Given that digital libraries bring together technology, information, and the people using the information, it can easily be argued that i-schools should play a central role in educating DL professionals. This study examines ...

This poster presents preliminary results of an exploratory qualitative research. The hypothesis of this study is that affordances provided by image-enabled communication practices (i.e. drawing) create salient or ...

This paper explores the impact of national culture on knowledge sharing activities in global virtual collaboration. In specific, the Chinese culture is examined.

To identify what information resources the professors use to support their research activities and how they use them in the electronic age, this paper surveyed 637 faculty members from five research universities across ...

In this paper I present preliminary findings from research on the design and use of interorganizational information systems being developed to facilitate information sharing among criminal justice agencies, called IJIS. ...

We analyze the publication co-authorship network of an iSchool faculty community using ‘Social Identity Theory’ as the theoretical lens. Initially, we discuss the need for a theoretical framework to analyze and interpret ...

The Semantic Web promises powerful new functionality for bibliographic databases by combining bibliographic informa- tion with knowledge about the world. However, the kinds of representation that are possible in Semantic ...

This poster addresses the iConference themes of “What is ‘engagement’ in a research institution?” and “personal information management.” It presents findings from a qualitative study of information behaviors in a population ...

The Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) is a foundational framework for describing cultural heritage resources. This poster presents a model of the CDWA Lite core categories as an OWL ontology.

The rapid growth in the knowledge and information sector of economy in the recent decades has led to a shift from the traditional educational paradigm to the concept of lifelong learning. Wide acceptance of this concept ...