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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

ABSTRACTWe 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

ABSTRACTThe 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

ABSTRACTThis 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

ABSTRACTIn 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

ABSTRACTDespite 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

ABSTRACTThis 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.
Examining mobile banking in developing nations from pro‐poor “context, culture, and community” perspective
Authors: Potnis Devendra Dilip 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe 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

ABSTRACTWe 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.
Weighted in‐text citations and research impact patterns: A case study of library and information science
Authors: Zhao Dangzhi , Strotmann Andreas 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTTreating 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

ABSTRACTThis 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

ABSTRACTThis 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

ABSTRACTMetadata 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

ABSTRACTPatients 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

ABSTRACTAs 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

ABSTRACTPolysemy 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

ABSTRACTThe 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

ABSTRACTIn 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

ABSTRACTWith 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

ABSTRACTIn 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

ABSTRACTThis 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

ABSTRACTAs 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

ABSTRACTThe 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

ABSTRACTWhile 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.