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Enabled backchannel: conference Twitter use by digital humanists
C. Ross, M. Terras, C. Warwick, A. WelshTo date, few studies have been undertaken to make explicit how microblogging technologies are used by and can benefit scholars. This paper aims to investigate the use of Twitter…
Information overload and information poverty: challenges for healthcare services managers?
Jackie MacDonald, Peter Bath, Andrew BoothThe purpose of this paper is to gain insight into managers' decision‐making practices when challenged by inappropriate information quality, and to test frameworks developed from…
Factors affecting relevance judgment: a report from TREC Legal track
Heting ChuThis study intends to identify factors that affect relevance judgment of retrieved information as part of the 2007 TREC Legal track interactive task.
Hermeneutics applied to the quality of empirical databases
Isabelle Boydens, Seth van HoolandThis paper seeks to present a conceptual framework to analyze and improve the quality of empirical databases throughout time – with operational results which are measurable in…
The effect of the internet on researcher motivations, behaviour and attitudes
Adrian Mulligan, Michael MabeThe purpose of this paper is to understand how the migration from the print world to the electronic environment has affected the motivations, attitudes and behaviours of…
Information sharing as a means to reach collective understanding: A study of design scholars' information practices
Ola Pilerot, Louise LimbergThis study aims to increase knowledge about the information‐sharing activities of design research scholars.
What do the conceptions of geo/spatial information tell us about information literacy?
Maryam Nazari, Sheila WebberThe purpose of this paper is to report findings from an investigation into the conceptions and characteristics of geo/spatial information (GI) to demonstrate how exploring…
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