bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Environmental voluntary groups: Towards curating data for sharing, access and preservation
Authors: Kennan Mary Anne , Williamson Kirsty , Johanson Graeme 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis paper reports a recent study which investigated what data were collected by members of an environmental voluntary group (EVG) and how these data were collected, stored, managed and shared. A significant aim was to understand how data management and approaches to data sharing could be improved in order to enhance the contributions of EVGs to research and to science more broadly while also continuing to meet individual and group needs. Interviews were conducted with members of the Australian Plants Society Victoria (ASPV) using a broadly ethnographic approach. Findings indicate that APSV members have a strong interest in conservation biodiversity, and in increasing their own, and society's knowledge and understanding, passions often shared with professional scientists. Yet their data are often poorly managed, creating significant impediments to sharing. The paper explores the major issues of data management and sharing and the resulting impediments to data sharing and information communication. Options for improvement are explored, especially ways to inspire and empower APSV members with skills and technology to contribute to major data repositories so that their valuable data may be preserved and made accessible beyond their immediate Society co‐members.
Participant reactivity in a longitudinal mixed‐method study of the information behavior of people with type 2 diabetes: Research validity vs. “street validity”
Authors: Jean Beth St 
Published: May 2014

AbstractParticipant reactivity – a phenomenon in which the responses and/or behaviors of study participants are affected by their awareness that they are part of a study – is often deemed to be a potential threat to the research validity of a study's findings. However, a growing number of studies report that research processes that engender participant reactivity may actually lead to important benefits both for participants (e.g., therapeutic benefits) and researchers (e.g., deeper understandings and more relevant and actionable findings). This mutually beneficial situation can help to maximize a different type of validity termed “street validity” by Greenwood (as cited in Boudah & Lenz, 2000; 2003), which directly relates to research impact.This paper reports findings from a longitudinal mixed‐method investigation of the information behavior of people with type 2 diabetes, focusing on participants' self‐reports regarding whether/how they felt that participating in the study had influenced (or will influence) their behavior. Many participants described specific ways in which they found their participation helpful. For example, they reported that it led to decreased denial, increased self‐awareness, and improved motivation to look for and make use of diabetes‐related information. This paper explores the potential trade‐off between research validity and street validity within a qualitative study and posits that, as was the case with this study, important lessons can be learned as a result of directly questioning participants about whether/how their participation in the study influenced them and that these lessons can perhaps be implemented within the context of applying the research findings in assisting other people from the study population.
Social media and community knowledge: An ideal partnership for non‐profit organizations
Authors: Given Lisa M. , Forcier Eric , Rathi Dinesh 
Published: May 2014

AbstractNon‐profit organizations (NPOs) must manage knowledge to be relevant, sustainable and competitive. The published literature suggests that stories can be effective for sharing knowledge and making tacit knowledge explicit; however, researchers have not examined storytelling as a knowledge management practice in NPOs in any depth. Similarly, few studies explore the roles of social media in NPOs, including their usefulness for knowledge management practices. This paper reports the results of a research study that examined how NPOs are using social media, with a particular focus on knowledge management practices. Qualitative interviews with 16 staff members working in a range of NPO environments (such as health, library and social services organizations) were conducted. The findings point to the value of storytelling for sharing the organization's mission, for monitoring the NPOs reach into the community, and as a mechanism for gathering knowledge from clients and other key stakeholders.
Redefining geobrowsing
Authors: Buchel Olga 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis paper presents a conceptual model for geobrowsing of text collections. The model integrates elements and principles from the existing models and adds a unique perspective on the design of representations and interactions with geographic, semantic, and cognitive spaces in geospatial visualizations. It is illustrated with examples from GeoPubMed prototype which is designed to support creative geobrowsing.
The value of social search: Seeking collective personal experience in social Q&A
Authors: Jeon Grace YoungJoo , Rieh Soo Young 
Published: May 2014

AbstractIn this paper, we examine the value of social question‐answering (Q&A) services as a platform for social search. We present a quasi‐field study where we instructed 20 study participants to use a social Q&A service, Yahoo! Answers, for a period of one week, and interviewed them about their experience with Yahoo! Answers based on the questions (N=99) they posted to the site. The results indicate that participants turned to a social search system when they needed firsthand information, diverse perspectives, and others' value judgments. Participants also preferred social search systems over web search engines in situations where they could obtain tailored information, access original and non‐popular information, filter out information, and interact with real people. Various strategies that participants employed to ensure that their questions would be likely to be answered were also identified. This study contributes to the field of information science by investigating a social Q&A service using the framework of social search from the information seeker's perspective. The results have implications for developers and designers of social search systems.
Spoiler alert: Machine learning approaches to detect social media posts with revelatory information
Authors: Boyd‐Graber Jordan , Glasgow Kimberly , Zajac Jackie Sauter 
Published: May 2014

AbstractSpoilers—critical plot information about works of fiction that “spoil” a viewer's enjoyment—have prompted elaborate conventions on social media to allow readers to insulate themselves from spoilers. However, these solutions depend on the conscientiousness and rigor of Internet posters and are thus an imperfect system. We create an automatic alternative that could alert users when a piece of text contains a spoiler. An automated spoiler detector serves not only as an additional protection against spoilers, but it also contributes to important problems in computational linguistics. We develop a new dataset of spoilers gathered from social media and create automatic classifiers using machine learning techniques. After establishing baseline performance using lexical features, we develop metadata‐based features that substantially improve performance on the spoiler detection task.
A tangle of tags: The impact of user‐generated tagging in public library catalogs
Authors: Williams Rachel D. 
Published: May 2014

AbstractWith the increased adoption of catalog packages such as Bibliocommons and Aquabrowser comes a need to investigate the ways in which folksonomic tools impact the amount and quality of user tagging in public library catalogs. This pilot study compares two public library catalogs from library systems in the Midwestern United States. The underlying goals of the investigation were to compare the two catalogs to see whether 1) pronounced differences between the folksonomies of user tags existed in both library catalogs, in number of tags for selected titles and scope/coverage of tags; and 2) how the tags from MPLS compare to the tags presented in Aquabrowser's supplemental tag cloud and RPL and the implications inherent in these comparisons. Using the Book Industry Standard and Communications (BISAC) subject headings, user tags from the two library catalogs were coded and compared for scope and frequency. Results indicate that RPL, which uses Aquabrowser, has significantly more user tags that cover a broader scope than those of MPLS. Findings demonstrate the need for further consideration of user tagging in Web 2.0 catalogs.
Gender expression in a small world: Social tagging of transgender‐themed books
Authors: Adler Melissa 
Published: May 2014

AbstractSocial tagging is evaluated as an information behavior in a small world, using Chatman, Burnett, and Besant's Theory of Normative Behavior. A survey was distributed to people who assign tags to transgender‐themed books in LibraryThing, an social network site that allows members to catalog and tag their personal book collections. This study first establishes that there is an identifiable community of interest and then lays the groundwork for understanding the function of tagging in sharing information among a marginalized community for whom vocabulary and taxonomies are vital.
Privacy policy disclosures of behavioural tracking on consumer health Websites
Authors: Burkell Jacquelyn , Fortier Alexandre 
Published: May 2014

AbstractMany Internet users are seeking health information online, encountering significant privacy risks in the process. Historically, these risks are associated with personally identifiable information, but behavioural tracking presents a new and increasing threat to privacy. In this paper, we analyze the disclosure, in a set of website privacy policies, of the collection of non‐personally identifiable information by consumer health information websites. The websites all engage in first and third party behavioural tracking using cookies and web beacons, and are among the sites recommended by consumer health sections of the Medical Library Association or the Canadian Health Libraries Association (see Burkell and Fortier, 2012, 2013). Our analysis reveals that while the majority of these sites disclose both first party (6/7) and third party (5/7) behavioural tracking, the language used in these disclosures is difficult to understand, tending to minimize behavioural tracking and obfuscate agency in the tracking process. These results suggest that consumer health information website privacy policies do not provide optimal disclosure of behavioural tracking practices. Library and information science professionals should work with users to ensure they are aware of the behavioural tracking practices of the websites they visit, assisting them to interpret the disclosures provided in website privacy policies.
Localizing chronic disease management: Information work and health translations
Authors: Kaziunas Elizabeth , Ackerman Mark S. , Veinot Tiffany C.E. 
Published: May 2014

AbstractBased on interviews with people who had diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney disease in Flint, Michigan, we found people actively doing information work to manage their health in the face of poverty, potentially violent conditions, high stress, and a distrust of institutionalized medicine. More specifically, we observed people translating information into the context of their everyday lives. We present various translations of health information in the form of local strategies for chronic illness management. Study findings highlight initial implications to support health information services on a community level.
Game theory in the healthcare literature: A contextual co‐descriptor analysis of MeSH term assignments
Authors: McCain Katherine W. 
Published: May 2014

AbstractGame theory, the study of strategies and decision making, is represented in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary by two terms—GAME THEORY and its immediately narrower term, GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL. Both are terms in MATHEMATICS—a branch of the NATURAL SCIENCES (MeSH Tree H01). Contextual co‐descriptor analysis was used to explore and visualize the game theory topics relevant to medical researchers and scholars, based on the frequently‐assigned MeSH terms assigned to articles also indexed with one or another of these two MeSH terms. The literature indexed with GAME THEORY deals primarily with two key concepts in the field—Evolutionary Game Theory and Human Behavior. GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL retrieves several very different topics—general game‐theoretic behavioral research, human cognition and neuroimaging, and nursing education. It appears that the assignment of GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL conflates the notions of (1) experiments in Game Theory (testing decision‐making scenarios), (2) modeling human brain processes during decision making, and (3) the use of a variety of different kinds of games and simulations to teach in nursing programs. The last might be considered a poor fit to the notion of the role of games in Game Theory as it is generally understood by game theorists.
Call for library websites with a separate information architecture for visually impaired users
Authors: Yoon Kyunghye , Newberry Tara , Hulscher Laura , Dols Rachel 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis study explored the usability and accessibility of library websites for visually impaired users with the objectives of identifying the Web‐browsing needs of those who use screen readers to access and browse the Web and applying this knowledge to the practice of accessible website design. Data were collected in a usability test setting with six blind users who were asked to navigate three different library and two non‐library websites while researchers observed their navigation through think‐aloud protocols. Analysis of data identified specific accessibility barriers to website information and explored related navigation issues. The findings suggest that, in addition to the technical accessibility standards, libraries should consider integrating into their website design process a high‐level information architecture for screen readers. This poster will provide a graphical illustration of the additional layer of information architecture for screen reader access.
Exploring requirements for online art collections
Authors: Lopatovska Irene , Bierlein Iris , Lember Heather , Meyer Eleanor 
Published: May 2014

AbstractWhile standards for textual retrieval systems are well established, similar standards for the design of visual retrieval systems, specifically for digital art collections, are lacking. The following study extends previous lines of research in developing guidelines for the design and evaluation of museum websites and, specifically, retrieval interfaces for digital art objects. Based on analysis of novice art users' evaluations of several digital art interfaces, this study developed a list of required features that contribute to the users' perception of the overall website quality. The article includes discussion of the survey's findings and directions for future work.
Does formal authority still matter in the age of wisdom of crowds?: Perceived credibility, peer and professor endorsement in relation to college students' wikipedia use for academic purposes
Authors: Lim Sook 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis study explores whether or not formal authority still matters for college students using Wikipedia by examining the variables of individual perceived credibility, peer endorsement and professor endorsement in relation to students' academic use of Wikipedia. A web survey was used to collected data in fall 2011. A total of 142 students participated in the study, of which a total of 123 surveys were useable for this study. The findings show that the more professors approved of Wikipedia, the more students used it for academic purposes. In addition, the more students perceived Wikipedia as credible, the more they used it for academic purposes. The results indicate that formal authority still influences students' use of user‐generated content (UGC) in their formal domain, academic work. The results can be applicable to other UGC, which calls attention to educators' active intervention to appropriate academic use of UGC. Professors' guidelines for UGC would benefit students.
The impact of source credibility on young adults' Health information activities on facebook: Preliminary findings
Authors: Syn Sue Yeon , Kim Sung Un 
Published: May 2014

AbstractWithin the context of SNSs, particularly Facebook, this study aims to understand how young adults perceive the credibility of various information sources, how their information activities differ by those information sources, and how young adults' perception of credibility impacts their information activities. The results of an online survey demonstrated that young adults consider medical/health organizations and government agencies the most credible and friends the least credible for health issues. As for information activities, although young adults' intents to read postings were significantly greater than those to post questions or answers, intents of information activities were generally lower than neutral. Nevertheless, it was found that the more young adults trust information sources, the more likely they are to be involved in information activities. The results showed the potential of Facebook as a good information channel, especially for health professionals and governmental organizations.
The sonzogno digital library project
Authors: Oh Sanghee , Choi Wonchan , Valisa Silvia 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis poster reports on a work‐in progress project of building a digital library for metadata records of books published by Sonzogno between 1800 and 1943. Metadata records from seven major libraries that have Sonzogno collections were harvested and used for building a unified collection for this project. Omeka, open‐source software for building digital libraries, was used to host, manage, and provide the public with access to the collection. Currently, a sample set of the metadata of books published in 1885 is available from the digital library (http://sonzogno.cci.fsu.edu/). This poster reports on the current status of the project, explaining the process and challenges associated with building a digital library of the metadata collection (metadata harvesting and crosswalk) using Omeka.
Pioneers in Uncharted Territory: VINITI and the communist influence on the U.S. scientific and technical information system
Authors: Trembach Stan 
Published: May 2014

AbstractGiven that the rise of the Internet has greatly intensified information management problems in contemporary society, the historical perspective, or looking at the roots, is viewed by many as an indispensable component of the quest for practical solutions to information overload. This historical comparative study intends to narrow the gap in the existing knowledge about the impact of the Soviet military‐industrial complex on the rise of the scientific and technical information management system in the mid‐20th century United States, particularly in such agencies as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Along with a chronological analysis of primary and secondary documents, data are being collected via a series of interviews with prominent experts in the field whose research has revolved around both VINITI and the formative years of the U.S. scientific and technical information domain. Conclusions regarding the NSF and NTIS reactions to the Soviet developments are being made based on such indicators as organizational changes, budget allocations, and manpower changes.
Use of mobile wellness applications and perception of quality
Authors: Choi Wonchan , Stvilia Besiki 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis work‐in‐progress methodology poster introduces a research project which aims to investigate college students' use of mobile wellness applications and their perceptions of application quality and usefulness. The poster outlines the overall design of the project and reports on some of the preliminary findings from the first phase of the study. In particular, the poster discusses the findings of the content analysis of 250 consumer reviews on five top‐tiered mobile applications for running sampled from Google Play. The analysis showed that the users greatly valued the accuracy of measurements, as well as the reliability and simplicity of the mobile applications.
Exploring evaluative methods for large‐scale local history
Authors: Fenlon Katrina 
Published: May 2014

AbstractLocal history is a topic of proven interest to library users. Digital cultural heritage collections and aggregations offer an ever‐growing wealth of digitized, primary source materials to support local history research. Yet methods for strategic development and evaluation of local history collections and aggregations remain sparse. In this paper we present a multimodal pilot study to explore methods for evaluating local history coverage in digital collections and aggregations. We explore the possibility of employing automatic classification to identify items and collections relevant to local history, and conduct an exploratory metadata analysis to discern features of collections that contribute to their usefulness for local history research.
Telepresence robots for academics
Authors: Herring Susan C. 
Published: May 2014

AbstractTelepresence robotics is a sophisticated form of robotic remote control in which a human operator has a sense of being on location – that is, of being telepresent. I propose a demonstration of two telepresence robots, one floor model (VGo) and one tabletop model (KUBI). In this proposal, I describe the technology and briefly summarize the research that led to the purchase of the robots. The research focused on the telepresence needs of a mobility‐impaired academic and included a user study as well as a review of the affordances of commercially‐available telepresence robotic devices. The implications extend beyond uses of telepresence robots in cases of mobility impairment to academic contexts in general.
“When i've packed it in and they send me something …”: Information boundaries in professional home offices
Authors: Thomson Leslie 
Published: May 2014

AbstractHome offices are fused living and working spaces that lie at the intersection of the personal and the professional, blurring traditional divisions between these two domains. This poster reapproaches findings from a previous Masters thesis (Thomson, 2010)—which investigated information management in professional home offices—with an aim to highlight ways in which home office users negotiate and maintain ‘information boundaries’ in their hybrid, often unbounded, environments. Data was ethnographically gathered from four professional home offices via tours, interviews, and observation. Analysis suggests that professional home office users are far from passive subjects in their spaces, continuously answerable to all imaginable demands, needs, and whims arising in both their domestic and vocational lives. Rather, they constantly make decisions about the permeability of their spaces and often actively (even if not consciously) preside over ‘information boundaries,’ choosing where (with a physical boundary), when (with a temporal boundary), and why (with a psychological boundary) to integrate or separate the personal and the professional. This poster contributes an in‐depth portrait of how four individuals deliberately design their unique environments and, in so doing, influence what information interactions they do and do not have.