Data Technologies and Applications: Volume 52 Issue 3

CoboChild: a blended mobile game-based learning service for children in museum contexts

Tien-Yu Hsu, HsinYi Liang, Chuang-Kai Chiou, Judy C.R. Tseng

The purpose of this paper is to develop a blended mobile game-based learning service called CoboChild Mobile Exploration Service (hereinafter CoboChild) to support children’s…

The role of negative network externalities in SNS fatigue: An empirical study based on impression management concern, privacy concern, and social overload

Yun Zhu, Zheshi Bao

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether negative network externalities would contribute to social networking site (SNS) fatigue and how this mechanism works.

RANKuser: A folksonomy and user profile based algorithm to identify experts in Community Question Answering sites

Abhishek Kumar Singh, Naresh Kumar Nagwani, Sudhakar Pandey

Recently, with a high volume of users and user’s content in Community Question Answering (CQA) sites, the quality of answers provided by users has raised a big concern. Finding…

Automatic meeting summarization and topic detection system

Tai-Chia Huang, Chia-Hsuan Hsieh, Hei-Chia Wang

Producing meeting documents requires an instantaneous recorder during meetings, which costs extra human resources and takes time to amend the file. However, a high-quality meeting…

Visual-aided ontology-based ranking on multidimensional data: a case study in academia

Evangelia Triperina, Georgios Bardis, Cleo Sgouropoulou, Ioannis Xydas, Olivier Terraz, Georgios Miaoulis

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel framework for visual-aided ontology-based multidimensional ranking and to demonstrate a case study in the academic domain.

Evaluation of Spanish institutional repositories based on criteria related to technology, procedures, content, marketing and personnel

Rocio Serrano-Vicente, Remedios Melero, Ernest Abadal

The purpose of this paper is to provide, through a set of indicators, an overview of the way in which Spanish institutional repositories are run and the services they offer their…

Quality measures for skos: ExactMatch linksets: an application to the thesaurus framework LusTRE

Riccardo Albertoni, Monica De Martino, Paola Podestà

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the quality of the connections (linkset) among thesauri published as Linked Data on the Web. It extends the cross-walking measures with…

Factors that enable knowledge creation in higher education: a structural model

Fatemeh Narenji Thani, Seyed Mohammad Mirkamali

Knowledge is recognized as a valuable asset and universities are in search of a new strategy that allows them to build their knowledge and experience. To achieve this goal, it…

Understanding online knowledge community user continuance: A social cognitive theory perspective

Tao Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to draw on the social cognitive theory to identify the determinants of online knowledge community user continuance, which reflects a user’s continued…