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SEPTEMBER 2004 ISSUE
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Issue 39 of Ariadne (
Main Articles:
* Seeing is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation
Programme
- Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation
Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies.
* RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning resource discovery based on the LOM and
the OAI-PMH
- Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration
currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM
Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery.
* Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information
Environment
- Paul Miller discusses current efforts by
* Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the
DAEDALUS Project
- Morag Mackie describes some strategies that can be used to help
populate an institutional repository.
* A National Archive of Datasets
- Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK
Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to
users.
* Can We Save our Audiovisual Heritage?
- Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project
for the preservation of our disappearing audiovisual heritage.
* IT for Me: Getting personal in
- Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims
to provide personalised access to online resources in
* Through the Web Authoring Tools
- Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web
publishing in Ariadne's Get Tooled Up section, supported by:
* Web Focus
- Brian Kelly takes a look at the FOAF Semantic Web application and
suggests it is time to start evaluating this technology.
Workshop and Conference Reports: At the Event:
* The ePrints UK Workshop
- Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and
* The Collection Description Schema Forum
- Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for
collection-level description held by UKOLN in February.
* Terminologies Report
- Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments
and future directions for JISC terminology services held in
* ERPANET / CODATA Workshop,
- Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional,
* The Biggest Digital Library Conference in the World
- John Paschoud reports on the International Conference on Digital
Libraries held in
Ariadne Reviews:
* Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
- Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition but has
reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject.
* Extreme Searchers' Internet Handbook
- Verity Brack reviews one of the latest books on Internet resources and
finds it a useful volume for Internet beginners and Google-centric searchers.
* Developing Academic Library Staff for Future Success
- Stephen Town considers this new multi-author volume, appreciates its
many qualities and reflects on the key issues for library staff development in
the digital future.
* The Accidental Webmaster
- Andy Prue examines a guide aimed at inexperienced Webmasters. While
the book covers some interesting and salient points, Andy raises questions as to the ideal audience.
.Plus our regular columns and expanded newsline.
Ariadne numbers 40 and 41 are already in preparation.
Books for review should be sent to the Editor's address (below), and
article proposals should be sent to our regular contact point:
ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk
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Call for papers
William Hersh [hersh@ohsu.edu] asis-l@asis.org Sat 17/04/2004
Biomedical Digital Libraries will be an Open Access, peer-reviewed
online journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of digital library
content and usage in biomedical settings, including academic medical centers,
research and development institutes, and health care institutions. Preliminary
information about the journal is available at http://www.bio-diglib.com.
For additional information, go to:
http://www.bio-diglib.com/info/update.asp
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Canadian Journal of Information and Library
Science (CJILS)
Research News
Heidi Julien [Heidi.Julien@UALBERTA.CA] JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Mon 26/04/2004
The Research News column in the Canadian Journal of Information and
Library Science (CJILS) is intended to share significant news on the LIS
research front in Canada, including work being done by Canadians abroad, and
LIS work that relates to Canada. The column includes announcements of LIS SSHRC
and NSERC award winners, Canadian ALISE award winners, and other research
awards to Canadian academics and doctoral students. Please forward these types
of announcements, as well as any other Canadian LIS research-related news that
you think might be appropriate for the column. This column is intended to be as
inclusive as possible, within allowable space parameters, and within the goals
for the column.
If you have research news that relates to
Thanks,
Heidi Julien
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Current Cites
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Contributors: [3]Charles W.
Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl
Kennedy, [6]Leo
Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant
[8]Nature Web Focus: Access
to the Literature: The Debate Continues
(2004) - Nature is offering
a new series of freely available
commissioned papers by noted
authors on open access and other
innovative publishing
business models. Current contributions
include "[9]Open Access
and Learned Societies"; "[10]Open Access
and Not-for-Profit
Publishers"; "[11]Open Access: Yes, No, Maybe";
"[12]Universities' Own
Electronic Repositories Yet to Impact on
Open Access";
"[13]Why Electronic Publishing Means People Will Pay
Different Prices"; and
other papers. There are also useful links to
related articles and
resources. Like prior Nature debates on
electronic publishing issues,
this one is lively and very
interesting. - [14]CB
[15]Computers in Libraries
2004
2004. (http://www.infotoday.com/cil2004/presentations/).
- Many of
the presentations from this
conference, held
format, or both. Handouts are
also often available, as well as the
occasional Perl script. The
topics range widely from strategies for
keeping up to blogs to dead
and emerging technologies. There is, in
other words, something here
for just about anyone. - [16]RT
[17]Museums and the Web
2004
Informatics, 2004. (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/sessions/).
- A
number of the presentations
at this conference are online in HTML
as contributed papers.
Although many of the topics are perhaps of
interest mostly to museums or
archives, there are other topics
(e.g., building accessible
web sites) that cross those boundaries.
- [18]RT
[19]Thinking Beyond Digital
Libraries - Designing the Information
Strategy for the Next Decade:
Proceedings of the 7th International
Library, February 2004.
(http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/proceedings/).
- The
presentations from this
conference are available in PowerPoint
format. A few also have the
speakers remarks available in Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) format.
Speakers include university professors,
academic library directors,
and high-level managers of
library-related non-profits
and commercial companies (e.g., Jay
Jordan, President and CEO of
OCLC). - [20]RT
[21]METS Opening Day
2003. (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/od1_ppts.html).
- A number
of the PowerPoint
presentations from the first "METS Opening Day"
for the emerging standard
Metadata Encoding and Transmission
Standard (METS) are
available. Topics include an introduction to
METS, building METS by hand,
METS profiles, METS repositories, and
METS case studies. A second
METS Opening Day will be occuring on
April 8 and 9 at
likely to be available
shortly thereafter at the [22]METS web site.
- [23]RT
Christiansen, Donald. "[24]Ephemera for Engineers and
Scientists"
[25]Today's Engineer
(IEEE) (February 2004)
(http://www.todaysengineer.org/feb04/backscatter.asp).
- It's not
news to those of us in the
information profession -- the fact that
when it comes to Web-based
resources, it's too often a case of here
today, gone tomorrow. How
many times have you spotted an
interesting article while out
surfing and, when you wanted to go
back to it later on, you
could no longer find it? Even if you saved
the link, the link no longer
works. While this is an annoyance when
it comes to our everyday web
browsing, it can be a disaster for
resarch and scholarship.
"Many technical articles now include
references to Internet
addresses, as opposed to hard-copy
resources," the author
correctly points out. But when authors or
readers attempt to access
these URLs at a later time, they have
effectively vanished into
cyberspace. The author cites a [26]study
done at the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center in which
researchers checked articles
that appeared in Science, the Journal
of the American Medical
Association and the
Medicine. They found
"that 3.8 percent of Internet references were
inactive three months after
journal publication, 10 percent after
15 months and 13 percent
after 27 months." While there are ways of
tracking these things down
after the fact -- the author gives some
suggestions, most would agree
that this is a tremendous waste of
time and energy. A solution,
he says, may come in the form of
"Digital Object
Identifiers (DOIs), the Uniform Resource Name (URN)
syntax or the Persistent Uniform
Resource Locator (PURL)." - [27]SK
Dilevko, Juris, and Lisa Gottlieb.
"Selection and Cataloging of
Adult Pornography Web Sites
for Academic Libraries" [28]Journal
of
Academic Librarianship 30(1) (January 2004): 36-50. - The
authors argue that as interest in adult porn
studies proliferates
on campus, librarians are
challenged to provide support material.
The authors delineate various
criteria for selecting
subject-specific Web sites,
reminding us that while the sites
themselves may not be
scholarly, they may still "represent a type
of cultural artifact worthy
of (and currently the subject of)
scholarly inquiry."
Catalogers will appreciate the extensive
discussion on subject access
in this area. The inclusion of
material like this in the
academic library's catalog would, we are
told, "facilitate
scholarly research in this area and fill a
prominent gap in the
library's collection." (Available through
ScienceDirect.) - [29]LRK
Ebare, Sean. "[30]Digital Music and Subculture:
Sharing Files,
Sharing Styles" [31]First Monday 9(2) (
(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/ebare/index.html).
-
The author takes a fresh look
at online music sharing communities,
applying theories from
popular music studies and cyberethnography.
He explores how identity and
difference, subculture and genre
lifespans, and the political
economy of technology and music
production combine to
influence the use of music on the Internet.
Identity is more fluid, and
anonymity more prevalent, making the
music sharing community
somewhat unique. He argues that the
subculture of music sharing user-driven and
that the ability to
forecast how this community
behaves will be invaluable for both
music publishers and social
scientists. He offers his own forecast
on the future marketplace for
music sharing, arguing that it will
depend upon an understanding
of the diversity of the members, their
need for self-determination,
and the mandate to allow these
communities to exercise a
substantial degree of independence within
their online experience. -
[32]TH
Feldman, Susan. "[33]The High Cost of Not Finding
Information"
[34]KMWorld Magazine 13(3) (March 2004)
(http://www.kmworld.com/publications/magazine/index.cfm?action=read
article&Article_ID=1725&Publication_ID=108). - "There are
all kinds
of information disasters.
Some are caused by wrong information.
Some are caused by outdated
information.... Missing or incomplete
information plagues many
projects..... Finally, there is the
increasing problem of too
much in formation." Some interesting
statistics here: --
"(R)oughly 50% of most Web searches are
abandoned." --
"Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their
time searching for
information." -- "Searchers are successful in
finding what they seek 50% of
the time or less...." -- "40% of
corporate users reported that
they can not find the information
they need to do their jobs on
their intranets." -- "Not locating
and retrieving information
has an opportunity cost of more than $15
million annually." --
"Some studies suggest that 90% of the time
that knowledge workers spend
in creating new reports or other
products is spent in
recreating information that already exists." -
[35]SK
Fiehn, Barbara. "[36]Federated Searching: A Viable
Alternative to
Web Surfing" [37]TechNewsWorld (
(http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33160.html).
- You'll be
hearing lots more about
federated search. Simple definition --
searching a variety of
resources (databases, OPACs, the Web) from a
single interface. This
article (which originally appeared in the
April 2004 issue of
[38]MultiMedia & Internet@Schools but is not
online there) focuses on
school library media centers and the
products available for that
market. But it is worth reading by all
information professionals
since it presents a good overview of the
topic and explains some of
the pros and cons. The biggest advantage
is the most obvious -- no
need for the end user to hop from
resource to resource in order
to access all that an institution has
available online. Some
vendors' products will group results by
source which, in essence, can
show the user which resources are
likely to be most useful for
his/her particular information need.
And the user only has to
learn one search interface. But
single-interface searching
also has some downsides. Federated
search technology is not
quite "there" yet as far as relevance and
de-duping are concerned.
Also, the single interface may not permit
the end user to take
advantage of whatever sophisticated search
features are offered by the
individual resources. And this
relatively new technology may
prove challenging for librarians and
IT people alike. If you don't
have adequate in-house resources,
hosting solutions may be
available. - [39]SK
Kurlantzick, Joshua. "[40]Dictatorship.com: The Web Won't
Topple
Tyranny" [41]The New Republic (
(http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=oGG%2BvQEIjJRNjHGlOJiX4X%3D%3D).
-
As a tool to disseminate
popular culture, the Internet has had
spectacular success, even in
"authoritarian nations" such as
political impact has been
negligible and, in some cases, "the
Internet actually may be
helping dictatorships remain in power."
This in spite of the fact
that pundits have been touting the
political potential of the
Net since it became more or less a mass
medium in the mid-90s.
Although "Internet usage has surged in many
authoritarian nations,"
it has had little impact on "the political
climate." Why? Because,
the author says, it is not particularly
useful "for expressing and organizing
dissent," and --
technologically -- "it
has proved surprisingly easy for
authoritarian regimes to
stifle, control, and co-opt." The author
points out that the Internet
is mainly used for individual rather
than group activities. As one
Laotian researcher quoted here
observes, the Internet
"is about people sitting in front of a
terminal, barely
interacting." Also, using the Net requires a
relatively high level of
literacy. The author provides examples of
how different nations have
attempted to control access to and
content on the Internet,
particularly
Jell-O to the wall." And
Western companies have proven only too
eager "to sell the
latest censorship technology" to any oppressive
regime willing to ante up.
Some dissidents claim the Internet
actually facilitates
monitoring of individuals by the government.
Fascinating read; a don't-miss. - [42]SK
Seebach, Peter. "[43]The Cranky User: Businesses
Behaving Badly :
Put Customers First Or Risk
Losing Them"
[44]developerWorks (4
March 2004)
(http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky38.html
). - The "Cranky
User" is an occasional column on IBM's extremely
helpful developerWorks site
(the [45]Ease of Use section is
wonderful). In this missive,
the Cranky User complains about poor
customer service. Poor
customer service is a kind of action on the
part of a company that
produces a reaction in the customer, namely,
a negative reaction. While I
don't particularly agree with his
example near the end of the
column where he complains about contact
email addresses being
replaced by web forms, the notion that bad
institutional practices have
negative consequences is important to
keep in mind. - [46]LRK
Wells, Catherine A. "Location, Location, Location: The
Importance
of Placement of the Chat
Request Button. " Reference &
User
Services Quarterly 43(2) (Winter 2003): 133-137. - Concerned that
Chat Reference wasn't being
used as much as expected, librarians at
Case
location and frequency of
placement of the Chat Reference button on
their site. They eventually
found, perhaps to no one's surprise,
that usage went up if the
button appeared on the most heavily
trafficked pages (home page,
catalog page, database page). High on
their wish list now is
getting the button on vendor (i.e.
subscription database) pages
as well. - [47]LRK
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Sent:
Current Cites
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Edited
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ISSN:
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Contributors: [3]Charles W.
Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl
Kennedy, [6]Leo
Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant
[8]Digital Library Federation
Spring Forum 2004
Digital Library Federation,
April 2004.
(http://www.diglib.org/forums/Spring2004/springforum04abs.htm).
-
Although you don't get to
hear the speakers, or chat with them in
the hall, or nosh on a
deep-fried, sugar-dusted beignet, the
presentation slides are the
next best thing to being at the Digital
Library Federation 2004
Spring Forum in
the DLF Executive Director,
made a concerted effort to "harvest"
all of the presentations then
and there, and put them up on the web
literally within hours of
their presentation. And you are hearing
about them through Current
Cites no more than a week after they
were presented. Now that's
current. But besides being current,
these presentations often
describe cutting-edge digital library
projects, from extending the
OAI harvesting protocol to accommodate
distributed full-text
searching of math monographs to XML-based
book publishing and beyond, there is
something here for just about
everyone who is interested in
where libraries are going. But
although the meeting was held
in The Big Easy, it was clear from a
number of presentations that
building digital libraries would be
better characterized as The
Big Difficult. - [9]RT
Bausenbach, Ardie. "[10]Character Sets and Character
Encoding: A
Brief Introduction" [11]RLG DigiNews 8(2) (
(http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=17068&Printable=1&Article_I
D=992). - Anyone who has
worked with computers long enough has run
into the character encoding
issue. Even if you are able to get a
non-English character to
display appropriately on your computer,
sending the file to someone
else is likely to spell disaster for
anything beyond the 256
characters identified in the ASCII
character set. But thankfully
help is near, in the form of Unicode.
This excellent overview piece
lays the groundwork and explains the
issues related to depicting
nearly 100,000 separate characters
(about 70,000 of which are
Chinese) from 55 writing systems. As
Bausenbach explains, we are
far from character encoding nirvana,
but we're on the right track
and making progress. Highly
recommended for anyone
needing a primer or refresher on these
issues. - [12]RT
Boutin, Paul. "[13]Can E-Mail Be Saved?" [14]InfoWorld (16) (19
April 2004): 40-53.
(http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/16/16FEfuturemail_1.html).
- "Battered by junk and
reeling under makeshift fixes, e-mail is
ripe for reinvention. Here's
how six of the industry's most
provocative thinkers envision
a brighter day.... Our six experts
gave us six different
answers. But all of them agreed that positive
identification, rather than
rejiggered economics, is the key to
clearing the clutter from the
e-mail channel in the enterprise."
Ideas from [15]Eric Allman
(author of [16]Sendmail); [17]Bill
Warner (developer of the
Wildfire voice system); [18]Eric Hahn
(former Netscape CTO; now CEO
of own startup, [19]Proofpoint);
[20]Ray Ozzie (creator of
Lotus Notes; founder/CEO of [21]Groove
Networks); [22]Dave Winer
(chairman/founder of [23]Userland and
[24]uberblogger);
[25]Brewster Kahle (creator of WAIS, [26]Alexa;
now head of [27]The Internet
Archive). - [28]SK
Eden, Bradford Lee,
editor. "MARC and Metadata: METS,
MODS, and
MARCXML: Current and Future
Implications" [29]Library Hi Tech
22(1) (2004) - It's a brave
new world for bibliographic
description, which this special issue of
Library Hi Tech makes
readily apparent. With
articles contributed by a wide range of
experts on topics like METS,
MODS, EAD, and MARC, there is
something he re for anyone
interested in cataloging, metadata, and
where the field is going. The
editor of this issue, Brad Eden from
the
issue that the contributions
have been split into two issues, with
t he second to follow in the
summer. According to Brad, this next
issue will look more to the
future. [Full disclosure: I contributed
a piece that will run in the
next issue] - [30]RT
Guterman, Lila. "[31]Scientific Societies' Publishing
Arms Unite
Against Open-Access
Movement" [32]The Chronicle of
Higher
Education 50(29) (
(http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronic
le.com/prm/weekly/v50/i29/29a02001.htm). -
Reacting to the growing
influence of the open access
movement, a group of scholarly
not-for-profit publishers has
issued the "[33]
Principles for Free Access to
Science." This document supports free
access to selected important
articles, to all articles either
immediately or after an
embargo period as determined by publisher
policy, to scientists in
developing nations, to reference linking
systems, and to search engines
for indexing. However, it does not
support financing journals
solely through author fees, and it does
not address the issue of the
relatively unfettered use of scholarly
literature that the
"[34]Budapest Open Access Initiative" strongly
advocates: "By 'open
access' to this literature, we mean its free
availability on the public
internet, permitting any users to read,
download, copy, distribute,
print, search, or link to the full
texts of these articles,
crawl them for indexing, pass them as data
to software, or use them for
any other lawful purpose, without
financial, legal, or
technical barriers other than those
inseparable from gaining
access to the internet itself. The only
constraint on reproduction
and distribution, and the only role for
copyright in this domain,
should be to give authors control over
the integrity of their work
and the right to be properly
acknowledged and cited."
In addition to discussing the DC
Principles, the article also
briefly examines the new BioMed
Central variable
institutional fee structure (it was previously a
flat fee determined by the
size of the institution), which has its
own controversial elements. -
[35]CB
Jones, William. "[36]Finders, Keepers? The Present and
Future
Perfect in Support of
Personal Information Management "
[37]First
Monday 9(3) (
(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_3/jones/index.html).
-
Jones explores the impact of
decisions to keep or discard the kind
of personal data that
accretes daily in our inboxes and Blogs --
spam, email, the weather,
sports news and more -- together with
critical information that has
a longer term value. Since what seems
mundane today may have
strategic value tomorrow, this isn't such a
lightweight matter, he says.
What follows is interesting
deconstruction of the process
of parsing through 'stuff', which we
often do unconsciously. Even
though many information users don't
focus on their habits, how we
handle extraneous information is an
essential part of personal
information management, he argues. Bad
decisions come in many
flavors; keeping too much stuff can be as
costly in time as keeping
minimal backfiles. What's more, the wrong
information competes for
attention with more appropriate sources as
tasks change during the day.
He assesses decision support
strategies such as reducing
'false positives' (keeping useless
information), and avoiding
'misses' (not keeping useful
information). This article is
an interesting analysis of how the
processes that surround the
information cascade combine to take a
substantial bite of our time.
- [38]TH
Knemeyer, Dirk. "[39]Jared Spool : The InfoDesign
Interview"
[40]InfoDesign (April 2004)
(http://www.informationdesign.org/special/spool_interview.php).
-
Jared Spool is a hero of
mine. He showed me that you could be an
advocate of usability and a
sensible human being at the same time.
He did this by limiting
himself to conclusions based on a
thoughtful analysis of the
facts together with enough flexibility
to realize that different
situations sometimes call for different
approaches. All of these
characteristics are on display in this
infoDesign interview. -
[41]LRK
Michael, Sara. "[42]Making Government Accessible --
[43]Federal Computer
Week 18(11) (
(http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0419/feat-access-04-19-04.asp
). - Federal Computer Week
and SSB Technologies, a developer of
web-accessibility software
and services, took a look at
e-government initiatives with
an eye toward whether these services
were usable by disabled
citizens. The results were not encouraging.
"As the e-government
initiatives near completion and gain a broader
audience, none of the Web
sites evaluated in our recent review were
found to be entirely
accessible to citizens with disabilities, as
required by Section 508.
Agencies clearly are committed to the
spirit of the law but are
struggling with the details." The article
discusses [44]Section 508
compliance and related requirements,
accessibility pitfalls, and
development and evaluation tools. -
[45]SK
TechWebNews.
"[46]Average PC Plagued With 28 Pieces Of Spyware"
[47]InformationWeek (
(http://informationweek.securitypipeline.com/news/18901641).
- If
you're responsible for public
access PCs, this recently released
[48]report by ISP
[49]EarthLink and [50]WebRoot Software will not
be terribly shocking to you.
During the first quarter of this year,
the two companies examined
more than one million computer systems
and unearthed more than 29
million instances of spyware. Most of
this nasty stuff was
ad-related -- e.g., pop-up windows, ad
tracking, etc. -- but more
than 360,000 system monitors (which spy
on user activity) and Trojans
(which masquerade as something benign
but which are actually
destructive) were detected. "If spread
equally across the scanned
systems, that means one in three
computers contains a system
monitor or a Trojan horse." View the
Earthlink Spyware Audit
[51]here. - [52]SK
Udell , Jon. "[53]Firefox Fills the IE
Void" [54]InfoWorld (19
March 2004 )
(http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/19/12OPstrategic_1.html).
-
Encomium on the open-source
cross-platform Mozilla web browser
currently known, perhaps
inelegantly, as 'Firefox'. If you haven't
had a chance to test-drive
Firefox, Jon Udall goes over many of the
reasons why you should. Feel
free to download it at [55]mozilla.org
and while you're at it, have
a look at the email application
'Thunderbird' too. - [56]LRK
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Antelman, Kristin. "[7]Do Open-Access Articles Have a
Greater
Research Impact?" [8]College & Research Libraries 65(5)
(September 2004): 372-382.
(http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/).
- For those who have
been working to create open
access repositories of research and
scholarship, this article is
a godsend. Antelman performed a formal
study of whether open access articles are
cited more frequently
than those only available
through subscription services. The short
answer is "yes".
For the long answer, as well as to review her
methodology, see the (yes)
open access article. - [9]RT
Chapman, Stephen. "Techniques for Creating Sustainable
Digital
Collections" [10]Library Technology Reports 40(5) (Sept./Oct.
2004) - Library Technology
Reports appears to be on a roll, with
this excellent issue
following close on the heels of Susan Gibbon's
report on institutional
repositories (cited in a [11]previous issue
of Current Cites). Few people
are as well suited for covering this
topic as Chapman, who has
long experience in creating digital
collections at Harvard, and
has spoken on this topic for years as a
faculty member of the highly
regarded School for Scanning: Building
Good Digital Collections. The
report begins with a section on
institutional readiness for
digitization, followed by sections on
managing digitization, levels
of service for image digitization,
levels of service for text
digitization, managing costs, and
commiting to change. So if
you find yourself suddenly responsible
for a digitization project,
as many are, your first purchase should
not be a scanner, but rather
this issue of LTR. Out of all the
money you will spend on your
project (and spend it you will) the
$63 cost of this report will
be the single most effective use of
your resources. - [12]RT
Dean, Katie. "[13]Saving the Artistic
Orphans" [14]Wired News
(
(http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64494,00.html).
-
"Artistic orphans,"
as discussed in this article, are "older books,
films and music" that
are "no longer commercially viable," but are
kept from the public domain
because they are still under copyright.
Changes in the copyright law
that no longer require intellectual
property owners to register
or renew their copyrights with the
[15]U.S. Copyright Office
have made locating these owners "a
formidable challenge."
[16]Brewster Kahle, founder of the
[17]Internet Archive and
[18]Rick Prelinger, a film collector, are
interested in digitizing
these materials and putting them online so
the public can have free
access. They filed suit in March to have
declared unconstitutional the
changes to copyright law that prevent
such materials from entering
the public domain. The legal wrangling
is ongoing; the government
filed a motion to dismiss the case, the
plaintiffs filed an
opposition and the government will file its
reply in October. In late October,
the
Northern District of
Lessig, the
Prelinger explains that
copyright was traditionally "opt-in" --
where intellectual property
owners had to actively register and
then renew their works. Now,
from the moment a work is "fixed in a
tangible medium,"
copyright protection exists without any need for
registration or renewal. The
article notes "that on average, 85
percent of copyright owners
never bothered to renew their copyright
after the first 28 years
anyway." You can submit examples of orphan
works [20]via a website set
up by Kahle and Prelinger. - [21]SK
Elliott, Susan A.
[22]Metasearch and Usability: Toward a Seamless
Interface to Library
Resources
(http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/tundra/msuse1.pdf).
- This paper is
the result of a sabbatical
leave investigation on behalf of the
Consortium Library of the
metasearch software and
usability. The author visited a number of
libraries that have
implemented, or are in the process of
implementing, metasearch
applications. The strength of this paper
lies not in the specifics
regarding sofwtare options, which are
already out of date (although
for those who simply can't resist,
they are available in a
separate file of appendices), but in the
body of the report in which
Elliott succinctly outlines the problem
these tools are attempting to
solve, how they are trying to do it,
and current issues and
problems. As she identifies, things are far
from perfect but these tools
may at least offer libraries a way to
make things more manageable
for the users we serve. - [23]RT
Ellison, Jim. "[24]Assessing the accessibility of
fifty United
States government Web pages:
Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam "
[25]First Monday 9(7) (
(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_7/ellison/).
- Ellison
takes a hard look at the real
obstacles that people with
disabilities face when using
government Web sites. He reviews 50
sites using the well-known
evaluation program known as Bobby, which
checks HTML to evaluate how
successfully the code perform in
providing accessibility.
While he argues that there is great
potential for improved
accessibility, he claims that the
government has not met its
self-imposed goals yet. This would tend
to weaken the government's
standing to enforce accessibility
standards on other
organizations, he concludes. - [26]TH
Greenstein, Daniel. "[27]Research Libraries' Costs of Doing
Business (and Strategies for
Avoiding Them)" [28]EDUCAUSE Review
39(5) (2004): 72-73.
(http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm04510.asp).
-
costs continue to spiral
upward. Shaped by Google and similar
systems, users' expectations
rise as well, and they demand that
libraries provide
increasingly sophisticated, easy-to-use systems.
Digital formats proliferate.
What's a research library to do? Based
on the collaborative
experiences of the
System, Greenstein has some
suggestions for research libraries in
similar situations. Rely
mainly on electronic journals, but
preserve at least one
archival print copy of each one. Closely
coordinate collection
development to eliminate duplicate materials
costs, and develop new bibliographic
systems to support this.
Centralize system support
functions, such as digital preservation
and tool building (e.g.,
online portals). Using these strategies,
UC believes it can save
$30-$50 million dollars a year. Sounds like
big money. Will it solve the
problem? The author says: "If the
money is simply eaten away by
unmitigated steep increases in the
price of library materials,
the answer is no. Changing the
unsustainable economics of
scholarly publishing remains a key to
the future of research
libraries indeed, to the continued ability
of colleges and universities
to provide faculty and researchers
with the access they need to
the world's scholarly knowledge." -
[29]CB
Hepburn,
open source development
models " [31]First Monday 9(8) (2 August
2004) (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/hepburn/).
-
Hepburn matches an assessment
of the potential of open source
computing with the
development of classroom curricula, and finds a
good match. Easily available
resources, flexibility and minimal
intrusion of corporate
culture into the classroom are all desirable
side benefits of open source
architecture, he argues. A central
aspect of a new open source
"commons" that could take root is
creativity: Hepburn foresees
that educators and curriculum planners
will experience a noteworthy
uptick in creative thinking if they
cleave to an open source
standard. Much of this line of reasoning
is based on the
hitherto-unrealized potential of the Internet to
reshape the classroom. A key
challenge for educators, though, is
the development of both
institutional and professional-level
commitments to mainstreaming
technology management into teaching a
process that will challenge
teachers and educators for some time to
come. - [32]TH
Guidelines for Digitizing
Archival
Creation of Production Master
Files - Raster Images< /A>
2004.
(http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/arc_info/guidelines_for_
digitizing_archival_materials.html). - What the staff at
know about digitizing isn't
worth knowing. And thanks to documents
like this one, you too can
know what they do. From recommendations
on metadata capture to
essential tips on scanning for the maximum
fidelity and information
capture, this is a gold mine of best
practice that can help anyone
digitizing content for web access.
Beginning with a section on
metadata, the paper includes sections
on imaging workflow,
digitization specifications, storage, and
quality control. The
technical overview alone offers a wealth of
essential information for
digitization novices as well as those who
may have been doing this
activity for some time, but without a
thorough technical grounding
in all the technical aspects. Highly
recommended for anyone
digitizing content. - [34]RT
Rowlands, Ian, Dave Nicholas, and Paul Huntingdon.
"[35]Journal
Publishing: What Do Authors
Want?" [36]Nature Web Focus: Access
to
the Literature: The Debate
Continues (
(http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/31.html).
- In the
final analysis, scholarly
journal publishing should be designed to
satisfy the needs of
scholars. So what do they want anyway? The
authors conducted a
large-scale international survey to find the
answer, ending up with 3,787
fully completed questionnaires from 97
countries. Not surprisingly,
they found that authors continue to
want traditional journal
benefits: "They want the imprimatur of
quality and integrity that a
peer-reviewed, high-impact title can
offer, together with
reasonable levels of publisher service. Above
all, they want to narrowcast
their ideas to a close community of
like-minded researchers. .
." The majority of authors (61%)
indicate that they have
access to needed articles, and 77% say that
access is better than five
years ago. Not many have heard of open
access (82% say that they know
little or nothing about it), and
they are not willing to pay
much to publish articles (only 16%
would pay more than $500).
Rowlands et al. estimate that the
average that authors would be
willing to pay may be about $400,
which is below the fees
typically charged by open access
publishers. Clearly,
publishing reform advocates still have much
work to do in educating
authors about the economics of scholarly
publishing and academic
library finances. - [37]CB
Shenton, Andrew K., and
Pat Dixon. "Issues Arising From
Youngsters' Information
Seeking Behavior" [38]Library &
Information Science
Research 26(2) (Spring 2004): 177-200. -
Faced with training adults to
be more careful and critical
information seekers and
users, it's helpful to see which patterns
are imprinted in our school
years. This article explores the
general information-seeking
patterns of school-age children in a
single British town. While a
larger sample (only 188 individuals
here) and greater geographic
variation could certainly lead to more
universally applicable
conclusions, for most English-speaking
information providers there
will be a high recognition factor of
those behaviors which are
clear precursors to adult habits, e.g.
"the use of untaught,
expedient methods was apparent in many
contexts, including the
'speculative' entry of URLs to access Web
sites and the location of
information in books by simply flicking
through the pages." No
wonder at expedient Google's popularity,
being so good at providing
reasonable results for speculative
input. Also instructive is
the prevalence of image or pattern
retention which, once
achieved, encourages forgetting details like
titles and addresses. A bit
discouraging for teachers of
information literacy, but
good to know what one is up against. - JR
Twist, Jo. "[39]Web Tool May Banish Broken
Links" [40]BBC News
(
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3666660.stm).
- [41]The
Jargon File defines link rot
as "The natural decay of web links as
the sites they're connected
to change or die." And while it is a
fact of life on the Web today, it is also a
tremendous source of
frustrion to information
professionals, scholars, and plain
ordinary Web users. Well, a
team of
come up with a tool that
addresses the problem of broken Web links.
Although other tools exist
that can detect broken links, this tool
called Peridot also ferrets
out where the missing information has
gone and "replaces
outdated information with other relevant
documents and links." It
can also detect links to "inappropriate
information." Basically,
the technology keeps track of key elements
of webpages so it is able to
quickly spot any changes. In its
current version, "it
runs reliably over 100,000 pages." - [42]SK
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In previous issues of DigiCULT.Info and in Technology Watch Report 1
(2003) DigiCULT examined the issues of 3-dimensional representations of
cultural artefacts and spaces. In this issue the team from Factum Arte describe
the creation of a physical 3D replica of La Dama de Elche.
The
Furthermore, this issue covers amongst others a presentation of the AER
project (Spanish archives on the net), three articles on e-learning projects,
interviews with experts, and the results of the DigiCULT User Survey 2003.
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DigiCULT Thematic Issue 6 - Now Available
Resource Discovery Technologies for the Heritage Sector, June 2004
This sixth Thematic Issue concentrates on how resource discovery
technologies can ensure that the high value, authoritative information of
heritage institutions is effectively found, retrieved, and presented to
Internet users.
With a key focus on the user, the Issue looks into user-driven
approaches in interactive resource discovery. Expert opinion suggests that
offering easy to use services and tools able to integrate the research and
learning needs and behaviours of their users may form one of the heritage
institutions’ answers to the dominance of general-purpose global search
engines.
However, along with ensuring state-of-the-art interactive access and
presentation, the heritage sector will also need to raise the public’s
awareness to, and visibility of, its online resources in a more profound
manner. Otherwise it faces the risk that the large investment required in
creating digital collections, rich descriptive metadata, study and learning
material, will fail to realise a high return – in terms of interest and
appreciation, discovery and valuable uses of heritage resources.
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DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture
August 2004, ISSN 1609-3941
For the first time, DigiCULT has devoted a section of this publication
to a detailed focus on the cultural and scientific heritage work being carried
out in one particular country.
DigiCULT.Info’s Content Editor, Daisy Abbott, spent a week interviewing
sector professionals in
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DigiCULT Services
DigiCULT Events Service: DigiCULT provides a list of international
events that concentrate on theoretical and practical issues of digital culture.
Cutting across the different cultural heritage domains and practises, the
selection highlights established as well as new opportunities for exchanging
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DigiCULT Resources Service: DigiCULT Resources offer an aggregation of
information sources on topics that are on DigiCULT's radar. Each resource is
shortly described and linked. Submitted links are moderated for content and
relevance. http://www.digicult.info/pages/resources.php
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access to the CVs of Cultural Heritage Professionals. We neither endorse
individuals nor certify their abilities or claims of experience and skills.
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May 2004 issue
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> This is a special issue of D-Lib Magazine about georeferencing and
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> editorial, several smaller features in the 'In Brief' column,
excerpts
> from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other
> items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. The Featured Collection
> for May 2004 is ECAI Iraq.
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> The articles include:
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> The
> Prospects Michael F. Goodchild,
> Barbara
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> Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries
> Greg Janee, James Frew, and Linda L. Hill,
>
>
> Georeferencing in Historical Collections
> Gregory Crane,
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> Combining Place, Time, and Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas
> Initiative Michael Buckland and Lewis Lancaster, University of
>
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> Spatial Data Infrastructures and Digital Libraries: Paths to
> Convergence James S. Reid, Chris Higgins, David Medyckyj-Scott, and
> Andrew Robson,
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> Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections: In a
> Distributed Digital Library Environment Reed Beaman,
> John Wieczorek,
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Greetings:
The July/August 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is
now available.
This issue contains a commentary, three articles, two conference
reports, several smaller features in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts
from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other
items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. The Featured Collection for
July/August 2004 is Earth as Art.
The Commentary is:
Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation
Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Research
The articles include:
The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in
Seamus Ross, HATII and ERPANET
The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the
Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Neil Beagrie, The British Library
Integration of Non-OAI Resources for Federated Searching in DLIST, an
Eprints Repository
Anita Coleman, Paul Bracke, and S. Karthik,
The Conference Reports are:
Report on the Fourth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL): 7 - 11 June 2004,
Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological
If You Build It, Will They Come? Participant Involvement in Digital
Libraries
Sarah Giersch, iLumina Digital Library, Eugene A. Klotz, The
@ Drexel, Flora McMartin, MERLOT, Brandon Muramatsu, University of
Shumar,
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http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/
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Greetings:
The September 2004 issue of D-Lib
Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is
now available.
This issue contains a commentary,
three articles, an opinion piece,
two conference reports, the 'In
Brief' column, excerpts from recent
press releases, and news of
upcoming conferences and other items of
interest in 'Clips and
Pointers'. The Featured Collection for
September 2004 is
OYEZ: US Supreme Court
Multimedia, courtesy of Jerry Goldman,
Northwestern University.
The Commentary is:
The "Rights" in Digital
Rights Management
by Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net
The articles include:
Search Engine Technology and
Digital Libraries: Moving from Theory to
Practice by Friedrich Summann and
Norbert Lossau,
Library Web Accessibility at
Colleges and Universities by
Michael Providenti,
University
Reengineering a National Resource
Discovery Service: MODS Down Under
by Roxanne Missingham, National
Library of
The Opinion is:
Rethinking Scholarly
Communication: Building the System that Scholars
Deserve by Herbert Van de Sompel,
Los Alamos National Laboratory; John
Erickson, Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories; and Sandy Payette, Carl
Lagoze, and Simeon Warner,
The Conference Reports are:
Report from the International
Symposium on Digital Libraries and
Knowledge Communities in
Networked Information Society (DLKC'04) by
Shigeo Sugimoto,
7th International Symposium on
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
(ETD
2004): Distributing Knowledge
Worldwide through Better Scholarly
Communication, 3 - 5 June 2004,
by Suzie Allard,
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Call for papers
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New journal
Garfield,
"Episteme" is a new journal of social epistemology, which
focuses on the social dimensions of knowledge, says Anthony
Quinton, a former president of the
College.
"Social epistemology arose from the recognition that nearly all
that we believe or claim to know is secondhand and derived from
the speech or writing of others," he writes.
Two styles of social epistemology, the analytical and critical
approaches, are represented in "Episteme."
Analytical social epistemology grapples with questions like how
facts presented by other people can ever be satisfactorily
verified, while critical social epistemology examines fields
like science and history as social constructions, in other
words, as things that are "brought into existence by human
social activity, like government and the family and unlike
mountains and icebergs," Mr. Quinton says.
"'Episteme' is not the first journal to take social epistemology
as its theme," he writes, "but it is the first, I think, to
try
to bring the two kinds of epistemology I have distinguished
together."
The journal will be published three times a year, by
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April 2004
Readership of First Monday [mailto:FIRSTMONDAY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward J. Valauskas
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Dear Reader,
The April 2004 issue of
First Monday (volume 9, number 4) is now available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/
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Dear Reader,
The May 2004 issue of First Monday (volume 9, number 5) is now available
at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/
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Table of Contents
Volume 9, Number 5 -
Sharing Digital Resources: Selected papers from the Fifth Annual
Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World, sponsored by the U.S.
Institute of Museum and Library Services and the
Keynote at The
by John McCarter http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/mccarter/
Imaging
The power and problems of public media
by David B. Liroff http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/liroff/
CAMEO: A free Internet reference on materials used in the production and
conservation of historic and artistic works by Michele Derrick http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/derrick/
Choosing the components of a digital infrastructure
by Tim DiLauro
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/dilauro/
Building semantic bridges between museums, libraries and archives: The
CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model by Tony Gill http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/gill/
The role of museums in online teaching, learning, and research by
Kenneth Hamma http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/hamma/
Can technology make the recommendations of learning science practical
and affordable? by Henry Kelly http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/kelly/
Building on success, forging new ground: The question of sustainability
by Don Waters http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/waters/
On My Mind: Commentary on Web-Wise
by Bill Barnett
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/barnett/
Lessons from the Silurian: On digitization and the human element by
Edward J. Valauskas http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/valauskas/
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\Dear Reader,
The September 2004 issue of First
Monday (volume 9, number 9) is now
available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/
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Volume 9, Number 9 -
Asynchronous discussion groups as
Small World and Scale Free Networks
by Gilad Ravid and Sheizaf
Rafaeli
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/ravid/
Abstract:
What is the network form of
online discussion groups? What are the
topological parameters
delineating the interaction on such groups? We
report an empirical examination
of the form of online discussion
groups. We are interested in
examining whether such groups conform to
the Small World and the Scale
Free models of networks. Support for
these expectations provides a
formal expression of growth, survival
potential and preferential
attachment in the connection patterns in
discussion groups. The research
questions were tested with a sample of
over 8,000 active participants,
and over 30,000 messages. We find that
the social network resulting from
discussion groups is indeed a Scale
Free Network, based on In, Out
and All Degree distributions. We also
find that, for the same sample,
discussion groups are a Small World
Network too. As expected, the
clustering coefficients for these groups
differ significantly from random
networks, while their characteristic
path lengths are similar to
random networks. Implications of the
topology for the design and
understanding of discussion groups include
the stability and control of such
groups, as well as their longevity.
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Lost in gallery space: A
conceptual framework for analyzing the
usability flaws of museum Web
sites by Paul F. Marty and Michael B.
Twidale http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/marty/
Abstract:
This article reports on a study
which used results from 119
scenario-based evaluations of 36
museum Web sites to develop a
conceptual framework for
analyzing the usability flaws of museum Web
sites. It identifies 15 unique
dimensions, grouped into five
categories, that exemplify
usability problems common to many museum
Web sites. Each dimension is
discussed in detail, and typical examples
are provided, based on actual
usability flaws observed during the
evaluations. The availability of
this conceptual framework will help
the designers of museum Web sites
improve the overall usability of
museum Web sites in general.
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Small ads as first steps to
Internet business: A preliminary survey of
Barone http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/zeitlyn/
Abstract:
We have surveyed current
commercial use of the Internet in
This paper provides some data on
as an initial means of assessing
the impact information technologies
and the Internet have had on
local business practices in
have found some NGOs promoting
entrepreneurs and artisan producers to
sell their wares. Alongside
tourism and import/export listings, the
use of small ads is predominant.
Connectivity via fixed lines remains
a bottleneck impeding expansion.
Since mobile phone use is
mushrooming, a suggested solution
is the development of SMS-Web
bridges.
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The economics of open source
hijacking and the declining quality of
digital information resources: A
case for copyleft by Andrea
Ciffolilli http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/ciffolilli/
Abstract:
The economics of information goods
suggest the need for institutional
intervention to address the
problem of revenue extraction from
investments in those resources
characterized by high fixed costs of
production and low marginal costs
of reproduction and distribution.
Solutions to the appropriation
issue, such as copyright, are supposed
to guarantee an incentive for
innovative activities at the price of
few vices marring their
rationale. In the case of digital information
resources, apart from
conventional inefficiencies, copyright shows an
extra vice since it might be used
perversely as a tool to "hijack" and
privatise collectively provided
open source and open content knowledge
assemblages, even in the case in
which the original information was
not otherwise copyrightable.
Whilst the impact of hijacking on open
source software development may
be uncertain or uneven, some risks are
clear in the case of open content
works. The paper presents some
evidence of malicious effects of
hijacking in the Internet search
market by discussing the case of
The Open Directory Project.
Furthermore, it calls for a wider
use of novel institutional remedies
such as copyleft and Creative
Commons licensing, built upon the
paradigm of copyright
customisation.
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Cons in the panopticon:
Anti-globalization and cyber-piracy by Indhu
Rajagopal with
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/rajagopal/
Abstract:
This paper examines the paradox
of the digital telecommunications
revolution that augured the
transcendence of big business and big
government, but also extended to
the World Wide Web the processes of
privatization and
commodification. Instead of facilitating individuals
to design, through interactive
technology, their own media and
directly express their will, the
Internet has come to embody a
panopticon that extends the reach
of corporatists. We discuss the
panopticon in the context of the
globalizing cyber-technology, and
argue that piracy is an
anti-globalization movement.
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Is copyright necessary?
by Terrence A. Maxwell http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/maxwell/
Abstract:
Copyright is a legal mechanism
for promotion of useful knowledge.
However, it is not the only means
society could use to encourage
information dissemination, and
several alternative models have been
suggested over the last 200
years. This article provides the results
of a dynamic simulation of the
publishing industry in the United
States from 1800 to 2100, and
tests the impact of different protection
schemes on the development of
authorship, the publishing industry, and
reader access. It closes with a discussion
of intellectual property
information policy decisions that
can be currently made, and their
likely impacts on domestic and
international copyright protection.
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Government Information Quarterly
Volume 21, number 1 (2004)
John Bertot [bertot@lis.fsu.edu] asis-l@asis.org Fri 7/05/2004
The editors (see below) of _Government Information Quarterly: An International Journal of Information
Technology Management, Policies, and Practices_ are pleased to announce the
release of Volume 21, number 1 (2004). The issue contains a number of articles that explore
e-government, governance, technology management, and information access and
dissemination policy issues.
Issue 1 articles include:
Designing electronic government information access programs: a holistic
approach, Pages 3-23 Sharon S. Dawes, Theresa A. Pardo and Anthony M. Cresswell
Screen level bureaucracy: Databases as public records, Pages 24-50 David
Landsbergen
A two-stage model of e-government growth: Theories and empirical
evidence for
An accessibility study of state legislative Web sites, Pages 65-85 Jody
Condit Fagan and Bryan Fagan
Learning by fire: the learning challenges facing U.S. Forest Service
aviation, Pages 86-98 Earl McKinney, Jr.
The Minitel and
Implementing a voluntary code on access to information: Nirex's
practical experience, Pages 108-112 Tim Barnes and John Dalton
Reviews include:
United State Government Information: Policies and Sources by Peter
Hernon, Harold C. Relyea, Robert E. Dugan, and Joan F. Cheverie. Libraries
Unlimited, 2002. xvii, 430 pp. CD Rom. $70.00 (Cloth), ISBN: 1-56308-978-5,
$50.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 1-56308-979-3, Pages 113-115 Charles R. McClure
Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis By Robert E. Lang. Washington
D.C. The Brookings Institution, 2003. 154 pp. $18.95 (paperback), ISBN
0-8157-0611-1, Pages 115-117 Marcy M. Allen
Information Management: Challenges in Managing and Preserving Electronic
Records United States General Accounting Office, GAO-02-586, June 2002, 77 pp.,
Pages 117-118 Valerie Glenn
The United States Department of the Interior Web site Visited July 2003,
Pages 119-121 Charles D. Bernholz
A Statistical History of the American Electorate Jerrold G. Rusk.
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The editors (see below) of _Government Information Quarterly: An International Journal of Information
Technology Management, Policies, and Practices_ are pleased to announce the
release of Volume 21, number 2 (2004). The issue contains a number of articles that explore
e-government, governance, technology management, and information access and
dissemination policy issues.
Issue 2 articles include:
1) One step forward, one step back? Restructuring, evolving policy, and
information management and technology in the
2) Implications of technological advances for access to the cultural
heritage of selected countries in sub-Saharan
3) Developing a one-stop government data model, Pages 156-169 Olivier
Glassey
4) Integrating knowledge management tools for government information,
Pages 170-198 Georgia Prokopiadou, Christos Papatheodorou and Dionysis Moschopoulos
5) The World Wide Web as an information system in
6) Exploring success factors for
system: behavioral perspectives from end users, Pages 219-234 Pin-Yu
Chu, Naiyi Hsiao, Fung-Wu Lee and Chun-Wei Chen
Review articles include:
7) The Environmental Protection Agency Web Site:
8) Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements:
Editors: Edmund Ozmanczyk and Anthony Mango. 3rd edition.
9) Cities, Politics, and Policy: A Comparative Analysis: John P. Pelissero (Editor).
10) DisabilityInfo.gov:
11) Marbury versus
12) Managing Web Usage in the Workplace: A Social, Ethical and Legal
Perspective: Murugan Anandarajan
and Claire Simmers. Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2002. vi, 376 pp. $74.95.
ISBN 1-930708-18-1. Pages 243-244 Susan
L. Kendall
13) The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the
Twenty-First
Century.: Seyom Brown.
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The editors (see below) of _Government Information Quarterly: An International Journal of Information
Technology Management, Policies, and Practices_ are pleased to announce the
release of Volume 21, number 3 (2004). The issue contains a number of articles that explore
e-government, governance, technology management, and information access and
dissemination policy issues.
Issue 3 articles include:
ORCON Creep: Information sharing and the threat to government
accountability, Pages 249-267 Alasdair Roberts
Communication technology at the Federal Communications Commission:
E-government in the public interest?, Pages 268-283 Michael A. McGregor and
JoAnne Holman
A comparison of the strategic priorities of public and private sector
information resource management executives, Pages 284-304 Mark A. Ward and
Scott Mitchell
Applying informetric methods to empirically assess the authoritativeness
of Health
Behind the Web site: An inside look at the production of Web-based
textual government information, Pages 337-358 Kristin R. Eschenfelder
Privacy, confidentiality, and data sharing: Issues and distinctions,
Pages 359-382 David McMillen
Reviews include:
Agency Web Pages--An Information Resource and a Public Relations Tool:
The USDA Example, Pages 383-390 Chuck Malone
Distance Documents: Continuing Education Workshops Delivered on the
Internet Documents Jump Start ($350), Legislative Sources ($180), Regulations,
($135). Prof. Judith Robinson, University at
Civil Society in the Information Age Peter I. Hajnal (editor).
Hampshire,
Managing Internet and Intranet Technologies in Organizations: Challenges
and Opportunities Edited by Subhasish Dasgupta.
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Science. The journal explores such
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government information; information technology management, implementation,
planning, and evaluation; information services development, management, and
provision in a distributed networked environment; e-commerce in governments;
service quality assessment, benchmarking, and performance measurement; and,
governing and governance in a networked environment.
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Volume 9 No. 3
is now availabe at http://InformationR.net/ir/
Apologies for multiple postings, if you are a 'registered reader'. If
you think you ARE a registered reader but have not received previous
notification of the issue, it probably means that you have changed your e-mail
address. Go to the registration page to re-register.
Here is the Editorial
Introduction
Although I find it difficult to keep count of submissions on a day by
day basis, I have the impression that the journal is attracting more. Our
readership base also continues to grow, with almost 3,000 registered users. I
imagine there would be at least 10,000 if the system was set up to require
registration and password use for access. In other words, we seem to have a
successful journal here and it is rather surprising to me that, following my
efforts to secure the future of the journal, only two universities appear to be
seriously interested in taking on the journal. A publisher is also interested
and would probably make the journal open access to non-institutional IP
addresses (that is, anyone accessing from a home computer would continue to use
the journal freely, while institutions would pay) and to institutions in certain
countries in the developing world and Central and Eastern Europe.
So - let me open a debate on this: how concerned would you be if
Information Research was to become only partly open access? And, if you are
seriously concerned, are you prepared to persuade your institution to
contribute to its survival? I do not keep detailed accounts of the time I spend
on the journal and what I do could be split over at least three persons, but,
as a ball-park figure, it would probably cost an organization about Ł8,000 a
year to reproduce what I do - unless, of course, people are prepared to do as I
do and take it on as a voluntary task. It would probably help the cause of open
access publishing if institutions rewarded staff for this role in the scholarly
communication process in the same way as they reward research outputs. After
all, the role is no less important.
You can communicate with me directly on this or send a message to the
Weblog. This issue
Part of this issue is taken up with papers representing research being
carried out at the Information Management Research Institute at
We also two more papers from the Digital Libraries conference in
Once again, let me remind organizers of conferences in 2004 who are
looking for an open source outlet for the papers are invited to contact me.
Finally, there are two more refereed papers - it's interesting that the
submission of Working Papers has declined to the point at which it may be
unnecessary to have that option; perhaps now that the journal has found its
place in the citation indexes, people are more prepared to put the effort into
preparing an acceptable paper.
Terrence A. Brooks presents an interesting view of the impact of the
Google search engine in the creation of what he calls a culture of 'lay
indexing'. That is, a situation in which what is retrieved depends not upon
original indexing - indeed, Google and other search engines i
If a large number of Web users
in the role of authors create content that points at certain Web pages, then it
is highly probable that those same Web pages presented as query results will
satisfy a large number of Web users in the role of searchers. In other words,
Google satisfies the average Web searcher so well because it has aggregated the
valuations of the average Web author. In this way, Google transforms Web
authors into lay indexers of Web content where the linkages they set is a
plebiscite for the most "important" Web pages.
No doubt the competition between Google and Yahoo! and the competition
between these and Microsoft's future search engine will result in more and more
ways to cluster documents in response to a search.
The other paper is also on digital libraries - not, in this case,
resulting from the
...architecture of a
distributed digital library for endangered languages which will contain various
data of endangered languages in the forms of text, image, video, audio and
include advanced tools for intelligent cataloguing, indexing, searching and browsing
information on languages and language analysis.
I hope you all enjoy this new issue and, remember, you can discuss the
papers by registering with the Information Research Weblog .
Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD
Publisher/Editor in Chief
Information Research
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Summer 2004
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The Summer 2004 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
is now available at:
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
* Access and Retrieval of
Recent Journal Articles: A Comparative Study
of Chemists and Geoscientists
by Julie Hallmark, The
* Death of an Encyclopedia
Salesman? The Fate of Science Reference
Resources in the Digital Age
by David Flaxbart,
* Building a RefWorks Database
of Faculty Publications as a Liaison and
Collection Development Tool
by Scott Marsalis and Julia
Kelly,
* Agriculture Journal
Literature Indexed in Life Sciences Databases
by
* Sustainable Agriculture and
Sustainable Forestry: A Bibliographic
Essay
by Caroline D. Harnly,
* The Web-Based Academic Field
Trip Bibliography: A Multi-Use Library
Tool
by Lura E. Joseph,
* Science, Technology and
Research Network (STARNET)
by Walter R. Blados, Research
and Technology Organization, NATO
REFEREED ARTICLES
* Access to International Plant
Sciences Journals - An Endangered
Species
by Kathy Fescemeyer, The
ACRL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SECTION
* ACRL Strategic Plan
Implementation: Science and Technology Section
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
* Selective Webliography for
Health Sciences Authors
by Mark A. Spasser, Jewish
Health Library
BOOK REVIEWS
* A History of
Reviewed by Gregory K.
Raschke,
* Chemistry Resources in the
Electronic Age
Reviewed by Mary Ann Mahoney,
* The Extreme Searcher's
Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious
Searcher
Reviewed by Margaret
Henderson,
* Biology Resources in the
Electronic Age and Biosciences on the
Internet: A Student's Guide
and Biosciences on the Internet : A
Student's Guide
Reviewed by Catherine
Jeanjean,
* Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology
Reviewed by David Flaxbart,
CONFERENCE REPORTS
* Special Libraries Association
2004 Annual Conference: Putting
Knowledge to Work
by Zsuzsa Koltay, Steven
Rockey, and Kizer Walker,
* Library Management in a
Changing Environment: 25th IATUL Conference
by Patricia B. Yocum,
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce 281
RESEARCH
Name That Tune: A Pilot Study in Finding a Melody From a Sung Query
Bryan Pardo, Jonah Shifrin, and William Birmingham 283 Published online
Pardo,
The Digital Reference Research Agenda
R. David Lankes
301
Published online
Lankes believes that the
interest in digital reference service has been primarily found among
practitioners, and thus the research agenda produced by the Harvard symposium
reported here will encourage the research community to address the topic.
Digital reference is defined as "the use of human intermediation to answer
questions in a digital environment." The central research question is
expressed as, "How can human expertise be effectively and efficiently
incorporated into information systems to answer user questions?" Other
questions concern measurement of costs and benefits, the architecture that
would be necessary and sufficient, the identification of information need through
questions, and the nature of satisfactory answers. The agenda assumes that
human expertise is a useful component and that digital reference is in some
sense different than traditional reference. Research in the area may be viewed
from a perspective of policy, of systems, of evaluation, or of behavior.
Reconfiguring Control in Library Collection Development: A Conceptual
Framework for Assessing the Shift Toward Electronic Collections
312
Published online
Covi and Cragin contend that
as a consequence of the shift in library collection development from an
ownership model to an access model, collections are exhibiting both breaks in
the continuity of scholarly publications and information masked by difficulty
with interface use or metadata inadequacy. A review of the current academic
library collection development milieu leads to the observation of a lack of a
conceptual framework to measure and evaluate the use of electronic sources. A
comparison of eight electronic versions of abstracting and indexing and full
text databases exhibits inconsistent availability of information on scope,
coverage, currency, selectivity, and authority.
Information-Seeking Behavior of Chemists: A Transaction Log Analysis of
Referral URLs
Philip M. Davis
326
Published online
An Information Processing Model of Undergraduate Electronic Database
Information Retrieval
Karen Macpherson
333
Published online
Macpherson models the
thinking processes underpinning electronic information retrieval in order to
generate teaching strategies on that subject. Her model is rooted in the
cognitive psychology concepts of declarative and procedural knowledge and the
Piaget-like stages of cognitive development, and is said to involve two stages,
problem recognition (an internal search of the individual's declarative
knowledge schema for appropriate central concepts) and a second stage, a production
(an iterative process where decision points are reviewed and appropriate
operations carried out). The second stage terminates in synthesis and
evaluation, which may lead to a return to stage one. On the assumption that
success in searching would be increased by teaching knowledge development for
information retrieval as well as searching procedure skills and that such
success would validate the model, 254 undergraduates were divided into an
experimental group which received technique and concept-based instruction and a
control group which received only skill-based search techniques. No differences
were found in pretests, but in the posttests the control group was
significantly lower than on the pretest and the experimental group
significantly higher. Of 12 variables examined in the retrieval assignment,
only number of concepts showed a significant difference in favor of the
experimental group.
The Added Value of Task and Ontology-Based Markup for Information
Retrieval
Suzanne Kabel, Robert de Hoog, Bob J. Wielinga, and Anjo Anjewierden
348
Published online
Kabel, et alia, believe that
retrieval is enhanced if highly structured concept spaces (controlled indexing
languages) include work task concepts as well as core content. Such enhancement
is expected to involve both a qualitative increase in work task outcome and a
decrease in the effort required. A domain ontology provides descriptors for the
topic at hand (in this case Gorillas, and it is limited to physical, mental,
social, behavioral, and communicative). A task or description ontology provides
multiple roles for concepts derived from document content by providing types of
description, for example, generality and possible instructional use). Seventy
psychology students were divided into three groups, one using keywords only,
one using the structured domain ontology, and the third having the descriptive
ontology as well. They searched a database of 250 keyword described pictures
and text fragments, and made use of their retrievals in the creation of lesson
plans for which templates were provided. Plan quality was assessed by three
coders, and measures of efficiency and effectiveness based upon relevant
fragments, total fragments, fragments observed, and fragments used, were computed.
Efficiency differences are not statistically significant, but effectiveness
differences are. Quality criteria are not significantly different across the
treatments.
BOOK REVIEWS
Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization, by
Chaomei Chen
Jesper W. Schneider
363
Published online
Understanding Reference Transactions: Transforming an Art Into a
Science, by Matthew L. Saxton and John V. Richardson, Jr.
Denise E. Agosto
365
Published online
Chat Reference: A Guide to Live Virtual Reference Services, by Jana
Smith Ronan
Lorri Mon
366
Published online
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 369
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Special Topic Issue of JASIST: Soft Approaches to Information Retrieval
and
Information Access on the Web
372
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004: Global Reach and
Diverse
Impact
373
The ASIS web site <http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html>
contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from January
1993 (Volume 44) to date.
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includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents
and abstracts. Registered users of the
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EDITORIAL
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
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RESEARCH
Information Retrieval by Metabrowsing
F. Wiesman, H.J. van den Herik, and A. Hasman
Published online
565
Wiesman, van den Herik, and
Hasman consider six difficulties in information retrieval: expression of
information need, communication of that need to the system, implicit
inter-human communication, indexing consistency, reliability of retrieved
items, and the need of the searcher for five distinct knowledge types (system
procedural, domain, search strategy, indexing policy, and search tactics).
Since humans are good at recognizing relevance but not at describing it,
browsing can overcome these difficulties. In particular they suggest
metabrowsing, the browsing of information about documents’ domain, contents,
location, and relations to other documents, rather than of the documents
themselves. They represent domain with a simplified version of the Unified
Medical Language System and use 36,000 1995 Medline records for documents, each
linked to the domain file by their assigned primary or secondary index terms. A
key term is chosen from an alphabetical list, its preferred term is
substituted, and a window opened around this preferred term in the domain.
Related terms may be added to this window with arcs indicating the relation
type and clickable definitions. A new screen will give sub-terms of the chosen
term and links to documents so indexed. The document’s other terms can be
displayed or its content presented. Bookmarking, backtracking, and a history
list provide for reorientation, if needed. A test group of 24 second- and
fourth-year medical students used the system and WinSpires on the same file
with three questions designed by domain experts who also evaluated the
retrieved documents. Overall, there was no significant difference in
effectiveness or user satisfaction, and the system was less efficient for
fourth-year students who also were more satisfied with WinSpires.
Improving Performance of Text Categorization by Combining Filtering and
Support Vector Machines Irene Díaz, José Ranilla, Elena Montańes, Javier
Fernández, and Elías F. Combarro
Published online
579
Diaz et alia believe text
categorization, the automatic classification of documents reduced to weighted
stem counts and, in this case, assigned to categories by a Support Vector
Machine (SVM), can be improved by feature reduction techniques despite the
SVM’s unique capability of handling large feature spaces. They compare the
effect of term frequency, inverse document frequency, and information gain, as
reduction techniques on expert classed collections; the Reuters-21578 corpus,
and three subsets of the Osmand Medline collection, using fixed training sets
and parameters for the SVM. They define precision as the number of true
positives over the sum of the number of true and false positives; and recall as
the number of true positives over the sum of the number of true positives and
false negatives and use van Rijsbergn’s combined measure with equal weights.
The filtering has no effect on precision, but all methods provide a significant
improvement in recall, and thus the combined measure, over unreduced text.
Information gain is the best performer at aggressive filtering levels.
A Formal Knowledge Management Ontology: Conduct, Activities, Resources,
and Influences C.W. Holsapple and K.D. Joshi
Published online
593
Holsapple and Joshi develop
an ontology, or set of definitions and axioms, which can be used to characterize
knowledge management as a discipline. The goal is to identify and express the
knowledge manipulation activities that fall within that domain. They begin by
setting the conditions for their design, namely, that their result occurs in
business settings, describes KM phenomena, and captures concepts at two or more
levels of detail. Then, they collected KM case studies, surveys, and articles
as a source for terminology, and chose terms via multiple iterations until
their satisfaction as to helpfulness, comprehensiveness, and unification was
attained. Interacting by questionnaire with a panel of 31 KM researchers and
practitioners, the four initial components of their framework (conduct,
resources, knowledge manipulation, and KM influences) were reviewed for
completeness, accuracy, clarity, and conciseness and the whole reviewed for
utility, comprehensiveness, unification, and limitations. The resulting
revision along with a summary of comments was again sent to the panel,
evaluated by questionnaire, and the process repeated until no further revision
occurred. Ninety-four percent of panelists were at least moderately satisfied
with the ontology. Eighty-one percent felt the ontology was at least moderately
successful in terms of providing a unified and comprehensive view. Sixty
percent considered the result to be either helpful or extremely helpful to
researchers, and 70% felt it was at least moderately helpful to practitioners.
An Entropy-Based Interpretation of Retrieval Status Value-Based
Retrieval, and Its Application to the Computation of Term and Query
Discrimination Value Sándor Dominich, Júlia Góth, Tamás Kiezer, and Zoltán
Szlávik
Published online
613
Dominich et alia show that
any Retrieval Status Value (RSV) based retrieval model can be seen as a
probability space where the amount of associated Shannon-type information is
decreased by retrieval operations, that is to say, as an Uncertainty Decreasing
Operation (UDO) probability space. Thus, a term’s discrimination value can be
based upon its reduction of the UDO space entropy, rather than upon its
reduction of Euclidean space as in the vector space model, and term
discrimination values become available to any RSV system. The term
discrimination values (TDV) for an 82 document ADI test collection that gave
915 terms, time stop listed and Porter stemmed, were computed by each method.
About half the terms using UDO have a 100% TDV, and each such term has a
positive vector space based TDV indicating agreement on good discrimination. Most
of the terms with UDO based TDV between 80% and 100% have positive vector space
based TDVs, while those between 40% and 80% have near-zero vector space
discrimination values. UDO may be used to compute a discrimination value for
queries, and such values were computed for 35 ADI test queries. The fewer
relevant answers a query has, the higher its discrimination value was found to
be, except for query 27 where all terms have very high document frequencies and
the query is extremely general. Retrieval tests on ADI using both weights
indicates that UDO weights enhance precision at recall levels above 50%, but
perform equally at lower recall levels. Tests on three additional databases of
various similarity measures show that dot product reduces entropy to the greatest
extent and that cosine produces the least entropy reduction. The use of
normalized frequency weighting reduces entropy to the greatest extent, while
lack of normalization gave the least entropy reduction. UDO is faster, and less
restrictive.
The Effects of Fitness Functions on Genetic Programming-Based Ranking
Discovery for Web Search Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox, Praveen Pathak, and Harris
Wu
Published online
628
Fan et alia find fitness
function design important in the improvement of Genetic Programming based
ranking functions for Web retrieval. Candidate ranking functions are
represented as individuals in a GP population tree structure and evolved to
find those with better fitness values. Average precision, which does not preserve
rank order information, has been the reasonably effective common fitness
function, but other possibilities may improve performance. The ideal utility
function preserves rank order information and is non-linear with high values
for documents ranked at the top of the list and quickly losing value as the
rank increases. Four functions are designed to meet these requirements. Chang
and Kwok and Lopez-Pujalte et alia each provide functions that preserve rank
order information with the Lopez-Pujalte function incorporating negative values
for nonrelevant documents. As an experimental baseline, the Okapi BM25 ranking
formula is used with the TREC 10GB collection of 1.69 million documents and 100
queries from TREC 9 and TREC 10 in a vector space format. The fitness function
in use had a noticeable effect on performance with three of the new functions
showing strong improvement.
Query Association Surrogates for Web Search
Falk Scholer, Hugh E. Williams, and Andrew Turpin
Published online
637
Scholer, Williams, and Turpin
construct document surrogates by supplementing existing document texts with
terms from queries that dropped these documents as the top N (thirty nine) of a
retrieved list based upon the Okapi BM25 similarity measure, and limiting such
supplementation to M
(nineteen) queries per document. When the set limits are reached, new
query terms with higher similarity measures can supplant those in existence.
However, only terms that appear in the document as well as the associated query
may be added to the surrogate, so that it is the weight of these terms that
changes in the document surrogate. They also create surrogates that are a set
of such query terms without the original document surrogate. The 1.69 million
Web documents of TREC WT10g make up the experimental collection, which is
searched for title word strings (stop listed but not stemmed) from 50 queries
each from TREC-9 and TREC-2001 without relevance feedback. Queries for creation
of supplements came from some 900,000 logged Excite queries. Query association
improved mean average precision by 4.3%, and mean average precision at 10 by
7%. Adding anchor terms has no effect on queries that did well, but, this
reduces performance of those below the baseline even further. Query term surrogates
without full text are 6% less effective under average precision at 10 than text
alone. Query associations did not appear helpful for named page finding, and a
dynamic parameter setting for M and N does not lead to improvement.
BOOK REVIEWS
A History of
Published online
651
Research Questions for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Mary Jo Lynch
Lydia Eato Harris
Published online
652
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1993 (Volume 44) to date.
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includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents
and abstracts. Registered users of the
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Inaugural Issue
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The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net/
(JoCI) is pleased to announce the online availability of its Inaugural Issue http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php
. JoCI is a peer-reviewed Open Archive
on-line quarterly journal for and by the Community Informatics research
community and produced under the auspices of the Community Informatics Research
Network (CIRN) http://www.ci-research.net
This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members of
the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through position
papers, scholarly papers and other materials.
The issue includes:
An introduction (in part through video) to the work of K-Net, an
aboriginal group in Northern Canada which is innovating in the use of ICT for
education, for administration, for health and perhaps most importantly, is
demonstrating the way in which ICT truly can enable AND empower communities to
move beyond traditional barriers and impediments to find a new and more
equitable role in the Information Society.
(Beaton)
A description of an ambitious current research project examining the
impacts and outcomes of government support for community technology in
A presentation of a most important rural ICT initiative whose current
success is transforming large areas of rural
An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed
Country (South Africa) as a base for a highly innovative program of CI for
community transformation (Erwin and Taylor)
A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with
respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might go from
here by three key actors in these developments. (Menou, Delgadillo and Stoll)
A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of
ICT in the context of Human Capital development and giving most useful
directions for future research as well as community practice towards this end.
(Pigg and Crank)
A most original and insightful critique of current thinking and
approaches to ICT for Development (Robinson)
A path breaking approach to applying an analysis drawn from the methods
and insights of Social Anthropology to ICT design and development as a response
to rural poverty (
A brave and insightful analysis of the opportunities and risks that are
attendant to ICT in a most important but largely unknown part of the world.
(Stafeev) and
A document presenting the current "state of play" for a leader
in supporting ICT use by women in local communities (Webb and Jones) .
The second issue which will appear
Each issue will include, in addition to peer reviewed articles, a Review
section, documents and reports of CI significance, and commentaries on peer
reviewed papers by leading CI practitioners and those with a policy interest in
CI and related matters.
The Editorial Board (for the Inaugural Issue)
Editor-in-Chief
Michael B. Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Editor: Reviews
Peter Day,
Editor:
Michel J. Menou,
Editor: Information Systems Research
Donald Schauder,
Editor: Rural and Remote
Wallace Taylor,
Editor: Layout and Design
Sergei Stafeev, CCNS,
Editorial Board
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Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Lishan Adam,
Carlos Afonso, Rede de Informacoes
Andrew Clement,
Barbara
Peter Day,
Fiorella De Cindio,
Joan Durrance,
Susana Finquelievich,
Heather Hudson,
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology,
Herbert Kubicek,
Brian Loader,
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Michel Menou, France
Kenneth Pigg,
Madanmohan Rao, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC),
Scott Robinson,
Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation,
Donald Schauder,
Doug Schuler, Evergreen
Leslie Shade,
Yero Sylla,
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Africa Victor Tischenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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New applications of Knowledge Organization Systems: free JoDI special issue
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Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (KOS), such as classifications,
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and facilitate resource discovery and retrieval, whether by humans or by
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Editorial: New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems: introduction
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vocabularies, the focus of the work of the OCLC Terminology Services Project,
then discuss KOS service protocols and interfaces studied at the University of
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the ADEPT project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and finally
present a theoretical and historical foundation of a Semantic Web for Culture.
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Binding, D. Tudhope = KOS at your Service: Programmatic Access to Knowledge
Organisation Systems T. Smith, M. Zeng = Building Semantic Tools for
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Call for Papers
The Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (ICES)
is an established quality refereed publication which provides an
interdisciplinary and international perspective on the impacts of new media and
information and communication technologies on society, organisations, the
environment and individuals.
Recent papers have, amongst other topics, covered aspects of surveillance,
biometrics, hacking, online communities, copyright, open source software and
e-business.
High quality unpublished work from academics and practitioners is
welcomed for consideration. Such work might be conceptual, visionary, empirical
or policy focused, or any combination of these. It might be written from a
single disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective.
Papers can cover any sector such as agriculture, commerce, education,
finance, government, health, industry, leisure, media and transport. All topics
in the area of social and ethical issues are acceptable.
It is acceptable to consider all or any of the stakeholders such as
clients, communities, customers, developers, owners, policy makers, users and
vendors. Quality papers that have a broader
focus than the US/UK are particularly welcome.
Submissions should be prepared and submitted following the guidelines at
http://www.troubador.co.uk/ices/submissions.asp. However authors may additionally contact the
editors to enquire about the suitability of the subject matter for a paper
prior to submission. The editors can be
emailed at nbf@dmu.ac.uk.
Those organising appropriate conferences might wish to consider
discussing an arrangement for the best papers from the conference to appear as
a special section - please contact the editors at nbf@dmu.ac.uk.
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editor for Library Hi-Tech News, a journal published ten times each year. My
specific responsibility and interest is in soliciting reports of conferences
held outside the
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1. Library Management & Information Services - Viewpoint &
Article 2. Library Link News 3. Library Technology Links 4. Just published in
"Library Management" journal 5. Emerald sponsors eVALUEd conference
6. 2003 management journal rankings now available 7. Feedback
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1. Library Management & Information Services - Viewpoint &
Article
The Uniqueness of Knowledge Management - or the Emperor's New Clothes?
Professor G E Gorman Read the full viewpoint at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/librarylink/management
Related Articles:
Darroch, J. (2003) 'Developing a Measure of Knowledge Management
Behaviors and Practices'. Journal of Knowledge Management 7, 5: 41-54
Diakoulakis, I.E.; Georgopoulos, N.B.; Koulouriotis, D.E.; and Emiris,
D.M.
(2004) 'Towards a Holistic Knowledge Management Model'. Journal of
Knowledge Management 8, 1: 32-46
Snyman, R., and Kruger, C.J. (2004) 'The Interdependency between
Strategic Management and Strategic Knowledge Management'. Journal of Knowledge
Management 8, 1: 5-19
Styhre, A. (2003) 'Knowledge Management beyond Codification: Knowing as
Practice/Concept'. Journal of Knowledge Management 7, 5: 32-40
Takahashi, T., and Vandenbrink, D. (2004) 'Formative Knowledge: From
Knowledge Dichotomy to Knowledge Geography - Knowledge Management Transformed
by the Ubiquitous Information Society'. Journal of Knowledge Management 8, 1:
64-76
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4. Just published in "Library Management" journal.
Just published by Bernard F Reilly Jr in "Library Management"
journal: A report from the conference "Preserving America's Printed
Resources: The Roles of Repositories, Depositories, and Collections of
Record", organized by the Center for Research Libraries. This was a
two-part event held in Chicago, 21-22 July 2003, and this report summarizes the
second part, which was an extended discussion on the theme of repositories and
collections of record, asking "How can libraries work together to optimize
management of the nation's knowledge resources in printed form?" The
intended outcome of the discussion was to be an agenda consisting of realistic
near- and long-term national-level actions, and identifying the appropriate
participants in those activities and the roles those participants might play.
Go to http://www.emeraldinsight.com/lm.htm
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Library Evaluation in Practice: Electronic Information Services in
Higher Education
Emerald is delighted to support the eVALUEd conference. The one-day
event aimed at library, practitioners, researchers and others which forms part
of the HEFCE-funded evalued project which is based at the UCE.
There will be a keynote address by Professor Charles McClure of Florida
State University, who has been a consultant to the project, and a range of
speakers in addressing current issues in the evaluation of Electronic
Information Services (EIS) in Higher Education including: the e-metrics
project; the emeasures project; selection criteria for e-resources; performance
management; projectCOUNTER; and extending LIBQUAL+ to the digital environment.
The day will conclude with a panel drawn from the speakers who discuss a
key topic.
Booking form and programme are available at http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/evalued/conference.htm
For further information please contact Sarah.McNicol@uce.ac.uk
The conference proceedings will be published in VINE: The Journal of
Information and Knowledge Management Systems
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vine.htm)
later in the year.
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Vital for librarians, editors, researchers and publishers, the latest
Emerald Management Reviews annual journal performance rankings have just been
made available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/reviews/awards/golden.htm
along with details of this year's Golden Page Award winners.
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Library Link Newsletter - August 2004
Knowledge & Networks
August 2004
Welcome
To the August issue of Knowledge and Networks, the official newsletter
of Emerald Library Link. We publish monthly and include a round up of
interesting papers currently available at the Library Link website as well as a
summary of the newest articles published by Emerald.
'Knowledge and Networks' will keep you up to date with links to useful
articles, case studies, and practical advice on managing your library and
increasing its appeal to library users.
We also pinpoint other websites and news items that may be of interest
to you.
A subscription to Knowledge Networks is free to members of Library Link
and comprises 12 online issues per annum.
New Look Library Link
We are pleased to present the new look Library Link website, which has
been designed following consultation with practising librarians and information
professionals world-wide. The website will publish regular articles on
Information management, general management, marketing your library and how to
get published. New features include guru interviews, Emerald alerts, user
surveys, and resources to integrate Emerald products into your library. We even
have access to Emerald fulltext content from Library Link, which means that
subscribers can have an immediate seamless link to the fulltext content they
need.
1. New on Site
- Information Management
"Knowledge Management and Special Libraries - Amicable Companions
or Uneasy Bedfellows" http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/info/vi
ewpoint.htm
By David Tan, Resource Centre Manager, Coles Myer Research, Coles Myer
Ltd.
This viewpoint discusses the role played by corporate librarians in
Knowledge Management and how they can manage this role more effectively.
"Administrative Metadata" http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/info/cu
rves/curves5.htm
By Dr Dan Dorner, Library and Information Management Programmes
Director,
This Learning Curve discusses administrative metadata for managing
digital resources. In particular, articles in recent issues of VINE, Library Hi
Tech and OCLC Systems & Services are cited as resources that can be used as
good points of introduction to the subject.
"Riding the knowledge management wave to job security" http://ceres.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/info/
viewpoint1.htm
By Dr David J Pauleen
This viewpoint considers whether Librarians and Information
Professionals could be working themselves out of a job by embracing new
technology in a similar way to the Chief Electricity Officers at the turn of
the 20th Century.
- Management Resources
"Scenario planning: persuading operating managers to take
ownership" http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/managem
ent/articles/article130.htm
By Gill Ringland. Strategy & Leadership Volume 31 Number 6 2003 pp.
22-28
Information services within the corporate and commercial sector may have
some experience of scenario planning to the extent that they are part of, or
affected by, these scenarios. But libraries serving the general public,
government department libraries and academic libraries have largely escaped
this new approach at future forecasting.
2. Emerald Features
- New Editor of Performance Measurement and Metrics
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Linda Banwell as
Editor of Performance Measurement and Metrics: The International Journal for
Library and Information Services. Dr Banwell is Director of the Information
Management Research Institute in the
Articles for Performance Measurement and Metrics: The International
Journal for Library and Information Services should be sent to the Editor: Dr
Linda Banwell, Director, Information Management Research Institute,
mailto:linda.banwell@northumbria.ac.uk
To learn more about Performance Measurement and Metrics please
click follow the link: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/journal
s.htm
- Meet the Editor
Dr Linda Banwell will be attending ISIC 2004 in
- Noteworthy papers
By highlighting papers from our LIS journals, which we think are
interesting or even controversial we believe we can inform you about the best,
save you time and effort and encourage dialogue.
"What's the "big deal", and why is it a bad deal for
universities?" http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/02641615
/v32n2/contp1-1.htm
David Ball
ILDS Vol. 32 No. 2, 2004
"Professional LIS associations should rise to the challenge of
promoting open access and lead by example" http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/07419058
/v21n4/contp1-1.htm
Morrison,
LHTN Vol. 21 No. 4 May, 2004
"Clinical medical librarian to clinical informationist" http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=5935640/cl=32/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/00907324
/v32n1/contp1-1.htm
Helen Ann Brown
RSR Vol 32 No. 1, 2004
"Metadata and cataloguing practices"
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TEL Vol. 22 No. 3, 2004
Emerald News
- Emerald Recruits Academic Advisors http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=20561756/cl=52/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/news/a
dvisors.htm
- Emerald has become a partner in the Stanford LOCKSS (Lots of Copies
Keep Stuff Safe) program http://lockss.stanford.edu/
- Emerald announces 2005 doctoral research awards http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2056176/cl=52/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/news/do
ctoral.htm
- Emerald introduces Emerald Management Xtra http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2056176/cl=52/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/news/em
x.htm
- Emeralds Copyright policy statement - July 2004 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2056176/cl=52/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/news/co
pyright.htm
3. Services Highlight
- Emerald and Library Link at IFLA 2004,
The 2004 Library Link Workshop and lunch are being held at the Crowne
Plaza Panamericano,
A) Is the traditional library journal dead? How best to get published
B) The
- Meet the Emerald Editor Sessions
Some of our world-renowned editors will be joining Emerald staff at the
Emerald booth.
- Linda Ashcroft, Editor of New Library World
- Lucy Tedd, Editor of Program: electronic library and information
systems
- Nicholas Joint, Editor of Library Review
- Julia Gelfand, Editor of Library Hi-Tech News
- Gary Gorman, Editor of
- Emerald Editor/Editorial Advisory Board members making presentations
- Julia Gelfand (Editor Library High-Tech News) - will be Chairing the
Science & Technology Section and has arranged and open session on 24th
August from
- Linda Ashcroft (Editor New Library World) - is presenting "ICT
skills for information professionals in developing countries: perspectives from
a study of the electronic information environment in
- Lucy Tedd (Editor Program) - will be presenting "LIS journal
usage in masters' dissertations: experiences at the
- Hannelore Radar (EAB Reference Services Reviews) - will be presenting "Information literacy
for lifelong learning" to the Information Literacy with
- Delegates are invited to attend the meeting about LIS journals
Emerald publishes more library and information management journals than
anyone else, and so supports the work of the IFLA special interest group - the
LIS Journals Section (see http://www.ifla.org/VII/s45/slisj.htm) - which represents the interests of this form
of professional communication. The Section has an exciting programme planned for
Thursday 26 August
Session 149. 16.00-18.00: LIS
Journals for continuing professional education
- Latin American journals in library and information science
- RUBÉN URBIZAGÁSTEGUI ALVARADO (
- LIS journals as a source of evidence for evidence-based practice: the
case of School Libraries Worldwide L. ANNE CLYDE (University of Iceland,
Reykjavik, Iceland) and DIANNE OBERG (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
- Información, cultura y sociedad: a contribution to the professional
literacy in Argentina SUSANA ROMANOS DE TIRATEL, ALEJANDRO E. PARADA, PEDRO
FALCATO and GRACIELA M. GIUNTI (Universidad de Buenos Aires & CIME división
CID Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Citations and links as a measure of effectiveness of online LIS
journals ALASTAIR G. SMITH (Victoria University of Wellington,
- LIS Journal usage in masters' dissertations: experiences at the
- Library and information science journal as a tool for continuing
professional development in
Lucy A. Tedd is editor of the Emerald journal Program: electronic
library and information systems (see http://www.emeraldinsight.com/prog.htm).
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GSLIS Publications Office [puboff@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu] Sat 8/05/2004
[Asis-l] New Library Trends Available
Now available from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library
and Information Science Publications Office:
Library Trends, 52(3), Winter 2004
"The Philsophy of Information" edited by
Single copies are $28, including postage. Subscription rates for the
quarterly are: Institutional, $105 per volume ($112 for international
subscribers); Individual, $75 per volume ($82 for international subscribers);
and Student, $30 per volume ($37 for international subscribers). ISSN 0024-2594
Order single copies or subscriptions from the University of Illinois Press,
Journals Department, 1325 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820; 1-866-244-0626;
fax: 217-244-9910; e-mail: journals@uillinois.edu.
Luciano Floridi's 1999 monograph, Philosophy and Computing: An
Introduction, provided the impetus for the theme of this issue, more for what
it did not say about librarianship and information studies (LIS) than
otherwise. Following the pioneering works of Wilson, Nitecki, Buckland, and
Capurro (plus many of the authors of this issue), researchers in LIS have
increasingly turned to the efficacy of philosophical discourse in probing the
more fundamental aspects of our theories, including those involving the
information concept. A foundational approach to the nature of information,
however, has not been realized, either in partial or accomplished steps, nor
even as an agreed, theoretical research objective. It is puzzling that while
librarianship, in the most expansive sense of all LIS-related professions, past
and present, at its best sustains a climate of thought, both comprehensive and
nonexclusive, information itself as the subject of study has defied our
abilities to generalize and synthesize effectively. Perhaps during periods of
reassessment and justification for library services, as well as in times of
curricular review and continuing scholarly evaluation of perceived information
demand, the necessity for every single stated position to be clarified appears
to be exaggerated. Despite this, the important question does keep surfacing as
to how information relates to who we are and what we do in LIS.
---From the Introduction by
Articles and Authors Include:
"Information and Its Philosophy," Ian Cornelius
"Documentation Redux: Prolegomenon to (Another) Philosophy of
Information," Bernd Frohmann
"Community as Event," Ronald E. Day
"Information Studies Without Information," Jonathan Furner
"Relevance: Language, Semantics, Philosophy," John M. Budd
"On Verifying the Accuracy of Information: Philosophical
Perspectives," Don Fallis
"Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information
Science," Birger Hjřrland
"Knowledge Profiling: The Basis for Knowledge Organization,"
Torkild Thellefsen
"Classification and Categorization: A Difference that Makes a
Difference," Elin K. Jacob
"Faceted Classification and Logical Division in Information
Retrieval," Jack Mills
"The Epistemological Foundations of Knowledge Representations,"
Elaine Svenonius
"Classification, Rhetoric, and the Classificatory Horizon,"
Stephen Paling
"The Ubiquitous Hierarchy: An Army to Overcome the Threat of a
Mob," Hope A. Olson
"A Human Information Behavior Approach to a Philosophy of
Information," Amanda Spink and Charles Cole
"Cybersemiotics and the Problems of the Information-Processing
Paradigm as a Candidate for a Unified Science of Information Behind Library
Information Science," Sřren Brier
"LIS as Applied Philosophy of Information: A Reappraisal,"
Luciano Floridi
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i.m.johnson@RGU.AC.UK Wed 14/04/2004
Measuring for Sustainability: A
Multi-dimensional Measurement Framework for Library and Information Services
Martie J van Deventer and Retha (MMM) Snyman
CSIR Information Services,
Knowledge economy literature indicates that proof of an organization’s sustainable future and growth lies in multi-dimensional evaluation rather than in the traditional one-dimensional monetary or financial capital perspective. This article attempts to provide a multi-dimensional framework within which a library and information service (L&IS) could measure its performance. As prerequisite, for implementation of the stated framework, the L&IS management (and staff) needed to understand that:
· measuring should be done for local development and progress using the L&IS’s mission and a strategy for a sustainable future as the focal areas;
·
sustainability
requires more than providing proof of spending the stakeholder’s money wisely; and
·
adding
value for the customer in isolation also does not ensure sustainability.
In order
to be sustainable in the knowledge economy it is necessary to understand that
the relationships between the human, structure, customer and stakeholder capitals
are vital. The L&IS sector would therefore, in the first instance, be
required to ensure that customers could trust that they are receiving the
services and products that maximise their own productivity and asset
utilization. Secondly L&IS stakeholders would need to be assured that they
are receiving the best value for their investment. Lastly, but perhaps most
importantly, L&IS staff would have to be assured that they have the
necessary skills and resources to provide for a motivating environment and that
the infrastructure created will ensure continuous improvement for all.
Trickle-Down Technology: Full Text Access
to Journals in the
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), produced and published by the Latin American Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, is an example of a relatively small, multilingual, specialized bibliographic database developed in the early 1970s that has managed to stay abreast of technological innovations in the field of information science to the extent that it now offers links to full text articles for many of its citations. HAPI indexes the contents of nearly 550 scholarly journals, published throughout the world and of interest to Latin Americanists. Subject coverage includes all areas of the social sciences and the humanities. Although HAPI operates on a small budget and with a minimal staff, it was initially developed in computerized format and has always been a leader among non-commercial databases in providing technologically current forms of access, via Telnet in 1992 and on CD-ROM the next year. Its Web site opened in 1997. Links to full text articles were released to subscribers in December 2003. This article chronicles HAPI’s history, describes its contents, and offers a detailed picture of its full text linking service as well as plans for future developments.
Use
and User Perception of Electronic Resources in the United Arab Emirates
University (UAEU)
Ahmed
Elhafiz Ibrahim
United Arab
Emirates University, Libraries Deanship, Al-Ain, UAE
This study reports findings from a survey conducted to measure the use and perception of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) faculty members of electronic resources. Questionnaires were sent to a sample of 140 faculty members. Responses were received from 125 (89%) faculty members. Analysis confirmed frequency of use of electronic resources was low. Reasons cited were lack of time because of the time needed to focus on teaching; lack of awareness to electronic resources provided by the library; ineffective communication channels, and language barrier.
Conceptions
of Bibliography in the Russian Federation: The Russian Phenomenon of
Bibliographic Theory
Elena
Macevičiūtė and Osvaldas Janonis
Swedish
School of Library and Information Science, University College of Boras, Sweden,
and Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania
This
article aims to explain the essence of the theory of bibliography as it has
developed in
Methods
for Analysing Web Citations:A Study of Web-Coupling in a Closed Environment
Cristina
Faba-Pérez¸ Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, and Félix De Moya-Anegón
University
of Extremadura, Library and Information Science Faculty, Badajoz, Spain, and
University of Granada, Library and Information Science Faculty, Granada, Spain
To reveal the structure of the relationships that establish themselves on the World Wide Web, one needs to apply tools that faithfully represent the virtual environment. Some of the most interesting relationships are those that are brought to light by Web-coupling (the Web analogue of bibliographic coupling). We here propose an analysis of this type based on the common links that are generated within a closed Web environment, using multivariate statistics (principal component analysis, and multidimensional scaling) and a connection-based technique (Kohonen's self-organizing maps). The results show that it is possible to use the common links of Web spaces in order to reveal the structures and the underlying relationships in a thematic closed environment.
Information
Seeking Behaviour of the Informal Sector Entrepreneurs:
The Uganda Experience
Robert
Ikoja-Odongo and Dennis N. Ocholla
East African
School of Library and Information Science, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda;
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa
South Africa
This
article reports the results of a study aimed at identifying the information
needs and uses of the informal sector in
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Contents of LIBRI: international journal of libraries and information services, 54 (2) June 2004
Profile of LIS Applicants Selecting
Different Specialisations
CHRISTOPHER S.G. KHOO and CHENNUPATI K. RAMAIAH
A Study of Israeli Library and Information
Science Students’ Perceptions of Their Profession
SHIFRA BARUCHSON-ARBIB and SHERRY MENDELOVITZ
Universal access through time: archiving
strategies for digital publications
WIM VAN DRIMMELEN
Commercial Libraries in an
LISA KLOPFER
Academic
Authors and Open Archives: A Survey in the Social Science Field
EUGENIO
PELIZZARI
Content
on Agricultural Research Organisation Web Sites: A Study of International
Trends
JUSTIN
CHISENGA
Measuring
University Library Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis
GERHARD
REICHMANN
ABSTRACTS FOLLOW BELOW
Profile
of LIS Applicants Selecting Different Specialisations
CHRISTOPHER
S.G. KHOO and CHENNUPATI K. RAMAIAH
The Division of Information Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, revised its curriculum in 2000 and defined eight areas of specialisation. Applicants to the MSc (Information Studies) programme were asked to fill out a questionnaire and indicate the specialisation and the subjects in which they were interested. A cluster analysis of students based on the subjects they selected identified four clusters of students corresponding to the following areas: library service, digital library, information technology, and knowledge management. A statistical analysis was then performed to identify the characteristics and background of applicants selecting the various specialisations and belonging to the different clusters. Applicants selecting different specialisations were found to have different profiles, educational and employment backgrounds. Age and gender differences were also found. Applicants tend to select the specialisation that is related to their educational and employment background. Teachers tend to select the school libraries specialisation; people with finance, business and accountancy background tend to select corporate information services and knowledge management; and IT workers tend to select information systems. The library specialisations tend to be selected by arts & social sciences graduates, whereas science and technology graduates prefer information systems and the Internet specialisations. However, the Internet specialisation appears to cut across all sectors, with applicants from every industry selecting it. Gender and age differences were also found. The public library and school library specialisations tend to attract female applicants. The library specialisations also attract older applicants than the information systems and Internet specialisations. Men and younger applicants are more interested in IT subjects, and the knowledge management area tends to be selected by slightly older applicants and male business/accountancy graduates.
A Study
of Israeli Library and Information Science Students’ Perceptions of Their
Profession
SHIFRA
BARUCHSON-ARBIB and SHERRY MENDELOVITZ
As the librarian’s traditional roles undergo significant changes reflecting the transition from the world of print to the digital world, we focus on Israeli LIS students’ responses to these changes. Our study examined the attitudes and perceptions of 180 Israeli students regarding the relationship between librarianship and information science as professions, the roles of librarians and information scientists, potential places of employment for librarians and information scientists, comparative status and prestige of librarians and information scientists and finally, students own individual career preferences. Although most students believed that both professions are related, they attributed higher status and prestige to information science. Information science was also perceived as more highly associated with computer technologies. In general, students aspired to be information scientists. As future representatives of their professions in both private and public work settings, their attitudes and preferences will undoubtedly affect the nature of the profession. The present study is significant in a period of transition as schools of librarianship and information science modify their curricula and cope with the technological innovations impacting the traditional nature of librarianship.
Universal
access through time: archiving strategies for digital publications
WIM VAN
DRIMMELEN
The author’s definition of a permanent archive or electronic deposit distinguishes between its aim of long term preservation and the goals of Open Access, contrasts its probably limited search and retrieval system with the functionality of a publisher’s site, and indicates that while it should be compliant with the Open Archives Information System (OAIS) it need not offer the unrestricted access sought by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Libraries maintain paper-based archives of publications, often duplicating collections, without publishers taking an active part, but a single copy of a digital object can be accessed globally. Digital objects can be changed easily, may have a technically short lifespan, and their volume and variety is growing rapidly. The key concepts in the preservation of electronic media are refreshing, migration, and emulation. All make regular demands on the archiving institution’s resources, and require a long-term commitment. The LOCKSS strategy and institutional repositories do not address the issues of long-term preservation. Very few individual libraries or large library cooperatives have the resources to accept this global responsibility. Publishers need to support these permanent archives because their customers expect them to do so, and because it would help if long-term preservation needs were recognised when new developments were being planned. The costs of permanent archiving must also be shared amongst the user community.
Commercial Libraries in an
LISA KLOPFER
In this
report of research currently underway on libraries in the city of
Academic
Authors and Open Archives: A Survey in the Social Science Field
EUGENIO
PELIZZARI
The paper reports on a survey of the academic staff of the Faculties of Economics and Law of the University of Brescia, Italy. The survey sought to determine knowledge and use of Open-Access archives, and to verify the conditions stated by the staff for their participation in an Institutional Open-Access initiative. The response to the questionnaire was 57.9% (62 authors). Results show that 44% (25/57) of the authors knew about the existence of Open-Access initiatives and archives. Of the persons who are aware of the existence of Open-Access archives, only 4% (1/25) affirmed they had already used them to deposit papers, while 33% (16/48), among those who declared to use materials free available on the web, affirmed to have used an Open-Access disciplinary archive. Sixty-one percent (41/62) of the respondents answered they were prepared to archive personally their own scientific or educational material on an institutional repository, once the conditions that they request have been fulfilled. The study illustrates the crucial role that authors play in the process of diffusion of Open-Access initiatives.
Content
on Agricultural Research Organisation Web Sites: A Study of International
Trends
JUSTIN
CHISENGA
Web sites
have become essential tools in the dissemination of content in digital format,
especially in organisations where the generation, management and distribution
of information and knowledge are among the major activities. This should also be
true in agricultural research organisations, where information and knowledge
are the major by-products of agricultural research. This point is supported by
the results of a content survey of 28 Web sites of international agricultural
organisations, eight Web sites of regional-based agricultural research
organisations in
Measuring
University Library Efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis
GERHARD
REICHMANN
In this paper we analyse the technical efficiency of 118 randomly selected university libraries from German-speaking countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) and English-speaking countries (the United States, Australia and Canada) using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA efficiency scores are calculated using library staff, measured in full-time equivalents, and book materials held as inputs, and the number of serial subscriptions, total circulations, regular opening hours per week, and book materials added as outputs. Among the 118 university libraries analysed 10 are rated fully efficient. However, comparing group-specific efficiency scores we found that there are no significant differences between libraries from English-speaking and German-speaking countries or between small and large university libraries.
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Chair's column: Linda Heichman
By Linda Heichman
As spring nears, I am reminded of new beginnings, re-energization and
renewal. These themes are particularly applicable to LACASIS this year. The
chapter welcomed several relative newcomers to our Board and Advisory Council
last October, namely Rachael Clemens, Chair-Elect; Christina Salazar,
Secretary; and Margaret Hogarth, Program Recorder and E-Publicity Coordinator.
Our website has a fresh new look thanks to energetic Webmaster Marla
Gunasegaram. We launched our first issue of e-OASIS, spearheaded by dynamo
Louisa Verma [more]
Guest article: Human Society vs. Cyborg Society: As I See Them By
Benedict A. Oladele, Ph.D
As a practicing librarian of 25 years standing from
LACASIS/SLA-SCC Joint
By Margaret Hogarth
LACASIS and the Southern California Chapter of the Special Library
Association hosted a joint holiday party at the elegant Los Angeles Athletic
Club
LACASIS Awards Dinner
By Margaret Hogarth
The LACASIS Awards Dinner was held at the
ASIS&T 2003: Business Meeting Summary
By Amy Wallace
The business meeting opened with a report from outgoing President Trudi
Bellardo Hahn. Cecelia Preston gave the Treasurer's Report. Dick Hill presented
the Executive Director's Report. Samantha Hastings, the incoming President,
wrapped up the meeting. [ more ]
ASIS&T 2003: Death of the User
By Margaret Hogarth
The Death of the User panel at the ASIS&T Conference started out
with Howard Rosenbaum, of Indiana University, pointing out that the concept of
the user has had a rich and fruitful life in library and information science
(LIS), influencing both design and practitioners. This has helped us to
understand how people interact with computers, shows what makes an interface
easy to use, and has improved ergonomics. The problem with "the user"
as a concept is that many information and communication technologies (ICTs) are
developed for a wide variety of users and are costly failures. Many of these
systems are balky and need continuous patching. [ more ]
ASIS&T 2003: Sunday Keynote Plenary:
By Margaret Hogarth
Jodi Forlizzi spoke on "Interfaces for People: Design for Emotion,
Image, and Sound." Anne Gilliland-Swetland spoke on "Digital Asset
Management and Electronic Archives." Brian Detlor spoke on "Library
Portals and Enterprise Intranets." [ more ]
ASIS&T 2003: Usability in Practice
By Margaret Hogarth
Randolph G. Bias, the
ASIS&T 2003: Notes from the 2003 ASIS&T Annual Conference
By Ann Coppin
I attended the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(ASIS&T) Annual Conference held in
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