bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Informational and media failures and potential successes
Authors: Budd John M. , Ma Lai , Day Ronald E. , Stevenson Siobhan 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThere are numerous situations in which people depend upon reliable reportage and information exchange. In many of the instances media and informational sources fail to inform—to give shape to—opinion and belief. The panelists present some of the ways those failures occur and they urge the audience to join in the quest for alternatives that can lead to successful informing that can contribute to democracy and the public good.
Libraries, archives, and museums: Connecting educational communities and cultures
Authors: Urban Richard J. , Coleman Laura‐Edythe , Marty Paul F. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe convergence of libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) presents critical challenges to professional education. This panel introduces early results of a survey that explores the formal and informal relationships among LIS, archival studies, and museum studies programs. These results will serve as a starting point for a discussion about the qualitative dimensions of these relationships and how they present opportunities and challenges for students, faculty, and the field of LAM education.
Resistance and possibility: Rethinking the concept of subject access from queer theoretical perspectives
Authors: Adler Melissa , Campbell D. Grant , Keilty Patrick 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis session will use queer theory to raise important questions about the role of information science in relation to queer communities. Using examples taken from both literary and popular culture, the session will look at the practices of classification in information systems, and how those practices, even when they attempt to facilitate access to resources for LGBTQ communities, ignore disjunctions and distortions that, far from being a barrier to access, form a fundamental aspect of queer expression.
Informetrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics: What is it all about?
Authors: Peters Isabella , Bar‐Ilan Judit 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe aim of this SIG/MET‐sponsored panel is to discuss major informetric topics including the impact factor, the h‐index, sources of citation data, the Eigenfactor, the making and use of base maps of science, application of informetrics (e.g., for retrieval purposes), altmetrics, and future perspectives on bibliometrics. The panel especially addresses attendees who want to expand their knowledge in this area or got in touch with it only recently.
Putting research data into context: Scholarly, professional, and educational approaches to curating data for reuse
Authors: Faniel Ixchel M. , Minor David , Palmer Carole L. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTIn this panel session we will discuss approaches to data curation for data reuse, with particular emphasis on the contextual information needed for reuse. We invite three panelists to present perspectives from communities that are 1) conducting scholarly research in the area of data reuse, 2) performing data curation and preservation work, and 3) educating information professionals. Given the shared interests among the three communities, one of the major objectives of the panel session is to deepen the engagement and connection among these groups. We have planned interaction with the audience to integrate the panelists’ different perspectives and approaches, outline common objectives, and explore ways we might create a common agenda in the area of data curation for data reuse.
Filmmaker showcase: Film as an information medium: Connecting cultures and communities
Authors: Hersberger Julie , O'Connor Brian , Meyers Eric , Newell Bryce 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe panel will be structured as a modified film festival format, including the presentation of four short films produced by presenting scholars. Each panelist will be given a total of 15 minutes to showcase a film (or portion of a film) designed or produced in collaboration with relevant communities and stakeholder groups. These films and panelists were selected to represent diverse approaches to both filmmaking as an information medium and to the conference theme of community and culture.Following the screening of each of the films, the rest of the session will be devoted to an interactive discussion with the audience on: a) film as an information medium, b) the role of visual research methods in LIS, and c) how film fits in with professional and academic outcomes.
Responding to emerging data workforce demand: Harnessing data center expertise
Authors: Palmer Carole L. , Thompson Cheryl A. , Tenopir Carol , Allard Suzie , Mayernik Matthew S. , Kreft James (Jim) 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTAs demand for data expertise intensifies, educators are developing new programs to prepare professionals for emerging roles in data systems and services. They are challenged, however, by not knowing enough about evolving workforce needs and the state‐of‐the‐art and emerging best practices at the forefront of the field. This interactive panel will report on recent studies on workforce demand and educational strategies that are meeting that demand through academic programs built in partnership with established data centers. This panel will offer insights from both LIS educators and practicing professionals in data centers, on building collaborations to develop curriculum and field experiences for students.
An evaluation framework for outcome and impact measures
Authors: Gainor Rhiannon , Bouthillier France 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTCompetitive intelligence (CI) measurement practices within organizations remain fragmentary and elusive, although prescriptive CI performance and impact measures have been proposed in the literature. This study responds to calls for research into CI measurement in order to examine why organizations fail to measure CI, and to develop an evaluation framework for prescriptive measures that would support the evolution of best practices in measurement. A qualitative study (the ‘users study') consisting of interviews and shared negotiated texts with 12 users of CI was conducted. Study participants were senior managers and executives who use CI in the course of their work responsibilities at their respective individual organizations. Participants indicated that measurement cost, confused conceptualizations of CI measurement, and skepticism regarding the informativeness of measurement were obstacles to the implementation of CI measurement within their organizations. Although few participants conduct measurement activities, participants were all able to describe the ideal characteristics of CI outcome and impact measures. That list is here combined with the findings of an earlier study (the ‘experts study') conducted by the authors (Gainor & Bouthillier, ), in order to develop the evaluation framework provided here. This study provides a rare account of CI user perspectives on the rationale behind the lack of CI measurement within organizations, and a unique tool, the evaluation framework, which may be used to support both research and training within the field of CI.
High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) in the Digital Humanities
Authors: Clement Tanya E. , Tcheng David , Auvil Loretta , Borries Tony 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTCurrently there are few means for humanists interested in accessing and analyzing spoken word audio collections to use and to understand how to use advanced technologies for analyzing sound. The HiPSTAS (High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship) project introduces humanists to ARLO (Adaptive Recognition with Layered Optimization), software that has been developed to perform spectral visualization, matching, classification and clustering on large sound collections. As this paper will address, this project has yielded three significant results for developing tools that facilitate machine learning with spoken word collections of keen interest to the humanities: (1) an assessment of user requirements; (2) an assessment of technological infrastructure needed to support a community tool; and (3) preliminary experiments using these advanced resources that show the efficacy, both in terms of user needs and computational resources required, of using machine learning tools to improve discovery with unprocessed audio collections.
Information technology, change and information professionals’ identity construction: A discourse analysis
Authors: Hicks Deborah 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTInformation and communication technologies (ICTs) are often identified by librarians and information professionals as being a driving force behind the way they perform their day‐to‐day activities and how they interact with their clients. This study considers the role ICTs play in the shaping and constructing of the identities of librarians. Using data gathered from interviews, email discussion lists, and the professional literature, this study employed a discourse analysis to examine the language resources librarians use when constructing their professional identities, with particular attention to the role of ICTs in this construction. ICTs both challenged and enhanced the identities of librarians. While the changes related to ICTs have left librarians feeling insecure about their professional positions, they have also opened up new roles and opportunities for librarians to pursue. Librarians have a service‐oriented identity that is influenced by ICT‐related changes affecting their work. These changes will challenge and benefit librarians as they engage with ICTs and determine how, if at all, they can be incorporated into their day‐to‐day practice.
Cross‐cultural quality comparison of online health information for elderly care on yahoo! answers
Authors: Wendy Nga Man Wong , Samuel Kai Wah Chu , Hong Huang , Miu Yan Hung 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTGiven the increase in global aging population, popularity of social Q&A sites and the level of geriatric health concerns from family caregivers, it raises the uncertainty about the quality of health information on community Q&A sites for family caregivers of elderly. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of geriatric health information on social Questions and Answers (Q&A) sites: Yahoo! Answers from registered nurses’ perspective. A total of 60 question‐and‐answer sets are retrieved from regional Yahoo! Answers sites, including Australia, Canada, UK & Ireland, US, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan. A total of 126 English answers and 112 Chinese answers were examined by registered nurses and library professionals. Results show that the overall information quality provided in the Chinese group is relatively poorer than those of English especially in information quality dimensions such as Verifiability, Commercialisation and Completeness. Questioners form both the English and Chinese groups might possibly miss the best pieces of information and advices regarding the health concerns of their elderly family members since about 40% of the best answers they selected did not match health professionals’ picks.
For the love of information: Motivations and affective dynamics of surfing the web for pleasure
Authors: Matni Ziad , Shah Chirag 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe World Wide Web (the Web) is ubiquitous in people's lives today and is used on a daily basis to get information on a variety of topics. While information seeking behavior has been studied extensively in a Web setting, many of these studies assume a task‐oriented search for information even though much of the information seeking on the Web is not necessarily done with previously stated information needs or goals. Some Web information seeking activity is done for purposes of entertainment, or for simply connecting with other people (for example, via social media websites), oftentimes with an unstructured, serendipitous approach. Information seeking in general, and information acquisition, in particular, is a pleasurable activity in and of itself. Surfing the Web for pleasure is a prominent activity and worthy of our attention as researchers. To do so, we need an appropriate framework. This paper borrows ideas from a social‐cognitive approach to the uses and gratifications paradigm in order to investigate the suitability of that framework in a Web information access setting. More specifically, we use the answers from questions we asked to 180 survey respondents about their motivations for surfing the Web for pleasure and their affective states during and after their surfing sessions. The findings indicate that the social‐cognitive approach to uses and gratifications is a useful baseline. We make enhancements to it and propose our own framework for research in this area. We present data to bolster the notion that the seeking and acquisition of information brings pleasure and we propose a framework to study user motivations and affective states both during and after their “surfing the Web for pleasure” sessions.
An investigation of the effects of awareness and task orientation on collaborative search
Authors: Chen Annie T. , Capra Robert , Wu Wan‐Ching 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTCollaborative search is concerned with how people work together to address a common information need. In this paper, we investigate two factors that may influence collaborative search behaviors: providing awareness information about collaborators’ prior activities, and the orientation of the shared task. For awareness, we examined two levels: an aware condition in which participants could see their collaborators’ prior activity in the system, and a non‐aware condition in which they could only see their own history. For orientation, we investigated a task with an open set of goals compared to a recall‐oriented task that asked participants to find as many relevant documents as possible. Forty‐one participants in a laboratory study used a prototype system called ResultsSpace to complete an asynchronous collaborative search task with three simulated collaborators. We developed a novel set of measures for examining collaborative behavior, and found that participants who were aware of their collaborators’ prior actions issued more query terms in common with their collaborators and tended to avoid rating or viewing documents that collaborators had already rated as compared to the non‐aware group. We also observed an interaction between awareness and task‐orientation in terms of the number of unique documents found, suggesting that task orientation could change the direction of the effect of awareness on document space exploration.
A better place? Factors in community assessment for parents of children with Down syndrome
Authors: Gibson Amelia N. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTInformation seeking often occurs in groups and communities, and these communities differ in ways that impact their usefulness to their members. This study uses grounded theory and information horizons mapping to explore information seeking and sharing in two place‐based communities in Florida, addressing factors associated with participants’ evaluations of their local communities of support. These factors provide insight into parents’ expectations of their information worlds and expectations related to information behaviors of actors within their local information environments. The study finds similar stakeholder groups similar expressions of the belief that some communities were “better” than others for raising children with Down syndrome in both areas, but varying evaluations of their own communities based on personal experiences. Participants agreed on the following factors as important indicators of a strong local community of support: existence and activities of local parent networks and organizations, access to quality education and health care, full inclusion in regular education when desired, social inclusion of their children into the community at large, and employability for adults with Down syndrome.
The phylogeny of a dataset
Authors: Thomer Andrea K. , Weber Nicholas M. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe field of evolutionary biology offers many approaches to study the changes that occur between and within generations of species; these methods have recently been adopted by cultural anthropologists, linguists and archaeologists to study the evolution of physical artifacts. In this paper, we further extend these approaches by using phylogenetic methods to model and visualize the evolution of a long‐standing, widely used digital dataset in climate science.Our case study shows that clustering algorithms developed specifically for phylogenetic studies in evolutionary biology can be successfully adapted to the study of digital objects, and their known offspring. Although we note a number of limitations with our initial effort, we argue that a quantitative approach to studying how digital objects evolve, are reused, and spawn new digital objects represents an important direction for the future of Information Science.
Citation role labeling via local, pairwise, and global features
Authors: Guo Chun , Yu Yingying , Sanjari Azade , Liu Xiaozhong 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe citation relationship between scientific publications has been successfully used for bibliometrics, information retrieval and data mining tasks, and citation‐based recommendation algorithms are well documented. While previous studies investigated citation relationships from various viewpoints, most of them share the same assumption that, if paper1 cites paper2 (or author1 cites author2), they are connected, regardless of citation importance, sentiment, reason, topic, or motivation. However, this assumption is oversimplified. In this study, we propose a novel method to automatically label the massive citations in the scientific repository with different roles, a.k.a. citation role labeling. Unlike earlier studies, we employ pairwise features (similarity between citing and cited paper) and global features (citing and cited paper proximity on the heterogeneous graph), in addition to local features (information extracted solely from the citing paper, e.g. citation textual context). Evaluation result shows pairwise and global features, if properly used, can be very helpful to enhance the citation role labeling performance, especially when full‐text data is not readily available.
She makes me brave: The emergence of intimacy in gameplay
Authors: Freeman Guo Zhang 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the complex relationship between intimacy and play, and offers an empirical analysis of how intimacy emerges in a playful digital environment (i.e., Audition). Audition is a non‐violent, non‐fantasy dance battle Multiplayer Online Game (MOG) that has many Asian and female players, and provides a sophisticated in‐game marriage system. Based on players’ self‐reports posted on public online forums and in‐depth interview data from 35 Audition players, this study shows that Audition marriage is more than a playful game feature for many players. Instead, players experience genuine, meaningful intimate relationships there, and consider their in‐game marriage an emergent learning process to satisfy their social and emotional needs. This study contributes to understanding interpersonal dynamics forged around technological objects in digital environments, which is important for designing Intimate (Ubiquitous) Computing and the next generation of ICTs.
Author gender metadata augmentation of hathitrust digital library
Authors: Peng Zong , Chen Miao , Kowalczyk Stacy , Plale Beth 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTBibliographic metadata is essential for digital library resource description. Especially as the size and number of bibliographic entities grows, high‐quality metadata enables richer forms of digital library access, search, and use. Metadata records can be enriched through automated techniques. For example, a digital humanities scholar might use the gender of a set of authors during their literature analysis. In this study, we undertook to enrich the metadata description of a large‐scale digital library, the HathiTrust (HT) digital library, specifically by determining the gender of authors of the public domain portion of the collection. The results are stored to a separate Solr index accessible through the HathiTrust Research Center services. This study, which successfully resolved in 78.9% of the cases the gender of authors in the HT public domain corpus, suggests future research directions in capturing and representing the provenance of the contributing sources to enhance trust, and in machine learning to resolve the remaining names.
The jenny mccarthy conundrum: Public libraries, popular culture, and health misinformation
Authors: Flaherty Mary Grace , Tayag Elnora Kelly , Lanier Meaghan , Minor Jennie 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThroughout the United States, public libraries are important resources for all types of information and serve a variety of information needs. One of these areas is health information provision; in fact, public libraries were widely identified as institutions providing support for patrons with questions on the Affordable Care Act. Yet, not all public libraries are equipped to provide this type of support. Moreover, there seems to be an inherent tension between collecting popular literature that may provide dangerous misinformation with regard to health and access to high quality, authoritative resources. Collection development tools and policies aren't standardized across libraries, and often staff are not trained to provide health information. Researchers visited randomly selected public libraries in three eastern U.S. states and posing as a patron asked: do vaccines cause autism. Public library staff referred to print materials to answer the question in half of all visits; 69% of the time, the print resource did not provide a credible answer. The sometimes conflicting roles of popular literature provider and authoritative health information provider have implications for library practice, public health and provision of high quality health information in communities throughout the nation.
A proposed scale for measuring the quality of social media services: An E‐S‐QUAL approach
Authors: Kim Hae Min , Nitecki Danuta A. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to modify a scale to evaluate the service quality of libraries’ social media. Libraries have adopted social media services to interact with their users and share information. However, we know little about how the users perceive the quality of social media services. There are no criteria or tools that have been developed for assessing the service quality of non‐profit institutions’ use of social media from a user perspective. To address the gap, this study adopted the E‐S‐QUAL instrument developed by Parasuraman et al. () and modified it through a focus group interview for libraries’ application. Four dimensions and two endogenous constructs were modified to reflect three features: online information processing, information services by libraries, and social media as platforms. This modified scale will be used in research to test its applicability to measure user‐perceived service quality of library social media services. The results of this study will be of interest to researchers seeking to develop service quality assessment instruments and useful to managers to enhance the value of the services.