Information Science - Information Matters

It’s tricky for people to agree on what counts as quality information. We see this every day with echo chambers on social media, where everyone has their own idea of what’s true or important. This suggests that information quality is a product of our own, individual minds—one that is best captured in “like,” “love,” “haha,” and “wow” buttons on social media. But our research suggests there’s a way to get people on the same page about information quality, and it involves making some changes to how we assess and share information online.

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January 22, 2024 Jesse Dinneen

Life and Death in the Information Society

Throughout our lives we create, consume and accumulate information. And then we die. But what happens – and what should happen – to our information after our death? This question is very complex and thus increasingly intriguing to researchers, but different groups of stakeholders have different values and interests that would shape a potential answer.

Education

September 14, 2023 Sigy George

Five Pillars of Reading

Reading is a fundamental skill that is essential for a child’s academic success in school and beyond. While some children are naturally gifted readers, other children have difficulty with reading and require additional instruction and practice. The five pillars of reading provide an effective framework for teaching and reinforcing these reading skills.

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August 14, 2023 Jenna Hartel

“Library and Information Science” Explained and Embodied in 5 Minutes

“What is Library and Information Science?” in a 5-minute video. LIS is cast as the mediating force between publications and people. Further, the video distinguishes the academic discipline (library and information science) from the related concepts of its institution (the library) and profession (librarianship). Along the way, several key concepts are defined, such as the reference interview, reader’s advisory, bibliographic control, and information retrieval. Three distinct types of libraries are named (public, academic, special).

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July 8, 2023 Irfan Ullah

On the Current State of Query Formulation for Book Search

Formulating a well-defined search query is one of the prominent success factors in getting relevant search results on any search system. However, no latest review or survey exists in the literature that studies query formulation from the perspective of book retrieval. The authors fill this literary gap by studying query formulation in light of research publications from 2007-22.

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July 5, 2023 Tom Mason

Times New Plural – The Multiple Temporalities of Contemporary Life and the Infosphere

We might illustrate the infosphere by picturing a person walking down a street in the weather of the day (rain, sun, wind, etc), negotiating traffic, other people, obstacles, using services, all the while with their smartphone; messaging, listening to a podcast, on a video call, checking bus times, etc. This example highlights everyday plural temporalities; as the various activities occurring here include the general time, work time and ‘free’ time, the temporalities of the online network their device is operating within, the device’s battery life, the time of whoever else is being communicated to via messaging or video call, the time(s) of other people around.

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June 14, 2023 Andrzej M. J. Skulimowski

Sustainable Technological Development Planning of Artificial Intelligence-Based Learning Platforms (AILPs)

To date, the selection of AI tools has lagged behind work on other software-specific aspects of modern learning platform development. We designed a novel technology relevance assessment methodology based on an expert Delphi survey and multicriteria analysis. Then, we applied the results to plan further development of the prototype platform and to build its exploitation strategy. The lessons learned while planning and developing this platform can be applied to a large class of similar systems.

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June 3, 2023 Hamid Reza Saeidnia

Open AI, ChatGPT: To Be, or Not to Be, That Is the Question

Some consider ChatGPT smarter than humans, some call it destructive technology, and others consider it a great helper for writing scientific and research studies. The world of artificial intelligence shows that it is very exciting and that this technology can help humans at a very high level in any field, a subject that was considered science fiction in the past decades. But now it is a part of reality.