scholarly journals Formation of a united information space of a research library

Bibliosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Gerasimenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Technological Potential ◽  
First Time

Over the past decade, the issue of uncontrolled growth of unsystematic information in Internet has remained acute for the scientific community. The problem of finding relevant information related to the distribution and autonomy of scientific information resources remains. A priority in the field of centralized access to the key scientifically significant sources of information is the creation of a united information space (UIS). The study aims to identify the main models to form systems integrating distributed information resources, and as a result to determine the structure of UIS formation in a research library. Two models were considered and analyzed in the study: a meta-aggregator and an integrated electronic library. During the analysis, elements, structure and a set of functions for users and employees of a research library are revealed for each model. The study allowed the drawing of the following conclusions:• The choice of a model for the UIS formation depends mostly on the formulation of tasks, the solution of which is the purpose of creating a system, as well as on the technological potential of the organizations involved in the process.•Multifunctionality of the system allows simultaneous use of the above-mentioned formation models.• Adding the element of interactivity to the structure of UIS of the research library will allow timely monitoring of changes in the information needs of scientists, reduction of time, labor and financial costs of both the library and a user. The article presents the criteria for choosing a model. For the first time the optimal effective structure of the UIS in the research library is described.

Biomedical Librarianship in the Post-Genomic Era

2018 ◽  
pp. 1338-1351
Author(s):  
Shubhada Prashant Nagarkar
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Library Collection ◽  
Sequence Databases ◽  
Changing Role

Post genomic era is known for the explosive growth in biomedical information. Bibliographic and sequence databases are increasing continuously and have voluminous data sets. Biomedical librarians are facing challenges in retrieval of relevant information from these electronic databases and related sources of information. This chapter discusses the changing role of biomedical librarians in post genomic era. The chapter covers features of the biomedical librarianship including library collection development, users' information needs and strategies adopted to provide services. Moreover, it focuses on the competencies required by librarians to face the challenges of management of information and services needed by biomedical researchers in the post genomic era.

Improving Results Aggregation Strategies in Distributed Information Retrieval

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 94-104
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ghansah ◽  
Sheng Li Wu ◽  
Nathaniel Ekow Ghansah
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Distributed Information Retrieval ◽  
Result Diversification ◽  
Result Merging ◽  
Ranked List

The top-ranked documents from various information sources that are merged together into a unified ranked list may cover the same piece of relevant information, and cannot satisfy different user needs. Result diversification(RD) solves this problem by diversifying results to cover more information needs. In recent times, RD has attracted much attention as a means of increasing user satisfaction in general purpose search engines. A myriad of approaches have been proposed in the related works for the diversification problem. However, no concrete study of search result diversification has been done in a Distributed Information Retrieval(DIR) setting. In this paper, we survey, classify and propose a theoretical framework that aims at improving diversification at the result merging phase of a DIR environment.

scholarly journals “What’s This Bug?” Questions from the Public Provide Relevant Information on Species Distribution and Human–Insect Interactions

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 921
Author(s):  
André-Philippe Drapeau Drapeau Picard ◽  
Marjolaine Giroux ◽  
Michel Saint-Germain ◽  
Maxim Larrivée
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Popillia Japonica ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Japanese Beetle ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leptoglossus Occidentalis ◽  
Insect Interactions

In general, insects and arthropods polarizing: they either fascinate people, disgust people, or both, and they generate lots of questions. Museums are perceived as reliable sources of information and, as such, a go-to destination for the public to receive answers. Since its opening in 1990, the Montreal Insectarium has offered an entomological information service, allowing the public to send questions, photographs, and specimens for identification. All requests are answered by entomologists. Spatiotemporal variations in taxonomic, geographic, and thematic profiles of the 4163 requests received in 2010–2011 and 2017–2018 were analyzed. Requests came from 35 countries, and most of those requests came from Canada. The majority of requests were identification requests. Representing 25% of identification requests, the five most frequent species were the eastern dobsonfly Corydalus cornutus, the masked hunter Reduvius personatus, the giant water bug Lethocerus americanus, the western conifer-seed bug Leptoglossus occidentalis, and the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica. A comparison with the data from the citizen science platform iNaturalist shows that the EIS can be a valuable tool for invasive species detection. Frequent subjects included school projects, entomophagy (eating insects), and wasp and bee nests. Finally, we discuss the role of entomologists in providing scientific information but also in addressing common concerns regarding cohabitation with arthropods.

Interacting with Interaction Histories in a History-Enriched Environment

2011 ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Yoshinari Shirai ◽  
Kumiyo Nakakoji ◽  
Yasuhiro Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Ubiquitous Computing ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Enriched Environment ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Ubiquitous Computing Environment ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Interaction History

A ubiquitous computing environment would capture a large amount of interaction histories of objects in the environment over a long period of time. Such interaction histories serve as valuable sources of information for people to solve problems and make decisions in the present time. Our approach is to enrich the space by providing interaction history information through noticeable wear expressed within a physical environment. A history-enriched environment (HEE) allows people to use interaction histories of people, things, and places on demand, and to obtain relevant information by tracing links among objects. We argue that taking into account two aspects of people’s cognitive activities—situated encountering and information-triggered information needs—is key to building an HEE. This chapter describes how to design an HEE through the Optical Stain environment, which we designed as an HEE.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTING THE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PROTOTYPE

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Leonova ◽  
A. M. Fedotov
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Distributed Information Systems ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
External Sources ◽  
System Prototype

The article describes technological approaches used to create distributed information systems supporting scientific research. Architectural solutions intended to create such systems and principles for integrating these systems with external sources are considered. Functional requirements for the model of scientific information system (SIS), conditioned, firstly, by the researchers’ information needs, and secondly, by the necessity to ensure a reliable and longterm storage of information, are determined. Rules for presenting and transforming metadata are examined.

PUBLICATION ACTIVITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS REFLECTION IN THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION RESOURCES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. B. Babaryka-Amelchanka ◽  
A. А. Balnikov ◽  
M. V. Dzhumkova
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Publication Activity ◽  
Information Space ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Russian Science Citation Index

Publication activity of the scientific organization of the agricultural profile RUE «The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Animal Breeding» is considered: publication activity for the last five years and visibility of the scientific publications in the international information resources (AGRIS, CAB Abstracts, Scopus, Web of Science, Russian Science Citation Index). Uneven presence of the considered publications in the English-language and Russian-language scientific information space was established. It is noted that the promotion of published scientific works and editions in the international information space, which is carried out by scientists, publishers, libraries, has a positive effect on the status of the national science in the system of world scientific communications.

Biomedical Librarianship in the Post-Genomic Era

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Shubhada Prashant Nagarkar
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Library Collection ◽  
Sequence Databases ◽  
Changing Role

Post genomic era is known for the explosive growth in biomedical information. Bibliographic and sequence databases are increasing continuously and have voluminous data sets. Biomedical librarians are facing challenges in retrieval of relevant information from these electronic databases and related sources of information. This chapter discusses the changing role of biomedical librarians in post genomic era. The chapter covers features of the biomedical librarianship including library collection development, users' information needs and strategies adopted to provide services. Moreover, it focuses on the competencies required by librarians to face the challenges of management of information and services needed by biomedical researchers in the post genomic era.

A Web Text De-Noising Algorithm Based on Machine Learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 536-537 ◽  
pp. 516-519
Author(s):  
Xiao Yan Le
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Information Space ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
The Web

The Web has become a huge information resources distributed information space, contains a huge amount of various types of Web documents.Search engine, it is difficult to meet different user requirements for the elaboration of the retrieval results.To noise method, this paper proposes a text first to find out the noise page information, then according to the rules of human interaction way to generate a denoising, finally find and remove the noise, the experiments has been proved this method to be effective on improving the accuracy of classification.

scholarly journals Fathers’ Information Seeking and Use Regarding Infant Feeding: Results From a Survey of Fathers’ Unique Information Needs and Preferences

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 999-999
Author(s):  
Allison Hepworth ◽  
Meg Small ◽  
Timothy Brick
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Infant Nutrition ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Bottle Feeding ◽  
Food Allergies ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Unique Information

Abstract Objectives Fathers are often marginalized in infant nutrition education, which limits fathers' opportunities to develop responsive, nutritious infant feeding practices. To effectively engage fathers in infant nutrition education, research is needed to describe fathers’ unique information needs and preferences, which was the objective of the current study. Methods First-time parents of infants ≤24 months old completed a cross-sectional online survey about their experience obtaining information about infant feeding in the last 30 days, including: Search frequency, information basis preferences, search topics, sources of information, and information use. Chi-square analyses were conducted to explore gender differences. Results Fathers were the minority of participants (n = 47, 11%). Fathers primarily identified as white (66%) or Black (21%) and were diverse in education and income. Most fathers (87%) sought information about infant feeding ≥ once per week. Fathers most frequently ranked supported by scientific information as the most important basis of infant feeding information (32%). In the last 30 days, fathers most commonly sought information about bottle feeding (51%), breastfeeding (40%), recipe ideas (40%), and infant nutritional needs (40%). Fathers’ top most recent search topics were breastfeeding (15%), food allergies (11%) and introducing solid foods (11%). In their most recent search, fathers most commonly sought information from relatives (62%), search engines (51%), websites (43%), co-parents (38%), and pediatricians (36%). Compared to mothers, fathers were more likely to have sought information about bottle feeding in the last 30 days (51% vs. 23%, P < .001) and most recently. Fathers’ most recent search was less likely about recipe ideas (6% vs. 20%, P = .021). Fathers were more likely to seek information from relatives (62% vs. 43%, P = .013) and co-parents (38% vs. 20%, P = .005). Fathers were more likely to feel empowered by the information they obtained (38% vs. 22%, P = .013), and to use that information (98% vs. 85%, P = .014), specifically to make a plan (79% vs. 64%, P = .042), or use a new feeding approach (57% vs. 43%, P = .032). Conclusions Fathers reported unique information needs and preferences that could be incorporated into infant nutrition education programming. Funding Sources NSF GRPF; USDA NIFA; University dissertation endowment.

scholarly journals METHODICAL APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION RESOURCES OF THE ENTERPRISE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kasyanova ◽  
Mykola Salatko
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Geometric Mean ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Method Of Calculation

The introduction of electronic means of communication in the management processes of the enterprise has led to a sharp increase in the number of information messages. There was a redistribution of working time in favor of solving information problems. As a result, information technology leads to negative effects and losses. The purpose of the study is to develop guidelines for improving the information support of the industrial enterprise on the basis of evaluation and management of information resources. It is proposed to evaluate the information resources of the enterprise in a pragmatic approach (qualitative assessment) for three groups of indicators – effectiveness, security and adequacy of information. Effectiveness is determined by the level of satisfaction of information needs and the ability to give the target effect. Security shows the level of automation, the state of use of information infrastructure, information literacy of staff, and financial security of information resources. Sufficiency is due to indicators of information quality, timeliness of receipt and use of information resources, the use of information models and a variety of sources of information resources. The method of calculation of the integrated indicator which allows to receive complex representation at once about all system of information maintenance of the enterprise is offered. Reflecting the efficiency of attracting and using information resources, the integrated indicator can serve as a signal indicator of the feasibility of updating information and modernizing the information system. When forming the list of signs it is necessary to consider that the qualitative sign can be presented by a set of equivalent nominations which are the list of possible names of quality. In this case, each nomination of a qualitative feature is placed in accordance with the quantitative value of the transformation function depending on the desirability scale. The transformation of partial indicators is proposed to be carried out by the geometric mean method. In addition to the method of forming an integrated indicator of evaluation of information resources, the expediency of using the method of analysis of hierarchies for making management decisions on the formation of the information system of the enterprise is substantiated. Thus, the method of integrated evaluation allows you to synthesize indicators of effectiveness, security and adequacy of information resources of the enterprise and on this basis to form the optimal structure and amount of information that takes into account economic needs and increases productivity.

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