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ISSN (Print) 0737-8831
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Getting it done on time
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Ina Fourie)
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  Purpose - The purpose of this contribution is to focus on an essential issue in all workplace settings where the emphasis is on productivity, time management and creativity: getting innovative, high quality work completed in time according to tight schedules – often facing serious staff shortages. The intention is not to offer an ultimate answer, but to take a different look at the issues that might bring us closer to answers, or that might inspire research projects in the "own" circles of libraries and information services. What does it take to get quality work completed in time?Design/methodology/approach - The contribution will be written against the background of research from time management, productivity, learning styles, information behaviour and collaborative work.Findings - There might be simplistic solutions on offer to get work done on time such as the use of productivity and time management tools. When the aim is high quality, creativity and innovative work (done on time), there might be a need to consider more issues such as learning styles and whole brain learning; information seeking skills, writing skills and streamlining cognitive skills; a focus on productivity; brain health and maintaining a balanced life style; perceptions of stimulating creativity; recognition of the need to compliment human weaknesses with collaborative strengths; and the need for flow as argued by Csikszentmihalyi (1996, 1997). Originality/value - Although many publications have appeared on time management, productivity, software to support time management and other individual issues noted in this paper, I am not aware of work (at least not in the field of Library and Information Science) that combine these with the need to consider learning styles, whole brain learning, acknowledging the limitations of mind and body, and addiction to adrenaline that might stimulate inspiration and creativity – amongst many things that might impact on time management.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Cooperative Visualization: A Design Case
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Nathan Prestopnik)
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  Purpose - In this design case, a participatory approach to visualizing a complex computational pipeline was adopted, with the goal of exploring what benefits might be derived when groups of people visualize complex information for themselves. Several visualization artifacts were developed to support collaborative process at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO).Design/methodology/approach - Researchers adopted a participatory approach, engaging directly in LIGO activities and drawing together explicitly codified data from the LIGO computational pipeline as well as structural knowledge tacitly held by project scientists. Both sources of information were critical to producing meaningful visualizations and progressing design and research efforts.Findings - This design case explored several benefits that are realized when individuals or groups visualize information for themselves, especially improved communication and enhanced understanding of complex systems of information.Originality/value - This design case demonstrates how cooperatively creating visualizations can enhance understanding and support group activities and goals. It is also a call to move beyond data, technologies, and techniques to introduce more human-centered approaches within visualization scholarship.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Libraries as Co-working Spaces: Understanding User Motivations and Perceived Barriers to Social Learning
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Mark Bilandzic; Marcus Foth)
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  Purpose - This paper aims to inform design strategies for smart space technology to enhance libraries as environments for co-working and informal social learning. The focus is on understanding user motivations, behaviour, and activities in the library when there is no programmed agenda.Design/methodology/approach - The study analyses gathered data over five months of ethnographic research at ‘The Edge’ – a ‘bookless’ library space at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, that is explicitly dedicated to co-working, social learning, peer collaboration, and creativity around digital culture and technology.Findings - The results present five personas that embody people’s main usage patterns as well as motivations, attitudes, and perceived barriers to social learning. It appears that most users work individually or within pre-organised groups, but usually do not make new connections with co-present, unacquainted users. Based on the personas, four hybrid design dimensions are suggested to improve the library as a social interface for shared learning encounters across physical and digital spaces.Originality/value - The findings in this paper offer actionable knowledge for managers, decision makers, and designers of technology-enhanced library spaces and similar collaboration and co-working spaces.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
A Study on the Next-Generation Digital Library using Context-Awareness Technology
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Younghee Noh)
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  Purpose - This study examined the concepts of context, context-awareness, and context-awareness technology needed for applying context-awareness technology to the next-generation of digital libraries, and proposed context-aware services that can be applied to any situation by illustrating some library contexts. Design/methodology/approach - In this study, the context-aware services are explored in more detailed and specific cases of its use are expounded upon by dividing applied context-aware technology into five proposals:Findings - First, . It was found that context-aware technology is widely applied in various fields already, including fieldwork, museums, route planning, tourism, and so on. Second, we can derive possible library services which can be provided if context-awareness services are implemented by examining and analyzing the cases and systems constructed in other fields. . A library-applied context-aware technology could recognize users entering the library, and provide optimal services tailored to each situation for both new and existing users. In addition, the context-awareness-based library could provide context-awareness-based reference services, context-awareness-based loan services, and cater to other user needs in the stacks, research space, and a variety of other information spaces. The context-awareness-based library could also recognize users in need of emergency assistance by detecting the user's behavior, movement path, and temperature, etc. Comfort or climate-control services could provide the user with control of the temperature, humidity, illumination and other environmental elements to fit the circumstances of users, books, and instruments through context-aware technology. Originality/value - The prvious studies further strengthens the services currently being offered. In this study, the context-aware services are explored in more detailed and specific cases of its use are expounded upon by dividing applied context-aware technology into five proposals:
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Android Smartphone adoption and intention to pay for mobile Internet: perspectives from software, hardware, design, and value
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Kuo-Lun Hsiao)
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  Purpose - The research goal of this study was to explore the factors influencing the adoption of Android smartphone and the intention to pay for mobile Internet services.Design/methodology/approach - The present study proposes a framework based on Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) from the perspectives of software (interface convenience and perceived content), hardware (perceived infrastructure), design (design aesthetics) and perceived value (emotional value, price/value for money, performance/quality value, and social value). A web survey was conducted, and data were collected from a total of 881 users of Android smartphones in Taiwan. The casual model was validated using partial least squares (PLS) techniques.Findings - The results indicated that the influence of the factors on the intention of the mobile Internet users and non-users were different. Surprisingly, the effect of design aesthetics was not significant in all of the groups. Male users were found to be more likely to read e-books on their smartphones, as are people with higher personal incomes.Practical implications - This study contributes to a theoretical understanding of the factors that promote mobile Internet users’ and non-users’ intention to adopt Android smartphones and pay for mobile Internet services. The proposed framework can be used by mobile Internet service providers and smartphone manufacturers to design the products and marketing strategies.Originality/value - The primary value of this paper lies in providing a better understanding of users’ and non-users’ concerns about Android smartphone adoption and subscription of mobile Internet services.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Conceptual Foundations for Representing Robotics History in a Non-Linear Digital Archive
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Stasa Milojevic; Selma Sabanovic)
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  Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce the conceptual foundations and motivation for creating a digital archive to display the developments in the field of robotics over the past 50 years. Design/methodology/approach - The paper proposes that the archive should be based on the conceptualization of science as an "ecology of knowledge", composed of diverse sets of human and nonhuman actors evolving through associations across multiple social, epistemic, and temporal units of organization. The paper also discusses the roles of different data sources as memory practices primarily used in situated and systemic studies of science.Findings - The paper shows the value of using full capabilities of the current technology to allow for non-linear representations of the material within a digital archive.Originality/value - The paper contributes to the discussion of the implications of new information technologies such as digital archives for memory practices in science studies and the sciences.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Retrocomputing as Preservation and Remix
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Yuri Takhteyev; Quinn DuPont)
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  Purpose - We describe the world of retrocomputing, a constellation of largely non-professional practices involving old computing technology. We show how retrocomputing serves the goals of collection and preservation, particularly in regards to historic software. We also show, however, how retrocomputing practices challenge traditional notions of authenticity. We then propose an alternative conceptualization and suggest new avenues for collaboration between retrocomputing practitioners and memory institutions.Design/methodology/approach - The paper is based on extensive observation of retrocomputing projects, conducted primarily online.Findings - Retrocomputing includes many activities that can be seen as constituting collection and preservation. At the same time, it is often transformative, producing assemblages that "remix" fragments from the past with newer elements or joining together historic components that were never combined before. While such "remix" may seem to undermine preservation, it also allows for fragments of computing history to be reintegrated into a living, ongoing practice, contributing to preservation in a broader sense. The seemingly unorganized nature of retrocomputing assemblages also provides space for alternative "situated knowledges" and histories of computing, which can sometimes be quite sophisticated.Research limitations/implications - Retrocomputing challenges established notions of collection and preservation. A "situated knowledges" perspective provides a possible resolution.Practical implications - Retrocomputing presents memory institutions (and libraries in particular) with an opportunity for new forms of collaboration in collection and preservation of software applications.Originality/value - We put at the center the ways in which retrocomputing challenges the established notions of collection and preservation. We then offer alternative conceptualizations that suggest new forms of collaboration.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Facets of digital data dissemination: Value addition through ‘Imprints Collection’
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (B M Meera; Manjunath M, Manjunath Kaddipujar)
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  Purpose - Facets of digital data dissemination, namely RRI Digital repository and Imprints collection are two methods in which science communication can happen in the digital world. Purpose of this paper is to discuss the design, novelty and functionality of these facets as an archive, comprising a collage of profiles and publications of RRIians whose imprints on the sands of time have been culled and collated for posterity.Design/methodology/approach - RRI Digital repository that is discussed here makes use of DSpace to preserve and showcase the research papers in text format, audio/video of lectures and images. ’Imprints collection’ is designed using Dreamweaver software. Images are uploaded using Jalbum.net software. Findings - DSpace, an open source software meant for managing digital assets can be used as a platform to develop modern genre of data dissemination. An example to this end is the ‘Imprints collection’, a bio-bibliographic database with lot of value addition, showcasing the digital scholarship of an institute with archival value. Practical implications - Practical implications of both RRI digital repository and imprints collection is to act as support service to enhance the creativity and collaboration among scientists of the institute within and across different research institutes in the country and across the world. Further, ResercherID embedded in the profile pages of scientists helps scientometricians in citation analysis. Originality/value - Novelty associated with imprints collection in science communication using DSpace data is the strength of this tool. This is a unique style of digital data dissemination with supporting links between authors, their persona, their papers, lectures and photographs.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Local Contents and the Development of Open Access Institutional Repositories in Nigeria University Libraries: Challenges, Strategies and Scholarly Implications
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (IFEANYI JONAS EZEMA)
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  Purpose - This study was conducted to examine the management of local content materials for open access institutional repositories in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approach - Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total 85 librarians from seven government funded universities in South East Nigeria were used for the study.Findings - From the findings fifteen local content materials were identified as relevant for publication in institutional repositories. Similarly a major method of acquiring these local contents is by encouraging staff to deposit their publications in the university libraries. It was also found out that providing subject index to the local contents and their digitization are effective methods of organizing the materials for institutional repository. The findings also show that increase in the visibility of the authors, promotion of university ranking and efficient dissemination of research findings are among the benefits of publishing in institutional repositories. The problems and strategies of publishing in institutional repositories were also identified through the findings. Practical implications - This study will serve as a useful guide for universities administrators and librarians who are interested in developing their institutional repositories using local contents available to them. It will also be of great value to project managers who are engaged in the digitization of their local contents. Originality/value - This paper the use of local content information resources in building institutional repositories in Nigerian university libraries. These studies will be useful for university libraries that intend to build their institutional repositories particularly in developing countries.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
A multi-strategy machine learning student modeling for intelligent tutoring systems: based on Blackboard approach
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Mu-Jung Huang; Heien-Kun Chiang, Pei-Fen Wu, Yu-Jung Hsieh)
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  Purpose - This study proposes a blackboard approach using multistrategy machine learning student modeling techniques to learn the properties of students’ inconsistent behaviors during their learning process.Design/methodology/approach - These multistrategy machine learning student modeling techniques include inductive reasoning (similarity-based learning), deductive reasoning (explanation-based learning), and analogical reasoning (case-based reasoning).Findings - According to the properties of students’ inconsistent behaviors, the ITS (intelligent tutoring system) may then adopt appropriate methods, such as intensifying teaching and practing, to prevent their inconsistent behaviors from reoccurring.Originality/value - This research sets the learning object on a single student. After the inferences are accumulated from a group of students, what kinds of students tend to have inconsistent behaviors or under what conditions the behaviors happened for most students can be learned.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Facial Emotion Recognition towards Affective Computing-based Learning
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Kuan Cheng Lin; Tien-Chi Huang, Jason Chi-Shun Hung, Neil Y. Yen, Szu-Ju Chen)
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  Purpose - This study introduces an affective computing-based method of identifying student understanding throughout a distance learning course.Design/methodology/approach - This study proposed a learning emotion recognition model including three phases: feature extraction and generation, feature subset selection and emotion recognition. Feature are extracted from facial images and transforms a given measument of facial expressions to a new set of features difining and computing by eigenvectors. Feature subset selection uses the Immune Memory Clone alorthis to optimize the feature selection. Emotion recognition uses the Supper Vector machise (SVM) classifier to build the connection between facial expression and learning emotion.Findings - Experimental results using the basic expression of facial expression recognition research database, JAFFE, show that the proposed facial expression recognition method has high classification performance. And then, experiment results also show that the recognition of spontaneous facial expressions is effective in the synchronous distance learning courses.Research limitations/implications - In the real asynchronous distance learning course, the learning motion recognition model is built just for one learner. A further study will be done on confirming the proposed model for multi-learners distance learning environment. In addition, the learning emotion should be able to support multi-level of learners’ comprehension. Supporting multi-level or fuzzy level of learners’ comprehension is an interesting problem requiring future research.Originality/value - This study shows that indentifying student comprehension based on facial expression recognition in synchronous distance learning courses is feasible. This can help the instrutors understand the student comprehension real time. So, the instructors adapt their teaching materials and strategy to fit with learning status of students.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Moving a Repository of Scholarly Content to a Cloud
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (A.N. Zainab; C.Y. Chong, T.C. Ling)
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  Purpose - This paper describes the problems faced by MyAIS, an open access repository of scholarly content, the reasons for moving to a cloud infrastructure and the design of the system. Design/methodology/approach - MyAIS is supported by an IBM HS22V multiple blade server using virtualization technology. A single blade server runs both MyAIS’s back-end that handles the processing of digital repository and front-end that handles the web server. The whole system runs on a Linux platform. The virtualized servers deliver an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Malaya researchers as well as studentsFindings - Sharing resources in the cloud cuts maintenance cost and leaves smaller carbon footprint due to its modular design. Virtualization makes it easy to monitor access traffic and usage of hardware resources on-the-fly. The scalability and expansion of MyAIS is improved. It allows for faster system recovery in case of hard disk failure and speedy file move during migration. Larger bandwidth improves reliability and management of bottlenecks. Research limitations/implications - There are still bottleneck at the wide area network level resulting is sluggishness during peak hoursPractical implications - There is significant improvement is storage expansion through shared hardware resources.Originality/value - Cloud as an IaaS helps reduce the total cost of ownership and maintenance, increase system scalability to handle increased traffic, meet increasing demand for storage space for full text resources, and reduce downtime. It makes backup and disaster recovery easier. It is possible accommodate other University repositories in future.
  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010
Smart Space Technology Innovations
- Authors: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com (Mu-Yen Chen; Edwin David Lughofer)
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  PubDate: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +010