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Full-Text Articles in Library and Information Science
Number 1 Fall 2004, Special Collections Research Center
Number 1 Fall 2004, Special Collections Research Center
Newsletters from The Special Collection Research Center - The Courant
No abstract provided.
Fall 2004, School Of Information Studies
Summer 2004, School Of Information Studies
Translation Of Classifications: Issues And Solutions As Exemplifies In The Korean Decimal Classification., Barbara H. Kwasnik, You-Lee Chun
Translation Of Classifications: Issues And Solutions As Exemplifies In The Korean Decimal Classification., Barbara H. Kwasnik, You-Lee Chun
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
The aim of this study was to describe how the Korean Decimal Classification (KDC), which is based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), accommodated translation and adaptation issues in making the scheme culturally hospitable. We made a concept-by-concept comparison of terms in selected sections of the KDC with the analogous terms or sections in the DDC, noting the differences and similarities of terms and structure. Our analysis suggests that, overall, the KDC succeeded in this endeavor, and that the process of adaptation made good use of several adaptive strategies identified in previous work: adjustments to term specificity and term location …
Virtual Browsing Via Deeplinked Catalog Searches, Scott A. Warren
Virtual Browsing Via Deeplinked Catalog Searches, Scott A. Warren
Libraries' and Librarians' Publications
This project facilitates virtual browsing by means of deeplinked catalog searches based on Library of Congress (LC) subject headings and call numbers. Collocating these searches by discipline in pulldown menus opens up the physical book collection in a seamless online fashion to users lacking LC subject heading knowledge, but possessing subject knowledge. Virtual browsing is important because it may aid awareness of and increased use of print collections in large libraries, especially by researchers who rarely visit the library physically.
A Framework For Creating A Facetted Classification For Genres: Addressing Issues Of Multidimensionality., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Kevin Crowston
A Framework For Creating A Facetted Classification For Genres: Addressing Issues Of Multidimensionality., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Kevin Crowston
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
People recognize and use document genres as a way of identifying useful information and of participating in mutually understood communicative acts. Crowston and Kwasnik [1] discuss the possibility of improving information access in large digital collections through the identification and use of document genre metadata. They draw on the definition of genre proposed by Orlikowski and Yates [3], who describe genre as “a distinctive type of communicative action, characterized by a socially recognized communicative purpose and common aspects of form” (p. 543). Scholars in fields such as rhetoric and library science have attempted to describe and systematize the notion of …
Su People, Linda Ober, Wanfeng Zhou, David Marc, Kate Gaetano, Margaret Costello, Amy Speach Shires
Su People, Linda Ober, Wanfeng Zhou, David Marc, Kate Gaetano, Margaret Costello, Amy Speach Shires
Syracuse University Magazine
No abstract provided.
Opening Remarks, Jay Cox
University Place, Andrea Taylor, Kate Gaetano, Sarah Khan, Tanya Fletcher, Cynthia Moritz, Amy Speach Shires, Wendy S. Loughlin, David Marc, Margaret Costello, Rachel Boll, Samantha Whitehorne
University Place, Andrea Taylor, Kate Gaetano, Sarah Khan, Tanya Fletcher, Cynthia Moritz, Amy Speach Shires, Wendy S. Loughlin, David Marc, Margaret Costello, Rachel Boll, Samantha Whitehorne
Syracuse University Magazine
No abstract provided.
Information Central, David Marc
Evaluation Of Restricted Domain Question-Answering Systems, Anne R. Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel, Elizabeth D. Liddy
Evaluation Of Restricted Domain Question-Answering Systems, Anne R. Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel, Elizabeth D. Liddy
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
Question-Answering (QA) evaluation efforts have largely been tailored to open-domain systems. The TREC QA test collections contain newswire articles and the accompanying queries cover a wide variety of topics. While some apprehension about the limitations of restricted-domain systems is no doubt justified, the strict promotion of unlimited domain QA evaluations may have some unintended consequences. Simply applying the open domain QA evaluation paradigm to a restricted-domain system poses problems in the areas of test question development, answer key creation, and test collection construction. This paper examines the evaluation requirements of restricted domain systems. It incorporates evaluation criteria identified by users …
Discerning Emotions In Texts, Victoria L. Rubin, Jeffrey M. Stanton, Elizabeth D. Liddy
Discerning Emotions In Texts, Victoria L. Rubin, Jeffrey M. Stanton, Elizabeth D. Liddy
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
We present an empirically verified model of discernable emotions, Watson and Tellegen’s Circumplex Theory of Affect from social and personality psychology, and suggest its usefulness in NLP as a potential model for an automation of an eight-fold categorization of emotions in written English texts. We developed a data collection tool based on the model, collected 287 responses from 110 non-expert informants based on 50 emotional excerpts (min=12, max=348, average=86 words), and analyzed the inter-coder agreement per category and per strength of ratings per sub-category. The respondents achieved an average 70.7% agreement in the most commonly identified emotion categories per text. …
Semantic Analysis For Monitoring Insider Threats, Svetlana Symonenko, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Ozgur Yilmazel, Robert Del Zoppo, Eric Brown
Semantic Analysis For Monitoring Insider Threats, Svetlana Symonenko, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Ozgur Yilmazel, Robert Del Zoppo, Eric Brown
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
Malicious insiders’ difficult-to-detect activities pose serious threats to the intelligence community (IC) when these activities go undetected. A novel approach that integrates the results of social network analysis, role-based access monitoring, and semantic analysis of insiders ’ communications as evidence for evaluation by a risk assessor is being tested on an IC simulation. A semantic analysis, by our proven Natural Language Processing (NLP) system, of the insider’s text-based communications produces conceptual representations that are clustered and compared on the expected vs. observed scope. The determined risk level produces an input to a risk analysis algorithm that is merged with outputs …
Context-Based Question-Answering Evaluation, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Anne R. Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel
Context-Based Question-Answering Evaluation, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Anne R. Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
In this poster, we will present the results of efforts we have undertaken to conduct evaluations of a QA system in a real world environment and to understand the nature of the dimensions on which users evaluate QA systems when given full reign to comment on whatever dimensions they deem important.
Certainty Categorization Model, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Noriko Kando, Victoria L. Rubin
Certainty Categorization Model, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Noriko Kando, Victoria L. Rubin
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
We present a theoretical framework and preliminary results for manual categorization of explicit certainty information in 32 English newspaper articles. The explicit certainty markers were identified and categorized according to the four hypothesized dimensions – perspective, focus, timeline, and level of certainty. One hundred twenty one sentences from sample news stories contained a significantly lower frequency of markers per sentence (M=0.46, SD =0.04) than 564 sentences from sample editorials (M=0.6, SD =0.23), p= 0.0056, two-tailed heteroscedastic t-test. Within each dimension, editorials had most numerous markers per sentence in high level of certainty, writer’s point of view, and future and present …
Coordination Theory: A Ten-Year Retrospective, Kevin Crowston, Joseph Rubleske, James Howison
Coordination Theory: A Ten-Year Retrospective, Kevin Crowston, Joseph Rubleske, James Howison
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
Since the initial publication in 1994, Coordination Theory (Malone and Crowston, 1994) has been referenced in nearly 300 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and theses. This chapter will analyze the contribution of this body of research to determine how Coordination Theory has been used for user task analysis and modelling for HCI. Issues that will be addressed include: 1) how the theory has been applied; 2) factors that led to the success of the theory; and 3) identification of areas needing further research.
Effective Work Practices For Software Engineering: Free/Libre Open Source Software Development, Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi, James Howison, Chengetai Masango
Effective Work Practices For Software Engineering: Free/Libre Open Source Software Development, Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi, James Howison, Chengetai Masango
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
We review the literature on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development and on software development, distributed work and teams more generally to develop a theoretical model to explain the performance of FLOSS teams. The proposed model is based on Hackman's [34] model of effectiveness of work teams, with coordination theory [52] and collective mind [79] to extend Hackman's model by elaborating team practices relevant to effectiveness in software development. We propose a set of propositions to guide further research.
Towards A Portfolio Of Floss Project Success Measures, Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi, James Howison, Chengetai Masango
Towards A Portfolio Of Floss Project Success Measures, Kevin Crowston, Hala Annabi, James Howison, Chengetai Masango
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
Project success is one of the most widely used dependent variables in information systems research. However, conventional measures of project success are difficult to apply to Free/Libre Open Source Software projects. In this paper, we present an analysis of four measures of success applied to SourceForge projects: number of members of the extended development community, project activity, bug fixing time and number of downloads. We argue that these four measures provide different insights into the collaboration and control mechanisms of the projects.
A Framework For Creating A Facetted Classification For Genres: Addressing Issues Of Multidimensionality, Kevin Crowston, Barbara H. Kwasnik
A Framework For Creating A Facetted Classification For Genres: Addressing Issues Of Multidimensionality, Kevin Crowston, Barbara H. Kwasnik
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
People recognize and use document genres as a way of identifying useful information and of participating in mutually understood communicative acts. Crowston and Kwasnik [1] discuss the possibility of improving information access in large digital collections through the identification and use of document genre metadata. They draw on the definition of genre proposed by Orlikowski and Yates [3], who describe genre as "a distinctive type of communicative action, characterized by a socially recognized communicative purpose and common aspects of form" (p. 543). Scholars in fields such as rhetoric and library science have attempted to describe and systematize the notion of …
Organizational Cultures Of Libraries As A Strategic Resource, Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Scott Nicholson, Gisela M. Von Dran, Jeffrey M. Stanton
Organizational Cultures Of Libraries As A Strategic Resource, Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown, Scott Nicholson, Gisela M. Von Dran, Jeffrey M. Stanton
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
Theorists have suggested that organizational culture is a strategic resource that has value in ensuring the continuing existence and success of organizations (Michalisin, Smith, & Kline, 1997; Barney, 1986, 1991; Hult, Ketchen, & Nichols, 2002; Gordon, 1985). This assertion is supported by various studies that have linked organizational culture to broad strategic outcomes such as an organization’s ability to manage knowledge (Davenport, Long, & Beers, 1998; Storck & Hill, 2000), innovation capability (Hauser, 1998), and strategic management of information technology (Kaarst-Brown & Robey, 1999; Reich & Benbasat, 2000; Schein, 1985). Based on this research, we suggest that there are characteristics …
The Perils And Pitfalls Of Mining Sourceforge, James Howison, Kevin Crowston
The Perils And Pitfalls Of Mining Sourceforge, James Howison, Kevin Crowston
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
SourceForge provides abundant accessible data from Open Source Software development projects, making it an attractive data source for software engineering research. However it is not without theoretical peril and practical pitfalls. In this paper, we outline practical lessons gained from our spidering, parsing and analysis of SourceForge data. SourceForge can be practically difficult: projects are defunct, data from earlier systems has been dumped in and crucial data is hosted outside SourceForge, dirtying the retrieved data. These practical issues play directly into analysis: decisions made in screening projects can reduce the range of variables, skewing data and biasing correlations. SourceForge is …
The Post-.Com Internet: Toward Regular And Objective Procedures For Internet Governance, Milton Mueller, Lee Mcknight
The Post-.Com Internet: Toward Regular And Objective Procedures For Internet Governance, Milton Mueller, Lee Mcknight
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
This paper makes the case for using regular and objective procedures to assign new Internet top-level domain names (TLDs) instead of the unscheduled, irregular, discretionary and ad hoc processes and criteria currently used by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Adopting a regularized process is past due: after 5 years of existence, ICANN has yet to define a method for managing TLD additions to the root. Yet, the root of the DNS is an important international resource, and handling applications for new TLDs is one of ICANN’s most significant policy responsibilities. The paper shows that ICANN’s current …
The Digital Reference Research Agenda, R. David Lankes
The Digital Reference Research Agenda, R. David Lankes
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
This article presents a research agenda for the study of digital reference. The agenda stems from a research symposium held at Harvard in August 2002. The agenda defines digital reference as "the use of human intermediation to answer questions in a digital environment." The agenda also proposes the central research question in digital reference - "How can human expertise be effectively and efficiently incorporated into information systems to answer user questions?" The definition and question are used to outline a research agenda centered on how the exploration of digital reference relates to other fields of inquiry.
The Knowledge Commons: Theory And Collective Action; Or Kollektive Aktionismus?, Charlotte Hess
The Knowledge Commons: Theory And Collective Action; Or Kollektive Aktionismus?, Charlotte Hess
Libraries' and Librarians' Publications
Keynote address presented at the Wizards of OS 3: The Future of the Digital Commons,” An International conference held at the Berliner Congress Center, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany, 10-12 June 2004.
2004 Program, Suny College Of Environmental Science And Forestry
2004 Program, Suny College Of Environmental Science And Forestry
Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference
No abstract provided.