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Iraq's digital library dilemma: OpenSource digital objects repository architecture, tools, and interface project
Authors: Benoit G , Rashid Falah 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThe loss of Iraqi libraries and the dispersion of their contents call for digital library solutions that encompass many organization, access and preservation needs, among them the technical, staffing, and language encoding needs for record production, and user needs to search and annotate in multiple scripts and languages. Such digital assets management (DAM) systemmust be able to handle multiple languages, flexibly integrate professional and local standards to ensure continued integration of the records and digital objects, and shouldfacilitate record production and using digital materials in cultural preservation and education. To these ends, we describe only part of a larger solution – the architecture of a DAM system, “auroraDL”, and propose how the structure will enable us to study the redevelopment of Iraq's information instruction.magnified image
Knowledge organization systems and bibliographic records in the state of flux. Hermeneutical foundations of organizational information culture
Authors: Gust von Loh Sonja , Stock Mechtild , Stock Wolfgang G. 
Published: January 2010

AbstractAbstract. According to hermeneutical findings, all Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and all indexing terms in bibliographic records are located in the so‐called hermeneutical circle. They are always preliminary and therefore object of permanent change. Understanding is dependent on the fusion of horizons of all involved people (knowledge managers, information architects, and – above all – users). Therefore all these people have to in‐teract on KOS and records maintenance. It is a task of knowledge management in companies, administrations, etc. to create an appropriate organizational information culture.
Digital inclusion for children in the social context of HIV/AIDS awareness
Authors: Khashman Nouf , Park Eun G. 
Published: January 2010

AbstractDigital technology brings a new opportunity to develop education, culture, and knowledge in less‐developed communities. Researchers deal with issues related to digital inclusion for indigenous communities since it can provide people with the chance of better communication and faster access to information in all formats. A research team with the International Visual Methodology for Social Change Project initiated the AIDS prevention and awareness program and aimed to effectively serve as a form of social and digital inclusion in underprivileged communities in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. The significance of this project is highlighted by adopting digital technology and the engagement of children, youth, and students in playing active roles in addressing HIV and AIDS through the photovoice research method. This method teaches children and youth how to document their lives and activities in schools and within the community through photography. They are then asked to describe what they see on the photos and to share their thoughts and feelings relating to issues surrounding HIV and AIDS. In this way, more than 3000 photos have been collected from the rural areas, taken by the children and youth of this region. To build a digital archive, the project went through the followings: photo selection, a scanning protocol, a database protocol in Greenstone software program, metadata protocol, and web site development. We described the entire visual data set based on Dublin Core. Two additional elements for captions were added, one for comments by librarians or metadata managers and the other for users' personal comments related to a specific picture to further enhance their participation in the project. Rural communities face challenges in HIV/AIDS health care and education, and access to HIV/AIDS information is essential for the disease caregivers. Working together and understanding the social effects of digital inclusion is a key area of our research.
PatientsLikeMe: ALS patients sharing experiences and personal health information online
Authors: Lustria Mia Liza A , Burnett Gary , Cortese Juliann , Kazmer Michelle , Frost Jeana , Kim Ji‐Hyun , Ma Jinxuan 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThe literature provides increasing evidence of the benefits of social support groups on the psychosocial functioning and health‐related quality of life of chronically‐ill patients. Social support groups have been found to improve coping, enhance the quality of life, facilitate health decision making, and in some cases, increase survival time among chronic disease patients. Patients benefit from a strong sense of shared experiences in a cooperative and symbiotic environment. Information and communication technologies have extended the capabilities of social support groups, enabling patients to share information across barriers of geography and time, benefitting especially those suffering from rare chronic diseases who may not find similar support groups within their immediate communities. Online environments also, in some cases, provide a measure of anonymity and opportunity for people to disclose sensitive health information without embarrassment while also allowing them access to a wider variety of information resources.PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community that uses Web 2.0 technologies to allow its members to share not only social support but also their symptomatology, treatment, medication, and outcome information with other members. The first of its kind, PatientsLikeMe has extended the capabilities of online social support groups by introducing powerful tools for sharing and analyzing personal health information. The website currently supports 2,300 patients with chronic diseases like ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Parkinson's Disease.The current study focuses on a qualitative analysis of the ALS community within PLM. ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a rare and incurable life‐altering disease affecting approximately 30,000 Americans. This fatal, neurodegenerative disease attacks the nerves and muscles, resulting in the progressive loss of voluntary motor function and, eventually, difficulties in speaking, swallowing, and breathing. While ALS contributes to the weakening of voluntary motor functioning and eventual paralysis, most patients are still able to think clearly and rely on a variety of assistive technologies to aid in communication. The ability to communicate with others is an important aspect of patients' ability to cope with their disease and remain active participants in their own care.
Ready4Changes.com: Preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial of a web‐based tailored approach for educating teens about human sexuality
Authors: Lustria Mia Liza A , Cortese Juliann , McLaughlin Casey , Redmond Sarah , Davis Rachel , Rosario Ivee 
Published: January 2010

AbstractAdvances in artificial intelligence and computing technologies has made it entirely possible to provide personalized health education and individualized learning on a mass scale. Interactive web technology not only provides an opportunity to present tailored health information in a number of formats, but it also provides the greatest ability to toggle between modalities, further enhancing learners' experiences and understanding of the material. However, development and deployment of these types of approaches often requires a high capital overlay or initial investment. This cost, however, is often justified based on wide assumptions about its effectiveness for achieving learning outcomes (e.g., mastery and deeper understanding of the course material). But, while there is growing evidence about the efficacy of computer‐tailoring and adaptive learning environments on learning, we have yet to fully understand the mechanisms by which this affects how individuals process information. This paper presents preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial testing effects of a tailored educational site on human sexuality on the comprehension and elaboration of the health content by middle schoolers. The project is one of the first attempts to systematically tease out the effective components of a tailored health education website and to examine its effects singly and in combination on the comprehension of a complex health domain.
An architecture for scaling federated search
Authors: Lederman Abe 
Published: January 2010

AbstractFederated search has the tremendous potential to make a wide range of diverse information and viewpoints available to scientists, researchers and the public. Traditional federated search engines provide access to a relatively small number of content sources, – typically several dozen or fewer. But, depending on the discipline, there may exist hundreds of databases with relevant content. And, given the value of searching content sources in fields that are seemingly unrelated, a researcher will benefit from simultaneously searching hundreds, or thousands of sources. The greater the number of relevant and diverse high quality sources a researcher can access, the faster he or she will make discoveries that advance science and improve the quality of our lives.The current paradigm for federated search suffers from a number of problems that hinder the development of large and scalable federated search engines. Search speed, relevance ranking, and source selection all suffer in today's paradigm as the number of sources increases. Deep Web Technologies, a Santa Fe New Mexico‐based federated search technology company, is pioneering the effort to build applications that overcome these obstacles. Deep Web Technologies has created a hierarchical “divide‐and‐conquer” architecture that distributes the federated search work flow to eliminate the traditional bottlenecks and allow for massive scalability.Deep Web Technologies built the search engine behind WorldWideScience.org, a global gateway to government‐produced and government‐supported science research information. WorldWideScience.org employs Deep Web Technologies' hierarchical approach to search sources that are themselves federated search engines. WorldWideScience.org searches 140 sources through this approach. Deep Web Technologies is building, by mid‐2009, a 500‐source science research portal. Deep Web Technologies will describe, in the ASIS 2009 poster session, its architecture and how it facilitates large‐scale scalability of federated search applications.
An empirical study on the sociality of tag selection on social bookmarking services
Authors: Pu Hsiao‐Tieh , Chang Chi‐Lung 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThis study attempts to characterize users' sociality in tagging by clustering factors that users consider when selecting tags for their bookmarks. Twenty‐three frequent users of social bookmarking services were invited, and Q method and factor analysis have been applied in the study. Each cluster of users has varied focuses on personal, content, situational, and social factors when tagging. The study explores the four distinct types of sociality in tagging by the orientation of tag selection and the complexity of affecting factors. The results show different tendencies of sociality in tagging emerge, i.e., tag for me, us, all, and mixed. As there is the shift from functionality towards sociality for the social tagging applications, the initial findings may benefit the future related research.
Challenge for libraries as information managers: Hurricane preparedness and response
Authors: Brobst John , Mandel Lauren 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThe past decade saw heightened hurricane activity and more than $150 billion in damage in 2004 and 2005. Libraries responded by taking steps to better prepare for the information needs of the libraries and their communities arising from these emergency situations. Libraries adapted their service roles in support of their communities to manage information services tailored to emergency support and assistance to hurricane victims.There has been no systematic effort to organize and assist libraries toward providing information services related to hurricane/disaster planning and response. This project included interviews with over 150 experienced officials and librarians throughout the Gulf Coast area. Key findings include the need for libraries: to collaborate with local agencies to build coalitions focused on disaster preparedness; to become emergency responders, prepared to offer shelter, relief, communications, and emergency services; to serve as vital links in the emergency response network, helping in key areas as communication and information centers, and as distribution centers for food, water, and supplies; and to develop into command and control points, as integrated nodes in the disaster response network.The importance of this research effort centers upon the coordination, management, and integration of information resources that improve the library and community infrastructure related to hurricane preparedness and response. The effort identified the library's service roles, developed strategies for libraries to better prepare to assist their communities, and investigated how libraries and other governmental agencies leverage their resources during the response and recovery period. The study has captured and actively disseminated the best practices offered by the survivors of such events via a web portal and training sessions.
Attributing and defining meaning to the built environment: The semiotics of wayfinding
Authors: Mandel Lauren H. 
Published: January 2010

AbstractBuilt environments have varying levels of wayfinding ease, and low levels of wayfinding ease matter because difficulty in wayfinding leads to stress and frustration, functional inefficiency, inaccessibility, and poor safety. When individuals are lost or disoriented, they blame themselves, feel stupid, frustrated, and anxious, and they can be angry or resent the environment because of the difficult situation the environment has put them in.There is no cohesive understanding of which information within wayfinding tools successfully assists wayfinders. Gleaning this inherent quality could propel wayfinding theory forward so it could be applied to improve the physical manifestations of wayfinding tools and overall wayfinding ease in a facility. In order to understand which information improves wayfinding ease and what specifically about that information effects the improvement, one would need to understand the meaning(s) a community infers from different forms of wayfinding information. One possibility for wayfinding research lies in semiotics, the study of signs and their meanings.Understanding the meanings wayfinders infer from wayfinding tools is critical to design facilities that can be navigated more effectively and efficiently. This would be possible through research that attempted to understand semiotically which meanings architects, interior designers, and other experts ascribe to wayfinding tools and how this matches or differs from the meanings wayfinders infer from the tools. Understanding this difference may lead to the design of wayfinding tools based on users' pre‐existing notions of the meaning(s) of environmental symbols, decreasing feelings of lostness, frustration, and anxiety and increasing user satisfaction with a given built environment.
Finding expert authors in institutional repositories
Authors: Efron Miles 
Published: January 2010

AbstractInstitutional repositories collect the output of scholarly activities at universities and similar organizations. While a great deal of research has treated curation, collection development, and interoperability in institutional repositories, the literature regarding information retrieval in these repositories is small. This poster reports initial work on an ongoing project to improve access to institutional repository data through advanced information retrieval techniques. In particular, this poster treats the problem of “expert finding” in institutional repositories. We propose that a useful mode of information discovery lies in supporting queries seeking people (as opposed to documents) who evince expertise on a given topic. This poster describes a framework for conducting searches of expert authors in institutional repositories. Additionally we report results from several empirical tests designed to judge the effect of various modeling decisions in the expert finding problem for expert finding in institutional repositories.
Analysis of Japanese undergraduate students' information behavior during academic tasks in a Canadian university
Authors: Ishimura Yusuke , Bartlett Joan 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThis poster session will report preliminary results from doctoral research that investigates how Japanese students, as a sample of international students in Canadian universities, perform their academic tasks and to what extent they are information literate.The number of international students, particular from non‐North American and non‐European countries, has greatly increased in recent decades in North American post‐secondary academic institutions. Although their intellectual and financial contributions are significant, their experience after enrolment is often neglected, which leads to dissatisfaction. Thus, it is important for academic institutions to improve international students' experience to facilitate their academic success. Among various potential solutions, improvement of information literacy skills is especially important for students' academic success in today's information intense environment.However, academic libraries struggle to answer the question of how they can provide support for international students with diverse needs, experiences, and expectations. Before planning strategies to improve their skills, it is critical for academic institutions to understand how students conduct research and to what extent they are information literate. Using multiple qualitative methodologies, Japanese undergraduate students' information behavior will be investigated and assessed using information behavior models (how students behaved) and information literacy standards (how well the behavior was conducted).This research will generate knowledge of how they perform their research and the extent to which their behaviors during their research tasks are information literate. An understanding of how various factors affect their behavior will deepen understanding of why students are or are not information literate. The research findings will contribute to the capacity of North American academic libraries to facilitate international students' success in academia.
Evaluating health information literacy training in underserved communities
Authors: Peterson Gabriel 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThis poster addresses issues related to measuring how e‐Health can be a tool for reducing health disparities in minority communities in a state in the US. In the context of the 2009 ASIS&T meeting, it relates to the topics of taking a multidisciplinary approach to developing, delivering, and evaluating health information resource education in under‐served communities. This poster summarizes the data collected and provides a progress report on a yearlong effort to evaluate the utility of a program to disseminate information about the resources available through the NLM's information portals.
Using interactivity to help users understand the impact of spam filter settings
Authors: Orange Andrew , Lueg Christopher , Malhotra Vishv 
Published: January 2010

AbstractInteractivity as a way to help users understand and/or explore complex information issues has been utilized successfully in information science areas such as information retrieval. In this paper we report experiences with utilizing interactivity in a different albeit related context: informing users about spam filtering processes. Spam filters that prevent spam from showing up in inboxes by filtering incoming messages according to their suspected level of “spamminess” are readily available. However, the complexity of modern spam filters aggregating evidence from various sources means few non‐expert users of spam filters actually understand what their spam filters are doing. It also remains unclear how different spam filter settings would impact on what they see in their email inboxes. In this paper, we describe work into using interactive exploration as a way to increase users' understanding of how spam filters work. Lab‐based evaluation of a prototype suggests a considerable increase in spam filtering understanding occurred even among subjects that stated they had prior spam filtering expertise.
Metadata quality assessment: A phased approach to ensuring long‐term access to digital resources
Authors: Alemneh Daniel Gelaw 
Published: January 2010

AbstractMaintaining usable and sustainable digital collections necessitates maintaining high‐quality metadata about those digital objects. The two aspects of digital library data quality are the quality of the data in the objects themselves, and the quality of the metadata associated with the objects. Because poor metadata quality can result in ambiguity, poor recall and inconsistent search results, the existence of robust quality assurance mechanisms is a necessary feature of a well‐functioning digital library. In order for end users to benefit fully from the development of digital libraries, responsible and viable service providers need to address metadata quality issues. Based on the University of North Texas Libraries experiences, this paper discusses issues related to metadata quality management and demonstrates a number of tools, workflows and quality assurance mechanisms.
Documenting and researching the performing arts
Authors: Marini Francesca 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThis poster addresses documentation of and research in the performing arts. The discussion is based on research conducted by the author in recent years and currently under way, and on other sources. The poster contains: a brief definition and explanation of performing arts; a section on how performing arts materials are created; a section on how the performing arts are documented; a brief discussion of the characteristics of information in the performing arts context; and a section on the use of performing arts materials for research purposes, with a specific focus on theatre scholars and their information behavior. This poster addresses the topic of information created by or related to the performing arts, which is complex and dynamic. This topic is relevant to the overarching conference theme, and related to two of the suggested topics: “Information behavior in diverse contexts” and “Knowledge management in diverse contexts.”
Understanding interest to inform recruitment: What characteristics of digital curation interest computer science and computer engineering students?
Authors: Cushing Amber L. 
Published: January 2010

AbstractAccording to the Digccurr Project Matrix of Digital Curation Knowledge and Competencies, future digital curators will need sufficient technical skills to address the challenges presented by digital curation (Lee et al.2007). In addition, interviews with Digccurr advisory board members identify a specific need to recruit individuals with technical backgrounds. Students pursing majors in computer science (CS) and computer engineering (CE) possess sufficient technical skills included in the Digccurr matrix. In this study, a group of CS students and CE students will be interviewed about their current career plans and reactions to three digital curation job postings. Data will provide information that can inform recruitment of individuals that possess the skills needed to conduct digital curation work.
Proposal and application of the interdisciplinarity borrowing index: Determining the degrees of interdisciplinarity of ILS dissertations
Authors: Sugimoto Cassidy 
Published: January 2010

AbstractThis work proposes an interdisciplinary borrowing index and applies this index to the field of Information and Library Science. The study examines the interdisciplinarity of LIS dissertations, with an emphasis on evolution of the disciplinary influences on the field over time.