bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Toward machine understanding of information quality
Authors: Tang Rong , Ng K. B. , Strzalkowski Tomek , Kantor Paul B. 
Published: January 2005

AbstractIn this paper we report preliminary results of a study to develop, and subsequently to automate, new metrics for assessment of information quality in text documents, particularly in news. Through focus group studies, quality judgment experiments, and textual feature extraction and analysis, we were able to generate nine quality aspects and apply them in human assessments. Experts and students participated quality experiments, during which 1000 TREC documents were evaluated by participants from two sites–Albany and Rutgers. Data showed good interjudge agreement between judges from both sites. Principal component analysis revealed that the nine aspects form clusters of “content” and “presentation.” Automatic quality prediction has been derived based on statistical analysis on the association between textual features and human quality judgments.
Multi‐document summarization of dissertation abstracts using a variable‐based framework
Authors: Ou Shiyan , Khoo Christopher S. G. , Goh Dion H. 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThis paper reports initial work on developing a method for automatic construction of multi‐document summaries of sets of domain‐specific dissertation abstracts. A variable‐based framework for multi‐document summarization of dissertation abstracts in the field of sociology and psychology that makes use of the macro‐level and micro‐level discourse structure of dissertation abstracts as well as cross‐document structure is proposed. The micro‐level structure of problem statements found in a sample of 50 dissertation abstracts was analyzed, and the common features found are described. A list of indicator phrases that denote different aspects of the problem statements is provided.
Fast surfers, broad scanners and deep divers as users of information technology – Relating information preferences to personality traits
Authors: Heinström Jannica 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThis paper will discuss the influence of personality traits and approaches to studying on students' information‐seeking behavior, with a specific focus on their use of information technology. The results were obtained in a study of 305 university students who completed the NEO Five‐Factor Inventory measuring personality, the ASSIST test measuring approaches to studying and a questionnaire regarding information seeking behavior. Three information‐seeking patterns emerged from the analyses; Fast surfers, Broad scanners and Deep divers. These patterns could be related to different personality traits and study approaches. The influence of personality and study approaches on information‐seeking behavior points to the importance of customizing information services to meet individual needs.
Investigating Web searching behavior in home environments
Authors: Rieh Soo Young 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThe study investigated situational elements of the home as a Web use environment, examining how domestic settings influenced people's Web search activities and behaviors. Traditionally, information searches have been conducted in public places in quest of work‐ or school‐related information. However, as greater number of people gain access to the Internet at home, a shift has occurred in both location and purposes of Web searches from public to private venues and from work to personal interests. For this study, twelve participants in ten different households were recruited in northern California. The data were collected through semi‐structured interviews of an individual at home, and were based on a self‐reported “Search Activities Diary” kept over a 3–5 day period. Interviews were videotaped and then transcribed for content analysis. Findings indicated that the home, indeed, provides a unique search situation in which people conduct searches in different ways from those in the workplace. The subjects in this study searched on the Web more frequently, more briefly, and less intensely for broader and more diverse information. The study results have direct implications for design of Web search systems to support Web searching behaviors in home environments.
Structure of domain novice users' queries to a history database
Authors: Cole Charles , Leide John E. , Nwakamma Emeka , Beheshti Jamshid , Large Andrew 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThis paper presents an information need identification system for interactive information retrieval (IR) for undergraduates researching a history topic, called the INIIReye System. The overall purpose of the INIIReye System is to facilitate domain novice user identification of their information need while they are online interacting with the information store. Here, we give preliminary results from a study that narrows undergraduates' initial topic statements to information need statements. Students may use a faulty accessing point in their queries because before information need identification they base their queries on broad topic terms. We first categorize the type of query terms used by users of an historical database provider, to create a taxonomy of query terms. Next, we use a case study of a history student who visually represents the narrows his essay topic in a series of steps. We conclude that our query taxonomy must include levels of topic specificity because while general topic‐based queries are inappropriate as query terms, more specific topic‐based queries may be closer to the domain novice user's real information need.
Information communities: Characteristics gleaned from studies of three online networks
Authors: Fisher Karen E. , Unruh Kenton T. , Durrance Joan C. 
Published: January 2005

AbstractDigital network infrastructures such as community networks have heralded powerful new ways for enhancing people's quality of life. We argue that the Internet has further facilitated the creation of information communities: constituencies united by a common interest in building and increasing access to sets of dynamic, linked, and varying information resources. Using data from a two‐year study of three community networks, we describe five defining characteristics of effective information communities: (1) emphasis on collaboration among diverse information providers, (2) capacity to form around people's needs to access and use information, (3) capacity to exploit the information sharing qualities of emerging technologies, (4) ability to transcend barriers to information‐sharing, and (5) capacity to foster social connectedness.
Personalization via collaboration in Web retrieval systems: A context based approach
Authors: Goker Ayse , He Daqing 
Published: January 2005

AbstractWorld Wide Web is a source of information, and searches on the Web can be analyzed to detect patterns in Web users' search behaviors and information needs to effectively handle the users' subsequent needs. The rationale is that the information need of a user at a particular time point occurs in a particular context, and queries are derived from that need. In this paper, we discuss an extension of our personalization approach that was originally developed for a traditional bibliographic retrieval system but has been adapted and extended with a collaborative model for the Web retrieval environment. We start with a brief introduction of our personalization approach in a traditional information retrieval system. Then, based on the differences in the nature of documents, users and search tasks between traditional and Web retrieval environments, we describe our extensions of integrating collaboration in personalization in the Web retrieval environment. The architecture for the extension integrates machine learning techniques for the purpose of better modeling users' search tasks. Finally, a user‐oriented evaluation of Web‐based adaptive retrieval systems is presented as an important aspect of the overall strategy for personalization.
Priming the query specification process
Authors: Toms Elaine G. , Freund Luanne 
Published: January 2005

AbstractAs part of a large project to develop tools that aid users with the search process, we are testing ways of priming the query specification process. In this paper we test the use of questions as a technique. Using a within‐subjects design 48 people interacted with a modified Google interface to solve four information problems in four domains. Half the tasks were entered as typical keyword queries, and half as questions or statements. While results are not definitive, they suggest that the typical search box is a barrier to the creation of enriched queries.
Perceptions and effects of a system's usability by experience level
Authors: Alexander Mike , Chen Hsin‐liang 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThis study compared users' self‐reported and observed usability problems within a Web‐based information system, based on their experiences with the system. Eighteen employees of a company which created the system were chosen to represent typical end‐users. Each participant was asked to complete a specific list of tasks within the system, after which he or she answered several questions regarding the system's usability. While advanced users generally completed the tasks in less time than novices, the number of tasks completed correctly and the number of usability problems reported did not differ significantly by experience level. Problems identified by the participants reflected accepted usability guidelines, suggesting that, by following user‐centered design principles, such problems can be avoided in future development efforts.
Developing a user‐process model for designing menu‐based interfaces: An exploratory study
Authors: Ju Boryung , Gluck Myke 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to organize menu items based on a user‐process model and implement a new version of current software for enhancing usability of interfaces. Dervin & Nilan's time‐line method is used to develop a user‐process model for user interface design. We developed a user‐process model drawn from actual users' understanding of their goals and strategies to solve their information needs by using Dervin's Sense‐Making Theory with sense‐making interviews. Six experienced subjects were recruited for the sense‐making interviews. Each subject went through a learning/exploration session, and was asked to recall and describe specific information needs throughout the activity (situation). The data obtained from the interviews were then analyzed inductively based on Dervin's Sense‐Making theory. The events, gaps, and uses (help/hurt) elicited from each subject were then chronologically ordered within each user's situation, and merged across all subjects to yield a master timeline matrix illustrating the use of the features of the software. The master timeline guided changes to the initial traditional menu for the product producing a reorganized, user‐process driven interface. The new interface was implemented for usability testing.
Advancing relevance research: Theory integration, methodological progress, and critical questions. Sponsored by SIG CRS, USE
Authors: Wang Peiling , Byström Katriina , Cool Colleen , Mizzaro Stefano , Saracevic Tefko , Vakkari Pertti , White Marilyn Domas 
Published: January 2005

AbstractRelevance is a classic topic of longevity in information science. Researchers of information retrieval are concerned with the performance and design of IR systems for which relevance is a major evaluation criterion; researchers in information seeking and use are interested in understanding how the users find and use relevant information for specific tasks at hand in various situations and contexts. This program aims to bring together seasoned researchers to continue the panel session on Current Relevance Research presented at ASIS&T Annual Conference, 2002.
Show me the money. Sponsored by ASIST Leadership Development Committee
Authors: Hlava Marjorie M. K. , Bahavar Shahla , Wallace Amy , Bedford Denise 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThis program offers tools and tips for chapter and SIG leaders who want to learn how to incorporate the money element into their projects. What can you do when you need financial support for programs, workshops or scholarships? What formula will maximize money resources and deliver value to your members? Find out how to attract sponsors. Explore the best ways to approach a potential sponsor, and what types of programs or workshops or scholarships might appeal to potential sponsors.
Management and information studies: Exploring the connections. Sponsored by SIG MGT
Authors: Edgar Bill , Hersberger Julie A. , MacIntosh‐Murray Anu , Mackenzie Maureen 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThis session will be a combination of a technical panel and a group discussion covering the potential synergies between the study of management and information studies. More specifically, the study of organizational management has been divided into four levels of study. These include individual‐level issues, such as perception; group‐level issues, such as teams; organizational‐level issues, such as culture and structure; and environmental‐organizational level issues, such as organizational ecology and strategy.
Subject‐based virtual reference: Avenues, attitudes, and vehicles for success. Sponsored by SIG STI
Authors: Arnold Julie , Chen Jiangping , Edelman Jennifer , Pomerantz Jeffrey , Kresh Diane 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThis panel will discuss research and opportunities in the area of subject‐based virtual reference. With larger numbers of users utilizing the internet for reference, and many libraries offering virtual reference desks, there are many opportunities for success and some potential problems. Today's internet user expects “instant answers,” which may not be possible unless they can tap into some subject expertise, or expert system. In this panel, three different avenues of subject‐based virtual reference will be discussed. Presentations will focus on the following topics: 1) the potential of multi‐library systems and consortia offering virtual reference services staffed by subject specialists in a particular area of expertise; 2) a discussion of progress in automatic question answering systems, and a strategy to take advantage of automatic answering systems and subject specialists to best satisfy users' needs 3) question categorization and automatic routing; and 4) automated question routing based on fielded data. Specific topics are summarized as follows.
A science of public knowledge? Theoretical foundations of LIS. Sponsored by SIG HFIS
Authors: Coleman Anita , Miksa Shawne D. , Warner Julian , Wilson Concepción S. , Furner Jonathan 
Published: January 2005

AbstractIn this session, we examine several related aspects of the ongoing quest to map the intellectual structure of our field and to consolidate its theoretical foundations. The conceptual relationships between bibliometrics, informetrics and related fields are explored; the historical connections between classification and information retrieval researchers are examined; and the distinction between information science and information technology is analyzed both bibliometrically and from the perspective of social epistemology.
New standards for networked reference services. Sponsored by SIG LT & ASIST Standards Committee
Authors: Cuddy Colleen , Needleman Mark , Dinberg Donna 
Published: January 2005

AbstractNISO (National Information Standards Organization) is developing a protocol for networked reference services. The intent of the protocol is to promote the interoperability of disparate online and networked reference systems. This session will provide an overview of the work of the committee developing the protocol including the motivation for its development, technical details of the protocol itself, and the implications it may have for reference services in the future.
Who will teach the next generation of information professionals? Sponsored by ALISE, SIG ED
Authors: Dorr Aimee , Walter Virginia 
Published: January 2005

AbstractGraduate schools of library and information science have grown increasingly multidisciplinary with faculty drawn from such wide‐ranging fields as computer science, communication studies, information systems, public administration, and cognitive science as well as library and information science. Deans, directors, and chairs of these programs are engaged in a critical dialogue about the changing landscape of information and the skills, knowledge, and values that information professionals will need to have in order to flourish there. This panel discussion reflects the expanding boundaries of the field by inviting deans from education, communication, and information systems to present their vision of education for information professionals.
Visual containment of cultural forms: An examination of visual epistemologies and scopic regimes. Sponsored by SIG HFIS, CR, VIS
Authors: Breitenstein Mikel , Dalbello Marija , Day Ron , Simonds Ann , Tang Morris (Muhchyun) 
Published: January 2005

AbstractThe reproduction of knowledge in the visual field of perception has historical, theoretical and pragmatic significance for information science. Its areas of application are in the corporate and academic spheres and in the context of global sharing of information. The proponents of the visual approach assume intuitive ease of use, the boundary‐spanning facility, and powerful data‐representation capabilities inherent in visual approach. Yet, there is a naivete in assuming that the complications of language and culture could vanish in the face of information landscapes, maps of meaning, and sophisticated interfaces intuitively understood. This panel examines the complexities of the visual that are framed by the cultural, examining visual literacy, scopic regimes and the debates surrounding visual representation of knowledge in a historical perspective. The panelists focus on scopic regimes that contain and shape visual forms and on the environments of such containment. The representational spaces encompass representations of artifacts in a virtual museum, the representations of statistical information circulated in popular print and theoretical interpretation of the problem of cultural and aesthetic containment of the work of art in the representational space of the museum. The panel examines how technologies of reproduction run parallel to an increasing objectification of knowledge, and universalizing the works or knowledge through categories offered by educational, cultural and political institutions. It also examines tensions between the attempt to build and institutionally enforce cultural knowledge and the productive resistances of the work in its production, distribution, and reception, thus reflecting how practices of cultural transmission are incorporated in the process of reproduction of knowledge.
E‐commerce in libraries. Sponsored by SIG LT
Authors: Fogelberg Heidi , Scott Peter , Hlava Marjorie M. K. , Pannell Alan 
Published: January 2005

AbstractE‐commerce is becoming ubiquitous but what does it mean for libraries? Some would argue that in strict terms, libraries have been involved in e‐commerce for years with the marketing of services and resources through web pages. Others would argue that libraries are just beginning to enter the world of e‐commerce with forays into offering ways for library users to pay fines or buy copies of photographs or other items online. Participants will learn about the different ways e‐commerce can be interpreted and how libraries are implementing e‐commerce initiatives.Another side of e‐commerce in libraries is the companies delivering products and services to libraries. Delivering materials to libraries using e‐commerce methods has some benefits and some drawbacks to previous methods. An additional feature to be considered is the increased use of credit cards which speed the process. On the other hand the need to work with consortia and hierarchical or group buying of other sorts brings new complexity. MediaSleuth enables the purchase of non print educational media and the accompanying MARC cataloging over the web.Participants will also learn about the design considerations to enable electronic selection, purchase and delivery of these materials using the internet that one such company uses.
Genres and knowledge organization. Sponsored by SIG CR, HFIS
Authors: Andersen Jack , Bazerman Charles , Dahlström Mats , Dalgaard Rune 
Published: January 2005

AbstractKnowledge organization (KO) needs to broaden up by incorporating into its theory the social activities based on document production and use. This very document production and use is constituted by genre‐based human activities. Genres communicate and organize certain stabilized forms of human communicative activities and KO can be conceptualized as the typified response to these activities. What theoretical frameworks can be established for analyzing the connection between the broader social organization and the LIS‐concept of KO? From various perspectives this session seeks to examine the connection between the LIS‐conception of KO and social organization, insofar the latter is constituted by genre and activity systems and expressed through the production and use of documents or written genres in various contexts.
Designing digital information technologies for children. Sponsored by SIG USE, DL
Authors: Bilal Dania , Druin Allison , McInerney Claire , Cooper Linda Z. , Abbas June 
Published: January 2005

AbstractDeveloping digital information technologies appropriate for children can be challenging, particularly since young people have their own interests, abilities, curiosities, and information needs that can be continually changing. Young people are not “just short adults” but an entirely different user population with their own culture, norms and complexities. With the emergence of children as important consumers of digital information, their role in the design of new technologies has been maximized. The speakers will explore national and international digital libraries that have been designed for children using innovative applications of technologies. In addition, they will discuss challenges and issues in designing digital information for young people.