Digital Library of Information Science & Technology (DLIST)
AuthorsColeman, Anita Sundaram (23)Hjørland, Birger (12)Marty, Paul F. (10)Kipp, Margaret E. I. (5)Bruce, Bertram C. (4)Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid (3)Schallier, Wouter (3)Bhat, Ishwara (2)Bishop, Ann Peterson (2)Chen, Hsinchun (2)View MoreTypes
ScholarlyCommons@Penn: http://repository.upenn.edu/
Kerbel, Sandra (2005-06)
This presentation was made at a LITA panel on Institutional Repositories at the Annual ALA meeting in Chicago, IL on June 27, 2005.
ITS Research Lab: An ACIST-TRI (formerly Prop 301) initiative
Coleman, Anita Sundaram (2004-08)
This short presentation (12 Microsoft PowerPoint slides with 14 selective references) was delivered at the SIRLS researchers get-together. It traces the genesis of DLIST and the Information Technology and Society research lab.
Findings from a study of JELIS, 1984-2004
This is a presentation of 29 slides at the Scholarly Communication panel session of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, 19 January, 2006, San Antonio, Texas. Reports the findings from a study that investigated the value of the Journal of Education for Library & Information Science (JELIS). As far as growth is concerned, JELIS is in a holding pattern. Practitioners have decreased as authors and most articles continue to focus on Curriculum in library schools. Articles on distance education and cognition are increasing as are authors from foreign countries (outside US and Canada), and the number of co-authored articles.
Patterns in Tagging: An Analysis of Collaborative Classification Practices in Social Bookmarking Tools
Kipp, Margaret E. I. (2006-05)
This study analyses the tagging patterns exhibited by users of del.icio.us and citeulike. Frequency data, coword analysis and thesaural comparisons are used to examine tagging practices and determine where they are continuous or discontinuous with traditional classification and indexing. Results show many commonalities and some intriguing differences.
Theoretical foundation of Knowledge Organization: â Positivismâ versus â pragmatismâ . Invited speech Sunday Oct 28, 2007 VIII ENANCIB in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Hjørland, Birger (2007-10)
Consider the theoretical problems and developments in the field of Knowledge Organization. The dominant tendency within LIS has always been â positivistâ , understood as a tendency (or an ideal) to rely on observations and logic only, disregarding context, values, interests, historical development and socio-cultural issues. It is argued that the opposite view, pragmatism, provides a much more fruitful basis. The pragmatic theory of knowledge seeks the criteria for selecting and describing informative objects in the goals that they are intended to support. The widespread ideology of objectivity and neutrality and universal solutions may be counterproductive in developing our field.
The Concept of Information. Presentation given in Riga 2006.
Presents a discussion of how "information" should be understood and defined in Information Science.
Canadian Copyright Law: Perceptions of Creators and Users
Information is increasingly seen as the commodity which drives both national and international trade. The legal concept of copyright can function to regulate and balance the dissemination of information to ensure that creators are fairly compensated for access to their creations. Advances in information technology have resulted in increasing interest in the harmonisation of copyright law as copying of material and transportation across borders becomes much easier and much harder to control. While owners and creators wage a desperate battle to remain in complete control of the distribution of their creations, libraries and educational institutions imagine the possible benefits of 24/7 access to information for their patrons. The important question is how to ensure the continuance of the balance between the rights of the creators of information, in order to ensure their continued production of works, and the rights of the users of information. Canada has recently amended its copyright act (http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/c-42/38965.html) to further the process of coming into compliance with international treaties. In preparation for these changes, the government of Canada solicited comments on proposed changes to copyright law. These comments are available on the web and consist of the unedited submissions from 700 Canadians or interested groups, both corporate and non-profit. (http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/incrp-prda.nsf/en/h_rp01105e.html) These responses will be analysed using content analysis and informetric methods. The emphasis will be on examining how people are viewing their relationship to copyrighted works and the Copyright Act. The attitudes discovered in these responses will be compared to the published Library and Information Science literature. This material is ripe for analysis and will provide valuable insights into Canadian perspectives on copyright.
Options for Citation Tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science
Bakkalbasi, Nisa; Bauer, Kathleen; Wang, Lei; Glover, Janis (2006-11)
This is a presentation (22 slides) at the XXVI Annual Charleston Conference November 4-11, 2006 Charleston, South Carolina, of a study which examined how well three citation tracking tools (Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science) cover two subject areas (physics and oncology) in two years (1993 and 2003). In a previous study (data collected in November 2005), Web of Science returned the highest average number of citations for 1993 articles in both subjects. Scopus returned the highest number for 2003 articles in oncology and Web of Science in physics. Furthermore, the study examined the overlap as well as unique citations returned by the three tools. (See http://www.bio-diglib.com/content/3/1/7). Data were updated in September 2006, and these new results are reported.
Castles and Inverted Castles: The work of Marcia J. Bates
Hartel, Jenna (2005)
A total of 32 slides were presented in Session 3.1 â Contemporary Intellectual History: Reflections on the Work of Marcia J. Bates, at the 2005 ALISE Conference. The presentation uses â castleâ and â inverted castleâ as metaphors for Batesâ work. It concludes that Bates has created â castlesâ and â inverted castlesâ across the field of Library and Information Science, that clarify, structuralize, and popularize key notions about information. The work of Bates and influence on others is discussed.
Global Information Courses Across The Curriculum
Albright, Kendra; Raber, Douglas (2005-01)
This is a presentation (of 11 slides) on Tuesday January 11, 2005 in the session sponsored by the Curriculum SIG titled "Preparing Students for the International Information Society: Studying the Global Context in LIS" at the 2005 ALISE Conference, Boston, MA. The curricula of two courses offered at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee are discussed: 1) The Information Society and 2) International Information Policy. The silence on issues of internationalism and "others" as evidenced by an informal content analysis of the Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2004 Conference) is also briefly explored.