bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Documenting young children's technology use: Observations in the home
Authors: Given Lisa M. , Winkler Denise Cantrell , Willson Rebekah , Davidson Christina , Danby Susan , Thorpe Karen 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTWhile there has been much interest in children's use of different technologies, research is often done with school‐age children in their classrooms. This exploratory research study looks at fifteen preschool children (aged three to five) in Queensland, Australia and their use of different technologies in their own homes. This paper examines data from a checklist of technologies available in the home and video recording data of children's interactions with online technologies and other people captured by parents, which were analyzed using a modified ‘seating sweeps’ (Given & Leckie 2003) approach to gain a detailed, descriptive analysis of the home environment.A range of technologies are available to children, with the television and DVD player being most common in the home. Unlike desktop and laptop computers, which were restricted to adult use in half of homes, mobile computing devices (e.g., tablets and smartphones) were quite prevalent and generally available for children's use. In almost all cases children used devices designed for adults and often used them in common spaces in the home, such as the home office (38%) or living room (36%). Many children (45%) engaged independently with technology, able to accomplish activities and learn on their own. This study contributes to a growing body of literature about how young children connect to technology and the growing digital world around them. Examining children's interaction with technology and in the home environment allows researchers to better understand the role of technology in children's lives.
Critical informatics: New methods and practices
Authors: Sweeney Miriam E. , Brock André 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTWhile social informatics (SI) is uniquely positioned to examine the technical and organizational properties of information and communication technology (ICT) and associated user practices, it often ignores the cultural mediation of design, use, and meaning of ICTs. Critical informatics, more so than normative and analytic orientations to ICT, offers possibilities to foreground culture as a sensitizing context for studying information and technology in society. This paper articulates a new critical informatics approach: critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) as an analysis employing critical cultural frameworks (e.g. critical race or feminist theory) to jointly interrogate culture and technology. CTDA (Brock) is a bifurcated approach for studying Internet phenomena integrating interface analysis with user discourse analysis. This paper outlines CTDA, providing examples of how its methodological flexibility applies to examining varied ICT artifacts, such as twitter and search engine phenomena, while maintaining a critical perspective on design and use. CTDA is an important tool for critical informaticists that contributes to building understanding of technology as culture, grounded in user perspectives and real‐world practices.
Human rights researchers’ data analysis and management practices
Authors: Xiao Lu , Elueze Isioma , Kavanaugh Jillian R. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe impetus to assist human rights researchers in data analysis is stronger than ever; however, little is known in the literature on human rights researchers’ practices in collecting, managing, and analyzing their research data. In an attempt to address this gap, we interviewed human rights researchers and conducted an online questionnaire to understand the characteristics of the data they analyze, as well as their data analysis and management practices, such as their experiences with data analysis software programs. We also explored their expectations with respect to a qualitative data analysis (QDA) software program.
Enclaves of anarchy: Preprint sharing, 1940‐1990
Authors: Wykle Stacy S. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to provide a timeline of the gradual organization of preprint sharing of traditional research articles and its consolidation as the preferred means of connection among scientists engaged at the forefront of increasingly narrower sub‐specialties that emerged after World War II. At mid‐century, the flood of research that scientific journals faced created a burden on the traditional system of publication. The social dynamics involved in the production of high energy physics research, in particular, proved to be the main arena of scientific communication that contributed to the advent of preprint exchange as an alternate system of publication during the 20th century. Increasing sophistication of information and communication technology relative to cost and convenience of use were factors that ultimately led to the online deployment of arχiv in 1991. The history of preprint sharing in scientific publishing is a relatively unexplored area of study, and subserves the larger need to understand the immediate circumstances surrounding the move to digital publication by scientific journals. In particular, the challenge presented by preprint sharing to the formal system of peer review that print journals have traditionally offered was an over‐riding concern throughout the course of the changes described here.
Intuitive or Idiomatic? An information‐cognitive psychology study of child‐tablet computer interaction
Authors: Rhonda N. McEwen , Dubé Adam K. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTUsing Luhmann's communication framework we examine the interaction implications that arise when kindergarten‐grade 2 students use mathematics applications on four types of tablet computers. We asked a)what content is communicatedbetween the child and the tablet computer, b) howis content communicated, c)how engaged are childrenin the tablet‐child interaction, and d)what factors influencethis engagement. We found that mathematics applications developers across the four platforms have focused on creating applications for the practice of a priori knowledge rather than on creating instructional applications. Also, the overall the emphasis in the applications studied was not to ‘gamify’ mathematics by providing entertainment but to offer a more traditional pedagogy, and that currently there is a low degree of diversity from developers in making use of the range of affordances of tablet computers. This communication studies‐psychology interdisciplinary study offers a new conceptual approach to the study of child‐tablet interaction.
What porn says to information studies: The affective value of documents, and the body in information behavior
Authors: Keilty Patrick , Leazer Gregory 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTIn this paper we examine will examine how the everyday life of information seeking of pornography reveals two things. In contradiction of the general theory that says documents are sought for their cognitive value, the commonplace phenomenon of browsing pornography online demonstrates that documents are sought for their affective value. Furthermore, affective response reveals ways that the information seeker's own body is an important element in the negotiation of assessing and understanding documents during the seeking process. We also assess the degree to which these specific observations are true in more general settings.
Towards a model for research data reuse behavior
Authors: Curty Renata Gonçalves , Qin Jian 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis poster reports a qualitative exploratory study of data reuse processes, and factors scientists consider when deciding whether or not to reuse data. Findings from this study revealed six core theoretical variables along with 28 influential factors that were salient across interviews and supported by research literature. The synthesis of findings led to the development of a model that draws upon the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to investigate scientists’ intentions and behavior towards the reuse of research data. The proposed model offers a novel approach to the current base of knowledge that has been essentially exploratory and atheoretical in nature. It also serves as the foundation for a future larger scale research that expects to provide guidelines for policymakers, open data advocates, and data repository stakeholders to better attune policies and repositories to scientists’ expectations and needs.
Open access publishing and author rights: A local and comparative study of selected ARLs
Authors: Hubbard David E. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis bibliometric study was performed to gain a better understanding of open access (OA) journal publishing at a large U.S. research university. While there is an increasing amount of aggregated data about OA publishing, there are few studies that examine local institutional OA publishing patterns. This study addresses that deficiency. Publications for Texas A&M University (TAMU) were located using Scopus and the Gold OA journals among those publications were identified. It was determined that approximately 9% of the articles published at TAMU were in Gold OA journals. Most of these journals were concentrated in Science (Q), Medicine (R), Agriculture (S), and Technology (T). The author rights of these journals were also examined and categorized. The majority of journals examined allowed authors to retain copyright, but more than 20% required the authors to transfer some or all of their copyright. To provide context and comparison, the percentage of Gold OA articles among 16 peer institutions, all public Association of Research Libraries (ARLs), was also determined using Web of Science. Gold OA publishing among the 16 peer institutions was between 4.99% and 9.45%. Scopus indicated a higher level of Gold OA publishing at TAMU compared to Web of Science.
Assessing the value of public library services: A review of the literature and meta‐analysis (project META)
Authors: Arns Jennifer Weil , Miller Karen A. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis poster summarizes results of the IMLS funded University of South Carolina META project that explored the application of meta‐analysis techniques to develop a robust model of public library economic value. Completed in 2014, the project approached this topic with two fundamental questions: (1) whether the reviewed public library valuation studies provide mounting evidence concerning the contributions that public libraries make to the economic prosperity of the communities they serve, and (2) what steps need to be taken in order to strengthen this assertion? The results of the analyses performed to answer these questions suggest that Americans typically receive five to six dollars for every dollar they spend on public library services. The results also lead to recommendations concerning strategies that could add strength to this assertion and provide a powerful new argument for the continuance of public library services: more detailed reporting practices, greater methodological consistency, and systematic consideration of intangible benefits.
Effects of tasks at similar and different complexity levels
Authors: Zhang Yinglong , Gwizdka Jacek 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTWe present preliminary results from a Web search study, where we paid particular attention to the design of complex tasks. We used subjective, behavioral, and cognitive measures to investigate the effects of task complexity and, separately, of search user interface elements. Our findings confirm the expected task properties by design – no differences between tasks at the same level of complexity, but significant differences between tasks at different levels of complexity on most dependent variables. The examined elements of user interface did not have a significant effect on experienced mental workload, however, they affected search behavior, but only on complex tasks.Categories and Subject DescriptorsH3.3 Information Search and Retrieval: Search process.
Peer relationships and information sharing between LIS doctoral students
Authors: Lee Jongwook , Anderson Amelia , Burnett Gary 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTDoctoral students rely on their peers as important information sources. However, information behavior studies in academic settings most often describe peers as intermediaries who simply assist individuals’ information seeking for academic resources. To address this issue, the authors interviewed six LIS doctoral students at Florida State University in order to explore the types of peer relationships and information sharing between LIS doctoral students. The preliminary findings confirmed the existence of close, social/academic, and other peers that can be categorized as special, collegial, and information peers using Kram and Isabella's continuum of peer relationships. In addition, it was found that work‐related and everyday life information is shared in all three types of peer relationships, while relational strength influences the scope and depth of information sharing. Future work will investigate the role of peers as mentors and agents of socialization in academic settings, and will further address the types of information shared as part of such mentoring relationships.
Document retrieval method using random walk with restart on weighted co‐citation network
Authors: Eto Masaki 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis paper proposes a graph‐based retrieval technique on a weighted co‐citation network, which allows users to find more relevant documents easily from the co‐citation network. More specifically, the random walk with restart technique is applied to a weighted graph of documents, in which the degree of each edge weight is measured by the number of co‐citation documents and the strength of the co‐citation context; both obtained by parsing the full text of the citing documents. To evaluate its effectiveness empirically, a special test collection was created from the Open Access Subset of PubMed Central, and the search performance of the proposed method was compared with traditional co‐citation searching by “precision at k.” The experimental results indicate that the proposed method tends to retrieve much more relevant documents without reducing precision.
A tale of social Q&As in the united states and china
Authors: Zhang Yin , Deng Shengli , Yang Lina 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis poster reports a study that examines and compares how Social Questions and Answers (Social Q&As, or SQAs) are used in the United States and China. The data were collected from users of the most popular SQA site in the two countries respectively. The preliminary findings show that overall SQA serves various user needs, and user satisfaction is at about 70% for both sites. However, user satisfaction with SQA answers varies by the types of questions. This is particularly relevant for Yahoo! Answers users in the United States. SQA users in both countries point out a common set of the most important factors as well as the least important factors for a virtual information service. The practical implications of the study are discussed.
Data management: Graduate student's awareness of practices and policies
Authors: Sharma Sarika , Qin Jian 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThis poster presents the preliminary results from a survey on the data management practices of graduate students. We investigate what graduate students know about data management from the technical aspects such as the familiarity and use of tools and technologies along with their participation and familiarity with data standards and policies. Preliminary data shows that graduate students lack awareness of data management policies, technologies, and practices when it comes to storing, accessing, and sharing data. The aim of this work is to provide insight on the data literacy needs of graduate students.
Transformation of newbery award books in chinese, japanese and korean translations
Authors: Jeong Wooseob , Han Hyejung 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTMany Newbery award books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean as an essential tool for higher academic achievements of children. The purpose of this study is to examine how Newbery award books have been translated and transformed in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Bibliographical data for translated titles were collected via national OPACs in the countries and online bookstores. Physical copies were also obtained for further physical examination of transformation. We found that among 91 Newbery medal books, from 1922 to 2012, more than 70% have been translated in this region. We also found that many titles have been transformed in terms of their cover images, content illustrations, sizes and the number of volumes in their translated editions in those countries. Marketing consideration and cultural differences are thought to be major reasons for the transformation. We concluded that books are literally judged by their covers.
Information value across cultures and communities
Authors: Burnett Gary , Lee Jisue , Hollister Jonathan M. , Skinner Julia 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTThe value of information within and across communities varies; however, even slight variations in this value may define boundaries between different worlds. The Theory of Information Worlds offers a framework for understanding social information behaviors in these settings. This poster reports on the operationalization of the concept of Information Value and its implications for an ongoing project focusing on the development of codebooks intended to be effective across diverse research contexts and methodologies. Specifically, the concept of Information Value is operationalized and discussed through the lenses of three different dissertation projects focusing on South Korean political discourse on Twitter, Ernestine Rose and the Harlem Library, and the digital literacy practices of role‐players in a new Massively Multiplayer Online Role‐Playing Game. Implications of Information Value on research on communities and cultures are also briefly discussed before describing the project's next steps.
From siloed data to linked data: Developing a social metadata repository
Authors: Choi Yunseon 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTAlthough social data has been investigated and discussed regarding its impact on indexing and retrieval performance on the web, there has been little research conducted on storing or linking social data and identifying bibliographic relationships among social data for further use of social data. In this paper, we discuss our work in progress that aims to develop a social metadata repository which would be an important implication for making social data more valuable and reusable for searching and retrieval. We describe FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) conceptual model's Entity‐Relationship (ER) view on bibliographic relationships and demonstrate how social metadata are encoded in RDA (Resource Description and Access) and how the implicit bibliographic relationships of social data are explicitly represented as RDF (Resource Description Framework) triples (Subject –Predicates – Objects) with links to external sources. We believe that the shareable and linked metadata repository of social data is remarkably significant, not only because it supports the accessibility to related documents, but also because it is clarifying the implicit semantic relationships among social data.
Uncertainty of author citation rankings: Lessons from in‐text citation weighing schemes
Authors: Strotmann Andreas , Zhao Dangzhi 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTIn‐text frequency‐weighted citation counting has been seen as a particularly promising solution to the well‐known problem of citation analysis that treats all citations equally, be they crucial to the citing paper or perfunctory. But what is a good weighting scheme? Our preliminary results show that the ranks of authors in the field of Library and Information Science vary wildly with different in‐text citation frequency weighting schemes, suggesting that author citation ranks may inherently be uncertain.
Information sharing, connected learning, and a professional wrestling fan community
Authors: Martin Crystle 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTResearch on information sharing practices of online fan communities is nascent. This paper seeks to describe information sharing in a professional wrestling fan community, focusing on the practice of youth. It also seeks to explore how information sharing effects this connected learning environment. This study finds that information sharing practices are tied to the social nature of the community fostering social ties. They also function as a means for people to stay current on new information, and help members of the community develop a more nuanced expertise in their interest.
Information integration: a case study of air quality in chicago and st. louis
Authors: Lee Jooho , Blake Catherine 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTGovernment agencies are increasingly making raw data available to citizens, but merely having access to data is not sufficient to realize the potential of “big data”. Answering questions in science, business, and public policy requires data integration which is challenging when data from different sources are used for different reasons. This project provides a detailed case study of how to integrate public data to understand the relationship between demographic factors and air quality. Demographic factors from US Census and American Community Survey were collected for two major cities (Chicago and St. Louis) and then integrated with air quality from the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). Results show that air quality has improved in both cities between 2000 and 2012. Determining correlations between ethnicity, education, level of income and air quality warrant further exploration.
Identifying valuable information from twitter during natural disasters
Authors: Truong Brandon , Caragea Cornelia , Squicciarini Anna , Tapia Andrea H. 
Published: April 2015

ABSTRACTSocial media is a vital source of information during any major event, especially natural disasters. However, with the exponential increase in volume of social media data, so comes the increase in conversational data that does not provide valuable information, especially in the context of disaster events, thus, diminishing peoples’ ability to find the information that they need in order to organize relief efforts, find help, and potentially save lives. This project focuses on the development of a Bayesian approach to the classification of tweets (posts on Twitter) during Hurricane Sandy in order to distinguish “informational” from “conversational” tweets. We designed an effective set of features and used them as input to Naïve Bayes classifiers. In comparison to a “bag of words” approach, the new feature set provides similar results in the classification of tweets. However, the designed feature set contains only 9 features compared with more than 3000 features for “bag of words.” When the feature set is combined with “bag of words”, accuracy achieves 85.2914%. If integrated into disaster‐related systems, our approach can serve as a boon to any person or organization seeking to extract useful information in the midst of a natural disaster.