Opportunities on the Web: a role for information professionals, using the development of the BMA Library Online Service as a case study*

Web usage mining is used to find out fascinating consumer navigation patterns which can be applied to a lot of real-world problems, such as enriching websites or pages, generating newly topic or product recommendations and consumer behavior studies, etc. In this paper, an attempt has been made to provide a taxonomical classification of web usage mining applications with two levels of hierarchy. Further, the ontology for various categories of the web usage mining applications has been developed and to prove the completeness of proposed taxonomy, a rigorous case study has been performed. The comparative study with other existing classifications of web usage mining applications has also been performed.

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Leading with love and hospitality: applying a radical pedagogy to LIS

Information and Learning Sciences ◽

10.1108/ils-06-2018-0054 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 120 (1/2) ◽

pp. 119-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicole A. Cooke

Keyword(s):

Classroom Management ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Information Science ◽

Library And Information Science ◽

Ethnographic Case Study ◽

Radical Pedagogy ◽

Content Type ◽

Information Professionals ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to suggest that classroom instructors should reflect and revise their pedagogy to lead a classroom designed to produce future information professionals who will be prepared to serve their communities in a radical way. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the literature related to radical and humanizing pedagogies and then features an auto ethnographic case study which details how the author implemented some of the strategies. Findings Formal study of pedagogy can improve the library and information science (LIS) teaching and learning process. Practical implications Examining pedagogy in a formal way yields concrete suggestions for improving classroom management and content delivery. Social implications Using a radical pedagogy can improve relationships between teachers and learners, and learners will be able to model the classroom strategies in their own professional practice. Originality/value The study builds upon current examples of radical practice in the field and examines how such practices can be instilled even earlier in LIS graduate classrooms.

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Creating and using Web corpora

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics ◽

10.1075/ijcl.10.4.07the ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 517-541 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mike Thelwall

Keyword(s):

Search Engine ◽

Web Sites ◽

Web Crawler ◽

Commercial Search Engine ◽

British National Corpus ◽

The Uk ◽

The University ◽

The Web ◽

National Corpus

The Web has recently been used as a corpus for linguistic investigations, often with the help of a commercial search engine. We discuss some potential problems with collecting data from commercial search engine and with using the Web as a corpus. We outline an alternative strategy for data collection, using a personal Web crawler. As a case study, the university Web sites of three nations (Australia, New Zealand and the UK) were crawled. The most frequent words were broadly consistent with non-Web written English, but with some academic-related words amongst the top 50 most frequent. It was also evident that the university Web sites contained a significant amount of non-English text, and academic Web English seems to be more future-oriented than British National Corpus written English.

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Creating and evaluating web-based visualizations of multi-dimensional spatiotemporal data

Proceedings of the ICA ◽

10.5194/ica-proc-2-145-2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Jan Wilkening ◽

Keni Han ◽

Mathias Jahnke

Keyword(s):

Spatiotemporal Data ◽

Weather Data ◽

Temporal Data ◽

Web Based ◽

Animated Maps ◽

Different Types ◽

Weather Parameters ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

The Web

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In this article, we present a method for visualizing multi-dimensional spatio-temporal data in an interactive web-based geovisualization. Our case study focuses on publicly available weather data in Germany. After processing the data with Python and desktop GIS, we integrated the data as web services in a browser-based application. This application displays several weather parameters with different types of visualisations, such as static maps, animated maps and charts. The usability of the web-based geovisualization was evaluated with a free-examination and a goal-directed task, using eye-tracking analysis. The evaluation focused on the question how people use static maps, animated maps and charts, dependent on different tasks. The results suggest that visualization elements such as animated maps, static maps and charts are particularly useful for certain types of tasks, and that more answering time correlates with less accurate answers.</p>

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Dutcher's Impact: Wolastioqiyik Lintuwakonawa as a Case Study for the role of Music in Preserving Traditional Knowledge

Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management ◽

10.5931/djim.v15i0.8982 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 ◽

Author(s):

Kathryn E. Newhook

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Traditional Knowledge ◽

Technical Skill ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Dynamic Nature ◽

Diverse Field ◽

Information Professionals ◽

Knowledge Preservation

Knowledge Management is a diverse field of study, dealing in the facilitation of knowledge sharing, the creation of knowledge systems, knowledge transfer, and knowledge preservation. Information professionals play an important role in helping these processes happen. Equally important is the preservation of Traditional Knowledge. Recognized as the knowledge Indigenous people have accrued over millennia, and formed through their interactions with their environment, Traditional Knowledge and its preservation also fall into the world of Knowledge Management. The performance of a piece of music is the manifestation of knowledge and, in the case of Jeremy Dutcher, is a form of knowledge preservation. Traditional Knowledge’s more fluid and dynamic nature is preserved in Dutcher’s 2018 album Wolastioqiyik Lintuwakonawa, where the artist creates a conversation between technical skill and the knowledge and language of the album. In the case of this paper, Dutcher’s album serves as an example of the way Traditional Knowledge can impact and provide new tools to the information profession and world of Knowledge Management.

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Information Systems for Accreditation Assessment Department base on The Web (Case Study: Informatic Engineering Department)

Proceedings of the The 1st International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering Technology Universitas Muria Kudus ◽

10.4108/eai.24-10-2018.2280611 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mukhamad Nurkamid ◽

Ahmad Jazuli

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Engineering Department ◽

The Web

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Web-Based Job Aids Using RESTXQ and JavaScript for Authors of XML Documents

Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016 ◽

10.4242/balisagevol17.galtman01 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Amanda Galtman

Keyword(s):

Web Applications ◽

Web Based ◽

Job Aids ◽

Xml Documents ◽

Software Company ◽

Technical Writers ◽

Visualization Application ◽

Exchange Data ◽

The Web

Using XML as the source format for authoring technical publications creates opportunities to develop tools that provide analysis, author guidance, and visualization. This case study describes two web applications that take advantage of the XML source format of documents. The applications provide a browser-based tool for technical writers and editors in a 100-person documentation department of a software company. Compared to desktop tools, the web applications are more convenient for users and less affected by hard-to-predict inconsistencies among users' computers. One application analyzes file dependencies and produces custom reports that facilitate reorganizing files. The other helps authors visualize their network of topics in their documentation sets. Both applications rely on the XQuery language and its RESTXQ web API. The visualization application also uses JavaScript, including the powerful jQuery and D3 libraries. After discussing what the applications do and why, this paper describes some architectural highlights, including how the different technologies fit together and exchange data.

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