Information privacy has received significant attention in past years. The shift from physical to online interaction entails a change in privacy paradigms. Yet, most of the attention has been directed at forms of self-identifying ...

Various barriers to socio-economic opportunities in Africa are explored though e-Government as a lens of study. Using grounded theory methodology, scholarly literature on e-Government in Africa has been analyzed to model ...

Describes a possible agenda for exploring the use of boundary objects in hybrid commercial/open-source software development firms.

In this research, we investigate how we can build ontologies that are suitable to Information Systems design. We analyzed methodologies for building ontologies from scratch. Preliminary results show that the process of ...

This research considers the nature of organizing information resources in a shared, open content encyclopedia. While the organization of information resources entails many complementary phenomena (cf. Wilson, 1978; Taylor, ...

Ranking is an important subject in information retrieval, and a variety of techniques and algorithms have been developed to rank the retrieved documents and web pages for a given query. However, ranking is also a ...

The iSchool at the University of Pittsburgh has designed a new learning experience that will allow future leaders of the iProfession to gain critical skills and to experience working in culturally diverse teams. The iSchool ...

The Internet Public Library (IPL) is crosswalking its metadata to Dublin Core compliant metadata. This involves several research activities, including: quantitative and qualitative analyses of the existing IPL metadata; ...

Community Archives “are the grassroots activities of documenting, recording, and exploring community heritage in which community participation, control, and ownership of the project is essential” (Flinn, 2007). It is the ...

The purpose of my study is to find out if the construction of personal meaning from museum artifacts change with contextual variation. From this statement the question I am asking is “How do children construct personal ...