Journal of Documentation: Volume 78 Issue 3

Bonded design in the virtual environment: the transition of a participatory design methodology

Valerie Nesset, Elisabeth C. Davis, Owen Stewart-Robertson, J. Brice Bible

This paper examines how bonded design (BD), a participatory design methodology, was influenced by the transition to working in a virtual environment necessitated by the…

Bringing order or creating exclusion: systems for managing disability in a university

Hilary Yerbury, Simon Darcy, Nina Burridge, Barbara Almond

Classification schemes make things happen. The Australian Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which derives its classification system from the World Health Organization's…

Ethics and digital collections: a selective overview of evolving complexities

David Mindel

Digital collections are becoming more commonplace at libraries, archives and museums around the world, creating potential for improved accessibility to information that may…

“I found what I needed, which was a supportive community”: an ethnographic study of shared information practices in an online cosplay community

Emily Vardell, Ting Wang, Paul A. Thomas

This study explored the information practices of cosplayers, as well as the social norms, social types and information infrastructure of an online cosplay Facebook group, the Rey…

LIS neutrality: a Wittgensteinian interpretation

Stephen Macdonald

This study builds on a first study by Macdonald and Birdi (2019) that argues the concept of neutrality within library and information science (LIS) demands a sensitivity to…

The trajectory of linked data in late capitalism

Erik Radio, James Kalwara

The aim of this article is to analyze the trajectory of library linked data in light of the ideological machinations of late capitalism. This is accomplished in order to…

Preservation for diverse users: digital preservation and the “Designated Community” at the Ontario Jewish Archives

Nathan Moles

Conventional approaches to digital preservation posit that archives should define a Designated Community, or future user group, for whom they preserve digital information…

Mapping the research on museums and the public sphere: a scoping review

Andreas Vårheim, Roswitha Skare

In museum research, museums are held as vital in maintaining the public sphere. This scoping review takes stock of the present status of museum–public sphere research by providing…

Libraries, museums and cultural centers in foreign policy and cultural diplomacy: a scoping review

Randolf Mariano, Andreas Vårheim

Libraries, museums and cultural centers have long served as cultural ambassadors and foreign policy instruments, bridging diplomatic relationships among nation-states and…

Research output, intellectual structures and contributors of digital humanities research: a longitudinal analysis 2005–2020

Fangli Su, Yin Zhang

This study aims to update and extend previous efforts gauging the status of the quickly evolving field of digital humanities (DH). Based on a sample of directly relevant DH…

Wikipedia: an unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship

Denise A. Smith

To date, health information behaviour (HIB) models have not been applied to an exploration of Wikipedia as a consumer health information resource. Wikipedia has been situated and…

A sequential route of data and document qualities, satisfaction and motivations on researchers' data reuse intentions

Youngseek Kim

This study examined how the qualities of both data and documents of existing datasets can contribute to researchers' satisfaction of data reuse, and how it affects their data…

Intellectual structure of information science 2011–2020: an author co-citation analysis

Dangzhi Zhao, Andreas Strotmann

This study continues a long history of author co-citation analysis of the intellectual structure of information science into the time period of 2011–2020. It also examines changes…