for helpfulness a review receives. Our findings suggest that reviewer's social contextual information (engagement and reputation) is influential in affecting perceived helpfulness of a review and improves the accuracy of prediction model. The findings also suggest that business type (restaurants vs. transportations) affects the ways in which consumers consider a review.
“Sometimes the internet reads the question wrong”: Children's search strategies & difficulties
Authors: Vanderschantz Nicholas , Hinze Annika , Cunningham Sally Jo
Published: April 2015

When children search for information on a given topic, how do they go about searching for and retrieving information? What can their information seeking strategies tell us about the development of search interfaces for children's digital libraries, search engines and information repositories? We interviewed New Zealand (NZ) school children to seek insights into how they are conducting information searches during their education.
Metadata and infrastructure in internet history: Sockets in the arpanet host‐host protocol
Authors: Fidler Bradley , Acker Amelia
Published: April 2015

In this paper we describe the generation and utilization of metadata as part of normal network function on the early Arpanet. By using the Arpanet Host‐Host Protocol and its sockets as an entry point for studying the generation of metadata, we show that the development and function of key Arpanet infrastructure cannot be studied without examining the creation and stabilization of metadata standards. More specifically, we use the Host‐Host Protocol's sockets as an example of something that, at the level of the network, functions as both network infrastructure and metadata. By presenting the function of sockets in tandem with an overview of the Host‐Host Protocol and a key application built atop it, Telnet, we illustrate the necessity of studying infrastructure and metadata in tandem. Finally, we draw on Esveld () to reintroduce the concept of infradata to refer specifically to data that locates data throughout an infrastructure and is required by the infrastructure to function, separating it from established and stabilized standards. We argue for the future application of infradata as a concept for the study of histories and political economies of networks.
Exploring social context in mobile information behavior
Authors: Absar Rafa , O'Brien Heather , Webster Eric T.
Published: April 2015

This paper reports on the social context of mobile information behavior based on an interview and diary study (n=19). We examine different types of mobile information behavior and how these are affected by social variables. In addition, we compare social and non‐social mobile information behavior in terms of where it occurs, applications utilized, expressed information needs of users, and levels of satisfaction. We promote a broader view of how social context shapes and is shaped by mobile information behavior.
When the elevator pitch meets the subject heading: How mixtures of other documents can describe what a document is about
Authors: Organisciak Peter , Twidale Michael
Published: April 2015

We explore the concept of mixture descriptions in the context of film reviews. These descriptions of a film in terms of a combination of two or more other films. This very concrete approach to description can be contrasted with the abstractions typically used in subject headings or the names of genres. By exploring a dataset of film reviews, we uncover some of the features of mixture descriptions as they are used colloquially and investigate when and how they may prove useful. This form of description through combination is not specific to film, and we look at its potential as a bottom‐up, ludic form of document description.
Growth and trends in digital curation research: The case of the international journal of digital curation
Authors: Kim Jeonghyun
Published: April 2015

The growth of digital curation as a field of research has exploded in recent years. However, little work has been directed at the study of changes in the field, and no effort has been made to identify predominant trends and gaps in the research literature. This study examines the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) over an eight‐year period from its inception in 2006 to 2013. A total of 219 papers published in the IJDC was examined in terms of paper productivity, keywords in abstracts, authorship, citations received, and funding received. The preliminary results of this study found a steady upward trend in paper productivity. An overwhelming number of papers were coauthored papers from the United Kingdom and United States. The majority of the papers were cited more than once. Half the papers were supported by grants from federal government agencies.
System function adoption of an open source digital repository system: A global view
Authors: Chen Hsin‐liang , Zhang Yin
Published: April 2015

This poster reports a project that examines the adoption of system functions of an open source digital repository, DSpace. It also identifies the factors which have influenced the functions’ adoption. The data were collected from DSpace user registry from September 2013 to March 2014. A total of 545 repositories in the registry contained system function customizations, representing 533 unique institutions from 95 countries. The preliminary findings indicate that 10 of the 32 available system functions are adopted by over 10% of its members; the majority of repositories are from academia; academic repositories also offer most system functions; and the U.S. and India each comprises over 10% of DSpace repositories that have DSpace system function customizations. Additionally, repositories from India utilize most system functions. About two‐thirds of institutions are using DSpace as their institutional repositories and the two major (over 50%) content types are conference publications and technical reports.
Impetuses for first and third year law student information seeking behavior and plagiarism
Authors: Helge Kris
Published: April 2015

In this poster presentation, I describe an ongoing ethnographic study that is examining how first and third year law students’ age, comprehension of plagiarism, and previous exposure to information literacy training affects the information sources law students select, and their choice of whether or not to give appropriate attribution to utilized information sources. Although law student information seeking behavior has previously been analyzed, past research did not examine the above‐mentioned factors and how these factors affected law student information seeking behavior and potential plagiaristic behavior.
On the need for combat librarians: A case study of knowledge management at the end of the iraq war
Authors: Anderson Caryn L.
Published: April 2015

Despite operating in complex, dynamic, and frequently changing environments, organizations have a vested interest in making sure that knowledge created today is available for use tomorrow. This paper describes a case study of knowledge management (KM) at the end of the Iraq war, where the breadth and depth of KM was extreme. KM activities are analyzed using Anderson's KM and Kling's social informatics frameworks. The results reveal that many of the challenges mirror the socio‐technical interdependencies identified in other organizational settings and suggests that lessons learned from this extreme case can be used to inform KM practices of information professionals in non‐combat environments.
Viewing art through information visualization: A case study of bob ross's the joy of painting
Authors: Graten Erienne , Hall Andrea , Hall Elaine , Chen H. Michelle
Published: April 2015

This poster examines data about 403 images that appeared on Bob Ross's PBS series, The Joy of Painting. We analyzed a set of 3324 tags that described his artistic output ‐ . Looking at this set of data suggests more complex themes‐emotion, memory, and the act of painting itself‐ underlie Ross's landscapes. It presents a model for considering other artists with large oeuvre and large image sets.

With digitization, information professionals have often considered how to construct metadata, tags, and controlled vocabularies to make images searchable. Less frequently have they considered how researchers might use those classification systems, quantitative data derived from them, and visualizations of them to assess an artist or historical period's visual culture. Using Bob Ross as a case study, we utilized information visualization techniques to analyze the contents of artwork through the trajectory of artistic creation.
Language identification program for metadata records
Authors: Knudson Ryan
Published: April 2015

We present herein a language identifier developed for metadata records. Trained with European Parallel Corpora, this program can distinguish English metadata records from those of other languages. We evaluated the program's accuracy with a test collection of 800 metadata records and compared the program's accuracy to that of an open‐source language identification program.
Examining mobile banking in developing nations from pro‐poor “context, culture, and community” perspective
Authors: Potnis Devendra Dilip
Published: April 2015

The mobile phone is the most widely used information and communication technology (ICT) among poor communities in developing nations. Mobile banking lies at the intersection of digital and financial inclusion of these bottom billions. Mobile banking is a social informatics phenomenon embedded in social context; its adoption and ongoing use depends on the ability of the poor to address the barriers to using mobile phones and financial services. Hence, the author critically examines the phenomenon using a pro‐poor perspective. Cultural and contextual characteristics of communities significantly influence the adoption and continued usage of ICT (World Bank, 2012). To examine the challenges faced by the poor in adopting and continuing to use mobile banking services, the newly proposed pro‐poor perspective focuses on three dimensions, context, culture, and communities. Qualitative analysis of studies on the adoption of mobile banking informs the interdisciplinary discussion on financial and digital inclusion in social informatics, and provides insights to researchers and practitioners for better serving the poor using mobile technologies in developing nations.
Information use in group decision making teams
Authors: Xiao Lu , Eastmure Vanessa
Published: April 2015

We reviewed 22 papers to identify the most prominently studied factors related to information use in group decision making processes and explore the research gaps in this topic. We identified eight main factors of information use in the process: sense of group identity and group diversity, group heterogeneity or homogeneity, task perception, and personality/individual viewpoints; and access to information, argument analysis, communication medium, and decision rule. Our literature review suggested several research directions: investigations of the members’ motivations in sharing information; studies that use mixed research methods to examine a topic; and exploration of various information sharing and use modes besides verbal and written information channels.
An investigation of effective and efficient multilingual information access to digital collections
Authors: Chen Jiangping , Knudson Ryan , Namgoong Min
Published: April 2015

This paper presents the background, research design, and current progress of a new project on exploring the application of various machine translation strategies working toward multilingual information access for digital collections.
Weighted in‐text citations and research impact patterns: A case study of library and information science
Authors: Zhao Dangzhi , Strotmann Andreas
Published: April 2015

Treating all citations in a reference list equally is one of the common practices of citation analysis that have long been criticized. The increasing availability of digital full‐text documents now makes it feasible to weigh citations in various ways, e.g., by their frequency or location in the text. In this paper we report preliminary results of a comparison of author citation weighing schemes based on in‐text citation frequency, and the citation impact patterns that emerge from them in the field of library and information science.
Probability density estimation of public library users’ visiting points using location information
Authors: Sugie Noriko
Published: April 2015

This study explores patterns of information‐seeking behavior of public library users through statistical analysis of quantitative data. A behavioral investigation using radio frequency identification (RFID) and a questionnaire survey were conducted at Chiyoda Public Library in Japan in 2012. Data was obtained on the time spent in the library, travel distance, traveling path, time spent browsing in each zone and time spent browsing books by subject. Probability density for visiting points in the library was estimated from users’ positional data gathered in the behavioral investigation in 2012. The results of the questionnaire survey were used to identify behavioral differences between two groups. As a result, it was found that users’ visiting points concentrated on the general book zone, users who borrowed materials walk around mainly in the general book zone, and users who did not borrow materials visited fewer points.
Parental perceptions of young children's information behavior related to free‐time activities
Authors: Barriage Sarah C.
Published: April 2015

This poster presents an exploration of parental perceptions of the everyday life information behaviors of children between 4 and 8 years of age. Twenty‐three parents/caregivers completed a survey about their children's information behaviors related to their hobbies and interests. Findings indicate that young children exhibit a heavy reliance on interpersonal interactions for information seeking and information sharing, while information use is more likely to be an individual activity. Information behaviors were evident in children who engaged in a variety of free‐time activities, though not all free‐time activities resulted in reported engagement in information behaviors. The findings of this study indicate that children as young as 4 years of age engage in observable information behaviors related to their everyday free‐time activities. Additional research is needed to better understand young children's everyday life information behaviors.
Enhancing metadata for research methods in data curation
Authors: Chao Tiffany C.
Published: April 2015

Metadata is an essential component to making datasets more accessible by others and facilitating meaningful interpretation and use. In particular, data users expect information on the methods or those processes undertaken to generate data to be available for review and data quality assessment. This study focuses on how description of methods is supported by examining current metadata schemes for scientific research data. Analysis of these schemes indicates varying degrees of support and guidance for methods description but with the potential for more comprehensive elements on documenting the data production process to be integrated and adopted. This preliminary investigation concludes with next steps toward a better understanding of metadata needs for research data and curation support of long‐term data sharing and reuse.
Similarity as a credibility cue in online support groups for chronic kidney disease
Authors: Costello Kaitlin L.
Published: April 2015

Patients with lifelong health conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD) may search for health information online throughout the course of their illness. On the Internet, patients may encounter patient peers in online support groups (OSGs) focused on their particular chronic illness. We currently know very little about how patients assess the credibility of information posted by other patients in OSGs.

This poster examines this issue, presenting data from a grounded theory study on health information seeking and personal health information disclosure in OSGs for CKD. The poster describes how patients use similarity as a credibility cue. The data demonstrate that information on OSGs is assessed differently than information presented on static websites, extending our notions of how users assess trustworthiness and credibility online. These findings also extend our understanding of how users make these judgments on the Internet by describing the development of criteria assessments over time, relative to the illness experiences of the seeker. This poster also highlights the importance of shared experience when judging trustworthiness in OSGs, a concept that has received little attention in the literature to date.
Thinking critically about data consumption: Creating the data credibility checklist
Authors: Zilinski Lisa D. , Nelson Megan S.
Published: April 2015

As STEM areas increasingly rely on pre‐existing data, either to validate or extend the scientific body of knowledge, students who have baseline knowledge of how to find, evaluate, and access data will have an advantage. Accordingly, undergraduate STEM curricula is increasingly focused on research‐based group projects that develop professional skills, building the professional portfolio needed for early career scientists, technologists, and engineers. This project works to develop new tools to implement basic data skills within the undergraduate disciplinary curricula. The first step in this process was to identify the competencies that are likely to be needed by those seeking data for reuse. Using competencies identified in the literature and via brainstorming, formatted similarly to the traditional model used by librarians to teach assessment of publication quality, a data credibility checklist was developed as the first tool in an emerging toolkit.
Sources of polysemy in indexing practice: The case of games, experimental in MeSH
Authors: McCain Katherine W.
Published: April 2015

Polysemy in practice (the use of one indexing term to represent several different concepts) can be detected through contextual co‐descriptor analysis and content analysis. The research reported here demonstrates this through the co‐descriptor profiles and content analysis of the primary research literature indexed with the MeSH term GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL over the years 1974‐1999 and 2005‐2012. The indexing profiles illustrate an early‐to‐late period shift in goals from a 70% focus on education to a divided focus (∼60% total) on various aspects of individual and interactive decision making. In a content analysis of reported “games,” word puzzles, adaptations of quiz and board games, and simulations/role playing dominated in 1974‐99—goals and activities not congruent with the game‐theoretic notion of a “game.” In 2005‐2012, game‐theoretic scenarios and individual risky‐decision activities (e.g. Iowa Gambling Task) dominated. Overall, it appears that indexers relied on the occurrence of the term “game” in the article and/or the more common notion of what a “game” is in indexing the article. This was particularly evident in the early time period, before the rise of experimental economics/game theory, but even in recent years, the term is used to tag a wider variety of activities than would be expected by the term's position and syndetic relationship.
A qualitative investigation of factors enabling sustained use of online health communities
Authors: Zhang Yan
Published: April 2015

The duration of consumers’ use of an online health community directly impacts their health outcomes. However, little is known about factors enabling sustained use. Using survey methods, this study found that referral from trusted others, useful content, and large, diverse, and supportive community environment is associated with continuous use of online health communities. Implications for designing web‐based health communities and interventions were discussed.
Overwhelmed by smartphones? A qualitative investigation into mobile information overload
Authors: Feng Yuanyuan , Agosto Denise E.
Published: April 2015

In this poster, we describe the concept of mobile information overload – a type of information overload that comes along with the increasingly ubiquitous use of mobile devices and mobile information and communication technologies. We also identify key issues around mobile information overload based on the literature and present the results of a pilot study that investigates (1) how people experience mobile information overload, (2) what factors cause mobile information overload, and (3) what coping strategies people use to mitigate the problem.
Analyzing chinese‐english mixed language queries in a web search engine
Authors: Fu Hengyi , Wu Shuheng
Published: April 2015

With the increasing number of multilingual web pages on the Internet, multilingual information retrieval has become an important research issue. While queries are the key element of information retrieval process, mixed‐language queries have not yet been adequately studied. This study investigates the search topics and user intents of Chinese‐English mixed language queries submitted to a Chinese web search engine, and develops a typology of English terms used in those mixed language queries. The preliminary findings show that the category of search topics and distribution of user intents differ from those of monolingual queries reported in previous studies, suggesting a specific searching behavior of Chinese‐English mixed language queries users. The findings of this study could provide useful insights in understanding specific searching behavior of Chinese‐English mixed language queries users, and inform the construction of controlled vocabularies and cross‐lingual query expansion.
Exploring topics in the field of data science by analyzing wikipedia documents: A preliminary result
Authors: Wang Yanyan , Joo Soohyung , Lu Kun
Published: April 2015

In this poster, topics in the field of Data Science were explored from Wikipedia documents based on clustering, principal component analysis (PCA), and topic modeling. As a pilot study, we analyzed part of the dataset of Wikipedia documents to initially identify topics discussed in Data Science. Hierarchical clustering resulted in six clusters of topics while PCA identified eleven dimensions in the Data Science field. In addition, topic modeling based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) produced fifty topics related to Data Science. The researchers plan to further examine hierarchical, structural relationships between topics using structural equation modeling and social network analysis. The findings from this study will be useful to understand what topics are currently discussed in the area of Data Science.
Exploring the role of scale: Comparative analysis of digital library user searching
Authors: Zavalina Oksana L.
Published: April 2015

This poster reports preliminary results of a comparative study of user searching in two large‐scale digital libraries with history focus in the United States: the federal‐level and the state‐level digital library. Similarities were observed in search query lengths and average numbers of search categories per search query. At the same time, the study reveals significant differences in the level of use of advanced search options and in search query frequencies, as well as in distribution of most search categories in user queries. The empirical data obtained in this exploratory study will inform further research and will be useful for professionals making decisions on resource description and user interfaces for digital libraries.
Profiling open digital repositories in the atmospheric and climate sciences: An initial survey
Authors: Hou Chung‐Yi , Thompson Cheryl A. , Palmer Carole L.
Published: April 2015

As digital research data proliferate and expectations for sharing data escalate, the landscape of open data repositories is becoming more complex. Data sharing is especially important in the atmospheric and climate sciences, where data integration and reuse can have significant impact on the advancement of research on climate change. This study analyzed 38 open digital repositories in the atmospheric and climate sciences using 55 criteria to characterize the repositories based on content analysis of the repository websites. The resulting repository profiles offer systematic descriptions of capabilities, services, and other characteristics for identifying specific repository features and comparing them across repositories. The profiles are of value for data curation education, researchers in the geosciences, and librarians and others providing data services in the sciences.
Documenting and studying the use of assigned search tasks: RepAST
Authors: Freund Luanne , Wildemuth Barbara M.
Published: April 2015

The Repository of Assigned Search Tasks (RepAST) is a searchable repository created through a systematic review of the interactive information retrieval (IIR) research literature. It currently contains bibliographic details for approximately 750 articles, including empirical studies that employ assigned search tasks and a smaller number of conceptual papers on task‐based searching. When available, the search task types, definitions and the task descriptions themselves are included. RepAST makes several contributions to the field. By bringing together examples of search task descriptions used in actual studies, RepAST provides a platform for studying practices within the research community and promoting greater conceptual clarity and consensus in the use of search tasks. To this end, the authors have published several studies based on analyses of the search tasks in the repository. In addition, researchers can use RepAST in a practical way, as a source of search task descriptions for reuse in new studies or in order to replicate prior research. In this interactive demo session, participants will have the opportunity to use the live RepAST system and provide feedback to the system designers.
A demonstration of socrates: Streamlining the collection, analysis and exploration of social media data
Authors: Matni Ziad , Choi Dongho , Shah Chirag
Published: April 2015

While the diversity in social media platforms is a primary motivation for people to participate in different social media services and utilize them in appropriately different manners, the heterogeneity in formats and platforms can also encumber information gathering and investigation, especially for a researcher who might have to resort to time consuming and rudimentary cut‐and‐paste tasks.

In this demonstration we introduce the Social and Crowdsourced Activity Extraction System (SOCRATES), a tool developed to help researchers utilize a single, modularly architected, open‐sourced, and standardized platform for collecting social media data from application programming interfaces (APIs), analyzing it with a variety of methodologies, and exploring it via multiple visualizations. SOCRATES has been developed as a highly usable social‐computational platform that allows researchers from any background to track, capture, visualize, explore, and analyze large or small amounts of social media data and annotations.
Needs and expectations in a tool for exploring slave narratives: a survey of prospective users
Authors: Chen Annie T. , Lach Pamella
Published: April 2015

This paper focuses on the results of a two‐part survey to investigate the needs of potential users of an interface for exploring historical narratives. First, the survey asked university faculty and K‐12 instructors to elucidate expectations and desires for an interface facilitating textual exploration, particularly of historical narratives. Then, the survey showed participants an experimental interface and asked participants to comment on its features. The results suggest that there were distinct needs specific to each user population in addition to general desires common to both groups. Some areas to emphasize in future design improvements include: more support for collaboration; support for different modes of engagement; greater support for historic themes that are traditionally studied in relation to slave narratives; and greater customizability. The main contributions of this work are as follows. First, the needs, expectations and perspectives of university faculty and K‐12 teachers may differ with regards to interfaces for textual exploration, and that it is important to tailor interfaces to support their specific needs. Second, this survey provides insight concerning how text exploration interfaces might be employed in classroom settings, and the features that would be needed to support such use.
Shaping the 21st‐century information professional: A convergence of technical and “soft” skills for workplace success
Authors: Deng Liya , Thomas Andy , Trembach Stan
Published: April 2015

The information world has been in a continuous state of flux, affecting what skills and competencies an information professional needs. Therefore, school curricula have to be able to cover today's needs and also be adaptive enough to accommodate tomorrow's needs. This poster represents phase I and phase II of a research project conducted by the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) of the University of South Carolina. This research aims to understand which skills are important and why from the information professionals’ perspective. In order to garner insight into what information skills and competencies are currently expected from library and information science (LIS) program graduates, the authors conducted a University of South Carolina SLIS employer survey and semi‐structured interviewes with selected employers. The results revealed that knowledge of telecommunications and networking, as well as network security are among the most important areas of expertise. Additionally, soft skills, such as teamwork, project management, and time management were viewed as important, too.
Scaffolding of scientific publications with open educational resources (OER)
Authors: Landrum Joanna , Gao Liangcai , Jiang Zhuoren , Hara Noriko , Liu Xiaozhong
Published: April 2015

Helping students better understand scientific publications is one of the essential tasks of higher education. This paper presents a novel learning/reading environment that incorporates innovative scaffolding methods that aim to enable students to readily access open educational resources (OER) and read and comprehend the paper in a collaborative reading environment within a course. The new system, OER‐based Collaborative PDF Reader (OCPR), captures and characterizes students’ emerging information needs when they read a paper, while also auto‐recommending high quality OERs, e.g., presentation videos, slides, or Wikipedia pages, when students ask for clarifying content (OER‐based Scaffolding). The study was conducted in a course for students to read an article, ask questions, and rate resources suggested by the OCPR system. The preliminary results show that the students tend to ask elementary questions and rate video resources higher than other resources. The results will inform future improvement of the OCPR system.
Re‐platforming digital collections for enhanced access & search functionality
Authors: Dressler Virginia A
Published: April 2015

Currently, Kent State University Library is preparing to redesign its online exhibits and digital collections on to a different content management system and interface. The plan will entail migrating existing digital collections to another platform, and in so, provide a more inclusive search mechanism to enhance access. In order to prepare for this migration, we are currently mapping the existing digital collections and associated metadata for the proposed solution, from a locally created and hosted framework into a more sustainable platform with a consolidated, searchable base for all digital objects and corresponding metadata. This work includes moving away from a highly tailored, in‐house solution, and transposing the data into a RDF file. Principles of Linked Data will also be applied to the accompanying metadata files during the conversion process. The largest resulting change from this shift of a homegrown solution into an extensible, open access platform is for the capability of searching across multiple collections. Currently, cross collection searching is not available in the current interface, and there are oftentimes many related materials between several existing digital collections that would benefit as a result of this change. The poster will address the shift in the ideology into this new framework and highlight the benefits in this switch.
Decentralized coordination of controlled vocabularies
Authors: Golden Patrick , Shaw Ryan , Buckland Michael
Published: April 2015

Controlled vocabularies may aid coordination within systems while simultaneously hindering coordination across them (Lancaster , 181). Many solutions to this quandary have been proposed, but most of these assume a context in which there is a strong central organization able to impose a coordinating superstructure. In decentralized contexts, exhaustive full‐text indexing has largely supplanted attempts to achieve cross‐system compatibility of controlled vocabularies. We report on an approach to achieving some degree of cross‐system compatibility of controlled vocabularies in a context where 1) there is no centralized control, and 2) full‐text indexing alone is inadequate for bringing together related documents.
Active and passive acquisition of health‐related information on the Web by college students
Authors: Basic Josipa , Erdelez Sanda
Published: April 2015

Using the Internet as a source of health information is increasing among the college population (Escoffery et al., ; Ogan et al., ). A number of studies investigated how frequently they actively seek health‐related information on the Internet, popular topics, used online sources (Baxter et al., 2008; Buhi et al., ; Escoffery et al., ; Hogan & Sweeney, ; Zuckerman, ). However, none of the studies compared if there is any difference between their active and passive health information acquisition. This poster presents the preliminary findings of a study on how college students obtain online health information, health‐related topic and web‐based sources they use to obtain health information in both passive and active manner, as well as if there is any difference in information acquisition style based on the information source. 2193 survey responses were collected using Qualtrics software. The findings of this study suggest that college students tend to actively seek health information more often than accidentally stumble upon it. The most common topic students look for in both passive and active manner are diet/nutrition and fitness/exercise. Health information is actively sought using search engines and Wikipedia and passively encountered using social networking sites and search engines. Keywords Online health information, information seeking information encountering, the Internet, college students
Implications and saturation for the administration of higher education site licenses
Authors: Bishop Bradley Wade , Lee Angela
Published: April 2015

The purpose of this poster is to describe the administration of the educational license for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), the largest geographic information systems (GIS) software company in higher education. ESRI's GIS higher education site license allows for unlimited use for teaching, research and administrative purposes throughout an entire university, school district, or state. Administration of unlimited users varies at each institution depending on the information agency responsible for local distribution of the desktop and cloud versions of software. The poster presents survey findings of the higher education site license administrators and outlines the factors associated with distribution, including type of software distribution, frequency of distribution, and the information agency charged with distribution on each campus, as well as the number of devices/downloads of service credits. In a world with ubiquitous location‐based services via the Geoweb and location a key factor in many decisions, GIS software should be a standard part of any office software suite training for today's knowledge workers. The educational implications for faculty and students without GIS access are costly. The poster concludes and invites further discussion on why GIS, this earth processing system, is not as common in higher education computer labs as other common software suites.
Visualization of nuclear decay activity for forensics and jurisprudence
Authors: Wang Charles , Larson Ray R. , Sutton Electra , Gey Fredric C. , Weisz David
Published: April 2015

Visualization can play an important role in the successful prosecution of smugglers of interdicted nuclear materials. Nuclear forensics (the tracing of the source of interdicted materials) is grounded in the science of radioactive decay and those scientific databases which have been developed over the past century on nuclear materials properties. However in a court of law and when working with nontechnical law enforcement officials, the process of nuclear isotope decay over time needs to be carefully explained. Most visual presentations of the decay process are static, and those few available dynamic visualization efforts are incomplete. This poster presents new methods for describing and visualizing the dynamics of radioactive decay which capture the radioisotope interaction between initial isotopic state (e.g. some fixed amount of Uranium or Plutonium) and subsequent daughter isotopes which appear and follow their own separate process of nuclear decay. As an example, temporal sequenced pie charts can vividly display quantitative decay amounts over time periods from months to millennia. Multiple approaches to visualize the radioactive decay process are presented and the advantages and disadvantages of each are discussed.
Looking for query terms on search engine results pages
Authors: Dickerhoof Alison , Smith Catherine L
Published: April 2015

Understanding the behaviors people employ when using a search system is important for developing systems that better serve users. More detailed knowledge of where searchers focus their visual attention is important to understanding how searchers use search results lists when reformulating queries. While observation of visual scanning has been used in the study of relevance judgments, to our knowledge the study reported here is the first to investigate visual attention to query terms. The study presented in this paper utilized eye‐tracking to investigate the frequency with which people looked at (fixated on) their query terms when the terms appeared on search engine results pages. Results show that people fixated on some of the displayed query terms; however, they fixated on other words and parts of the page more frequently.
Voices on the world stage: Processing the power of individual experience in recommendations for action
Authors: Coulson Tiffany
Published: April 2015

“Women Weave the Web” was the 2014 digital action campaign sponsored by World Pulse, “… the leading network using the power of digital media to connect women worldwide and bring them a global voice” (World Pulse 2014). In three ten‐week phases, women were encouraged to submit entries using on‐line journals about their experiences with digital access, digital literacy and digital empowerment. During the seven‐month campaign, 590 journal entries from women in 71 countries were analyzed to make recommendations not only concerning digital inclusion, but also library development, internet affordability, internet rights, and technology related violence against women. Because women were responding to campaign prompts, they contributed to solutions within the on‐line community, as well as informed the larger goals of the organization and its advocacy partners.

A knowledge management framework was used alongside a social constructionist approach to analyze the entries. This approach emphasizes the construction of knowledge from the collective commentary by the community. Data visualization was used to address issues related to this large qualitative data set in a timely manner consistent with organizational goals.

Recommendations produced through the data analysis highlight real solutions to global problems, while maintaining the integrity of individual experiences. Included in campaign advocacy packages, graphic summaries of recommendations, representative quotes and links to original entries present the information in layers that increase the utility of this powerful and unique knowledge collection.

As qualitative material becomes more accessible online, organizations need trustworthy, timely methods that will allow them to utilize these rich data sets for knowledge creation that can inform organizational goals. Illustrations of the type of analysis used in the “Women Weave the Web” campaign can be important resources for building an analysis framework that meets the demands of big qualitative data.
A network analytic‐based method for facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue at conferences
Authors: Motooka Julie
Published: April 2015

This paper proposes a network analytic‐based method in order to better facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue at conferences. Using a network composed of papers and subject headings of the 2013 ASIS&T Conference Proceedings, its structure is first analyzed by applying a community detection algorithm and two major centrality measures: betweenness and degree centralities. A combination of degree centrality measurements, along with a qualitative evaluation of the results of those measurements, form a novel method that could potentially connect collections whose content may have been previously “siloed” into separate tracks.