bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Spontaneous Learning Environments: Manipulating Readability & Cohesion in Support of Searching as Learning
Authors: Dodson Samuel , Sinnamon Luanne , Kopak Rick 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTIn this concept paper, we make the case that variables related to reading and comprehension are relevant to the design of searching as learning environments. We propose that measures of cohesion – the lexical and grammatical connectedness within and between texts – be used as signals in retrieval and ranking algorithms for such environments, as cohesion is an important factor in text comprehension and learning. In illustrating this concept, we introduce a use case for learning‐oriented search in which the task is to retrieve a multi‐document set that functions as a spontaneous learning environment. For this task, features of the document set as a whole are important in addition to features of individual documents. In this paper, we focus on the goals of achieving a mid‐range level of readability and cohesion across a set of texts in order to balance comprehensibility with challenge and stimulation.
How Information Science Research Can Contribute to the Development of Dementia‐Friendly Communities
Authors: Faletar Sanjica , Petr Balog Kornelija 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTDementia is a progressive and incurable disease which impacts both people who have been diagnosed with some type of neurocognitive disorder but also their family members. Since dementia care has lately started to include not only pharmacological treatment and medical care but also a person‐centred and evidence‐based (neuro)rehabilitation in the community, library and information science scholars and professionals have started to investigate how they can contribute to development of dementia‐friendly communities. The paper discusses how findings from an ongoing multi‐phase research have been translated into practice in the city of Osijek, Croatia. Information sciences scholars have collaborated with librarians, civic organizations, neurology and human rights professionals to develop diverse programs in the local community, which aim to raise the quality of life of older citizens, people with dementia and their caregivers through information sharing and raising awareness, supporting their health and wellbeing, and capacity building of librarians.
Exploring the Relationship between Sci‐Hub and Medical Literature
Authors: Kjellström Zakayo 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTThis short paper presents an analysis of the distribution of downloads in medical literature, with the aim of understanding the specific conditions unique to the medical research field that necessitate the use of black open access sources such as Sci‐Hub. The dataset used in this analysis was obtained by scraping the official Sci‐Hub domains during the summer of 2022, and it provides valuable insights into user behavior and interaction with the website. The results demonstrate that a significant portion of the downloads from Sci‐Hub during the period were related to medical journals, indicating the acute needs and time‐sensitive nature of medical research. The data further highlights that most of the downloaded papers were related to medicine or medical subjects, underscoring the importance of easy and immediate access to the latest research and literature. The study emphasizes the pressing need for universal access to essential health‐care information and the importance of continued efforts to democratize access to medical literature. The use of black open access sources like Sci‐Hub serves as a reminder of the urgency to find alternative solutions that ensure medical professionals have the necessary resources to provide the best possible care for their patients
Transforming Indigenous Knowledges Stewardship Praxis through an Ethics of Care
Authors: Liew Chern Li , Lipscombe Ailsa 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTExtant discourses in Indigenous Knowledge Management [IKM] emphasize the need to support Indigenous self‐determination, data sovereignty and self‐governance. To channel archival attention in this manner contributes to a larger shift in IKM towards stewardship praxes that empower Indigenous communities through culturally responsive and responsible praxes. The role of radical empathy in motivating this change, however, remains under‐explored. In this paper, we introduce eight mutually inclusive empathy‐driven propositions to transform the stewardship of Indigenous knowledges through an ethics of care framework. Grounded in a te ao Māori worldview in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we discuss how orienting ourselves to empathy motivates specific kinds of dialogic engagement that gives voice to Indigenous peoples in diverse global Indigenous contexts to share what cultural values should shape their research and knowledge stewardship. In doing so, we offer actionable ways to make positive differences in the lived experiences of Indigenous individuals and communities as they interact with and lead contemporaneous stewardship praxes.
Investigating Academic Graph‐Based Factors behind Funding Success in National Institutes of Health
Authors: Lin Tianqianjin , Wang Qian , Jiang Zhuoren , Yuan Weikang , Huang Cui , Mabry Patricia , Liu Xiaozhong 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTWhile major funding agencies are striving for diversity and fairness, the mechanisms behind funding success have yet to be fully elucidated. Existing studies reveal valuable evidences about the effect of the applicant's individual attributes, e.g., gender and age, on the funding success. However, the relationship between funding success and academic activities, e.g., collaborator's characteristics, remains underexplored. This work collects massive scholarly data from open academic graphs and public data about National Institutes of Health awards to investigate the effect of various academic graph‐based factors on the “K to R” success. Leveraging a heterogeneous graph model for predicting the “K to R” success, we regard the gain in the model performance of a factor as a proxy variable for the magnitude of its effect on the “K to R” success. Our preliminary results suggest that interest by peers in the applicant's research and the timing of the interest are strongly correlated with the outcome. Meanwhile, the applicant's social connections, e.g., their collaborators, can also contribute to the outcome.
Developing Management and Leadership Course: A Case Study
Authors: Lopatovska Irene , Parasnis Eesha 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTThis case study describes the development of a management and leadership (M/L) iSchool course. To design a course that balanced traditional topics with current professional needs, we identified M/L topics currently covered in iSchools’ curricula, then assessed the importance of these topics for information professions through a survey of academic and professional communities. Survey participants selected topics in the areas of information economy, organizational management, and project management that they thought were most important for iSchool students to learn. They also suggested additional topics related to communication, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), financial literacy and strategic planning skills. Thirteen survey participants were interviewed by the researchers; they suggested further topics related to emotional intelligence and personal skills, such as time‐management, risk‐taking and confidence. This paper aims to support a culture of transparency in curricula design and, by sharing methods, findings, and lessons learned, ease the faculty tasks of course development.
Theorizing Cultural Heritage Informatics as the Intersection of Heritage, Memory, and Information
Authors: Modrow Sebastian , Youngman Tyler 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the relationship between cultural heritage and collective memory through the lens of information. We explicitly frame the heritage‐memory‐relationship as constituting a theoretical foundation for the field of Cultural Heritage Informatics. In framing heritage and memory as information phenomena, we leverage two information frameworks that appear most suitable to host, translate, and overlay heritage and memory theory: Context, relevance, and labor (Fremery and Buckland, 2022) and Information as thing (Buckland, 1991). Altogether, this preliminary exploration 1) establishes a terminological understanding of cultural heritage, collective memory, and information/informatics; 2) maps these concepts with recourse to the Context, relevance and labor framework (Fremery and Buckland, 2022); 3) articulates cultural heritage informatics as the intersection of heritage and memory focused on processes of selection, transfer, and integration of historic information in the service of identity maintenance; and 4) offers a cultural heritage information framework that highlights the unique potential of Cultural Heritage Informatics to guide future information research in cultural information studies.
Older Adults’ Attitudes toward Digital Technology and Perceptions of Its Usefulness: Example of the City of Osijek, Croatia
Authors: Petr Balog Kornelija , Faletar Sanjica , Jakopec Tomislav 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTDigital technology has a great potential for assisting older people in their everyday tasks and general well‐being. However, older adults are relatively slow to adopt the new technology and one of the obstacles may be their negative perception or perceived uselessness of the technology. The paper presents preliminary findings from a study into the attitudes toward digital technology and its perceived usefulness among the older adults in the city of Osijek, Croatia. Results show that majority of respondents have positive attitudes toward digital technology and majority perceives it as very useful. The study identified a number of factors, such as age, gender, education and quality of life that affect the respondents’ varying attitudes toward digital technology and its perceived usefulness. The research findings can help policy makers and local institutions such as libraries in designing digital literacy courses and provision of support to older adults.
Information Practices, Plural: Exploring Multiplicity and Mutual Constitution of Practices
Authors: Polkinghorne Sarah 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTThis paper brings concepts from social practice theory into conversation with the question of how information practices relate to one another. In doing so, this paper speaks to the persistent challenge of articulating interconnections among information practices. To illustrate these interconnections, the paper presents the concept of embodied mutual constitution, which results from a recent empirical study of everyday information practices. This concept holds potential as a next step in identifying how multiple co‐existing information practices can be explored. By contributing in this way to the advancement of information practices theory, this paper supports our expanding understanding of the nature and role of information in diverse life experiences.
Exploring the Information Cues of Danmaku Comments to Stimulate Users' Affective Generation in Reaction Videos
Authors: Ye Xujie , Zhao Yuxiang (Chris) , Li Jinhao , Zhang Yan , Hansen Preben 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTReaction video, a new form of online video that records users' instant reactions to a particular thing, has emerged on social media in recent years. Its unique content composition and hedonic and emotional characteristics make the information cues that influence the affective generation in danmaku comments quite different from those in traditional videos. To explore the information cues of danmaku comments to stimulate users’ affective generation in reaction videos, we conduct thematic coding using the content analysis method by selecting the danmaku resources, video content, and reactors’ responses from 11 popular videos in different categories as samples to identify information cues that influence user affects in danmaku comments. The preliminary findings show that there are three main types of information cues in the reaction videos: the content of the original video, reactors’ reaction and danmaku comments, which could trigger danmaku users’ affect in reaction videos from the perspective of orientation type, parasocial interaction, and peer influence, respectively.
AI‐Based Research Tool for Large Genealogical Corpora: The Case of Jewish Communities Worldwide
Authors: Zhitomirsky‐Geffet Maayan , Suissa Omri 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTThis paper presents a new methodology for AI‐based research and exploration of large genealogical corpora. The proposed approach is based on an automatic quantitative question‐answering (QA) system that enables researchers to ask questions in natural language and learn about trends related to individuals, families, and communities in the corpus of the study. The proposed methodology includes: 1) an automatic method for training dataset generation, 2) a transformer‐based table selection method, and 3) an optimized transformer‐based quantitative QA model. The findings indicate that the proposed architecture outperforms the state‐of‐the‐art models by achieving 87% accuracy on the large corpus of Jewish genealogical data. This study may have practical implications for genealogical information centers and museums, making genealogical data research easy and scalable for experts as well as the general public.
Making a Difference: Translating Information Research into Practice, Policy, and Action
Authors: Albright Kendra S. , Black Kimberly , Chu Clara M. , Du Jia Tina , Edgar Bill , Jaber Baheya S. , Mehra Bharat , Turner Christina 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTThis panel presents information research cases translating impact into practice, policy, and action that make a difference in varied contexts of study. Initiatives of collective impact are applied and/or proposed, and the following models of research and research studies, exemplifying critical collective impact and making a difference IN research and WITH communities, are discussed in the following three panel presentations: 1. Towards a Critical Approach to Community‐engaged Information Research and Shared Knowledge; 2. From Research to Strategic Planning to Collective Action: A Logic Model Using Theory of Change to Further Civic Engagement for Racial Justice in Public Libraries; 3. Building a Smart City Portal for a Sustainable Future Through a Collective Impact Approach.The presentations are followed by critical engagement with the audience in the session to interrogate making a difference, what contributes to effective community engagement and translatable results, that is, difference in making (process) and making a difference (impact). Panelists represent both practice‐based and academic settings who report on their research, projects, and reflections on applying collective impact in making a difference.
Global Perspectives on Inclusive Curricula: Places, Practices and Pedagogy
Authors: Batool Syeda Hina , Bullard Julia , Campbell‐Meier Jennifer , Fourie Ina , Jimenez Andrea , Rutter Sophie 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTMany universities are now developing inclusive curricula with the intention that all students have an equal opportunity to achieve learning outcomes. But what in practice is an inclusive curriculum? This panel organized by the European and South Asia ASIS&T chapters will explore understandings of inclusive curricula by engaging with academics from different regions including Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and the UK. By gathering a multiplicity of practices and perspectives from panel members and the audience, we seek to create a shared understanding of the challenges and opportunities in developing inclusive curricula.
Challenging Book Challenges: Understanding the Background, Examining “Astroturfing” as a Current Political Strategy, and Finding Ways Forward
Authors: Charbonneau Deborah H. , Hawamdeh Suliman , Oltmann Shannon M. , Winberry Joseph , Yeon Jieun , Zalot Andrew 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTChallenges to books in libraries have sharply escalated from 2021—present. While currently concentrated in the U.S, book bans are becoming widespread globally; these challenges often adapt strategies honed in the U.S., such as astroturfing. In this context, astroturfing refers to an illusion of grassroots organizing, in which national, elite‐led organizations covertly coordinate local actions. Astroturfing is another manifestation of mis‐ and disinformation which ends up stoking fires of partisanship and discontent. In this panel, we will examine book bans, astroturfing, and solutions to these challenges, from several distinct yet interrelated perspectives.
Achieving Academic Success in Information Science: A Multi‐Faceted Approach
Authors: Chen Hsin‐liang , Liu Ying‐Hsang , Hirsh Sandra , Makri Stepahann , Mawire Blessing 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTAs we recovering from this pandemic with changing workforces and work environments, we need to reimagine career development in Information Science from the lenses of a multiple‐role journey toward success. The purpose of this panel is to discuss the following areas proposed by the ASIS&T Member Match Program: Research Advancement, Research Collaboration, Professional Networking, Career Advancement, and Leadership Skills Development. This panel is presented by 5 international LIS professionals from 3 continents (Africa, Europe and North America), 4 different countries (South Africa, UK, Germany, and USA). Each panelist has unique and diverse academic and career experience to interact with the audience on the above five discussion areas.
Search Systems and Artificial Intelligence: Enhancing Searching as Learning Approaches to Counter Misinformation
Authors: Ghosh Souvick , Gwizdka Jacek , Lewandowski Dirk , Reynolds Rebecca , Rieh Soo Young , Heck Tamara , Imeri Aylin 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTSearching as a learning process implies that learning occurs during a search process and might happens incidentally, influenced by the context the search takes place and the system that is used. Searching and learning are not isolated but co‐occurring events. Research investigates how search systems can be improved to foster learning processes, integrate information literacy enhancing methods and support user's sense‐making of information. Regarding the advancement of AI algorithms and their implementation in search systems, the concept of searching as a learning process can help to better understand human‐computer interactions and future information‐seeking processes. The panel advances current research on search systems for learning in non‐formal settings, with a focus on investigating the relation between searching and learning processes that influence people's understanding, assessing and use of information. It will focus on the contributions of information science research and the expectations of future searching behavior with respect to emerging advances in AI.
Digital Inequalities to Digital Inclusion in Online Learning: Viewpoints of LIS Educators Seeking to Bridge the Disparities
Authors: Warraich Nosheen , Caidi Nadia , Mehra Bharat , Ekmekcioglu Cansu , Ali Irfan 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTAcademics argue that the COVID‐19 pandemic has limited students' ability to learn, with significant digital inequities occurring between students from the global North and the global South. Students and academics from developing nations encountered particular challenges and difficulties with the move toward online styles of learning. Much like their colleagues from developed countries, they were unprepared for this predicament, but on top of the crisis context, deeper issues were having to do with digital inequalities and disparities that were exacerbated by the inadequate digital infrastructure (smart devices/gadgets, internet access, and speed) and online interaction abilities and practices. The goal of this panel is to address the pressing issue of digital inclusion in online education, specifically the broader challenge of ensuring that online education is accessible to all. As information researchers continue to work towards enhancing online learning, it is crucial to address the disparities in the sharing of information and knowledge and to bridge the gaps that exist across communities and nations. The panelists (three of whom work in developed countries and two in developing countries) will relate their experiences and viewpoints thus bringing their knowledge to bear in examining the concepts of digital inequality and digital inclusion. The rest of the session will be devoted to discussions and brainstorming with attendees around these issues, with special attention being given to perspectives that seek to bridge the disparities and promote inclusion in education.
Information Science in Europe: Current Perspectives
Authors: Webber Sheila , Aparac‐Jelusic Tatjana , Pestana Olivia 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTThis panel aims to discuss and critique the position of Information Science (IS) in European countries. This will be achieved through panel presentations and through critical discussion of key questions amongst the participants in the session. The introduction to the panel will identify issues that emerge from studies of IS in European countries, and in particular points that emerged from two previous ASIS&T annual meeting panel sessions. Presentations on the current situation of IS in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and countries from the former Yugoslavia will be given and briefly compared. The focus will then move to session participants, whose views on the state of IS in their own country will be solicited in a structured manner. The academic value will be in providing insight into current IS development and challenges in countries with varying histories of IS engagement. The practical value will be in the exchange of views through participation and the ideas that can be generated for future activities of the ASIS&T European Chapter.
Conceptualizing Data Behavior: Bridging Data‐centric and User‐centric Approaches
Authors: Zhang Pengyi , Gregory Kathleen , Yoon Ayoung , Palmer Carole 
Published: October 2023

ABSTRACTWith the development of technologies in big data and AI, data has become more and more central to users for various tasks in different contexts. Yet the concept of data behavior, an emerging concept that captures the actions and interactions of individuals with data in various contexts and situations is not explicitly defined and framed. Data behavior focuses on the observable actions and reactions of users when they encounter, discover, seek, use, or create data for individual or collaborative tasks, while data practice encompasses the entire spectrum of how people work with data, from creating and managing to sharing and reusing data, as well as the intentional and strategic decisions and actions involved in these processes. This panel proposes a conversation and discussion about the concepts of data practice and data behavior by drawing on literature in data practice, data curation, and information behavior. This panel aims to discuss, compare, and bridge data‐centric and user‐centric approaches to conceptualizing data behavior. It will also present some examples of data behavior research in different domains and scenarios. The panel will highlight the challenges and opportunities of data behavior research for information science and practice.