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Christine L. Borgman

Information Seeking

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Data Sharing: A Problem Of Supply Or Of Demand?, Christine L. Borgman Oct 2013

Data Sharing: A Problem Of Supply Or Of Demand?, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. Research funding agencies have focused on increasing the supply of data by requiring data management plans and data sharing. Policy makers have paid surprisingly little attention to the demand for data. It stands to reason that if scholars actively sought data for reuse, then more data would be shared. The few studies that exist on the demand for extant data suggest that researchers rarely are asked for their data and rarely seek data from other investigators. Many investigators have difficulty imagining who might want their data or for what purposes they might …

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Building A Usable Infrastructure For E-Science: An Information Perspective, Christine L. Borgman Aug 2005

Building A Usable Infrastructure For E-Science: An Information Perspective, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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The Social Embeddedness Of Embedded Networked Sensing, Christine L. Borgman Apr 2005

The Social Embeddedness Of Embedded Networked Sensing, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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The User's Mental Model Of An Information Retrieval System: An Experiment On A Prototype Online Catalog, Christine L. Borgman Dec 1998

The User's Mental Model Of An Information Retrieval System: An Experiment On A Prototype Online Catalog, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

An empirical study was performed to train naive subjects in the use of a prototype Boolean logic-based information retrieval system on a bibliographic database. Subjects were undergraduates with little or no prior computing experience. Subjects trained with a conceptual model of the system performed better than subjects trained with procedural instructions, but only on complex, problem-solving tasks. Performance was equal on simple tasks. Differences in patterns of interaction with the system (based on a stochastic process model) showed parallel results. Most subjects were able to articulate some description of the system's operation, but few articulated a model similar to the …

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Children's Searching Behavior On Browsing And Keyword Online Catalogs: The Science Library Catalog Project, Christine L. Borgman, Sandra G. Hirsh, Andrea L. Gallagher, Virginia A. Walter Dec 1994

Children's Searching Behavior On Browsing And Keyword Online Catalogs: The Science Library Catalog Project, Christine L. Borgman, Sandra G. Hirsh, Andrea L. Gallagher, Virginia A. Walter

Christine L. Borgman

As we seek both to improve public school education in high technology areas and to link libraries and classrooms on the “information superhighway,” we need to understand more about children’s information searching abilities. We present results of four experiments conducted on four versions of the Science Library Catalog (SLC), a Dewey decimal-based hierarchical browsing system implemented in HyperCard without a keyboard. The experiments were conducted over a 3-year period at three sites, with four databases, and with comparisons to two different keyword online catalogs. Subjects were ethnically and culturally diverse children aged 9 through 12; with 32 to 34 children …

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Toward A Definition Of User Friendliness: A Psychological Perspective, Christine L. Borgman Dec 1985

Toward A Definition Of User Friendliness: A Psychological Perspective, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

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Why Are Online Catalogs Hard To Use? Lessons Learned From Information Retrieval Studies., Christine L. Borgman Dec 1985

Why Are Online Catalogs Hard To Use? Lessons Learned From Information Retrieval Studies., Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Research in user behavior on online catalogs is in its early stages, but preliminary findings suggest that users encounter many of the same problems identified in behavioral studies of other types of bibliographic retrieval systems. Much can be learned from comparing the results of user behavior studies on these two types of systems. Research on user problems with both the mechanical aspects and the conceptual aspects of system use is reviewed, with the conclusion that more similarity exists across types of systems in conceptual than in mechanical problems. Also discussed are potential sources of the problems, due either to individual …

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