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The Google Online Marketing Challenge: A multi‐disciplinary global teaching and learning initiative using sponsored search
Authors: Jansen Bernard J. (Jim) , Rosso Mark A. , Russell Dan , Detlor Brian 
Published: June 2009

AbstractSponsored search is an innovative information searching paradigm. This panel will discuss a vehicle to explore this unique medium as an educational opportunity for students and professors. From February to May 2008, Google ran its first ever student competition in sponsored search, The Google Online Marketing Challenge (http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/). Similar to other Google initiatives, the extent seems huge. Based on registrations from 61 countries, 629 courses from 468 universities participated, fielding 4,317 student teams of approximately 21,585 total students. The Challenge may be the largest, worldwide educational course ever done. It is certainly on an extremely large scale.
Global perspective on Wikipedia research
Authors: Shachaf Pnina , Hara Noriko , Herring Susan , Callahan Ewa , Solomon Paul , Stvilia Besiki , Matei Sorin 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThis panel will provide a global perspective on Wikipedia research. The literature on Wikipedia is mostly anecdotal, and most of the research has focused attention primarily on the English Wikipedia examining the accuracy of entries compared to established online encyclopedias (Emigh & Herring, 2005; Giles, 2005; Rosenzweig, 2006) and analyzing the evolution of articles over time (Viégas, Wattenberg, & Dave, 2004; Viégas, Wattenberg, Kriss, & van Ham, 2007). Others have examined the quality of contribution (Stvilia et al., 2005). However, only a few studies have conducted comparative analyses across languages or analyzed Wikipedia in languages other than English (e.g., Pfeil, Zaphiris, & Ang, 2006). There is a need for international, cross‐cultural understanding of Wikipedia. In an effort to address this gap, this panel will present a range of international and cross‐cultural research of Wikipedia.The presenters will contribute different perspectives of Wikipedia as an international sociocultural institution and will describe similarities and differences across various national/language versions of Wikipedia. Shachaf and Hara will present variation of norms and behaviors on talk pages in various languages of Wikipedia. Herring and Callahan will share results from a cross‐language comparison of biographical entries that exhibit variations in content of entries in the English and Polish versions of Wikipedia and will explain how they are influenced by the culture and history of the US and Poland. Stvilia will discuss some of the commonalities and variability of quality models used by different Wikipedias, and the problems of cross‐language quality measurement aggregation and reasoning. Matei will describe the social structuration and distribution of roles and efforts in wiki teaching environments. Solomon's comments, as a discussant, will focus on how these comparative insights provide evidence of the ways in which an evolving institution, such as Wikipedia, may be a force for supporting cultural identity (or not).
Civic engagement, youth, and community: The role of place, education, information, and technology in shaping civic and political discourse (SIG‐KM)
Authors: Faust Leona , Jaeger Paul T. , Jayanandhan Stephanie Raill , Robertson Scott 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThe panel will examine civic engagement and community‐local, transnational, and virtual, and its impact on political participation of young people. Discussion will highlight the role of information, education, technology in reshaping the boundary between personal and public information space. Panelists will redefine civic engagement in this changing landscape as it affects our understanding of place and of political participation of young people, including the role of higher education, public policy, and the presentation of government information in building an informed and active citizenry.As new information channels emerge in civic and political discourse, issues of trust and authority in e‐government and non‐governmental sources arise for the public and for providers of access to government information. The panel will address credibility in government information sources and examine voter use of the Internet and its impact on their decision‐making processes.The interplay of new technology in the political process and the public information space will inform the presentations, including how digital tools have created new networks for political discourse; changed participation by voters, candidates, and campaigns; and enabled the use of participatory Web 2.0 technologies in the design of government and library websites. Finally, the panel will assess current digital tools, highlight the design tension between universal access and digital environments, and stress the importance of meeting human needs through participatory design in the future development of digital environments.
Waddling around the digital iceberg: Use of virtual spaces and environments by children, preteens, and teens
Authors: Bilal Dania , Meyers Eric M. , Lee Shari , Large Andrew , Beheshti Jamshid , Vallière Nicole 
Published: June 2009

AbstractEmerging technologies, including Web 2.0, are offering new opportunities and possibilities for youth to create, organize, represent content, read and learn, exchange and share information, and to fulfill a need to communicate with others. MySpace, YouTube, Google Video, blogs, podcasts, del.icio.us, and Flickr offer seamless functionalities and capabilities that young users find fascinating. Virtual environments available for children, preteens, and teens are growing in popularity. Children of various ages are contributing to the Web not only by creating content, but also by tagging information to represent content.
Enabling multilingual access in digital libraries
Authors: Ruiz Miguel E. , Chen Jiangping , Oard Douglas , Kando Noriko , Peters Carol , Druin Allison 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThis panel aims to promote the application of Multi Lingual Information Access (MLIA) technologies in digital libraries. MLIA has been recognized as an important issue for digital libraries since the early days of research and development of these projects. This panel will give an overview of the issues involved in creating MLIA for digital Libraries. The speakers will present the state‐of‐the‐art of MLIA technologies as well as current digital library projects in Europe, Asia and North America that are planning or have implemented MLIA technologies. The focus of the panel will include discussions on important issues and challenges of implementing MLIA in digital libraries such as understating users' needs, usability issues and users' expectations.
Retrieving and using visual resources: Challenges and opportunities for research and education
Authors: Choi Youngok , Hsieh‐Yee Ingrid , Rasmussen Edie , Smith Martha , Greenberg Jane , Iyer Hemalata 
Published: June 2009

AbstractVisual resources are used in a variety of settings for many different purposes. Technological advances facilitate numerous applications of digital images and other visual materials in work and leisure, resulting in increasing availability of and demand for such resources. A major challenge for information professionals is to organize digital visual resources effectively to meet the needs of users with different backgrounds and interests. For example, how do we provide access to the content of such resources and design an information system for the general public as well as subject specialists? A related challenge is the education of visual resource professionals because their roles and responsibilities have expanded in the digital era (Iyer, 2007). What knowledge and skills should visual resource professionals of the 21st century possess? How do we prepare them to facilitate the retrieval and use of digital visual resources and manage such resources for short‐term and long‐term access?The proposed program is designed to facilitate a dialog among practitioners, educators, and a panel of researchers with experience investigating the retrieval and use of visual resources. To provide a context for the dialog, panelists will use the first half of the program to highlight what they have learned from their research and teaching. These brief presentations will be followed by a discussion between the audience and the panelists. The audience will be encouraged to share their views on the following topics and any additional topics of great interest to them:

How do users search for visual resources in the absence of information systems?
How do users find their access to visual resources supported or inhibited by the information systems put in place for them?
What are the opportunities for practitioners, subject specialists, researchers, and educators to collaborate and provide learning experiences with visual resources for LIS students?
What competencies are needed by information professionals in order to build and sustain good visual resource systems?
The program will be of interest to information science educators, specialists in digital asset management, and information professionals who work with visual resources (art and special collections librarians, digital librarians, archivists and museum curators).
Users' perception of internet characteristics in the academic environment
Authors: Almobarraz Abdullah 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThis paper examines the characteristics of internet that affect its adoption by faculty members of Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University (IMSU) in Saudi Arabia. The framework of the study was the attributes of innovations offered by Rogers. The result revealed that the majority of IMSU faulty members used the Internet for research and academic activities twice a month or less, indicating a low Internet adoption rate. Multiple regression analysis showed that all attributes of innovation individually predicted Internet adoption. The combination of all attributes indicated the model could predict Internet adoption among faculty.
Concept theory and the role of conceptual coherence in assessments of similarity
Authors: Spiteri Louise F. 
Published: June 2009

AbstractConceptual coherence, which refers to concepts whose contents make sense to the perceiver, has been associated traditionally with the notion of similarity, that is, objects, events, or entities form a concept because they are similar to one another. An examination of traditional similarity‐based concept theories suggests that they do not provide an adequate account for conceptual coherence. Library and Information Science needs to explore knowledge‐based approaches to concept formation, which suggest that one's knowledge of a concept includes not just a representation of its features, but also an explicit representation of the causal mechanisms that people believe link those features to form a coherent whole.
Tracing “interdisciplinarity” using time series of journal maps: The visualization and dynamic animation of journal‐journal citation relations
Authors: Leydesdorff Loet 
Published: June 2009

AbstractStructural change—e.g., interdisciplinary development—is often an objective of government interventions in science and technology. However, the dynamic analysis of structural change in the organization of the sciences requires methodologically the integration of multivariate and time‐series analysis. Recent developments in multidimensional scaling (MDS) enable us to distinguish the stress originating in each time‐slice from the stress originating from the sequencing of time‐slices, and thus to locally optimize the trade‐offs between these two sources of variance in the animation. Furthermore, visualization programs like Pajek and Visone allow us to show not only the positions of the nodes, but also their relational attributes like betweenness centrality. Betweenness centrality in the vector space can be considered as an indicator of interdisciplinarity. Using this indicator, the dynamics of the citation impact environments of the journals Cognitive Science, Social Networks, and Nanotechnology are animated and assessed in terms of interdisciplinarity among the disciplines involved.
Better to organize personal information by folders or by tags?: The devil is in the details
Authors: Civan Andrea , Jones William , Klasnja Predrag , Bruce Harry 
Published: June 2009

AbstractPeople can organize information items by placing them into folders or by tagging them with labels. Over the years there has been considerable discussion on the relative merits of folders vs. labels. But there is relatively little empirical data directly comparing people's experiences with each model of organization on comparable sets of information. We compared participants' experiences organizing information with both folders and labels over time. Results indicate that each model has its strengths and weaknesses when assessed with respect to basic activities of personal information management (PIM) such as keeping, organizing and re‐finding. Results afford a deeper, more detailed understanding of each model in practice. This understanding is achieved by engaging participants in an active, “hands‐on” comparison of models over a period of time. Study results point to syntheses in tool support for organizing information that might combine strengths of folders and labels while avoiding the inadvertent introduction of weaknesses from these models.
Design and evaluation of a key‐frame arrangement framework for video storyboard surrogates
Authors: Kim Hyun Hee , Kim Yong Ho 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThis study examines the design and evaluation of a key‐frame arrangement framework for video storyboard surrogates. First, we constructed an arrangement model of keyframes for a storyboard based on the Preserved Context Indexing System (PRECIS) and a narrative theory. Second, we evaluated the model using six sample videos and 26 participants, and then analyzed the results using a t‐test and repeated‐measure MANOVA. The results revealed that structurally arranged storyboards (STR) following the arrangement framework are not effective for either summarizing or indexing videos than sequentially arranged storyboards (SEQ) and that the repetition of viewing storyboards is effective for summarizing (not indexing) videos. The order of viewing two storyboards, regarding which of STR or SEQ comes first, is also crucial for improving subjects' summarizing ability. When subjects are viewing STR after SEQ, they summarize videos more effectively than viewing SEQ after STR.
Transforming information markets: Implications of the digital network economy
Authors: Bates Benjamin J. 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThe continuing development of digital technology and interconnected digital and global networking are radically transforming media and information markets, cost and value structures, and consumer attitudes and expectations. This is contributing to a shift from a perception of traditional media products as the focus of consumer interest to an interest in content, with the media form of interest only to the degree to which it adds value to media consumption. This suggests a need for media and libraries to shift from thinking of themselves as distributors of specific media (newspaper, radio, TV, books, etc.) to a more generalized provider of access to information. They, as well as emerging cross‐media platforms (Internet TV, Mobile TV, Cell TV, etc.) and digital media products, need to focus on not merely on providing valued content, but on identifying and taking advantage of the appropriate content added‐value that new products and services bring.
Extending sense‐making models with ideas from cognition and learning theories
Authors: Zhang Pengyi , Soergel Dagobert , Klavans Judith L. , Oard Douglas W. 
Published: June 2009

AbstractIn this paper we extend existing sense‐making models by adding detail on types of conceptual change and cognitive mechanisms taken from theories of cognition and learning. Our extended model aims to offer a more complete picture of the cognitive processes of sense‐making, including the underlying cognitive mechanisms and different types of conceptual changes so that we can link observations to theory. We conducted a preliminary test of the model against think‐aloud protocols of users performing intelligence analysis tasks using a multilingual, multimedia information system. Their sense‐making processes were consistent with our iterative model of search and sense‐making loops. Most of the cognitive mechanisms derived from the literature appeared, with a prevalence of data‐driven mechanisms.
Designing for knowledge worker informings: An exemplar application of sense‐making methodology
Authors: Souto Patricia , Dervin Brenda , Savolainen Reijo 
Published: June 2009

AbstractDesigning approaches to support knowledge intensive work has been documented to be critical and costly. Research has shown that knowledge workers frequently evaluate KM efforts as missing the mark. They are too often left without the help they need for constructing knowledge‐based solutions. Knowledge workers point to failures not so much in retrieving topically‐perfect‐information but rather to communication gaps, such as systems that do not address work demands and informing needs in complex, changing, and sometimes elusive situations. This research used an interviewing approach informed by Dervin's Sense‐Making Methodology. The aim was to allow digging deeply to understand hidden depths of informing practices that rarely have come to light in user studies. The ultimate aim is to design systems that support knowledge creation anchored to knowledge worker informing practices and to the situationality of these practices. The purpose of this paper is to present an exemplar study focusing on the challenges of doing user research in such a way that it usefully informs the design of knowledge management systems intended for use in knowledge‐intensive work in the for‐profit context. Sense‐Making Methodology is presented as an alternative and more powerful approach to studying knowledge creation work.
Sensemaking handoff: When and how?
Authors: Sharma Nikhil 
Published: June 2009

AbstractComputer support helpdesks often engage in sensemaking while working on atypical problems. Handoffs are common in these sensemaking situations due to shift changes, because a different skill or perspective is needed or simply because the current sensemaker may be exhausted. Though handoff may be needed, it may not always be successful. This could be true because sensemaking involves non‐routine activities for which no structural support for handoff may exist, or because sensemakers may not be sure what to handoff if sensemaking is not complete.This study examined the issues related to sensemaking handoff in computer support helpdesks. Existing theories of sensemaking (Russell et al, 1993 and Weick, 1996) were used as a framework. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with two different computer helpdesk personnel groups at a large mid‐western university. Successful handoffs occurred either very early or very late in the sensemaking process. This choice of handoff time as well as other aspects of handoffs are discussed using the principles of least collaborative effort [13] and mindfulness [18].
Characterizing a digital library's users: Steps towards a nuanced view of the user
Authors: Normore Lorraine F. 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThe importance of understanding the wants and needs of an information source's users is a key belief of user‐centered design. In digital libraries, we find two approaches to including users as factors in system design. User studies tend to provide a more abstract view and can be associated with information science research. Usability assessment tends to be associated with the practical assessment of the ease, efficiency, learnability, and flexibility of the digital library. However, usability assessment seldom deals with differences in user communities. This study of the information needs and information seeking values of three groups of digital library users illustrates how important it is to understand differences between user communities, to have a “nuanced view of the user”, to support informed decisions assessing the need for digital library content and organization.
Revisiting search task difficulty: Behavioral and individual difference measures
Authors: Gwizdka Jacek 
Published: June 2009

AbstractSearch task characteristics are recognized as important factors that affect search process and its outcomes. We examine the relationships among operational measures of searcher's behavior, individual cognitive differences, subjective task difficulty and mental effort assessed by dual‐task performance. A web‐based information study was conduced in a controlled experimental setting. Forty eight study participants performed six search tasks of varying type and structure. Subjective task difficulty was found to be influenced by the searcher's effort measured as the number of result pages and individual documents visited, the number of documents marked as relevant, as well as by individual cognitive differences, and mental effort assessed by performance on the secondary task. In contrast to previous studies, no strong effects of user navigation graph structure were found.
Collecting and preserving videogames and their related materials: A review of current practice, game‐related archives and research projects
Authors: Winget Megan A. , Murray Caitlin 
Published: June 2009

AbstractThis paper reviews the major methods and theories regarding the preservation of new media artifacts such as videogames, and argues for the importance of collecting and coming to a better understanding of videogame “artifacts of creation,” which will help build a more detailed understanding of the essential qualities of these culturally significant artifacts. We will also review the major videogame collections in the United States, Europe and Japan to give an idea of the current state of videogame archives, and argue for a fuller, more comprehensive coverage of these materials in institutional repositories.
The effect of page context on magazine image categorization
Authors: Westman Stina , Laine‐Hernandez Mari 
Published: June 2009

AbstractImage categorization research has created knowledge on the types of attributes humans use in interpreting image similarity. Little effort has gone into studying the effect of any wider contextual factors on the image groupings people create. This paper reports the results of an investigation on the effect of associated text on magazine image categorization. Image journalism professionals performed a two‐phase free sorting of 100 test images and the resulting data were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively; using grounded theory methods and hierarchical clustering. The categorization behavior of the two groups was rather similar but there was a statistically significant difference in the types of names given to the categories constructed. Results indicate that having page context available results more likely in descriptions based on overall theme or story of the image. When the context is withheld, people are more prone to describe the people, objects and scenes portrayed in the images, and to combine various categorization criteria. This has implications for the design of interfaces for image archival and retrieval.