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1. "Número
internacional normalizado de publicaciones en serie ISO 3297:2007
". Revista española de Documentación Científica,
Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008.
Descriptores: ISO 3297/ISSN/Normas
Resumen: Número internacional normalizado de publicaciones en
serie ISO 3297:2007 Versión española. Revista española de Documentación
Científica, Vol 31, No 1 (2008)
2. Abad García, M. F.,
González Teruel, A., Martínez Catalán, C., and Giménez Martínez,
F., "Viabilidad de repositorios de biomedicina y ciencias
de la salud en la Comunidad Valenciana". Profesional de
la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
Descriptores: Acceso abierto/Repositorios
institucionales/Biomedicina/Valencia
Resumen: Se estudian las condiciones de autoarchivo de 3.495
trabajos publicados en 109 revistas que recogen el
50% de la producción científica de la Comunidad Valenciana en biomedicina
y ciencias de la salud difundida en las bases de datos ISI (período
2000-2004). Se analiza el autoarchivado desde la perspectiva de la
viabilidad de implantación de repositorios institucionales y temáticos de
acceso abierto. La información se ha obtenido de la base de datos Romeo
disponible en la web Sherpa. Las condiciones de autoarchivo son
favorables para la implantación de repositorios institucionales ya que el
56,8% de los trabajos sería depositable inmediatamente, cifra que
ascendería al 72% al considerar los depositables tras un período de
embargo, y al 87% al incluir los trabajos publicados en revistas
accesibles a texto completo. La viabilidad para establecer un repositorio
temático de biomedicina y ciencias de la salud de la Comunidad Valenciana
es cuestionable debido a que la mayoría de las editoriales condicionan el
permiso para el depósito de trabajos a la existencia de un mandato de las
agencias estatales y/o autonómicas responsables de la financiación de la
investigación, algo inexistente en este momento.
3. Abadal, E. and Codina,
L., "La diversidad cultural en Google y los motores de
búsqueda: una aproximación conceptual". Profesional de
la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/7ped06tqlq1xqktumeqm/contributions/y/4/3/8/y438255770801113.pdf
Descriptores: Google/Motores de
búsqueda/Multiculturalismo
Resumen: Se analiza una preocupación expresada tanto de forma
implícita como explícita en diversos ámbitos, según la
cual los motores de búsqueda en general y Google en particular, podrían
estar utilizando algún sistema para ocultar determinados contenidos
culturales o bien para destacar aquellos que proceden del ámbito
anglosajón en detrimento de los de otras culturas y lenguas. Dicho de
otro modo, se considera, en una primera aproximación de modo
exclusivamente conceptual, la idea de si el uso intensivo de los motores
de búsqueda, tan característico de nuestro tiempo, resulta una amenaza
para la diversidad cultural. Para ello, en primer lugar y con el fin de
contextualizar este trabajo, se lleva a cabo una presentación de dos
polémicas previas sobre el dilema proteccionismo o libre flujo de los
productos culturales y a continuación se analizan las características más
relevantes de los motores de búsqueda (centrándonos en Google en
particular) con el fin de valorar si éstos constituyen una amenaza
creíble a la diversidad cultural e idiomática de la Web. Palabras clave:
Google, Motores de búsqueda, Diversidad cultural
4. Agustí, L. and Redondo,
S., "Public libraries: adapting to the digitised
environment. An interview with John Lake". Profesional
de la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/ecxxqmlgql6x96t7cqwy/contributions/h/2/4/8/h248vnt273w34q50.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Entrevistas
Resumen: Public libraries: adapting to the digitised environment.
An interview with John Lake. Por Lluís Agustí y Sílvia Redondo
Agustí, Lluís; Redondo, Sílvia. Public libraries: adapting to the
digitised environment. An interview with John Lake. En: El profesional
de la información, 2008, marzo-abril, v. 17, n. 2, pp. 236-238.
5. Aladdin Al-Kharabsheh and
Bakri Al-Azzam, "Translating the invisible in the Qur'an
". Vol. 54, No. 1, 2008, pp. 1-18.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4B888EF134B486C931D9
Descriptores: Visibilidad del
traductor/Léxico/Arabe-Inglés
Resumen: This study investigates the translation of semantically
invisible lexical elements (SILEs), which constitute a Qur'anic-specific,
linguistic phenomenon that has never been addressed in Arabic-English
translation studies. An SILE is defined here as any Quranic-lexical
element that, ostensively, has a visible meaning, normally mistakingly
taken to be the intended one, and another invisible meaning that acts as
the intended meaning, and which is extricably bound up to skip
recognition in the act of any customary reading of the text and context
in which it figures. To prove that SILEs present insurmountable
translational hurdles, this paper analyzes some of the problems and
dificulties associated with rendering a number of SILE instances taken
from the Qur'an. The examples of the study were taken from three selected
official translations of the Qur'an, namely, Ali's (1983) The Holy
Qur'an: Translation and Commentary; The Presidency's (1992) The Holy
Qur'an: English Translation of the Meanings and Commentary; and
Pickthall's (2002) The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'an: Explanatory
Translation. The three translations of each SILE were semantically
compared and contrasted in reference to three chief Muslim exegeses, viz.
Ibn Kathir's (1997) Tafseer Al-Qur'an Al-Kareem; Al-Sabuni's (2001)
Safwat Al-Tafaseer; and Al-Zamakhshari's (2005) Al-Kashshaf. Alongside
investigating the relevant texts and contexts of the selected SILEs, the
three exegeses were also used as the point of departure in the detection
and identification of the invisible meaning, and evaluation of the three
selected translations. The study shows that SILEs are translationally
problematic and elusive in the sense that they incessantly trigger an
inevitable translation loss. Besides, translating these cases requires
possessing a working linguistic-exegetical background, without which the
results would be unsatisfactory and misrepresenting. Finally, sound
interpretation and proper rendering of any given SILE hinge not only on
its textual context or broader context (the scriptural-theological
context), but also on the combination of both. Peripheralizing this
combination revealed that many semantic nuances and idiosyncrasies of the
selected SILEs were either partially conveyed, or totally dropped out.
Failure to grasp the invisible meaning in the selected translations was
also accounted for.
6. Alami, M. E., Casel, N.,
and Zampunieris, D., "An architecture for e-learning system
with computational intelligence". The Electronic
Library, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879473
Descriptores: Arquitectura de la
información/Aprendizaje/Inteligencia artificial
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new
kind of learning management system: proactive LMS, designed to improve
the users' online (inter)actions by providing programmable, automatic and
continuous intelligent analyses of the users' behaviours, augmented with
appropriate actions initiated by the LMS itself.
Design/methodology/approach ? Proactive systems adhere to two premises:
working on behalf of, or pro, the user, and acting on their own
initiative, without the user's explicit command. The proactive part of
the LMS is implemented as a dynamic rules-based system, and is added next
to the initial LMS. They both use the same database as their source of
information on the users, their activities, the available resources and
the current state of the whole system. Findings ? How the proactive part
of the LMS was implemented on the basis of a dynamic expert system is
shown. Also how it looks like from a user's point of view is sketched.
Finally, examples of intelligent analysis of users' behaviours coded into
proactive rules are given. Research limitations/implications ? Future
work should include the design and the implementation of sets of rules
(packages) dedicated to common users' needs, enabling useful proactivity
on the basis of elaborated intelligent analysis. Originality/value ?
Current learning management systems (virtual educational and/or training
online environments) are fundamentally limited tools. Indeed, they are
only reactive software: these tools wait for an instruction and then
react to the user's request. Students using these online systems could
imagine and hope for more help and assistance tools: LMS should tend to
offer some personal, immediate and appropriate support as teachers offer
in classrooms. The proactive LMS can, for example, automatically and
continuously help and take care of e-learners with respect to previously
defined procedures rules, and even flag other users, like e-tutors, if
something wrong is detected in their behaviour.
7. Alcaín Partearroyo, M. D.,
Román, A. R., and Giménez Toledo, E., "Categorización de
las revistas españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas en
RESH". Revista española de Documentación
Científica, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008.
Descriptores: Evaluación/Revistas científicas/Publicaciones
periódicas/Ciencias sociales/Humanidades/Ranking
Resumen: El propósito de esta nota es comunicar y explicar las
últimas mejoras incorporadas a la plataforma RESH, sistema integrado de
evaluación que se basa en diversos tipos de indicadores de calidad en
relación con el proceso editorial, la revisión por pares, la visibilidad
internacional y los índices de impacto. El grupo que desarrolla RESH ha
estado trabajando en la puesta a punto de un sistema de baremación que
adjudica diferente peso a los indicadores que miden los diferentes
aspectos de la calidad, con objeto de poder construir listas
jerarquizadas (ranking) de las revistas en el contexto de sus disciplinas
y/o de sus áreas del conocimiento. A partir de ahora, evaluadores,
autores y editores podrán encontrar en RESH la posición que ocupa cada
revista en el contexto de su especialidad, así como los datos que dan
origen a la posición final alcanzada por cada revista.
8. Alcina, A.,
"Translation technologies Scope, tools and
resources". Target: International Journal on
Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 79-102.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=41E7A868025CD23B3985
Descriptores: Traducción técnica/Fuentes de
información
Resumen: Translation technologies constitute an important new
field of interdisciplinary study lying midway between computer science
and translation, and its professional development will largely depend on
the attention it is given from the academic point of view. In this paper
different approaches to the subject are examined so as to provide us with
a basis for an internal analysis of the field of translation technologies
and to structure its content. Following criteria based on professional
practice and on the idiosyncrasies of the computer tools and resources
that play a part in translation activity, we present our definition of
translation technologies and of the field, classified in five
blocs.
9. Allen, R. B. and Johnson,
K. A., "Preserving digital local news".
The Electronic Library, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879527
Descriptores: Telecomunicaciones
/Televisión/Periódicos/Preservacion digital/Informativos
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to explore issues
and approaches for collection and management of born digital local news.
Much local news ? important documentation of local history ? is being
lost. The fact that a lot of news media is now available digitally
presents new opportunities but also new challenges for such preservation.
Design/methodology/approach ? Several specific bottle-necks for
implementing this project are examined. For instance, the size of the
problem is estimated by approximating how much local news is generated in
one US state. Then the difficulties in capture, storage requirements,
selection, access, and sustainability are considered, focusing on
difficulties in selection. Finally, a number of business models for
handling these challenges are explored. Findings ? Currently, there is no
large-scale effort under way to preserve local television and newspaper
news stories, and as a result this part of history is being lost. Many
practical difficulties to a comprehensive system have been found but
there would be value even in a system which was not the ideal. Newspaper
web sites and streaming radio stations should be downloaded. The
possibility of capturing video from cable distribution points could be
explored. Originality/value ? While none of the business models offers an
ideal solution for the preservation of local news, especially not for
multimedia sources, it is believed that some of them provide partial
answers which should be tried.
10. Alonso Arévalo, J. and Martin
Castilla, S., "Producción científica en Salud
Laboral". Salud Laboral, Vol. 22, No. 6, 2008, pp.
23-45.
http://www.seslap.com/seslap/html/pubBiblio/revista/vol_2/n_2/vol2_n2.pdf
Descriptores: Salud Laboral/Espa a/Producción
científica
Resumen: Analisis bibliometrico de la pri.....
11. Arencibia Jorge, R., Barrios Almaguer,
I., Fernbndez Hernbndez, S., and Carvajal Espino, R.,
"Applying successive H indices in the institutional evaluation: A
case study". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp.
155-157.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4ADAA7247FBFCF45C249
Descriptores: Evaluación/Investigación/Web of
Science/Cuba
Resumen: The present work shows the applying of successive H
indices in the evaluation of a scientific institution, using the
researcherûdepartmentûinstitution hierarchy as level of aggregation. The
scientific production covered by the Web of Science of the researcher's
staff from the Cuban National Scientific Research Center, during the
period 2001û2005, was studied. The Hirsch index (h-index; J.E. Hirsch,
2005) was employed to calculate the individual performance of the staff,
using the g-index created by Leo Egghe (2006) and the A-index developed
by Jin Bi-Hui (2006) as complementary indicators. The successive H
indices proposed by Andrbs Schubert (2007) were used to determine the
scientific performance of each department as well as the general
performance of the institution. The possible advantages of the method for
the institutional evaluation processes were exposed.
12. Azadeh, A., Haghnevis, M., and
Khodadadegan, Y., "Design of the integrated information
system, business, and production process by simulation".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp. 216-234.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=428E9934539CDD629A96
Descriptores: Empresas/Comercio /Sistemas de
información/Simulación
Resumen: The objective of this study was to integrate the
information, business, and production process of a powder coating
manufacturing via computer simulation. Previous studies considered only
conventional customer lead-time, which is defined as customer lead-times
to receive goods or services. The integrated approach of this study is
capable of evaluating customer lead-times in six different dimensions.
Furthermore, the integrated simulation approach considers conventional
customer lead-time (from when the customer places an order) in addition
to five other customer indices. This is the first study to consider the
integrated modeling of the information, business, and production process.
Previous studies mostly considered individual simulation modeling of
production system, information system, or business system in various
settings. It is claimed that by integrating information and business
systems and production systems through simulation, major and minor
organization and production issues become visible. This study also shows
perceived improvements through integration of the information system and
production process modeling. In summary, the unique features of this
study are 3-fold. First, the integrated approach of this study identifies
major bottlenecks of the production process and information system and
business process concurrently. Second, the integrated approach models and
produces several dimensions of customer satisfaction. Finally, the
integrated approach allows the effects of business process reengineering
and information technology to be evaluated before actual implementation.
In addition, by integrated modeling of this study the hidden and
concurrent effect of the business and production processes are identified
and improved.
13. Báez, J. M., Peset, F., Núñez, F., and
Ferrer, A., "CVN: normalización de los currículos
científicos". Profesional de la información, El,
Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/mm8kyvmwqq49f40wmj13/contributions/g/6/4/4/g644787878lvw000.pdf
Descriptores:
Investigación/Normalización/Investigadores
Resumen: Cuanto más estructurado está un sistema científico y
mayor es el grado de integración de las entidades que lo
forman más eficiente puede hacerse su gestión. Los curricula vitae (CV)
de los investigadores son documentos que reúnen datos de personas,
instituciones y trabajos, y, vistos en su conjunto, son una privilegiada
fuente potencial de información de la actividad científica de un país.
Sin embargo si no están almacenados de forma adecuada no es posible
explotarlos para realizar estudios sobre ellos. Por otro lado, la
inexistencia de un modelo de CV único y normalizado obliga al
investigador a rellenar múltiples versiones durante su ejercicio
profesional. La Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología
(Fecyt), junto con las entidades pertenecientes al Sistema español de
ciencia, tecnología y empresa (Secte), han puesto en marcha el proyecto
Curriculum Vitae Normalizado. Este artículo describe su funcionamiento y
destaca los beneficios de su implantación.
14. Bandia, P. F.,
"Fictionalising translation and multilingualism".
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No.
1, 2008, pp. 164-169.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4234A462E794B8310105
Descriptores: Traducción/Multilingüismo
Resumen: Paul F. Bandia . Fictionalising translation and
multilingualism . Target: International Journal on Translation Studies,
Volume 20, Number 1 (May 2008), pp. 164-169,
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15. Barjak, F. and Thelwall, M.,
"A statistical analysis of the web presences of European life
sciences research teams". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008,
pp. 628-643.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=46849AD0C3BC07D95C26
Descriptores: World Wide Web/Estadística/Grupos de
trabajo/Europa/Visibilidad
Resumen: Web links have been used for around ten years to
explore the online impact of academic information and information
producers. Nevertheless, few studies have attempted to relate link counts
to relevant offline attributes of the owners of the targeted Web sites,
with the exception of research productivity. This article reports the
results of a study to relate site inlink counts to relevant owner
characteristics for over 400 European life-science research group Web
sites. The analysis confirmed that research-group size and Web-presence
size were important for attracting Web links, although research
productivity was not. Little evidence was found for significant influence
of any of an array of factors, including research-group leader gender and
industry connections. In addition, the choice of search engine for link
data created a surprising international difference in the results, with
Google perhaps giving unreliable results. Overall, the data collection,
statistical analysis and results interpretation were all complex and it
seems that we still need to know more about search engines, hyperlinks,
and their function in science before we can draw conclusions on their
usefulness and role in the canon of science and technology
indicators.
16. Barnett, G. A. and Fink, E. L.,
"Impact of the internet and scholar age distribution on academic
citation age". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008, pp.
526-534.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=439383649B459A2E9CC5
Descriptores: Impacto/Internet/Comunicación
científica/Análisis de citas
Resumen: This article examines the impact of the Internet
and the age distribution of research scholars on academic citation age
with a mathematical model proposed by Barnett, Fink, and Debus (1989) and
a revised model that incorporates information about the online
environment and scholar age distribution. The modified model fits the
data well, accounting for 99.6% of the variance for science citations and
99.8% for social science citations. The Internet's impact on the aging
process of academic citations has been very small, accounting for only
0.1% for the social sciences and 0.8% for the sciences. Rather than
resulting in the use of more recent citations, the Internet appears to
have lengthened the average life of academic citations by 6 to 8 months.
The aging of scholars seems to have a greater impact, accounting for 2.8%
of the variance for the sciences and 0.9% for the social sciences.
However, because the diffusion of the Internet and the aging of the
professoriate are correlated over this time period, differentiating their
effects is somewhat problematic.
17. Belic, K. and Surla, D.,
"User-friendly web application for bibliographic material
processing". The Electronic Library, Vol. 26, No.
3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879536
Descriptores: Catálogos automatizados/Procesos
técnicos/Procesos técnicos/Amigabilidad/Usabilidad
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is implementation of
a software system for bibliographic material processing which does not
require knowledge about any format for bibliographic data input. This
means that the input can be done not only by librarians, but also by
other persons such as authors of bibliographic units, students,
employees, etc. Design/methodology/approach ? An object-oriented
methodology for developing information systems by means of computer-aided
software engineering (CASE) tools and software components is used. The
software architecture is multi-layered and web-based. The implementation
is done in Java environment. Findings ? The result is a web application
by which users can catalogue bibliographic material without being
familiar with the corresponding format. Nevertheless, the bibliographic
record is formed in accordance with the given format for bibliographic
material processing (MARC21, UNIMARC, etc.). Research
limitations/implications ? Automatic generating of screen forms for the
chosen set of data for bibliographic material processing is not provided
in the presented version of the application. In order to eliminate this
limitation, there are preset solutions that can be integrated into the
application. Practical implications ? The application is primarily
intended for research institutions aiming at forming their electronic
catalogue and/or bibliographies of researchers or institutions.
Originality/value ? The originality of the paper lies in the software
architecture of the application related to the middle layer, i.e. the one
of business logic. This layer implements a mechanism by which different
sets of input data are mapped to persistent data by means of the unique
object model of an accepted format for the bibliographic material
processing (MARC21, UNIMARC, or others).
18. Bell, S. J., "Give Your
Reference Manual an Extreme E-Makeover.". Reference
Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 73-75.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Servicios de referencia en línea
Resumen: Bell, Steven J. Give Your Reference Manual an
Extreme E-Makeover. Reference Librarian: Reference Librarian
19. Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., and
Nachmias, R., "The user-subjective approach to personal
information management systems design: Evidence and
implementations". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp. 235-246
.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4941BCC72F7D43DCC32C
Descriptores: Estudio de usuarios/Sistemas de
información/Gestión
Resumen: Personal Information Management (PIM) is an activity in
which an individual stores personal information items to retrieve them
later. In a former article, we suggested the user-subjective approach, a
theoretical approach proposing design principles with which PIM systems
can systematically use subjective attributes of information items. In
this consecutive article, we report on a study that tested the approach
by exploring the use of subjective attributes (i.e., project, importance,
and context) in current PIM systems, and its dependence on design
characteristics. Participants were 84 personal computer users. Tools
included a questionnaire (N = 84), a semistructured interview that was
transcribed and analyzed (n = 20), and screen captures taken from this
subsample. Results indicate that participants tended to use subjective
attributes when the design encouraged them to; however, when the design
discouraged such use, they either found their own alternative ways to use
them or refrained from using them altogether. This constitutes evidence
in support of the user-subjective approach as it implies that current PIM
systems do not allow for sufficient use of subjective attributes. The
article also introduces seven novel system design schemes, suggested by
the authors, which demonstrate how the user-subjective principles can be
implemented.
20. Blasco Mayor, M. J. and Jimqnez Ivars,
A., "E- Learning for interpreting". Vol. 53,
No. 4, 2007, pp. 292-302.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=40C88F264F49ABCF1DE0
Descriptores: Aprendizaje/Enseñanza a distancia/Interpretación
Resumen: This article deals on how new information technologies
can be applied to interpreter training, a field of research still in its
early stages. The use of a digital interpreting laboratory and the new
teaching paths that are now open through the internet, such as
interpreting e- or distance learning, are explored, such as the use of
new digitalized sources of input for interpreting practice and the
convenient storage and retrieval of student exercises on a digital
format. The development of interpreting training materials suitable for
this new learning environment and the actual design of teaching units and
their components is also explained. An online interpreting platform that
allows both for the provision of such materials and the storage of
students practice files has been devised, and the procedure for their
collection is given in detail. The site also provides with links of all
sort of resources the trainee might need in order to accomplish practice
work. Materials are aimed both at developing interpreting subskills, such
as comprehension or public speaking skill and at training the whole task.
In order to design appropriate courses within this new environment, a
look into the field of Educational Technology is needed. In our approach,
e-learning is viewed as an extension of the physical class; as such the
on-line tool has proved efficient. Situated cognition and constructivist
paradigms are applied to the teaching of interpreting in the new learning
environments. After examining the pros and cons of the distance learning
mode and the interpreting task, the authors advocate blended learning as
the one that best meets interpreter training goals at present, although
they are aware there is still a long way to go in CAIT (Computer Assisted
Interpreter Training).
21. Bollen, J. and Sompel, H. V. d.,
"Usage impact factor: The effects of sample characteristics on
usage-based impact metrics". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008,
pp. 136-149.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4E7B8506879CC47ADFD0
Descriptores: Factor de
impacto/Impacto/Bibliometría/Medición
Resumen: There exist ample demonstrations that indicators of
scholarly impact analogous to the citation-based ISI Impact Factor can be
derived from usage data; however, so far, usage can practically be
recorded only at the level of distinct information services. This leads
to community-specific assessments of scholarly impact that are difficult
to generalize to the global scholarly community. In contrast, the ISI
Impact Factor is based on citation data and thereby represents the global
community of scholarly authors. The objective of this study is to examine
the effects of community characteristics on assessments of scholarly
impact from usage. We define a journal Usage Impact Factor that mimics
the definition of the Thomson Scientific ISI Impact Factor. Usage Impact
Factor rankings are calculated on the basis of a large-scale usage
dataset recorded by the linking servers of the California State
University system from 2003 to 2005. The resulting journal rankings are
then compared to the Thomson Scientific ISI Impact Factor that is used as
a reference indicator of general impact. Our results indicate that the
particular scientific and demographic characteristics of a discipline
have a strong effect on resulting usage-based assessments of scholarly
impact. In particular, we observed that as the number of graduate
students and faculty increases in a particular discipline, Usage Impact
Factor rankings will converge more strongly with the ISI Impact
Factor.
22. Bondt, B. and Zentner, A.,
"Quality Management in Orthodontic Practice: Orthodontics:
Quality of Care and Quality of Life". Seminars in
Orthodontics, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2007, pp. 122-126.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B75KK-4NSWX57-B/1/7a1e0bee248ba850ceafc6fde0d59b21
Descriptores: EFQM/Calidad /Medicina
Resumen: Recently, systematic quality management has gradually
attained a more significant role in the work of health care
organizations. In this article a brief description of various models of
quality management is given, such as Total Quality Management (TQM),
International Organization for Standardization (ISO), European Foundation
for Quality Management (EFQM), and accreditation. Their common philosophy
is the nonhierarchical approach with emphasis on defining management as a
supporting process. The models assume a customer-driven organization in
which continuous improvement is an important aspect. Quality concepts and
standardized protocols are increasingly implemented to structure the
organization of orthodontic practice. Applicability of these models in
the field of orthodontics and their influence on treatment outcome is
reviewed.
23. Boock, M., "Report of
the alcts technical services administrators of medium-sized research
libraries discussion group meeting. American library association annual
conference, new orleans, june 2006.". Technical
Services Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 93-97.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=31385828&site=ehost-live
Descriptores: Procesos técnicos/Congresos
Resumen: Information about the technical services of research
libraries at the American Library Association Annual Conference in New
Orleans, Louisiana on June 26, 2006 is presented. The Future of the
Catalog table discussed the catalog including the features common in
catalogs. It focused on the development of Resource Description Access
(RDA) and the timeline for its expected completion. It also discussed the
desired functionality of the online product.
24. Bornmann, L., Mutz, R., and Daniel,
H.-D., "Are there better indices for evaluation purposes
than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of the h index
using data from biomedicine". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 5, 2008,
pp. 830-837.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4FDDAFBA56D790C9F55F
Descriptores: Indización/Evaluación/Biomedicina
Resumen: In this study, we examined empirical results on the h
index and its most important variants in order to determine whether the
variants developed are associated with an incremental contribution for
evaluation purposes. The results of a factor analysis using bibliographic
data on postdoctoral researchers in biomedicine indicate that regarding
the h index and its variants, we are dealing with two types of indices
that load on one factor each. One type describes the most productive core
of a scientist's output and gives the number of papers in that core. The
other type of indices describes the impact of the papers in the core.
Because an index for evaluative purposes is a useful yardstick for
comparison among scientists if the index corresponds strongly with peer
assessments, we calculated a logistic regression analysis with the two
factors resulting from the factor analysis as independent variables and
peer assessment of the postdoctoral researchers as the dependent
variable. The results of the regression analysis show that peer
assessments can be predicted better using the factor æimpact of the
productive coreÆ than using the factor æquantity of the productive
core.Æ
25. Bou-Llusar, J. C., Escrig-Tena, A. B.,
Roca-Puig, V., and Beltrbn-MartÆn, I., "An empirical
assessment of the EFQM Excellence Model: Evaluation as a TQM framework
relative to the MBNQA Model". Journal of Operations
Management, Vol. In Press, Corrected Proof, 2008.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VB7-4SB7TYF-1/1/5773ccd241ef1447eef0e2b7b66f5ec1
Descriptores: EFQM/Calidad
Resumen: Total quality management (TQM) is an approach to
management embracing both social and technical dimensions aimed at
achieving excellent results, which needs to be put into practice through
a specific framework. Nowadays, quality award models, such as the Malcolm
Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) and the European Foundation for
Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model, are used as a guide to TQM
implementation by a large number of organizations. Nevertheless, there is
a paucity of empirical research confirming whether these models clearly
reflect the main premises of TQM. The purpose of this paper is to analyze
the extent to which the EFQM Excellence Model captures the main
assumptions involved in the TQM concept, that is, the distinction between
technical and social TQM issues, the holistic interpretation of TQM in
the firm, and the causal linkage between TQM procedures and
organizational performance.
26. Boyden, M., "Is
Translation Studies too much about translation? A reply to Jan
Blommaert". Target: International Journal on
Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 149-157.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=44C9AD7D9689285E04EE
Descriptores: Traducción/Enseñanza
Resumen: Michael Boyden . Is Translation Studies too much about
translation? A reply to Jan Blommaert . Target: International Journal on
Translation Studies, Volume 20, Number 1 (May 2008), pp. 149-157,
<
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27. Bravo Jiménez, P. A.,
"Programa de rehabilitación juvenil en la Biblioteca Central
Tecla Sala (BCTS)". Profesional de la información,
El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/n2v6e3tqlq1xqhk2up67/contributions/6/3/7/5/63756223522t0707.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas municipales/Aspecto
social/Jovenes/Reinserción social
Resumen: En el año 2006 se propuso a la Red de Bibliotecas
Municipales de LHospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) la
colaboración en un programa de reinserción juvenil que tiene como
objetivo la sociabilización de jóvenes con problemas mediante la
inclusión en el mundo laboral. Para la experiencia piloto se escogió a la
Biblioteca Central de LHospitalet, diseñándose un plan de acogida y
seguimiento de los jóvenes. Los resultados del programa han sido muy
positivos y muy bien valorados por todas las partes implicadas. La
experiencia continúa y durante 2008 se ha extendido al resto de las
bibliotecas de la Red.
Palabras clave: Bibliotecas públicas, Reinserción juvenil,
Red de Bibliotecas Municipales de LHospitalet, Biblioteca
Central Tecla Sala.
28. Britt, B. L., Berry, M. W., Browne,
M., Merrell, M. A., and Kolpack, J., "Document
classification techniques for automated technology readiness level
analysis". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008, pp. 675-680
.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4350926558BA3F5F0970
Descriptores: Indización automática/Clasificación
Resumen: The overhead of assessing technology readiness for
deployment and investment purposes can be costly to both large and small
businesses. Recent advances in the automatic interpretation of technology
readiness levels (TRLs) of a given technology can substantially reduce
the risk and associated cost of bringing these new technologies to
market. Using vector-space information-retrieval models, such as latent
semantic indexing, it is feasible to group similar technology
descriptions by exploiting the latent structure of term usage within
textual documents. Once the documents have been semantically clustered
(or grouped), they can be classified based on the TRL scores of (known)
nearest-neighbor documents. Three automated (no human curation)
strategies for assigning TRLs to documents are discussed with accuracies
as high as 86% achieved for two-class problems.
29. Camis£n, C., "Total
quality management in hospitality: an application of the EFQM
model". Tourism Management, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1996,
pp. 191-201.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V9R-3VVVPXG-5/1/2c9bffe2c6b721b3fbcfc87e64ef08d0
Descriptores: EFQM/Calidad total/Hospitales/Medicina
Resumen: The importance of total quality management (TQM) in the
tourist industry has risen to an extraordinary level because of the
change in preferences of tourists' behaviour and the growth of
competitiveness of new tourist destinations. The application of existing,
well-tested ideas on quality improvement is an important issue to tourist
enterprises. This paper researches, first, the process of cultural change
in Valencian hospitality organizations originated by these environment
transformations. Among the available models of TQM, we selected the model
proposed by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), as
support for the European Quality Award, to make a cross-analysis of the
views of quality from the standpoint of management and external customers
in Valencia's hotel industry. This study presents empirical evidence on
the extent to which the EFQM quality model might assist Valencian
hoteliers to know and to close the gap between perceptions of quality and
self-assessed ratings of quality performance.
30. Campbell, J. D., "Still
Shaking the Conceptual Foundations of Reference: A
Perspective.". Reference Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2,
2007, pp. 21-24.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Servicios de información
bibliográfica/Gestión
Resumen: This article reprises the seminal article 'Shaking the
Conceptual Foundations of Reference,' updates it while explaining its
shortcomings, and counsels a focus on what the reference librarian's
primary mission is, rather than functional fixedness regarding how the
mission has traditionally been carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].
Copyright of Reference Librarian is the property of Haworth Press and its
content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a
listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.
However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of
the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the
material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all
Abstracts.)
31. Can, F., Kocberber, S., Balcik, E.,
Kaynak, C., Ocalan, H. C., and Vursavas, O. M.,
"Information retrieval on Turkish texts".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008, pp. 407-421.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=43F1A72E226E5C16A539
Descriptores: Recuperación de la
información/Turquía/Turco
Resumen: In this study, we investigate information retrieval (IR)
on Turkish texts using a large-scale test collection that contains
408,305 documents and 72 ad hoc queries. We examine the effects of
several stemming options and query-document matching functions on
retrieval performance. We show that a simple word truncation approach, a
word truncation approach that uses language-dependent corpus statistics,
and an elaborate lemmatizer-based stemmer provide similar retrieval
effectiveness in Turkish IR. We investigate the effects of a range of
search conditions on the retrieval performance; these include scalability
issues, query and document length effects, and the use of stopword list
in indexing.
32. Canepi, K., "Work
Analysis in Library Technical Services.". Technical
Services Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 19-30.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=411CB485D66BA6AE6E5F
Descriptores: Procesos técnicos/Desarrollo de
tareas/Evaluación/Recursos humanos/Empleo
Resumen: This article summarizes a workflow task analysis of
technical services functions conducted at Southern Illinois University
Carbondale's Morris Library during the 2005-2006 academic year. During
the workflow analysis, procedures were identified that could be modified
or eliminated, and awareness was raised about the role of the various
sections. The task analysis documented current practices, revealed
differences in the way faculty and civil-service staff members spent
their time, and informed changes to staff work assignments. [ABSTRACT
FROM AUTHOR]. Copyright of Technical Services Quarterly is the property
of Haworth Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple
sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express
written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles
for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given
about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original
published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright
applies to all Abstracts.)
33. Carlin, A., "Success,
Failure, Innovation and Uncertainty in Changing Times: A Selective
Bibliography of Literature on Reference Services Since the
1980s.". Reference Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007,
pp. 31-40.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Servicios de referencia en
línea/Modelos/Gestión/Bibliografía
Resumen: A selective annotated bibliography of literature about
reference services from 1984 to the present. The selected writings
highlight how reference service has been challenged and changed over the
last 20 years as a result of technological advances, shifts in
information seeking behavior, and inadequate monetary and human
resources. This bibliography is meant to provide further reading on the
topics covered by the articles in this issue on the current state and
future of reference services.
34. Carlin, A. and Donlan, R.,
"A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Discovery Tools and the
OPAC.". Reference Librarian , Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007,
pp. 67-71.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Servicios de referencia en línea/OPAC
Resumen: Carlin, Anna;Donlan, Rebecca. A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing:
Discovery Tools and the OPAC.
35. Carlson, S., "Are
Reference Desks Dying Out? Librarians Struggle to Redefine--and in Some
Cases Eliminate--the Venerable Institution.". Reference
Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 25-30.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Servicios de referencia en
línea/Internet/Preguntas de referencia
Resumen: This article describes ways in which reference service is
changing, including an evolution away from desk-based service,
appointment-based reference, the use of social-networking tools, and
physical presence outside of library buildings at alternate service
sites; summarizes divergent views toward the future of reference service
as expressed at the 2007 ACRL National Conference.
36. Cathcart, R., "Just in
Case, or Just in Time?". Reference Librarian, Vol.
48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 61-65.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Servicios de referencia en línea
Resumen: Cathcart, Rachael. Just in Case, or Just in
Time?
37. Chiu, H.-Y., Sheng, C.-C., and Chen,
A.-P., "Modeling agent-based performance evaluation for
e-learning systems". The Electronic Library, Vol.
26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879491
Descriptores: Modelos/Evaluación/Aprendizaje
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to show how
rapidly evolving information technology has dramatically changed the
knowledge dissemination process. However, many of them lack a generic
evaluation process to verify the system's performance. In an attempt to
solve this problem, this study seeks to propose an agent-based model to
provide a dynamic, flexible framework for performance evaluations of
e-learning projects. Design/methodology/approach ? The paper proposes an
agent-based model which comprises a learning model, balanced scorecard
and option-pricing approach to evaluate the performance of an e-learning
project. Findings ? E-learning could be the paradigm shift of traditional
education. Thus, the paper provides organizations with a methodology to
deliberately evaluate their e-learning projects by treating it as a
continuous improvement process. Originality/value ? The original
contributions in this paper are: application of a balance scorecard to
weigh different perspectives; application of a real options approach for
risk management of e-learning projects; construction of an agent-based
system for autonomous qualitative/quantitative information
gathering.
38. Chu, H.-C., Hwang, G.-J., Huang,
S.-X., and Wu, T.-T., "A knowledge engineering approach to
developing e-libraries for mobile learning". The
Electronic Library, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879464
Descriptores: Aprendizaje/Enseñanza a distancia
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to present an
innovative approach that is proposed for developing e-libraries with
metadata to meet the need of training observation and classification
skills in a mobile learning environment. Design/methodology/approach ? A
knowledge engineering approach is proposed to assist teachers in defining
metadata of e-libraries to meet the need of training observation and
classification skills. Based on the innovative approach, an e-library of
butterfly and ecology has been developed. Moreover, an experiment was
conducted from March-April 2007 on the science course ?Butterfly and
Ecology? at an elementary school in Taiwan. There were two teachers and
35 students participated in the experiment. Findings ? Experimental
results showed that the e-library developed with the innovative approach
is able to effectively support the training of observation and
classification skills for elementary school students. Research
limitations/implications ? Currently, the innovative approach has only
been applied to the training of observation and classification knowledge.
Further studies will be needed to assist teachers in defining metadata of
e-libraries for other educational objectives, such as ?analysis? (the
ability to separate material or concepts into component parts so that its
organizational structure may be understood), ?synthesis? (the ability to
put parts together to form a new whole) and ?evaluation? (the ability to
judge the value of material for a given purpose). Originality/value ?
With the innovative approach, personalized supports can be provided as a
guide for students' learning. Moreover, students are allowed to face the
real objects with technology-rich supports during the learning
process.
39. Chung, D. S. and Sujin Kim,
"Blogging activity among cancer patients and their companions:
Uses, gratifications, and predictors of outcomes".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp. 297-306.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=41E9B729BEFCB5A938C1
Descriptores: Cancer/Medicina/Blogs
Resumen: This study examines cancer patients' and companions' uses
and gratifications of blogs and the relationship between different types
of blogging activities and gratification outcomes. In an online survey of
113 respondents, cancer patients were found to be more likely than their
companions to host their own blogs. Four areas emerged as gratifications
of blog use: prevention and care, problem-solving, emotion management,
and information-sharing. Cancer patients and companions both found
blogging activity to be most helpful for emotion management and
information-sharing. Further, cancer patients were more gratified than
their companions in the areas of emotion management and problem-solving.
Regression analyses indicate that perceived credibility of blogs, posting
comments on others' blogs, and hosting one's own blog significantly
increased the explanatory power of the regression models for each
gratification outcome.
40. Comalat, M., "Seminario
sobre la biblioteca pública 2010 y su papel con internet".
Profesional de la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008,
pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/3duf6u8jtgdktg988fvk/contributions/r/4/0/8/r408351103855776.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Internet/Futuro
Resumen: Comalat, Maite. Seminario sobre la biblioteca pública
2010 y su papel con internet. En: El profesional de la información,
2008, marzo-abril, v. 17, n. 2, pp. 239-241. DOI:
10.3145/epi.2008.mar.17
41. Cronin, B. and Meho, L. I.,
"The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information
studies". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008, pp.
551-564.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4C909CD5E5D4FC0CE93B
Descriptores: Análisis de citas
Resumen: The authors describe a large-scale, longitudinal citation
analysis of intellectual trading between information studies and cognate
disciplines. The results of their investigation reveal the extent to
which information studies draws on and, in turn, contributes to the
ideational substrates of other academic domains. Their data show that the
field has become a more successful exporter of ideas as well as less
introverted than was previously the case. In the last decade, information
studies has begun to contribute significantly to the literatures of such
disciplines as computer science and engineering on the one hand and
business and management on the other, while also drawing more heavily on
those same literatures.
42. Dang, E. K. F., Luk, R. W. P., Ho, K.
S., Chan, S. C. F., and Lee, D. L., "A new measure of
clustering effectiveness: Algorithms and experimental
studies". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008, pp.
390-406.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4E65A78EA985E479854E
Descriptores:
Clusters/Efectividad/Algoritmos/Medición
Resumen: We propose a new optimal clustering effectiveness
measure, called CS1, based on a combination of clusters rather than
selecting a single optimal cluster as in the traditional MK1 measure. For
hierarchical clustering, we present an algorithm to compute CS1, defined
by seeking the optimal combinations of disjoint clusters obtained by
cutting the hierarchical structure at a certain similarity level. By
reformulating the optimization to a 0-1 linear fractional programming
problem, we demonstrate that an exact solution can be obtained by a
linear time algorithm. We further discuss how our approach can be
generalized to more general problems involving overlapping clusters, and
we show how optimal estimates can be obtained by greedy
algorithms.
43. Delahaye, M.,
"Variations sur l'qtranger dans les lettres".
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No.
1, 2008, pp. 170-175.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=400CA78A05C5336651D3
Descriptores: Traducción/Variación lingüística
Resumen: Marieke Delahaye . Variations sur l'étranger dans les
lettres . Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, Volume
20, Number 1 (May 2008), pp. 170-175,
<
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=400CA78A05C5336651D3
>
44. Desouza, K. C.,
"Advancing knowledge and the knowledge economy".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp. 331-333.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4F1EBF047F1F16E28ECC
Descriptores: Economía de la información/Gestión de la
información/Gestión del conocimiento
Resumen: No abstract.
45. Desouza, K. C.,
"Understanding knowledge as a commons: From theory to
practice". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp. 333-334
.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4EB18E3C114A412AF59B
Descriptores: Gestión del conocimiento
Resumen: No abstract.
46. Devís Devís, J. and Villamón Herrera,
M., "Un campo científico en busca de visibilidad. Jornadas
internacionales sobre la calidad de las revistas de Ciencias de la
Actividad Física y el Deporte". Profesional de la
información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/lhe17qtqlq1ytkg4wr8x/contributions/2/3/v/4/23v4272072321740.pdf
Descriptores: Revistas
científicas/Visibilidad/Deportes/Comunicación científica
Resumen: El campo de las Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el
Deporte (CCAFD) en España necesita de actuaciones que contribuyan a
mejorar la calidad de sus publicaciones periódicas.De esta manera
las revistas pueden convertirse
en órganos eficientes de comunicación y difusión del conocimiento
científico creado por sus investigadores. En este trabajo se detalla la
realización de las Jornadas internacionales sobre la calidad de las
revistas de ciencias de
la actividad física y el deporte celebradas en Valencia el 25 y 26 de
octubre de 2007. Durante esos días se discutió sobre distintas visiones
de la calidad de las revistas, ejemplos de gestión editorial y
estrategias concretas de mejora. Con estas Jornadas se ha pretendido
contribuir a la visibilidad internacional del joven campo español de las
CCAFD.
47. Díaz Pérez, F. J.,
"Wordplay in film titles Translating English puns into
Spanish". Vol. 54, No. 1, 2008, pp. 36-58.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4C6191CA0CD04890F4EA
Descriptores: Inglés-Español/Traducción/Doblaje/Cine
Resumen: The main purpose of this article lies on the analysis of
the translation strategies used for the translation of puns in film
titles in English into Spanish. It is a well-known fact that the
Anglo-Saxon culture is very fond of punning, which is reflected for
instance in their use in literary works, advertisements or in the titles
of films. In addition, the use of puns in film titles serves a double
function. Firstly, puns are used as a device to attract the potential
viewer's attention, and secondly, they allow at least two different
meanings to be represented normally in the same portion of text. Before
undertaking an analysis of the strategies used for the translation of
puns, a definition and a classification of wordplay are offered, in which
Delabastita is followed with a slight variation. Without disregarding the
difficulty involved by the translation of wordplay, the fact that several
translation strategies have been used to render wordplay in the target
language û Spanish in this case û contradicts the position according to
which puns are untranslatable. The approach adopted in the present study
is, therefore, unevaluative and description-oriented. The strategies
adopted by the translators range from a reproduction of a parallel pun in
Spanish, reflecting the same confrontation of meanings of the original
and the same linguistic basis, to a title which contains no pun and
reflects neither of the meanings present in the source text.
48. Eíto Brun, R., "Sistemas
integrados para bibliotecas públicas.Las propuestas de
Innovative". Profesional de la información, El,
Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/m1b672nywrcxtv5glftx/contributions/1/q/5/g/1q5g3145q02871wr.pdf
Descriptores: INNOPAC Millennium/Automatización/Sistemas
integrados de gestión
Resumen: Se presentan los últimos desarrollos de la empresa
Innovative Interfaces Inc., III, fabricante del sistema integrado Innopac
Millenium para bibliotecas públicas. Las principales novedades están
relacionadas con el acceso al opac y a los servicios de la biblioteca a
través de dispositivos móviles, y herramientas para potenciar y facilitar
la participación de los usuarios a través del opac y agilizar la
prestación de servicios y la comunicación entre el personal de la
biblioteca y la comunidad de usuarios.
49. Elgohary, A., "Arab
universities on the web: a webometric study". The
Electronic Library, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879518
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to investigate
the Web Impact Factor of Arab universities. Design/methodology/approach ?
The study included 99 universities representing 20 Arab countries. The
advanced search facility of AltaVista was used for data collection. Two
rounds of data collection were conducted to retrieve the links as well as
the web presence of the included universities. Findings ? Jordanian
universities represent 40 per cent of the top ten universities with the
revised web impact factor. However, this was not the case in terms of the
universities' web presence. Results indicated a strong correlation
between external links and web presence. Research
limitations/implications ? The variability of search engine results and
the unavailability of some university web sites are limitations to the
study. Originality/value ? By investigating, for the first time, the Web
Impact Factors of Arab universities as well as the relation to other
variables such as language, the paper will provide universities with some
measure of how they are viewed by the outside world.
50. Elkiss, A., Shen, S., Fader, A.,
Erkan, G., States, D., and Radev, D., "Blind men and
elephants: What do citation summaries tell us about a research
article?". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 51-62.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4B6B9B53CA75155F57E7
Descriptores: Análisis de citas/Revistas
científicas/Publicaciones periódicas
Resumen: The old Asian legend about the blind men and the elephant
comes to mind when looking at how different authors of scientific papers
describe a piece of related prior work. It turns out that different
citations to the same paper often focus on different aspects of that
paper and that neither provides a full description of its full set of
contributions. In this article, we will describe our investigation of
this phenomenon. We studied citation summaries in the context of research
papers in the biomedical domain. A citation summary is the set of citing
sentences for a given article and can be used as a surrogate for the
actual article in a variety of scenarios. It contains information that
was deemed by peers to be important. Our study shows that citation
summaries overlap to some extent with the abstracts of the papers and
that they also differ from them in that they focus on different aspects
of these papers than do the abstracts. In addition to this, co-cited
articles (which are pairs of articles cited by another article) tend to
be similar. We show results based on a lexical similarity metric called
cohesion to justify our claims.
51. Filippo, D. D., Morillo, F., and
Fernández, M. T., "Indicadores de colaboración científica
del CSIC con Latinoamérica en bases de datos
internacionales". Revista española de Documentación
Científica, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008.
Descriptores: Cooperación/Indicadores/Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)/Latinoamérica/Web of Science
Resumen: Este estudio se basa en el análisis de la producción
científica del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) en
colaboración con Latinoamérica, para conocer las temáticas en las que se
colabora y la formación de redes científicas. Este análisis resulta
significativo dado que el CSIC es la institución española con la que más
coopera Latinoamérica. Los resultados muestran que el uso de la WoS
frente al CD-ROM incrementa la visibilidad de la región en un 22%, ya que
se incorporan nuevas revistas de Química y Ciencia de Materiales. La
colaboración del CSIC con Latinoamérica se da principalmente con las
universidades y existe una fuerte cooperación en las áreas de Física y
Química. Los indicadores de especialización e impacto muestran que la
Física se presenta como uno de los puntos fuertes de dicha colaboración.
El análisis de redes por áreas permite observar los diferentes vínculos
institucionales y la diferente estructura de cada una de ellas. A través
del estudio de las citas se detecta una relación entre el impacto y el
número de países firmantes, lo que muestra la importancia de la
colaboración.
52. Frank, A. P., "The
Oxford history of literary translation in English ".
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No.
1, 2008, pp. 191-194.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=484EAEF41DC47067B6AB
Descriptores: Traducción literaria/Historia
Resumen: Armin Paul Frank . The Oxford history of literary
translation in English . Target: International Journal on Translation
Studies, Volume 20, Number 1 (May 2008), pp. 191-194,
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53. Frohmann, B.,
"Subjectivity and information ethics1This article originated as a
presentation given on September 16, 2005, to the Nordic Research School
in Library and Information Science Workshop ôStructures of Power:
Information, Knowledge, and Property,ö held at the Department of Archival
Science, Library and Information Science, Museology (ALM), Uppsala
University, Sweden, September 15û17, 2005. It has been extensively
revised.". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp.
267-277.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=457EB14641959173D216
Descriptores: Etica profesional/Información
Resumen: In ôA Brief History of Information Ethics,ö Thomas
Froehlich (2004) quickly surveyed under several broad categories some of
the many issues that constitute information ethics: under the category of
librarianshipùcensorship, privacy, access, balance in collections,
copyright, fair use, and codes of ethics; under information science,
which Froehlich sees as closely related to librarianshipùconfidentiality,
bias, and quality of information; under computer ethicsùintellectual
property, privacy, fair representation, nonmaleficence, computer crime,
software reliability, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce; under
cyberethics (issues related to the Internet, or ôcyberspaceö)ùexpert
systems, artificial intelligence (again), and robotics; under media
ethicsùnews, impartiality, journalistic ethics, deceit, lies, sexuality,
censorship (again), and violence in the press; and under intercultural
information ethicsùdigital divide, and the ethical role of the Internet
for social, political, cultural, and economic development. Many of the
debates in information ethics, on these and other issues, have to do with
specific kinds of relationships between subjects. The most important
subject and a familiar figure in information ethics is the ethical
subject engaged in moral deliberation, whether appearing as the bearer of
moral rights and obligations to other subjects, or as an agent whose
actions are judged, whether by others or by oneself, according to the
standards of various moral codes and ethical principles. Many debates in
information ethics revolve around conflicts between those acting
according to principles of unfettered access to information and those
finding some information offensive or harmful. Subjectivity is at the
heart of information ethics. But how is subjectivity understood? Can it
be understood in ways that broaden ethical reflection to include problems
that remain invisible when subjectivity is taken for granted and when how
it is created remains unquestioned? This article proposes some answers by
investigating the meaning and role of subjectivity in information
ethics.2In an article on cyberethics (2000), I asserted that there was no
information ethics in any special sense beyond the application of general
ethical principles to information services. Here, I take a more expansive
view.
54. Gallo León, J. P.,
"Innovación en los servicios de bibliotecas públicas orientadas
al usuario. El caso de la Biblioteca Regional de Murcia".
Profesional de la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008,
pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/eaplnwqtunu2jryxvcby/contributions/p/7/1/4/p7142l7668437522.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Calidad/Gestión
bibliotecaria/Servicios bibliotecarios/Usuarios/Murcia
Resumen: En un modelo de biblioteca pública centrada en el
usuario, la innovación también debe estar encaminada a satisfacerlo,
captarlo y fidelizarlo. Esta innovación no tiene por qué limitarse a
aspectos meramente tecnológicos, sino que debe dirigirse hacia el
desarrollo de nuevos servicios. Derivando de esta idea, se explicará
brevemente la experiencia en la innovación de servicios en la Biblioteca
Regional de Murcia. Palabras clave: Bibliotecas públicas, Usuarios,
Bibliotecas centradas en el usuario, Innovación en bibliotecas,
Innovación en servicios, Biblioteca Regional de Murcia.
55. Garoufallou, E., Siatri, R., and
Balatsoukas, P., "Virtual mapsûvirtual worlds: Testing the
usability of a greek virtual cultural map". Journal of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59,
No. 4, 2008 , pp. 591-601.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=49F5BE4D5A8AB9E4BE5B
Descriptores: Mapas
conceptuales/Usabilidad/Evaluación
Resumen: The authors report on the findings of a usability test
conducted to evaluate the usability of the VeriaGrid online system. The
VeriaGrid
(
www.theveriagrid.org) is a prototype virtual map that focuses on the
provision of information related to the cultural heritage of the city of
Veria (Greece). It has been developed under the Light Project by the
Central Public Library of Veria
(www.libver.gr). It
is an interactive application that includes various functional or
thematic areas such as an interactive digital map of Veria, image
gallery, videoclips, panoramic site photos, and general information about
the city of Veria. The findings of the usability test revealed that users
had some difficulties in using novel features of the digital map (such as
the Recommended Points and the Routes functions) and finding textual
information about cultural heritage of the city of Veria. Users, however,
were satisfied with the overall usability of the system. In light of
these findings, some recommendations for improving the usability of the
system are made.
56. Geraedts, H. P. A., Montenarie, R.,
and van Rijk, P. P., "The benefits of total quality
management". Computerized Medical Imaging and
Graphics, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2001, pp. 217-220.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T5K-41Y830J-P/1/df00fa21aa82befce26966b4b3d692b8
Descriptores: EFQM/ISO 9000 /Calidad total
Resumen: In this article, we will review the implementation of the
ISO 9000 quality system in the Department of Nuclear Medicine. We will
also discuss the benefits of working with the ISO 9000 standards and
explain why we have shifted our focus from ISO 9000 towards the EFQM
model. After an introduction concerning Total Quality Management and the
EFQM model, we will describe how we have used the EFQM model to date and
how we intend to implement TQM in the future.
57. Go, F. M. and Govers, R.,
"Integrated quality management for tourist destinations: a
European perspective on achieving competitiveness".
Tourism Management, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2000, pp. 79-88.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V9R-3Y3Y011-8/1/bbce772f8e3bbf17bc1e899769ec6487
Descriptores: EFQM/Calidad total/Turismo
Resumen: Maintaining and improving high quality supply in Europe
is fundamental to keeping Europe's leading position as a destination in
world tourism, to meeting the challenges of competitors and to increasing
its market share. The paper presents the results of eight best practice
case studies of different destinations in four European countries, which
were part of a study, assigned by the European Commission (DG XXIII).The
purpose of the study was to determine whether selected European
destinations apply integrated quality management as a means to raise
their competitiveness. To this end a comparative survey of destinations
was conducted, based on the European Foundation for Quality Management
(EFQM) model. Its results indicated that integrated quality management in
tourist destinations is rather underdeveloped. In general, destinations
tend to be strong in one element of the EFQM model, such as policy and
strategy or human resources management, as opposed to showing a balanced
and integrated approach to quality management.
58. Goetting, D., Miguez, B. B., Curry, S.
M., and Richard, S. M., "First-Time Book Publishing:
Negotiating the Perils and Pitfalls". Technical
Services Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 1-18.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=106595
Descriptores: Editoriales
institucionales/Editores/Autores/Autoría/Comunicación científica
Resumen: The four librarians who created Newbery and Caldecott
Awards: A Subject Index published by Linworth, 2003, share the problems
and lessons learned while producing their first reference book. Topics
include selecting research partners, dividing the responsibilities, and
dealing with the decisions of producing the book. The article also
discusses finding a publisher, submitting a proposal, signing a contract,
understanding publishing terminology, working out misunderstandings, and
other publishing basics. This article addresses the problems first-time
authors face. It explains the procedure involved in creating a
book-length manuscript, what to expect from co-authors and editors, and
specific steps for bringing the manuscript to fruition. The perils and
pitfalls discussed go beyond the scope of information that the authors
found while researching the publication process. The goal of the article
is to make the publishing journey a smooth one for aspiring authors.
59. Gómez Gómez, A. A.,
"Proyectos y servicios innovadores en la Red de Bibliotecas
Públicas de Andalucía". Profesional de la información,
El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Andalucía/ABSYS/OPAC/Software
libre/Redes de bibliotecas
Resumen: La incorporación de Andalucía al programa Internet en
las bibliotecas ha posibilitado que se multiplique el número de centros
que ofrecen a sus usuarios acceso gratuito a internet y que trabajan de
forma integrada en un mismo catálogo colectivo en línea. Se analizan los
proyectos más innovadores puestos en marcha por la administración
autonómica en
la Red de Bibliotecas Públicas de Andalucía (RBPA), así como los nuevos
servicios bibliotecarios en el entorno digital considerados como ejemplos
de buena práctica. Por último se dan a conocer los planes de futuro para
la implantación de un sistema de información y gestión bibliotecaria
basado en software libre y programas de código abierto (open source).
60. Gómez, J. A. and Quílez, P.,
"La biblioteca, espacio de cultura y
participación". Profesional de la información, El,
Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/6n99djwhmm0ywclrrvv3/contributions/a/2/6/6/a266807835268689.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Animación a la
lectura
Resumen: Dos partes de cuatro capítulos cada una, forman este
libro de formato fácil y claro. En la primera, titulada Gestión
cultural, planificación y márketing en bibliotecas públicas. Aspectos
teóricos, se reflexiona sobre planificación en gestión cultural en
bibliotecas con el trabajo de Isabel Blanco Pardo, fruto de su larga
experiencia como directora del Servicio Municipal deBibliotecas de
A Coruña. Una actualizada bibliografía completa el capítulo.
61. Gonzblez Alcaide, G., Castell£
Cogollos, L., Navarro Molina, C., Aleixandre Benavent, R., and Valderrama
Zuribn, J. C., "Library and information science research
areas: Analysis of journal articles in lisa". Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol.
59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 150-154.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=494ABF8EE944A242CAD5
Descriptores: LISA (Library and Information Science
Abstracts)./Investigación/Biblioteconomía/Documentacion
Resumen: The main fields of research in Library Science and
Documentation are identified by quantifying the frequency of appearance
and the analysis of co-occurrence of the descriptors assigned to 11,273
indexed works in the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
database for the 2004û2005 period. The analysis made has enabled three
major core research areas to be identified: World Wide Web, Libraries and
Education. There are a further 12 areas of research with specific
development, one connected with the library sphere and another 11
connected with the World Wide Web and Internet: Networks, Computer
Security, Information technologies, Electronic Resources, Electronic
Publications, Bibliometrics, Electronic Commerce, Computer applications,
Medicine, Searches and Online Information retrieval.
62. Hall-Ellis, S. D.,
"Language Proficiencies Among Catalogers and Technical Services
Librarians.". Technical Services Quarterly, Vol.
25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 31-47.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=48759A413F1B446DFEF9
Descriptores: Catalogación/Catalogadores/Procesos
técnicos/Lenguaje
Resumen: Employers and technical services managers recognize the
importance of hiring catalogers who possess reading and writing
proficiencies in multiple languages. This empirical research study
reveals how 289 survey respondents use languages other than English.
Respondents indicated their multilingual proficiencies, the tasks for
which these skills are needed, and the most frequently used languages.
Findings suggest that these librarians acquire language proficiencies
independently of library education and read or translate data elements
for the construction and enhancement of English-language bibliographic
records. The identification of catalogers who bring language
proficiencies with them is essential for maximizing access to
multilingual resources available locally and globally.
63. Harmeyer, D., "A Phone
Interview: Save the Time of the Reader.". Reference
Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 83-88.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Teléfono/Servicios de información
bibliográfica
Resumen: Harmeyer, Dave. A Phone Interview: Save the Time of the
Reader.
64. Harris, L. E., "Social
software in libraries: Building collaborations, communication, and
community online". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20867
Descriptores: Web social/Bibliotecas/Software libre
Resumen: Revision bibliografica
65. Harten, W. H. v., Casparie, T. F., and
Fisscher, O. A. M., "The evaluation of the introduction of
a quality management system: A process-oriented case study in a large
rehabilitation hospital". Health Policy, Vol. 60,
No. 1, 2002, pp. 17-37.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V8X-457VJGB-2/1/5fbc80b4ef6bbd3898f7d5385516fab3
Descriptores: EFQM/ICalidad
total/Evaluación/Medición/Hospitales/Medicina
Resumen: Objectives: So far, there is limited proof
concerning the effects of the introduction of quality management systems
(QMS) on organisational level. This study concerns the introduction of a
QMS in a large rehabilitation hospital. Methods: Using an observational
framework, a process-analysis is performed. The effects were analysed
with repeated analyses using the Dutch version of the EFQM-model.
Results: The introduction of a QMS can be seen as a change process; the
pre-change diagnosis proved to be essential. Although many change-related
aspects are vital, training and communication, in particular, seemed to
be underestimated. Outcomes are a positive correlation between
participation in quality activities and work satisfaction and a
repeatedly favourable EFQM-score (compared to national levels).
Conclusions: Through a process-analysis, information could be generated
to guide organisations in introducing a QMS. An outcome analysis revealed
positive effects both in the EFQM-score and the staff's work
satisfaction.
66. Hartley, J. and Betts, L.,
"Revising and polishing a structured abstract: Is it worth the
time and effort?". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20909
Descriptores: Resúmenes/Evaluación
Resumen: Many writers of structured abstracts spend a good deal of
time revising and polishing their texts - but is it worth it? Do readers
notice the difference? In this paper we report three studies of readers
using rating scales to judge (electronically) the clarity of an original
and a revised abstract, both as a whole and in its constituent parts. In
Study 1, with approximately 250 academics and research workers, we found
some significant differences in favor of the revised abstract, but in
Study 2, with approximately 210 information scientists, we found no
significant effects. Pooling the data from Studies 1 and 2, however, in
Study 3, led to significant differences at a higher probability level
between the perception of the original and revised abstract as a whole
and between the same components as found in Study 1. These results thus
indicate that the revised abstract as a whole, as well as certain
specific components of it, were judged significantly clearer than the
original one. In short, the results of these experiments show that
readers can and do perceive differences between original and revised
texts - sometimes - and that therefore these efforts are worth the time
and effort.
67. Heikkila-Furrey, J., Kearns, S. K.,
and Littrell, L., "Reference by Your Side: Redesigning the
Library Help Desk.". Reference Librarian, Vol. 48,
No. 2, 2007, pp. 41-59.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Diseño/Teléfono/Servicios de información
bibliográfica
Resumen: This article describes a model of side-by-side reference
that eliminates the traditional reference desk, where librarians offer
intensive assistance to one or two people while simultaneously handling
brief questions.
68. Herk, R. v., Klazinga, N. S.,
Schepers, R. M. J., and Casparie, A. F., "Medical audit:
threat or opportunity for the medical profession. A comparative study of
medical audit among medical specialists in general hospitals in the
Netherlands and England, 1970-1999". Social Science
& Medicine, Vol. 53, No. 12, 2001, pp. 1721-1732.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VBF-448Y8MJ-G/1/4655a9bdf0ef3ca2eb3ed345714b3621
Descriptores: EFQM/ISO 9000 /Calidad
total/Medicina/Holanda
Resumen: Medical audit has been introduced among hospital
specialists in both the Netherlands and England. In the Netherlands
following some local experiments, medical audit was promoted nationally
as early as 1976 by the medical profession itself and became a mandatory
activity under the Hospital Licensing Act of 1984. In England it was the
government who promoted medical audit as a compulsory activity for
medical specialists, in particular since 1989. In this article the
development and introduction of medical audit in the two health care
systems is described and its impact on the clinical autonomy of medical
specialists gauged. It is concluded that in both countries external
pressures seem to have been crucial in the compulsory introduction of
medical audit. Although there are differences in the organisation and
culture of the medical profession in the two countries, in both countries
medical audit turned out to be an instrument controlled by the
profession itself. The question whether medical audit is instrumental in
preserving clinical autonomy has also been addressed. Our conclusion is
that in its present form medical audit in the two countries has not been
a threat to the clinical autonomy of the medical profession. At the same
time it is clear that the study of one quality instrument is insufficient
to draw conclusions about the development of clinical autonomy, let alone
autonomy in general. Moreover, it remains to be seen how medical audit
can survive alongside quality improvement mechanisms such as
accreditation, certification, performance indicators and formal quality
systems (ISO, EFQM) where hospital management executes more control. The
history of medical audit in the Netherlands and England over the past 30
years does illustrate, however, the capability of the profession to
maintain autonomy through re-negotiated mechanisms for
self-control.
69. Hisham A. Jawad,
"Paraphrase, parallelism and chiasmus in Literary Arabic: Norms
and translation strategies". Vol. 53, No. 3, 2007, pp.
196-215.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=42A8849B8040F09008A2
Descriptores: Arabe/Fraseología/Traducción/Literatura
árabe/Normas
Resumen: This paper aims to explore the norms, strategies and
procedures of translating paraphrase, parallelism and chiasmus in Arabic
literary prose. The empirical base material consists of the three-part
autobiography al-Ayyam (The Days) by Taha Hussein and the narrative
Hadith 'Isa ibn Hisham ('Isa ibn Hisham's Tale) by Muhammad
al-Muwaylihi.As regards paraphrase, Arabic ST and English TT are
different in the way their propositions are built in terms of
paraphrastic constructions. A number of translation strategies signal a
pre-dominant tendency to appeal to the TL norms. Three main strategies
are compression, translation by antonymous paraphrase and textual
restructuring.Parallelism in Arabic includes two kinds, viz. parallelism
with anaphora and parallelism with synonymy. The analysis shows that the
device serves both cohesive and rhetorical purposes. It may be used
either in intertwining a series of utterances that imply patterns of
transitivity or in foregrounding contrastive images. The strategic
decision as to whether to avoid parallelism or produce a parallelistic TT
is largely contingent upon the kind of function the parallelism is
intended to achieve in the ST as well as the purpose of the TT.The use of
chiasmus in Arabic is defined by the role it plays in the overall textual
and rhetorical meaning. One interesting type, I term, is compound
chiasmus. It consists in the embedding of a chiasmic phrase within
another chiasmic forming the pattern AB CD DC BA. The translation of
chiasmic constructions embraces a number of strategies, including
lexicalisation and translation by variation.The findings suggest that
patterns of repetition are generally shifted in the English translations
and various translation strategies are applied. As a result, textual and
rhetorical functions of these devices are occasionally compromised by
translators and norms of acceptability are opted for.
70. Ho, S. Y.,
"Human-computer interaction and management information systems:
Foundations". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20821
Descriptores: Gestión de la información/Interación
hombre-máquina/Sistemas de información
Resumen: Human-computer interaction and management information
systems: Foundations. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology
71. Holsapple, C. W., "A
publication power approach for identifying premier information systems
journals". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp.
166-185.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=436C81D5B2A1C283F850
Descriptores: Publicaciones periódicas/Sistemas de
información/Comunicación científica
Resumen: Stressing that some universities have adopted unrealistic
requirements for tenure of information systems (IS) faculty members, a
recent editorial in MIS Quarterly contends that the group of premier IS
journals needs to be generally recognized as having more than just two
members. This article introduces the publication power approach to
identifying the premier IS journals, and it does indeed find that there
are more than two. A journal's publication power is calculated from the
actual publishing behaviors of full-time, tenured IS faculty members at a
sizable set of leading research universities. The underlying premise is
that these researchers produce excellent work, collectively spanning the
IS field's subject matter, and that the greatest concentrations of their
collective work appear in highest visibility, most important journals
suitable for its subject matter. The new empirically based approach to
identifying premier IS journals (and, more broadly, identifying journals
that figure most prominently in publishing activity of tenured IS
researchers) offers an attractive alternative to promulgations by
individuals or cliques (possibly based on outdated tradition or vested
interests), to opinion surveys (subjective, possibly ill-informed, vague
about rating criteria, and/or biased in various ways), and to citation
analyses (which ignore semantics of references and, in the case of ISI
impact factors, have additional problems that cast considerable doubt on
their meaningfulness within the IS field and its subdisciplines). Results
of the publication power approach can be applied and supplemented
according to needs of a particular university in setting its evaluation
standards for IS tenure, promotion, and merit decisions.
72. Huang, M. and Chang, Y.,
"Characteristics of research output in social sciences and
humanities: From a research evaluation perspective".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008 .
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20885
Descriptores: Ciencias
sociales/Humanidades/Investigación/Bibliometría/Evaluación/Producción
científica
Resumen: The goal of research evaluation is to reveal the
achievement and progress of research. Research output offers a basis for
empirical evaluation. A fair and just research evaluation should take
into account the diversity of research output across disciplines and
include all major forms of research publications. This article reviews
the literature on the nature of research output in social sciences and
humanities in terms of the characteristics of research publications, and
then discusses the implications for the research evaluation of social
sciences and humanities researchers.
73. Hutchinson, A.,
"Evaluations of individual scientists and research
institutions". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 160-161
.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4D88A7530F1502E6ECB0
Descriptores: Investigadores/Investigación/Evaluación/Ranking
/Producción científica
Resumen: No abstract.
74. Jin-Shea Kuo , Haizhou Li , and
Ying-Kuei Yang, "Active learning for constructing
transliteration lexicons from the Web". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
1, 2008, pp. 126-135.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=40729F4826A638E14483
Descriptores: Aprendizaje/Léxico/World Wide Web
Resumen: This article presents an adaptive learning framework for
Phonetic Similarity Modeling (PSM) that supports the automatic
construction of transliteration lexicons. The learning algorithm starts
with minimum prior knowledge about machine transliteration and acquires
knowledge iteratively from the Web. We study the unsupervised learning
and the active learning strategies that minimize human supervision in
terms of data labeling. The learning process refines the PSM and
constructs a transliteration lexicon at the same time. We evaluate the
proposed PSM and its learning algorithm through a series of systematic
experiments, which show that the proposed framework is reliably effective
on two independent databases.
75. Juárez Urquijo, F.,
"Tecnología, innovación y web social: el valor de la dimensión en
la biblioteca pública. El caso de la biblioteca de
Muskiz". Profesional de la información, El, Vol.
17, No. 2, 2008, pp. 135-143 .
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/9a0qqmlgqj3yb6ykpee7/contributions/n/6/2/7/n6272505152w1767.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Calidad/Gestión
bibliotecaria/Servicios bibliotecarios
Resumen: Se hace un repaso de la evolución de las tecnologías
informacionales y su relación con la biblioteca desde finales del siglo
XX hasta la actualidad y se analiza la respuesta de las bibliotecas
frente a los cambios tecnológicos, en especial frente a internet y la
web. Estudiamos el caso de una biblioteca pública de pequeña escala, la
Biblioteca Municipal
de Muskiz (Bizkaia) y el uso que hace de la web social para ofrecer
nuevos servicios bibliotecarios. Este artículo sugiere que el
abaratamiento del acceso a la tecnología desplaza la capacidad de innovar
desde los centros que poseen recursos para adquirir y gestionar
soluciones propietarias hacia las instituciones que modifican sus
productos y procesos utilizando servicios web abiertos. Describimos cómo
la escala de la biblioteca condiciona el acceso a la tecnología y la
sitúa frente a la discontinuidad tecnológica: en el XX favorece a las
grandes estructuras y actualmente las penaliza. Palabras clave:
Innovación, Web social, Colaboración descentralizada, Cooperación
bibliotecaria, Bibliotecas públicas, Biblioteca de Muskiz.
76. Jung, S., Herlocker, J. L., Webster,
J., Mellinger, M., and Frumkin, J., "LibraryFind: System
design and usability testing of academic metasearch
system". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008, pp.
375-389.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=450AA04E5FBF6992E493
Descriptores: Bibliotecas
universitarias/Usabilidad/Metabuscadores/Recursos electrónicos
Resumen: Using off-the-shelf search technology provides a single
point of access into library resources, but we found that such commercial
systems are not entirely satisfactory for the academic library setting.
In response to this, Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries designed and
deployed LibraryFind, a metasearch system. We conducted a usability
experiment comparing LibraryFind, the OSU Libraries Web site, and Google
Scholar. Each participant used all three search systems in a controlled
setting, and we recorded their behavior to determine the effectiveness
and efficiency of each search system. In this article, we focus on
understanding what factors are important to undergraduates in choosing
their primary academic search system for class assignments. Based on a
qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results, we found that
mimicking commercial Web search engines is an important factor to attract
undergradu-ates; however, when undergraduates use these kinds of search
engines, they expect similar performance to Web search engines, including
factors such as relevance, speed, and the availability of a spell
checker. They also expected to be able to find out what kinds of content
and materials are available in a system. Participants' prior experience
using academic search systems also affected their expectations of a new
system.
77. Kalina, S.,
"Kommunikation unter widrigen Umstånden: Fallstudien zu
einsprachigen und gedolmetschten Videokonferenzen".
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No.
1, 2008, pp. 176-180.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4EA4A217C0772F17878D
Descriptores:
Traducción/Comunicación/Videoconferencias/Alemán/Interpretación
Resumen: Sylvia Kalina . Kommunikation unter widrigen Umständen:
Fallstudien zu einsprachigen und gedolmetschten Videokonferenzen .
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, Volume 20, Number 1
(May 2008), pp. 176-180,
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78. Kaloyanova, S., Betti, G. L.,
Castellani, F., and Keizer, J., "Achieving OAI PMH
compliancy for CDS/ISIS databases". The Electronic
Library, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879545
Descriptores: CDS-ISIS /OAI-PMH/Acceso abierto
Resumen: Purpose ? The main purpose of this paper is to present
the work recently carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Associazione per la
documentazione le biblioteche e gli archivi (DBA) in Italy to make web
CDS/ISIS-based applications compliant with the OAI-PMH. CDS/ISIS is an
Integrated Storage and Information Retrieval System of Unesco, which is
widely used especially in Latin America and Africa. There are hundreds of
CDS/ISIS-based application systems managing bibliographical reference,
ensuring high quality content through the use of built-in authority
files, data entry guidelines and validations. It also allows for metadata
export in many different formats. Design/methodology/approach ? The
methodology adopted included study, analysis and evaluation of three
existing solutions for exposing metadata from the CDS/ISIS database
repositories to the OAI framework. Findings ? The implementation did not
include the development of automatic procedures for incremental
harvesting from CDS/ISIS databases nor the normalization of the harvested
data. However, a lot of experience in implementation of OAI was gained
which will be useful for future development of non-CDS/ISIS systems.
Research limitations/implications ? The research and development work
demonstrates the importance and implications of this work for the whole
CDS/ISIS community and specifically for the participating centres from
the AGRIS network. Originality/value ? It proposes an open source, easily
parametrizable plug-in tool, which can be adapted to expose metadata from
a general structure CDS/ISIS database using the OAI-PMH protocol. This
work assures that semantically rich metadata for agricultural science and
research publications based on the ?AGRIS Application Profile? can be
handled by the OAI protocol. This in turn allows for further creation of
additional services based on the exchange of knowledge on agricultural
science and technology publications world-wide.
79. Katerattanaku, P. l. and Siau,
K., "Factors affecting the information quality of personal
Web portfolios". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 63-76.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4D5586736FC0C64F8247
Descriptores: Calidad/Información/World Wide Web
Resumen: Personal Web portfolios have become a popular information
source and an effective method for individuals to present themselves to
others in cyberspace. Thus, the quality of personal Web portfolios is
critical and affects the perception that others have of the individuals.
But how do we measure quality of personal Web portfolios? What are the
important factors affecting quality of personal Web portfolios? This
study presents the development of an instrument measuring factors
affecting information quality of personal Web portfolios. The proposed
instrument, based on the Information Quality framework, was refined and
validated to assess its construct validity, convergent validity, and
discriminant validity. The proposed instrument can be used to guide those
who want to design their personal Web portfolios and also to help those
who need to evaluate the quality of personal Web portfolios.
80. Kayed, A., Hirzallah, N., Shalabi, L.
A. A., and Najjar, M., "Building ontological relationships:
A new approach". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20879
Descriptores: Ontologías/Ingenieria
Resumen: Ontology plays an essential role in recognizing the
meaning of the information in Web documents. It has been shown that
extracting concepts is easier than building relationships among them. For
a defined set of concepts, many existing algorithms produce all possible
relationships for that set. This makes the process of refining the
relationships almost impossible. A new algorithm is needed to reduce the
number of relationships among a defined set of concepts produced by
existing algorithms. This article contributes such an algorithm, which
enables a domain-knowledge expert to refine the relationships linking a
set of concepts. In the research reported here, text-mining tools have
been used to extract concepts in the domain of e-commerce laws. A new
algorithm has been proposed to reduce the number of extracted
relationships. It groups the concepts according to the number of
relationships with other concepts and provides formalization. An
experiment and software have been built, proving that reducing the number
of relationships will reduce the efforts needed from a human
expert.
81. Kayyal, M., "Salim al
Dawudi and the beginnings of translation into Arabic of Modern Hebrew
Literature". Target: International Journal on
Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 52-78.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4C919350023E3679F4F6
Descriptores: Arabe-Hebreo/Traducción/Traducción
literaria
Resumen: This article deals with the beginnings of the translation
of Modern Hebrew literature into Arabic, and at the same time with the
beginnings of Arabic literary writing by Jewish intellectuals. We will
focus on Salim al-Dawudi's translation of the first Hebrew novel, Avraham
Mapu's Ahavat Tsiyon [The love of Zion] (1853), one of the most important
texts to advocate the renewal of ties between Jews and Palestine.
Al-Dawudi's translation was published in Egypt in two non-identical
editions in 1899 and 1921û1922, and is probably the first Arabic
translation of Modern Hebrew literature. When he declared that his
translation was designed to remind his people that Hebrew was a living
language, al-Dawudi accorded his translation Jewish national aspirations,
which is perhaps the reason for the mixed aims of his translation's
policy. On the one hand, there are phenomena that illustrate his desire
to be accepted in the target culture, such as neglect of the integrity of
the text, raising its stylistic register, preserving the ethical norms of
the source text and even a tendency to paraphrase. On the other hand,
there are places that display over-consideration of the source language
and text, such as numerous deviations from the standard linguistic,
syntactical and grammatical rules of Arabic, preservation of elements
unique to Jewish culture and a multitude of Hebrew interferences in the
Arabic translation. This unsystematic behavior apparently reflects a lack
of literary skills, deep admiration of the source text (and language),
and the fact that the translation was addressed mainly to a Jewish
audience.
82. Kellsey, C., "Cataloging
Backlogs and Recruiting to the Profession: A Library Fellowship Program
for Graduate Students.". Technical Services
Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 49-56.
http://haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=106599
Descriptores: Catalogación/Enseñanza/Empleo
Resumen: The need for recruiting new students to librarianship,
especially to cataloging, is well recognized. At the same time,
cataloging departments often have backlogs of materials in languages in
which current staff are not fluent. An innovative fellowship program for
current graduate students at the author's university enabled the
cataloging department to make use of the knowledge of a graduate student
in German to reduce a backlog while giving the student insight into the
professional work of cataloging in an academic library. Readily available
department sources were used for training, and the focus of the work was
on subject analysis.
83. Kelton, K., Fleischmann, K. R., and
Wallace, W. A., "Trust in digital
information". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008, pp. 363-374
.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4781A7ABBDD9202899EE
Descriptores: Distribuidores/Documentos electrónicos/Comercio
editorial/Industria editorial
Resumen: Trust in information is developing into a vitally
important topic as the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous within
society. Although many discussions of trust in this environment focus on
issues like security, technical reliability, or e-commerce, few address
the problem of trust in the information obtained from the Internet. The
authors assert that there is a strong need for theoretical and empirical
research on trust within the field of information science. As an initial
step, the present study develops a model of trust in digital information
by integrating the research on trust from the behavioral and social
sciences with the research on information quality and humanû computer
interaction. The model positions trust as a key mediating variable
between information quality and information usage, with important
consequences for both the producers and consumers of digital information.
The authors close by outlining important directions for future research
on trust in information science and technology.
84. Kraft, D. H., "JASIST
Open Access". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20884
Descriptores: Acceso abierto
Resumen: JASIST Open Access. Editorial. As of January 2008, the
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(JASIST) will follow the green road open-access model, whereby authors
publishing in the Journal are granted self-archival rights for preprints,
with linking to the final article and to the online journal, as detailed
next.
85. LariviFre, V., Archambault, +., and
Gingras, Y., "Long-term variations in the aging of
scientific literature: From exponential growth to steady-state science
(1900û2004)". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp.
288-296.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4BD2A52795B81E7D267C
Descriptores: Indice de obsolescencia/Investigación
Resumen: Despite a very large number of studies on the aging and
obsolescence of scientific literature, no study has yet measured, over a
very long time period, the changes in the rates at which scientific
literature becomes obsolete. This article studies the evolution of the
aging phenomenon and, in particular, how the age of cited literature has
changed over more than 100 years of scientific activity. It shows that
the average and median ages of cited literature have undergone several
changes over the period. Specifically, both World War I and World War II
had the effect of significantly increasing the age of the cited
literature. The major finding of this article is that contrary to a
widely held belief, the age of cited material has risen continuously
since the mid-1960s. In other words, during that period, researchers were
relying on an increasingly old body of literature. Our data suggest that
this phenomenon is a direct response to the steady-state dynamics of
modern science that followed its exponential growth; however, we also
have observed that online preprint archives such as arXiv have had the
opposite effect in some subfields.
86. Larsen, P. O. and Ins, M.
v., "Lotka' s Law, Co-authorship and
Interdisciplinary Publishing". Fourth International
Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth
COLLNET Meeting, Vol. 4, 2008.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014721/01/LarsenWIS2008llc.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliometría/Lotka, Función de/Autoría
Resumen: The robustness or breakdown of Lotka's law about the
frequency distribution of scientific productivity depends on scientific
cooperation, counting methods, interdisciplinary publishing and selection
methods for sample collections. We have chosen to analyse the
relationship using Mandelbrot's equivalent distribution model because
this model is sensitive and uses the original data (scores). Five sets of
authors and publications, the two sets used by Lotka, a set from High
Energy Physics, a set from Microbiology and a set based on applicants to
a research programme promoting young researchers have been used. It is
shown that even for a sample of authors in High-Energy Physics with
extremely strong co-authorship, Mandelbrot's distribution law is robust
when complete-normalized (fractional) counting is used whereas complete
counting results in a breakdown. In the field of Microbiology with much
weaker cooperation, both counting methods result in a breakdown of
Mandelbrot's law. Today a field like Microbiology with the corresponding
set of journals, probably has a large content of interdisciplinary
publishing and therefore no more fulfills the precondition of Lotka's
law, that the total production of the authors (sources) is considered.
For a set of applicants for the Emmy Noether Programme of the German
Research Foundation. Mandelbrot's law breaks down despite the fact that
all publications co-authored by the applicants are taken into account. In
agreement with Bayes' theorem of conditional probabilities these results
lead to the conjecture that any selection process of authors and/or
publications causes a breakdown of Mandelbrot's law and, as a consequence
Lotka's law.
87. Larsen, P. O., Maye, I., and Ins, M.
v., "Scientific Output and Impact: Relative Positions of
China, Europe, India, Japan and the USA". Fourth
International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics
& Ninth COLLNET Meeting, Vol. 4, 2008, pp. 1-9.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014726/
Descriptores: Impacto/Producción Científica/China/Análisis
comparados
Resumen: Publication outputs and world shares of scientific
publication are presented for 1981-2004 for China, Europe, India, Japan
and the USA. Our results are compared with those available in the
literature. The current situation whereby the main producers of
scientific output statistics use different counting methods thus,
producing major differences in scientific output values is
unsatisfactory. The share in the total number of publications has been
stagnating or gradually decreasing in recent years for Europe, the USA,
India and Japan although there is no absolute decline in publication
activities. The most dramatic trend has been the fast growth in China.
The USA is still maintaining a lead in publication impact. The impact
from EU, Japan, China and India increases but is still far behind that of
USA.
88. Laviosa, S., "New
tendencies in Translation Studies: Selected papers from a workshop
G÷teborg 12 December 2003". Target: International
Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 187-190.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=471BAFC2278DC0A017AB
Descriptores: Traducción/Enseñanza
Resumen: Sara Laviosa . New tendencies in Translation Studies:
Selected papers from a workshop Göteborg 12 December 2003 . Target:
International Journal on Translation Studies, Volume 20, Number 1 (May
2008), pp. 187-190,
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89. Lee, J. and Boling, E.,
"Information-conveying approaches and cognitive styles of mental
modeling in a hypermedia-based learning environment".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008, pp. 644-661.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=467E8AFEE6DD397B2DF6
Descriptores: Aprendizaje/Multimedia
Resumen: The increasing spread of Internet technology has
highlighted the need for a better understanding of the fundamental issues
concerning human users in a virtual space. Despite the great degree of
navigational freedom, however, not all hypermedia users have the
capability to locate information or assimilate internal knowledge.
Research findings suggest that this type of problem could be solved if
users were able to hold a cognitive overview of the hypermedia structure.
How a learner can acquire the correct structural knowledge of online
information has become an important factor in learning performance in a
hypermedia environment. Variables that might influence learners'
abilities in structuring a cognitive overview, such as users' cognitive
styles and the different ways of representing information, should be
carefully taken into account. The results of this study show that the
interactions between information representation approaches and learners'
cognitive styles have significant effects on learners' performance in
terms of structural knowledge and feelings of disorientation. Learners'
performance could decline if a representational approach that contradicts
their cognitive style is used. Finally, the results of the present study
may apply only when the learner's knowledge level is in the introductory
stage. It is not clear how and what type of cognitive styles, as well as
information representation approaches, will affect the performance of
advanced and expert learners.
90. Lehtokangas, R., Keskustalo, H., and
Jårvelin, K., "Experiments with transitive dictionary
translation and pseudo-relevance feedback using graded relevance
assessments". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008, pp.
476-488.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=42DC8DA03A6FDB8255DE
Descriptores:
Relevancia/Diccionarios/Traducción/Retroalimentación
Resumen: In this article, the authors present evaluation results
for transitive dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval
(CLIR) using graded relevance assessments in a best match retrieval
environment. A text database containing newspaper articles and a related
set of 35 search topics were used in the tests. Source language topics
(in English, German, and Swedish) were automatically translated into the
target language (Finnish) via an intermediate (or pivot) language.
Effectiveness of the transitively translated queries was compared to that
of the directly translated and monolingual Finnish queries.
Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) was also used to expand the original
transitive target queries. Cross-language information retrieval
performance was evaluated on three relevance thresholds: stringent,
regular, and liberal. The transitive translations performed well
achieving, on the average, 85û93% of the direct translation performance,
and 66û72% of monolingual performance. Moreover, PRF was successful in
raising the performance of transitive translation routes in absolute
terms as well as in relation to monolingual and direct translation
performance applying PRF.
91. Leydesdorff, L.,
"Caveats for the use of citation indicators in research and
journal evaluations". Journal of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp.
278-287.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=49F7A70385F942275CB8
Descriptores: Evaluación/Análisis de
citas/Indicadores/Investigación
Resumen: Aging of publications, percentage of
self-citations, and impact vary from journal to journal within fields of
science. The assumption that citation and publication practices are
homogenous within specialties and fields of science is invalid.
Furthermore, the delineation of fields and among specialties is fuzzy.
Institutional units of analysis and persons may move between fields or
span different specialties. The match between the citation index and
institutional profiles varies among institutional units and nations. The
respective matches may heavily affect the representation of the units.
Non-Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) journals are increasingly
cornered into ôtransdisciplinaryö Mode-2 functions with the exception of
specialist journals publishing in languages other than English. An
ôexternally cited impact factorö can be calculated for these journals.
The citation impact of non-ISI journals will be demonstrated using
Science and Public Policy as the example.
92. Leydesdorff, L., "On the
normalization and visualization of author co-citation data: Salton's
Cosine versus the Jaccard index". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
1, 2008, pp. 77-85.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4C488AD1C313C9EE661B
Descriptores: Normalización/Visualización/Cocitación/Análisis
de citas/Bibliometría
Resumen: The debate about which similarity measure one should use
for the normalization in the case of Author Co-citation Analysis (ACA) is
further complicated when one distinguishes between the symmetrical
co-citationùor, more generally, co-occurrenceùmatrix and the underlying
asymmetrical citationùoccurrenceùmatrix. In the Web environment, the
approach of retrieving original citation data is often not feasible. In
that case, one should use the Jaccard index, but preferentially after
adding the number of total citations (i.e., occurrences) on the main
diagonal. Unlike Salton's cosine and the Pearson correlation, the Jaccard
index abstracts from the shape of the distributions and focuses only on
the intersection and the sum of the two sets. Since the correlations in
the co-occurrence matrix may be spurious, this property of the Jaccard
index can be considered as an advantage in this case.
93. Leydesdorff, L. and Schank, T.,
"Dynamic animations of journal maps: Indicators of structural
changes and interdisciplinary developments". Journal of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59,
No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20891
Descriptores: Mapas conceptuales/Interdisciplinaridad
Resumen: The dynamic analysis of structural change in the
organization of the sciences requires, methodologically, the integration
of multivariate and time-series analysis. Structural change - for
instance, interdisciplinary development - is often an objective of
government interventions. Recent developments in multidimensional scaling
(MDS) enable us to distinguish the stress originating in each time-slice
from the stress originating from the sequencing of time-slices, and thus
to locally optimize the trade-offs between these two sources of variance
in the animation. Furthermore, visualization programs like Pajek and
Visone allow us to show not only the positions of the nodes, but also
their relational attributes such as betweenness centrality. Betweenness
centrality in the vector space can be considered as an indicator of
interdisciplinarity. Using this indicator, the dynamics of the
citation-impact environments of the journals Cognitive Science, Social
Networks, and Nanotechnology are animated and assessed in terms of
interdisciplinarity among the disciplines involved.
94. Lisqe, C., LariviFre, V., and
Archambault, +., "Conference proceedings as a source of
scientific information: A bibliometric analysis".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008 .
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20888
Descriptores: Bibliometría/Indice de obsolescencia/Congresos
Resumen: While several authors have argued that conference
proceedings are an important source of scientific knowledge, the extent
of their importance has not been measured in a systematic manner. This
article examines the scientific impact and aging of conference
proceedings compared to those of scientific literature in general. It
shows that the relative importance of proceedings is diminishing over
time and currently represents only 1.7% of references made in the natural
sciences and engineering, and 2.5% in the social sciences and humanities.
Although the scientific impact of proceedings is losing ground to other
types of scientific literature in nearly all fields, it has grown from 8%
of the references in engineering papers in the early 1980s to its current
10%. Proceedings play a particularly important role in computer sciences,
where they account for close to 20% of the references. This article also
shows that not unexpectedly, proceedings age faster than cited scientific
literature in general. The evidence thus shows that proceedings have a
relatively limited scientific impact, on average representing only about
2% of total citations, that their relative importance is shrinking, and
that they become obsolete faster than the scientific literature in
general.
95. Lodwick, D., "Creating
Database-Backed Library Web Pages:. Using Open Source Tools, by Stephen
R. Westman. 107. Reviewed by David Lodwick". Technical
Services Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 107-109.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=K2LH2N7JXUJL9H149METR79DQK0G9SH2&a=3&s=J124&v=25&i=2&fn=J124v25n02_08
Descriptores: Bases de datos/World Wide Web/Software
libre
Resumen: The article reviews the book 'reating Database-Backed
Library Web Pages:. Using Open Source Tools,' by Stephen R.
Westman.
96. Lozano Díaz , R.,
"Innovación en bibliotecas públicas: algo nuevo, algo útil, algo
de calidad ". Profesional de la información,
El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp. 129-134.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/b5uc1606pp4jphed0pfm/contributions/w/3/7/6/w37625t3l6r41860.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Calidad/Gestión
bibliotecaria/Servicios bibliotecarios
Resumen: La innovación no está forzosamente vinculada al factor
tecnológico. En la biblioteca pública puede ser tan útil una innovación
con base tecnológica como otra destinada a explorar y desarrollar nuevos
vínculos en la comunidad, promocionar servicios, diseñar nuevos modelos
de comunicación interna, de cambio de imagen corporativa, gestión del
talento o potenciar el aprendizaje organizacional. Estos factores están
definidos ya como cruciales para la innovación en la nueva sociedad del
conocimiento. Por tanto cuando hablamos de innovación en la biblioteca
pública
implica hacerlo desde un punto de vista global que la considere en su
triple ámbito: como organización de servicios, vinculada a su
unción social e integrada en la comunidad y como centro de ocio,
información y formación.
97. Luyt, B., Tay Chee Hsien Aaron , Lim
Hai Thian , and Cheng Kian Hong, "Improving Wikipedia's
accuracy: Is edit age a solution?". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
2, 2008, pp. 318-330.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4C7ABDC577C969B93F1B
Descriptores: Wikipedia
Resumen: Wikipedia is fast becoming a key information source for
many despite criticism that it is unreliable and inaccurate. A number of
recommendations have been made to sort the chaff from the wheat in
Wikipedia, among which is the idea of color-coding article segment edits
according to age (Cross, 2006). Using data collected as part of a wider
study published in Nature, this article examines the distribution of
errors throughout the life of a select group of Wikipedia articles. The
survival time of each ôerror editö in terms of the edit counts and days
was calculated and the hypothesis that surviving material added by older
edits is more trustworthy was tested. Surprisingly, we find that roughly
20% of errors can be attributed to surviving text added by the first
edit, which confirmed the existence of a ôfirst-moverö effect (Viegas,
Wattenberg, & Kushal, 2004) whereby material added by early edits are
less likely to be removed. We suggest that the sizable number of errors
added by early edits is simply a result of more material being added near
the beginning of the life of the article. Overall, the results do not
provide support for the idea of trusting surviving segments attributed to
older edits because such edits tend to add more material and hence
contain more errors which do not seem to be offset by greater
opportunities for error correction by later edits.
98. Macías González, J., "El
Servicio de información de patentes de la Biblioteca de la Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid: nuevo Centro Patlib". Revista
española de Documentación Científica, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008.
Descriptores: Patentes /Servicios de Información/Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid
Resumen: La Biblioteca de la Escuela Politécnica Superior de la
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid abre un nuevo servicio de información
sobre patentes, tomando como base el depósito por parte de la Oficina
Española de Patentes y Marcas (OEPM) de una amplia colección de patentes
europeas y norteamericanas y sus bases de datos. El objetivo es
desarrollar un centro de información y documentación sobre propiedad
industrial. El primer paso ha sido su designación como Centro Patlib (Red
de Bibliotecas de Patentes de la Oficina Europea de Patentes EPO). Con la
prestación de este nuevo servicio, el principal objetivo de la Biblioteca
es difundir dentro de la comunidad académica la importancia de las
patentes como recurso de información para la investigación tecnológica,
así como proporcionar servicios de documentación e información sobre
propiedad industrial a las universidades, las empresas, los ciudadanos en
general y muy especialmente al Parque Científico Universidad Carlos III
de Madrid (Leganés Tecnológico).
99. Maniega Legarda, D., Pérez Salmerón,
G., and Guerrero Torres, Y., "El Portal de Biblioteques de
la Generalitat de Catalunya: un proyecto para los ciudadanos y los
profesionales de la biblioteca pública". Profesional de
la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/acekyvmwql77ltmvrmeg/contributions/7/7/2/7/7727710676630320.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas públicas/Web social/Cataluña/Gestión
de contenidos/World Wide Web
Resumen: La Subdirección General de Bibliotecas participa
como piloto en el proyecto de cambio hacia la nueva cultura
de gestión y producción de contenidos que el Departamento de Cultura y
Medios de Comunicación de la Generalitat de Catalunya está llevando a
cabo bajo la plataforma tecnológica de Vignette Corporate, lo que supone
una gran oportunidad para plantear a través del Portal de
Biblioteques una correcta oferta de servicios, recursos y alfabetización
informacional para los ciudadanos y también, desde la Extranet, dirigida
a los técnicos de las bibliotecas públicas, un buen entorno de trabajo
colaborativo para los profesionales. Describimos la creación de este
portal vertebrado sobre dos proyectos paralelos, analizando el impacto en
los destinatarios, a partir del binomio existente entre sus expectativas
y la respuesta ofrecida en base a la formulación de dicho proyecto.
100. Manso Rodríguez, R. A., "Servicio de
referencia virtual: teoría y práctica en torno a las políticas para su
gestión y desarrollo". Revista española de
Documentación Científica, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008.
Descriptores: Servicios de referencia en línea
Resumen: Todo servicio bibliotecario que se implementa requiere de
la definición de políticas que permitan su desarrollo exitoso. En este
sentido el servicio de referencia virtual no esta exento de ello. Al
igual que para el resto de los servicios que las instituciones de
información ofrecen, esta etapa se considera esencial a la hora de
organizar el mismo, con la diferencia de que esta modalidad de servicio
aún en desarrollo incipiente, no tiene una norma internacional que la
respalde. Este trabajo pretende hacer un análisis de las propuestas de
políticas realizadas por organizaciones y proyectos que han marcado
pautas en el desarrollo del mismo, estableciendo una comparación en
varios aspectos esenciales: organización del servicio, personal que lo
atiende, privacidad y respeto al derecho de autor.
101. MartÆn de Le£n, C., "Skopos and
beyond A critical study of functionalism". Target:
International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008,
pp. 1-28.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=41B69B709BD43F210DFF
Descriptores: Concordancia/Traducción
Resumen: This paper deals with the main results of a systematic
investigation (MartÆn 2005), supported by concordance analysis, of the
metaphorical expressions found in Rei_-Vermeer (1984) and Holz-Månttåri
(1984), two works that in the 1980s established the theoretical
foundations of German functionalism. Based on the cognitive theory of
metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999; Lakoff 1987; Johnson 1987;
Lakoff 1993), the analysis led to the identification of two conceptual
metaphors that played a crucial role in the articulation of German
functionalism: the TRANSFER metaphor and the TARGET metaphor. The paper
focuses on the main implications of the use of these metaphors and
on the contradictions they create. A broadening of the functionalist
theoretical framework is then proposed with the goal of overcoming these
contradictions.
102. MartÆn GarcÆa, A., "The
Circumscribed Infinites Scheme (CIS) A deconstructive approach to
translating poetry". Target: International Journal on
Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 115-134.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4BC794CFD8527E977798
Descriptores: Poesía/Traducción
Resumen: The purpose of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it
seeks to introduce and explain the CIS (Circumscribed Infinites Scheme),
a deconstructive scheme for translating poetry; and, on the other, it
aims at analyzing the scheme's impact on the translation into English of
a variety of poems by Jorge Luis Borges. Devised by the present author,
who is also responsible for the translations analyzed, the CIS is a
translational scheme whereby meaning is understood as an inexhaustible
textual effect, and which, in its theoretical elucidation, seeks to raise
the practicing translator's awareness of the control he or she might have
over the degree of infinite exegetic circumscription ù and subsequent
infinite exegetic recreation ù during the translation process.
103. Martín de León, C., "Skopos and
beyond A critical study of functionalism". Target:
International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008,
pp. 1-28.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=41B69B709BD43F210DFF
Descriptores: Alemán/Traducción
Resumen: This paper deals with the main results of a systematic
investigation (MartÆn 2005), supported by concordance analysis, of the
metaphorical expressions found in Rei_-Vermeer (1984) and Holz-Månttåri
(1984), two works that in the 1980s established the theoretical
foundations of German functionalism. Based on the cognitive theory of
metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999; Lakoff 1987; Johnson 1987;
Lakoff 1993), the analysis led to the identification of two conceptual
metaphors that played a crucial role in the articulation of German
functionalism:
104. Martín García, A., "The
Circumscribed Infinites Scheme (CIS) A deconstructive approach to
translating poetry". Target: International Journal on
Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 115-134.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4BC794CFD8527E977798
Descriptores: Poesía/Traducción literaria
Resumen: The purpose of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it
seeks to introduce and explain the CIS (Circumscribed Infinites Scheme),
a deconstructive scheme for translating poetry; and, on the other, it
aims at analyzing the scheme's impact on the translation into English of
a variety of poems by Jorge Luis Borges. Devised by the present author,
who is also responsible for the translations analyzed, the CIS is a
translational scheme whereby meaning is understood as an inexhaustible
textual effect, and which, in its theoretical elucidation, seeks to raise
the practicing translator's awareness of the control he or she might have
over the degree of infinite exegetic circumscription ù and subsequent
infinite exegetic recreation ù during the translation process.
105. Martín García, A., "The
Circumscribed Infinites Scheme (CIS) A deconstructive approach to
translating poetry". Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 115-134 .
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4BC794CFD8527E977798
Descriptores: Poesía/Traducción literaria
Resumen: The purpose of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it
seeks to introduce and explain the CIS (Circumscribed Infinites Scheme),
a deconstructive scheme for translating poetry; and, on the other, it
aims at analyzing the scheme's impact on the translation into English of
a variety of poems by Jorge Luis Borges. Devised by the present author,
who is also responsible for the translations analyzed, the CIS is a
translational scheme whereby meaning is understood as an inexhaustible
textual effect, and which, in its theoretical elucidation, seeks to raise
the practicing translator's awareness of the control he or she might have
over the degree of infinite exegetic circumscription ? and subsequent
infinite exegetic recreation ? during the translation process.
106. Mathews, B., "Moving Beyond the
Reference Desk: Being Where Users Need Us.". Reference
Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 9-13.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Blogs/Facebook/MySpace/Second Life/Servicios de
información bibliográfica
Resumen: This article suggests a variety of ways in which
reference librarians can be where the users are, in addition to service
at the reference desk.
107. McCain, K. W., "Assessing an
author's influence using time series historiographic mapping: The oeuvre
of conrad hal waddington (1905û1975)". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
4, 2008, pp. 510-525.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=430E937321053212124B
Descriptores: Mapas conceptuales/Algoritmos
Resumen: A modified approach to algorithmic historiography is used
to investigate the changing influence of the work of Conrad Hal
Waddington over the period 1945û2004. Overall, Waddington's publications
were cited by almost 5,500 source items in the Web of Science (Thomson
Scientific, formerly Thomson ISI, Philadelphia, PA). Rather than simply
analyzing the data set as a whole, older works by Waddington are
incorporated into a series of historiographic maps (networks of highly
cited documents), which show long-term and short-term research themes
grounded in Waddington's work. Analysis by 10û20-year periods and the use
of social network analysis soft- ware reveals structuresùthematic
networks and subnetworksùthat are hidden in a mapping of the entire
60-year period. Two major Waddington-related themes
emergeùcanalization/genetic assimilation and embryonic induction. The
first persists over the 60 years studied while active, visible research
in the second appears to have declined markedly between 1965 and 1984,
only to reappear in conjunction with the emergence of a new research
fieldùEvolutionary Developmental Biology.
108. Miglino, O., Gigliotta, O., Ponticorvo, M., and
Nolfi, S., "Breedbot: an evolutionary robotics application
in digital content". The Electronic Library, Vol.
26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879509
Descriptores: Enseñanza/Aprendizaje/Tecnologías de la
información
Resumen: Purpose ? This paper aims to describe an integrated
hardware/software system based on evolutionary robotics and its
application in an edutainment context. Design/methodology/approach ? The
system is based on a wide variety of artificial life techniques
(artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, user-guided evolutionary
design and evolutionary robotics). A user without any computer
programming skill can determine the robot's behavior in two different
ways: artificial breeding or artificial evolution. Breedbot has been used
as a didactic tool in teaching evolutionary biology and as a ?futuristic?
toy by several science centers. The digital side of Breedbot can be
downloaded on the web site:
www.isl.unina.it/breedbot Findings ? The results in this pilot study
suggest that using Breedbot in an educational context can be useful to
improve learning in biology. Research limitations/implications ? As this
is a pilot study, one limitation is the small sample considered. The
issue will be investigated further with a wider population and
subject-matter, which will also improve the Breedbot system. Practical
implications ? These results suggest that tools like Breedbot could be
introduced into biology curricula at schools. Originality/value ? The
paper describes an original application in digital content and shows the
importance of using such a tool in an Edutainment context. It is
therefore interesting for teachers, vocational trainers and anyone
involved in educational activities.
109. Miller, W., "Introduction: Reforming
Reference.". Reference Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2,
2007, pp. 1-2.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Planificación/Servicios de información
bibliográfica
Resumen: Introduction: Reforming Reference.
110. Miller, W., "Reference Services Over
the Past Century: Moving from the Center to the Fringes.".
Reference Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 3-7.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Plagios/Servicios de información
bibliográfica/Historia
Resumen: This article describes the current state of reference
work in an age of disintermediation, in which users no longer see the
librarian as a necessary intermediary, and advises instruction as a
necessity in an age when users cannot distinguish the scholarly and
authoritative from the questionable and popular, and increasingly do not
comprehend the notion of plagiarism, or the value of original thought.
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published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright
applies to all Abstracts.)
111. Ming Lin and Zhu Zhang,
"Question-driven segmentation of lecture speech text: Towards
intelligent e-learning systems". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
2, 2008, pp. 186-200.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4E7E9157DC718E02BB5B
Descriptores: Aprendizaje/Enseñanza a distancia
Resumen: Recently, lecture videos have been widely used in
e-learning systems. Envisioning intelligent e-learning systems, this
article addresses the challenge of information seeking in lecture videos
by retrieving relevant video segments based on user queries, through
dynamic segmentation of lecture speech text. In the proposed approach,
shallow parsing such as part of-speech tagging and noun phrase chunking
are used to parse both questions and Automated Speech Recognition (ASR)
transcripts. A sliding-window algorithm is proposed to identify the start
and ending boundaries of returned segments. Phonetic and partial matching
is utilized to correct the errors from automated speech recognition and
noun phrase chunking. Furthermore, extra knowledge such as lecture slides
is used to facilitate the ASR transcript error correction. The approach
also makes use of proximity to approximate the deep parsing and structure
match between question and sentences in ASR transcripts. The experimental
results showed that both phonetic and partial matching improved the
segmentation performance, slides-based ASR transcript correction improves
information coverage, and proximity is also effective in improving the
overall performance.
112. Mochón Bezares, G. and Sorli Rojo, Á.,
"Tesauros multidisciplinares en Internet ".
Revista española de Documentación Científica, Vol. 31, No. 1,
2008.
Descriptores: Tesauros/Fuentes de información/Internet
Resumen: Gonzalo Mochón Bezares, Ángela Sorli Ro. Tesauros
multidisciplinares en Internet. Revista española de Documentación
Científica, Vol 31, No 1 (2008)
113. Montesi, M. and Owen, J. M.,
"From conference to journal publication: How conference papers in
software engineering are extended for publication in
journals". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 5, 2008, pp. 816-829
.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4DA8B9CEE25F5DB2C34A
Descriptores: Ingenieria/Publicaciones periódicas/Congresos
/Programas informáticos
Resumen: In software engineering (SE) and in the computing
disciplines, papers presented at conferences are considered as formal
papers and counted when evaluating research productivity of academic
staff. In spite of this, conference papers may still be extended for
publication in academic journals. In this research, we have studied the
process of extension from conference to journal publication, and tried to
explain the different purposes these two forms of publication serve in
the field. Twenty-two editors in chief and associate editors in chief of
major publications in SE and related fields were interviewed, and 122
authors of extended versions of conference papers answered a Web
questionnaire regarding the extension of their papers. As a result, the
process of extending conference papers for journal publication in SE is
recorded. In the conclusion, we comment on the following: (a) the role of
the conference in the development of the research work; (b) the review
process at the conference and at the journal stage; and (c) the different
purposes conference and journal publication fulfill in SE.
114. Moreiro González, J. A., Azcárate Aguilar Amat,
P., Marzal García Quismondo, M. Á., Tejada Artigas Carlos Miguel , and
Vergueiro, W. C. S., "Desarrollo profesional y opinión
sobre la formación recibida de los titulados universitarios en
información y documentación de las universidades públicas de Madrid
(2000-2005)". Profesional de la información, El,
Vol. 17, No. 3, 2008.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/524c8jwhmm0wxd2v9xaw/contributions/7/7/7/7/777787161775271w.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecarios/Documentalistas/Formación
profesional/Espacio/España/Madrid/Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid/Mercado de trabajo
Resumen: Se analiza cómo la formación universitaria ofrecida por
las universidades públicas de Madrid desde el año
2000 a 2005 se adecua a las necesidades laborales de los titulados en
información y documentación.
La metodología empleada fue el desarrollo de un cuestionario dirigido a
los egresados. Aunque el número
de encuestas cumplimentadas no es muy alto (118), los autores
pensamos que los resultados obtenidos permiten establecer una serie de
conclusiones que se pueden extrapolar a todo el colectivo.
115. Morini, M., "Outlining a new
linguistic theory of translation". Target:
International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008,
pp. 29-51.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=47BEBE5554AAD97EFB1F
Descriptores: Traducción/Teoría de la traducción
Resumen: In the following article, an outline of a new linguistic
theory of translation is given that can be of use to theorists and
practitioners alike. The linguistic theories of the 1950s and 1960s were
too normative and a-contextual to account for all the forms and aspects
of translation; while the 'skeptical turn' of Translation Studies has
succeeded in unmasking the ideological quality of all theories, but
cannot produce a 'cybernetics' of translation, an account of how
translation is materially done. A new linguistic approach can produce
such a practical account, provided that the pragmatic level of analysis
is given a prominent role and that a touch of non-scientific skepticism
is maintained.
116. Moscoso, P. and García Ortiz, F. M.,
"Mensajes de error e información en los catálogos en línea de
acceso público". Revista española de Documentación
Científica , Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008.
Descriptores: Errores/Mensajes de error/Catálogos
automatizados/OPAC/Usabilidad
Resumen: Se presentan los resultados de la evaluación de los
mensajes de error e información en los OPACs, que son parte de un amplio
estudio del sistema de ayuda de los catálogos en entorno web. Se propone
una clasificación de los mensajes: relacionados con la conexión al OPAC,
la entrada de datos, el acceso a las páginas de resultados y la
navegación entre resultados. Se evalúa, por una parte, tanto la
existencia de mensajes provocados por las operaciones básicas de
recuperación de información, como la de mensajes adicionales que
enriquecen el OPAC. Por otra, la adecuación de los mensajes a las pautas
y directrices recomendadas relativas a su estructura, contenidos y
presentación. Se concluye con la identificación de los mensajes que se
presentan al usuario con mayor y menor frecuencia, así como con
observaciones referentes a los problemas que persisten en los sistemas de
identificación de errores y generación de mensajes, y recomendaciones
para futuros estudios.
117. Mugridge, R., "Area Studies
Librarians: Do You PCC? What the Program for Cooperative Cataloging Can
Do for YOU. A Report of a Program Presented by the ALCTS Cataloging and
Classification Section. American Library Association Annual Conference,
New Orleans, June 2006". Technical Services
Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 73-75.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=K2LH2N7JXUJL9H149METR79DQK0G9SH2&a=3&s=J124&v=25&i=2&fn=J124v25n02_06
Descriptores: Catalogación/Clasificación /American Library
Association/Congresos
Resumen: Information about various reports discussed at the
American Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana
in June 2006 is presented. James Lin discussed the issues of interest to
Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO) participants. Joyce Bell
discussed the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) and the practice
of citing reference works to back the form of heading or other
information. The Cooperative Online Serials (CONSER) program was
described by Steve Shadle.
118. Mutawa, A. M., Alnajem, S., and Alzhouri,
F., "An HPSG approach to Arabic nominal
sentences". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008, pp.
422-434.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4B1AA0E345347FCB71A9
Descriptores: Arabe/Gramática/Fraseología
Resumen: This paper introduces a grammar for Arabic nominal
sentences written in the formalism of Head-Driven Phrase Structure
Grammar (HPSG). This grammar covers simple Arabic nominal sentences,
though the same approach can be extended to cover other types of Arabic
nominal sentences. The formalization has been implemented using the
Linguistic Knowledge Building (LKB) system.
119. Nam Fung Chang, "A missing link in
Itamar Even-Zohar's theoretical thinking". Target:
International Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008,
pp. 135-148.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=402587FEA333557C8FE1
Descriptores: Traducción/Cultura
Resumen: According to Itamar Even-Zohar, for a large social entity
to be maintained, a culture repertoire must be invented to create
internal cohesion and external differentiation, and from this repertoire
certain items are chosen to build a collective identity. In contrast,
imported items, if regarded as threats to this identity, may meet with
resistance. This theory may shed light on Even-Zohar's hypotheses that
the 'normal' position assumed by translated literature in the literary
polysystem tends to be a peripheral one, and that translation tends
towards acceptability when it is at the periphery.
120. Nåppilå, T., Jårvelin, K., and Niemi, T.,
"A tool for data cube construction from structurally
heterogeneous XML documents". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008,
pp. 435-449.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4C14919D3C3E1192044E
Descriptores: XML/Lenguajes de marcas
Resumen: Data cubes for OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) often
need to be constructed from data located in several distributed and
autonomous information sources. Such a data integration process is
challenging due to semantic, syntactic, and structural heterogeneity
among the data. While XML (extensible markup language) is the de facto
standard for data exchange, the three types of heterogeneity remain.
Moreover, popular path-oriented XML query languages, such as XQuery,
require the user to know in much detail the structure of the documents to
be processed and are, thus, effectively impractical in many real-world
data integration tasks. Several Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA)-based XML
query evaluation strategies have recently been introduced to provide a
more structure-independent way to access XML documents. We shall,
however, show that this approach leads in the context of certainùnot
uncommonùtypes of XML documents to undesirable results. This article
introduces a novel high-level data extraction primitive that utilizes the
purpose-built Smallest Possible Context (SPC) query evaluation strategy.
We demonstrate, through a system prototype for OLAP data cube
construction and a sample application in informetrics, that our approach
has real advantages in data integration.
121. Nawalaniec, T. M., "Blogging and RSS
A Librarian's Guide". Technical Services Quarterly,
Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 114-116.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=K2LH2N7JXUJL9H149METR79DQK0G9SH2&a=3&s=J124&v=25&i=2&fn=J124v25n02_08
Descriptores: Blogs/RSS (Really Simple
Syndication)/Bibliotecas
Resumen: The article reviews the book 'BLOGGING AND RSS: A
LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE,' by Michael P. Sauers.
122. Neal, D., "Facebook: The missing
manual". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20907
Descriptores: Redes sociales/World Wide Web/Manuales
Resumen: Book Review Facebook: The missing manual
123. Nichols, D. M., Paynter, G. W., Chan, C.-H.,
Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., Twidale, M. B., and Blandford, A.,
"Metadata tools for institutional repositories".
OECD Observer, No. 257, 2008.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014451/01/Librarians_in_the_21st_century.pdf
Descriptores: Repositorios institucionales/Metadatos
Resumen: Libraries are set to become more important than
ever.
124. O'Donnell, M., "Managing student
assistants: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians.".
Technical Services Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 109-111.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=31385831&site=ehost-live
Descriptores: Estudiantes/Estudio de usuarios
Resumen: The article reviews the book 'MANAGING STUDENT
ASSISTANTS: A HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL FOR LIBRARIANS,' by Kimberly Burke
Sweetman.
125. Oluwafisan, Y., "Translating
francophone African literature into an African language An
experience". Vol. 54, No. 1, 2008, pp. 59-68.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=407E98F4A25D2A19137A
Descriptores: Africa/Literatura
africana/Traducción/Francés
Resumen: The article is an initial product of on-going research
and it presents on-hand experience of certain issues associated with the
translation of a Franco-African novel into an African language, with all
attendant linguistic challenges, and how these problems were surmounted.
The article dwells particularly on lexical items such as proper nouns ù
names are very significant in Africa ù as well as Kourouma's famed
neologisms, most especially in the area of salutations. Implications for
similar translations and for the search for equivalences are also
discussed.
126. Orzano, A. J., McInerney, C. R., Scharf, D.,
Tallia, A. F., and Crabtree, B. F., "A knowledge management
model: Implications for enhancing quality in health care".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008, pp. 489-505 .
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=44808782C23135E5CA1D
Descriptores: Gestión del conocimiento/Calidad/Ciencias de la
salud
Resumen: Improving health care delivery is a pressing societal
goal, and information scientists have a role in effecting change.
Information science research has led to understanding theories and
practices of information use within the informing professions, but
information science and one of its subspecialties, Knowledge Management
(KM), also have the potential to influence and enhance other professional
disciplines. This concept paper makes the argument that KM is a
beneficial framework to help health care clinicians manage their
practices and ultimately administer quality care to their patients. The
central argument is predicated on the assumption that medicine is a
knowledge-based profession and that finding, sharing, and developing
clinicians' knowledge is necessary for effective primary health care
practice. The authors make the case that in an environment of a
burgeoning body of health care research and the adoption of technology
tools, physicians can benefit from understanding effective KM practice.
The model as presented here borrows from recent information science
scholarship in KM and is intended to inform intervention protocols for
effective KM to improve quality of care.
127. Ostergren, M., "The principles of
beautiful Web design". Journal of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp.
159.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=45BEBF548CD75B7A6302
Descriptores: World Wide Web/Diseño/Estética
Resumen: No abstract.
128. Ozmutlu, H. C., Cavdur, F., and Ozmutlu, S.,
"Cross-validation of neural network applications for automatic
new topic identification". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008
, pp. 339-362.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=415FA2FDC9B639EBA59D
Descriptores: Redes neuronales/Indización automática/Motores
de búsqueda/World Wide Web
Resumen: The purpose of this study is to provide results from
experiments designed to investigate the cross-validation of an artificial
neural network application to automatically identify topic changes in Web
search engine user sessions by using data logs of different Web search
engines for training and testing the neural network. Sample data logs
from the FAST and Excite search engines are used in this study. The
results of the study show that identification of topic shifts and
continuations on a particular Web search engine user session can be
achieved with neural networks that are trained on a different Web search
engine data log. Although FAST and Excite search engine users differ with
respect to some user characteristics (e.g., number of queries per
session, number of topics per session), the results of this study
demonstrate that both search engine users display similar characteristics
as they shift from one topic to another during a single search session.
The key finding of this study is that a neural network that is trained on
a selected data log could be universal; that is, it can be applicable on
all Web search engine transaction logs regardless of the source of the
training data log.
129. Palmer, C. L., Teffeau, L. C., and Newton, M.
P., "Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional
Repository Development - Final Report". IDEALS,
2008.
https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/bitstream/2142/8981/4/Palmer%20et%20al%20Mellon%20Report.pdf
Descriptores: Repositorios institucionales/Calidad
Resumen: With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the
GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undertook a one-year pilot
study to investigate advances in institutional repository (IR)
development. The aim was to learn about successes and challenges
experienced by IR initiatives at university libraries that had made a
substantial commitment to developing and sustaining an IR. Three sites
were studied using the comparative case study method. They were
purposefully selected to represent varying approaches to IR development
undertaken at research libraries with similar missions and
users.
130. Pérez Agüera, J. R., "Ingeniería
documental frente a artesanía documental.¿Cuál es el modelo a
seguir?". Profesional de la información, El, Vol.
17, No. 3, 2008.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/n49kyvmwrp38502g9m7j/contributions/x/x/5/1/xx5167w665jm320r.pdf
Descriptores:
Biblioteconomía/Documentacion/Futuro/Epistemología/Documentalistas
Resumen: El presente trabajo se centra en los aspectos presentes y
futuros de la profesión, haciendo especial hincapié en la necesidad de
modernización de la biblioteconomía y documentación. La propuesta de
modernización viene
de la mano de las tecnologías informáticas, que permiten perfilar el
horizonte de este campo dentro de 20 años.
Palabras clave: Biblioteconomía y documentación, Profesión, Futuro
de las bibliotecas, Epistemología de la documentación.
131. Peset, F., "Política bibliotecaria
en España. Entrevista a Mª Antonia Carrato".
Profesional de la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008 ,
pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/h7e8qmlgql7udcu2qrrq/contributions/9/3/t/3/93t322148u14k301.pdf
Descriptores: Política bibliotecaria/España
Resumen: Peset, Fernanda. Política bibliotecaria en España.
Entrevista a Mª Antonia Carrato. En: El profesional de la información,
2008, marzo-abril, v. 17, n. 2, pp. 231-234.
132. Quanzhi Li and Yi-fang Brook Wu,
"People search: Searching people sharing similar interests from
the Web". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp.
111-125.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=45A198132AF12E642CE5
Descriptores: World Wide Web/Iglesia/Difusión de la
información
Resumen: On the Web, there are limited ways of finding people
sharing similar interests with a given person. The current methods are
either ineffective or time consuming. In this paper, we present a new
approach for searching people sharing similar interests from the Web.
Given a person, to find similar people from the Web, there are two major
research issues: person representation and matching persons. In this
study, we propose a person representation method which uses a person's
website to represent this person. Our design of matching process takes
person representation into consideration to allow the same representation
to be used when composing the query. Under this person representation
method, the proposed algorithm integrates textual content and hyperlink
information of all the pages belonging to a personal website to represent
a person and match persons. Other algorithms are also explored and
compared to the proposed algorithm. Experimental results are
presented.
133. Quirin, A., Cord£n, O., Guerrero Bote, V. P.,
Vargas Quesada, B., and Moya Aneg£n, F., "A quick MST-based
algorithm to obtain Pathfinder networks ([infin], n - 1)".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20904
Descriptores: Algoritmos/Redes de
información/Eficiencia
Resumen: Network scaling algorithms such as the Pathfinder
algorithm are used to prune many different kinds of networks, including
citation networks, random networks, and social networks. However, this
algorithm suffers from run time problems for large networks and online
processing due to its O(n4) time complexity. In this article, we
introduce a new alternative, the MST-Pathfinder algorithm, which will
allow us to prune the original network to get its PFNET([infin], n - 1)
in just O(n2 + log n) time. The underlying idea comes from the fact that
the union (superposition) of all the Minimum Spanning Trees extracted
from a given network is equivalent to the PFNET resulting from the
Pathfinder algorithm parameterized by a specific set of values (r =
[infin] and q = n - 1), those usually considered in many different
applications. Although this property is well-known in the literature, it
seems that no algorithm based on it has been proposed, up to now, to
decrease the high computational cost of the original Pathfinder
algorithm. We also present a mathematical proof of the correctness of
this new alternative and test its good efficiency in two different case
studies: one dedicated to the post-processing of large random graphs, and
the other one to a real world case in which medium networks obtained by a
cocitation analysis of the scientific domains in different countries are
pruned.
134. Raan, A. F. J. v., "Bibliometric
statistical properties of the 100 largest European research universities:
Prevalent scaling rules in the science system". Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol.
59, No. 3, 2008, pp. 461-475.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=433EB2609A1D8AA87BDD
Descriptores:
Bibliometría/Estadística/Europa/Universidades/Ranking
Resumen: The statistical properties of bibliometric indicators
related to research performance, field citation density, and journal
impact were studied for the 100 largest European research universities. A
size-dependent cumulative advantage was found for the impact of
universities in terms of total number of citations. In the author's
previous work, a similar scaling rule was found at the level of research
groups. Therefore, this scaling rule is conjectured to be a prevalent
property of the science system. The lower performance universities have a
larger size-dependent cumulative advantage for receiving citations than
top performance universities. For the lower performance universities, the
fraction of noncited publications decreases considerably with size.
Generally, the higher the average journal impact of the publications of a
university, the lower the number of noncited publications. The average
research performance was found not to dilute with size. Evidently, large
universities, particularly top performance universities are characterized
by being ôbig and beautiful.ö They succeed in keeping a high performance
over a broad range of activities. This most probably is an indication of
their overall attractive scientific and intellectual power. It was also
found that particularly for the lower performance universities, the field
citation density provides a strong cumulative advantage in citations per
publication. The relation between number of citations and field citation
density found in this study can be considered as a second basic scaling
rule of the science system. Top performance universities publish in
journals with significantly higher journal impact as compared to the
lower performance universities. A significant decrease of the fraction of
self-citations with increasing research performance, average field
citation density, and average journal impact was found.
135. Raan, A. F. J. v., "Scaling rules in
the science system: Influence of field-specific citation characteristics
on the impact of research groups". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
4, 2008, pp. 565-576.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=41FD9448FF1557A0A302
Descriptores: Impacto/Grupos de trabajo/Investigación/Análisis
de citas
Resumen: A representation of science as a citation density
landscape is proposed and scaling rules with the field-specific citation
density as a main topological property are investigated. The focus is on
the size-dependence of several main bibliometric indicators for a large
set of research groups while distinguishing between top-performance and
lower-performance groups. It is demonstrated that this representation of
the science system is particularly effective to understand the role and
the interdependencies of the different bibliometric indicators and
related topological properties of the landscape.
136. Raggett, P., "Librarians in the 21st
Century". E-LIS, 2006.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014451/01/Librarians_in_the_21st_century.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecarios/Siglo 21º
Resumen: Libraries are set to become more important than
ever
137. Raquel de Pedro Ricoy,
"Borges, the precursor". Vol. 53, No. 3, 2007, pp.
260-276.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=450189114C136F4FBDFD
Descriptores: Traductores
Resumen: Jorge Luis Borges is renowned not only as one of the
masters of the Spanish letters in the twentieth century, but also as a
major figure in world literature. He was a prolific author, whose vast
production has been the subject of many treatises and discussions that,
for the most part, focus on his literary, philosophical, aesthetic and
ideological preoccupations. There is, however, a crucial aspect of his
work (closely related to all these concerns) that has received little
scholarly attention until recent times: translation. For Borges, writing,
reading and translating were intimately interconnected and the way in
which he conceptualised all three acts led him to intuit and, in some
cases, outline some of the principles that would become the nucleus of
twentieth century translation theory.This paper examines Jorge Luis
Borges's understanding of translation (which, for him, was an instinct,
even a compulsion) with reference to theories that were developed in
subsequent years. The aim is to show how Borges anticipated many of the
notions that would become central to translation scholarship. In order to
achieve this, links will be established between three critical essays by
Borges ('Las dos maneras de traducir', 'Las versiones homqricas' and 'Los
traductores de las 1001 Noches') and selected pieces of his fiction, on
the one hand, and translation theories, on the other.
138. Raymond Chakhachiro,
"Translating irony in political commentary texts from English
into Arabic". Vol. 53, No. 3, 2007, pp. 216-240.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4CB2BC73E877BF02E01F
Descriptores: Arabe-Inglés/Inglés-Arabe/Traducción/Política
lingüística
Resumen: This paper investigates strategies for the translation of
irony in English editorials and feature articles into Arabic. It explores
an area that has not been adequately tackled in a linguistic framework
either on the individual language analysis level or the translation
level.The plan to achieve this consists of five steps: (1) describing
lexical, grammatical and rhetorical devices of irony from Arabic and
English editorials and feature articles, written in Australia on
identical political topics and at the same period; (2) describing the
linguistic exponents of the rhetorical devices of irony in English and
Arabic; (3) explaining the relation between ironic devices and coherence
and text structure; (4) conducting a contrastive analysis based on the
findings; and (5) using the findings to suggest strategies for the
translation of irony.Several linguistic disciplines and sub-disciplines
are invoked for the explanation of the concept of irony, namely,
stylistics, discourse, sociolinguistics, behavioural linguistics and
psycholinguistics, considering that irony pertains to a 'discourse
semantic' field (Van Dijk 1977).
139. Reakes, P. and Ochoa, M., "A
Grassroots Initiative to Facilitate Historical Research: The Florida
Journalism History Project.". Technical Services
Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 57-72.
http://haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=106600
Descriptores: Autoría/Historia/Investigación/Comunicación
científica
Resumen: As a result of advancements in technology, traditional
methods of historical research are intersecting with new methods of
information delivery. In the past researchers have had to navigate
through resources that are often difficult to locate and access.
Effective alternatives, however, are now being developed. Digitization
and electronic delivery methods are now supplementing or replacing
familiar ways of researching history that were utilized in the past. The
authors propose that the development of small 'grassroots' or localized
projects such as the Florida Journalism History Project have a valuable
role in the quickly evolving paradigm of scholarly communication. The
article demonstrates how the project connects the old and the new by
providing a resource that incorporates elements of a traditional
bibliography with the delivery of digitized full-text documents and other
Internet based resources.
140. Reed, V., "Is the Reference Desk No
Longer the Best Point of Reference?". Reference
Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007, pp. 77-82.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: Servicios de información bibliográfica
Resumen: Reed, Vivian. Is the Reference Desk No Longer the Best
Point of Reference?
141. Rettig, J., "The Reference
Question--Where Has Reference Been? Where Is Reference
Going?". Reference Librarian, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2007,
pp. 15-20.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/ViewLibraryEText.asp?s=J120
Descriptores: DIALOG/Preguntas de referencia/Servicios de
información bibliográfica/Internet
Resumen: This article describes the genesis for a seminal
conference program at the ACRL National Conference of 2007, dealing with
tile future of reference service and the changes in technology that have
affected reference over the past 30 years
142. Richard Gartner, "Metadata for
digital libraries: state of the art and future
directions". JISC Technology & Standards Watch,
2008.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw_0801pdf.pdf
Descriptores: Bibliotecas digitales/Metadatos
Resumen: At a time when digitization technology has become well
established in library operations, the need for a degree of
standardization of metadata practices has become more acute, in order to
ensure digital libraries the degree of interoperability long established
in traditional libraries. The complex metadata requirements of digital
objects, which include descriptive, administrative and structural
metadata, have so far mitigated against the emergence of a single
standard. However, a set of already existing standards, all based on XML
architectures, can be combined to produce a coherent, integrated metadata
strategy.
143. Romera Iruela, M. J., "Orientaciones
para una innovación en las bibliotecas públicas de la provincia de
Segovia basada en las necesidades de información de los
inmigrantes". Profesional de la información, El,
Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/2dyrcftqlq1rng03eua0/contributions/e/6/2/6/e6264733v212g382.pdf
Descriptores: Necesidades de
información/Inmigración/Integración/Bibliotecas públicas/Segovia/Castilla
y León/Información a la comunidad/Minorías
Resumen: Las bibliotecas públicas son puertas de acceso a una
sociedad del conocimiento igual para todos y escenarios idóneos para la
integración social de los distintos colectivos de inmigrantes. Para ello
tienen que crear servicios y promover proyectos que respondan a las
demandas de las comunidades multiculturales a las que sirven. En
este
artículo se identifican las necesidades de información en las bibliotecas
de los inmigrantes de la provincia de Segovia, a través de la elaboración
de una serie de cuestionarios que han sido aplicados a informantes clave
de tres fuentes diferentes pero complementarias: las bibliotecas
públicas, los centros educativos y las asociaciones de inmigrantes. Se
ofrecen orientaciones para una optimización innovadora en respuesta a las
necesidades detectadas.
144. Rooney, N., Patterson, D., Galushka, M., Dobrynin,
V., and Smirnova, E., "An investigation into the stability
of contextual document clustering". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
2, 2008, pp. 256-266.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4435BDC1EE8DAB9E5BF1
Descriptores: Investigación/Clusters/Indice de
obsolescencia
Resumen: In this article, we assess the effectiveness of
Contextual Document Clustering (CDC) as a means of indexing within a
dynamic and rapidly changing environment. We simulate a dynamic
environment, by splitting two chronologically ordered datasets into
time-ordered segments and assessing how the technique performs under two
different scenarios. The first is when new documents are added
incrementally without reclustering [incremental CDC (iCDC)], and the
second is when reclustering is performed [nonincremental CDC (nCDC)]. The
datasets are very large, are independent of each other, and belong to two
very different domains. We show that CDC itself is effective at
clustering very large document corpora, and that, significantly, it lends
itself to a very simple, efficient incremental document addition process
that is seen to be very stable over time despite the size of the corpus
growing considerably. It was seen to be effective at incrementally
clustering new documents even when the corpus grew to six times its
original size. This is in contrast to what other researchers have found
when applying similar simple incremental approaches to document
clustering. The stability of iCDC is accounted for by the unique manner
in which CDC discovers cluster themes.
145. Sánchez Alonso, S., Sicilia Urbán, M. Á., and Rato
Leguina, G. d., "Sobre la interoperabilidad semántica en
las descripciones archivísticas digitales ". Revista
española de Documentación Científica, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008.
Descriptores: Interpolaridad/Semántica /Archivos
digitales
Resumen: Como en otras disciplinas científicas, en la archivística
resulta de gran importancia la existencia de estándares, tanto para
facilitar el intercambio de información entre entidades como para
normalizar el acceso a dicha información. Tomando como punto de partida
las normas vigentes para la elaboración de descripciones archivísticas,
ISAD(G) e ISAAR (CPF), este artículo presenta un trabajo orientado a
facilitar la interoperabilidad semántica (concepto que cobra su pleno
sentido en el contexto de la Web Semántica) de las descripciones
archivísticas. Este propósito se pretende conseguir mediante la
representación de ISAD(G) en un lenguaje de ontologías específicamente
orientado a la Web, y estableciendo correspondencias con ontologías de
conocimiento general. El objetivo es proporcionar servicios y
funcionalidades de acceso avanzadas que mejoren las que actualmente
proporcionan los puntos de acceso normalizado, formalizando las
descripciones archivísticas para su manejo por programas de computadora.
146. Sánchez Vicente, P., "Sobre las
Administraciones que quieren ser electrónicas
".
Profesional de la información, El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008,
pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/d480qmlgqmcx9t6kducy/contributions/q/7/4/2/q742062527011328.pdf
Descriptores: Administración electrónica/Administración
pública/Tecnologías de la información/Documentalistas
Resumen: En los años recientes, las administraciones
públicas han gastado grandes sumas de dinero para informatizarse,
pero
desgraciadamente han olvidado consultar a quienes más saben de gestión de
información, un error que a veces han pagado caro.
147. Schreiber, M., "Kultur,
Interpretation, Translation: Ausgewählte Beiträge aus 15 Jahren
Forschungsseminar ". Target: International Journal on
Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 181-186.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=431BB770AC542FA5D3A6
Descriptores: Cultura/Traducción/Interculturalidad
Resumen: Michael Schreiber . Kultur, Interpretation, Translation:
Ausgewählte Beiträge aus 15 Jahren Forschungsseminar . Target:
International Journal on Translation Studies, Volume 20, Number 1 (May
2008), pp. 181-186,
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http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=431BB770AC542FA5D3A6
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148. Schumaker, R. P. and Hsinchun Chen,
"Evaluating a news-aware quantitative trader: The effect of
momentum and contrarian stock selection strategies".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp. 247-255.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=443ABA42756B71A90BA7
Descriptores: Evaluación/Investigación cuantitativa
Resumen: We study the coupling of basic quantitative portfolio
selection strategies with a financial news article prediction system,
AZFinText. By varying the degrees of portfolio formation time, we found
that a hybrid system using both quantitative strategy and a full set of
financial news articles performed the best. With a 1-week portfolio
formation period, we achieved a 20.79% trading return using a Momentum
strategy and a 4.54% return using a Contrarian strategy over a 5-week
holding period. We also found that trader overreaction to these events
led AZFinText to capitalize on these short-term surges in price.
149. Shachaf, P., Oltmann, S. M., and Horowitz, S.
M., "Service equality in virtual reference".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008, pp. 535-550.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=45A995D4386568FCFB84
Descriptores: Servicios de referencia en línea
Resumen: Research is divided about the potential of e-service to
bridge communication gaps, particularly to diverse user groups. According
to the existing body of literature, e-service may either increase or
decrease the quality of service received. This study analyzes the level
of service received by different genders and ethnic groups when academic
and public librarians answered 676 online reference queries. Quality of
e-service was evaluated along three dimensions: timely response,
reliability, and courtesy. This study found no significant differences
among different user groups along any of these dimensions, supporting the
argument that the virtual environment facilitates equitable service and
may overcome some challenges of diverse user groups.
150. Shankar, K., "Research methods in
information". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp.
158-159.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4B11A5717F316CA16911
Descriptores: Investigación/Metodología/Documentacion
Resumen: No abstract.
151. Shin, D.-H., "Next generation of
information infrastructure: A comparative case study of Korea versus the
United States of America". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20886
Descriptores: Corea/Planificación estratégica/Estados
Unidos/Política de información
Resumen: This study compares the United States of America and
Korea's cases of national information infrastructure (NII) development,
focusing on the role of the governments in the development of their NIIs
and on the realization of the next generation of information
infrastructure vision. The important similarities and differences can be
seen by comparison on sociotechnical dimensions: government function,
histories, visions, policy design, implementation plans, and realities
and prospects. Findings show different patterns of NII development,
providing insights for the next generation of NIIs. This study provides a
prospect towards future information infrastructure needs in the context
of dynamic sociotechnical changes.
152. Shmuel T. Klein, "Processing queries
with metrical constraints in XML-based IR systems".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 86-97.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4DF3B7C948F6AD6FD1AB
Descriptores: Medición/XML/Recuperación de la
información
Resumen: XML documents combine features from classical IR systems
allowing free text, with explicit structures as in databases. Many query
languages have been specially designed for IR applications on XML
documents. This work concentrates on a special type of language for which
the problem of processing queries including metrical constraints is
investigated. The main question is how to define the distance between
terms in different locations of the XML tree in an intuitively
justifiable way, without jeopardizing the ability to get good retrieval
results in terms of recall and precision. A new definition is given and
its usefulness is shown on several examples from the INEX
collection.
153. Simeoni, F., Yakici, M., Neely, S., and Crestani,
F., "Metadata harvesting for content-based distributed
information retrieval". Journal of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp.
12-24.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=485EBCB1DC5DAD40B9E5
Descriptores: Acceso abierto/Metadatos/OAI-PMH/Recolectores de
metadatos
Resumen: We propose an approach to content-based Distributed
Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental
centralization of full-content indices of widely dispersed and
autonomously managed document sources. Inspired by the success of the
Open Archive Initiative's (OAI) Protocol for metadata harvesting, the
approach occupies middle ground between content crawling and distributed
retrieval. As in crawling, some data move toward the retrieval process,
but it is statistics about the content rather than content itself; this
grants more efficient use of network resources and wider scope of
application. As in distributed retrieval, some processing is distributed
along with the data, but it is indexing rather than retrieval; this
reduces the costs of content provision while promoting the simplicity,
effectiveness, and responsiveness of retrieval. Overall, we argue that
the approach retains the good properties of centralized retrieval without
renouncing to cost-effective, large-scale resource pooling. We discuss
the requirements associated with the approach and identify two strategies
to deploy it on top of the OAI infrastructure. In particular, we define a
minimal extension of the OAI protocol which supports the coordinated
harvesting of full-content indices and descriptive metadata for content
resources. Finally, we report on the implementation of a proof-of-concept
prototype service for multimodel content-based retrieval of distributed
file collections.
154. Snell-Hornby, M., "Soziologie der
literarischen _bersetzung". Target: International
Journal on Translation Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 159-163.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4B22B15B1F32C6F62330
Descriptores: Aspecto social/Sociología /Traducción
literaria
Resumen: Mary Snell-Hornby . Soziologie der literarischen
Übersetzung . Target: International Journal on Translation Studies,
Volume 20, Number 1 (May 2008), pp. 159-163,
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155. Sorby, S., "Translating news from
English to Chinese Complimentary and derogatory language
usage". Vol. 54 , No. 1, 2008, pp. 19-35.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4FC99E9538CB83F3294C
Descriptores: Inglés-Chino/Traducción
Resumen: For decades there have been crucial misunderstandings
between the English-speaking world and the Chinese in which translation
has played a prominent part. News translation is a significant source of
misunderstanding which cannot be ignored. Through gathering, analysing
and evaluating some cases of Chinese news translations from various news
resources such as newspapers, Internet and TV, this paper aims to bring
the issue of the significance of the usage of complimentary and
derogatory words in the Chinese language to the forefront and
investigates the nature and possible effect of the translation gain and
loss involving the positive and negative associations of selected words
and phrases in the English to Chinese news translation. It attempts to
find out the likely causes affecting the news translators, thereby
raising awareness of the different characteristics of the two languages
in terms of complimentary and derogatory word usages vs. central meanings
with a positive or negative connotation depending on their context. A
small-scale experiment illustrates that this characteristic of the
Chinese language has contributed to the Chinese translators' conscious or
subconscious tendencies towards the potential for translation loss in
their news translations, which could lead to misunderstandings by the
readers.
156. Spoerri, A., "Authority and ranking
effects in data fusion". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2008,
pp. 450-460.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4639A15169937A94306D
Descriptores: Ranking /Autoría
Resumen: This paper provides empirical support for some of the key
assumptions guiding the design of data fusion methods. It computes and
analyzes the overlap structures between the search results of retrieval
systems that participated in the short, long, and manual tracks in TREC
3, 6, 7, and 8 to examine what can be learned to infer a document's
probability of being relevant. This paper shows that the potential
relevance of a document increases exponentially as the number of systems
retrieving it increasesùcalled the Authority Effect. It also shows that
documents higher up in ranked lists and found by more systems are more
likely to be relevantùcalled the Ranking Effect. A contribution of this
paper is that it shows that the Authority and Ranking Effects can be
observed regardless of whether a query is generated manually or
automatically and short or long queries are used. Further, it is
illustrated that the Authority and Ranking Effects can be observed if the
result sets of random groupings of five retrieval systems are compared
and only the top 50 results are used in the overlap computation. Also
discussed is how the Authority and Ranking Effects can help explain why
major data fusion methods perform well.
157. Sun, Y., "(Multi)-Cultural context:
Interpretation and translation adrift". Vol. 53, No. 3,
2007, pp. 241-259.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4FD8BDBD6FB260FBCA74
Descriptores: Multiculturalismo/Traducción/Interpretación
Resumen: This paper argues that since in general, it is
inadvisable for translation to disregard the possible unintelligibility
of the text, a web of significance or signification must be reproduced
irrespective of seemingly insurmountable translation difficulties.
Interpretation is related to the issues of cultural translation and
(un)translatability in cultural terms, necessitating a clutch of
interpretative modes prior to the effective formulation of appropriate
translation strategies. Temporal and cultural gaps tend to create
difficulties in interpretation, and cultural pluralism may lead to
multiple, hence different, interpretations. Principally because of
translation, we have progressed into the age of multiculturalism, and it
is not just that the necessity of acculturation seems to be diminishing,
but there is a real desire to spurn it.Foreignization is a political
issue. Accordingly, the tensions of ideological incommensurability need
to be dissipated in order to facilitate cross-cultural understanding and
communication. A degree of ideological pluralism permits cultural
diversity distinctively marked by tolerance of difference and attempts to
reduce an underlying distrust of the foreign. Multiculturalism, however,
by no means denotes the demise of ideology. In spite of its ostensible
theoretical naivety, intentionalism has some serious implications for the
translator, who may ignore at his/her own peril, for instance, the
complex ideological consciousness that informs not only the source text
but also the resulting target text. If we say that both the author and
the reader are responsible for context or its construction, then the
translator must play the double role of reader and author in the sense of
(re)constructing context. While we interpret with many aims, the act of
interpretation is culturally and ideologically conditioned, and the
ensuing complicated remapping is such that translation is always somewhat
adrift.
158. Swan, A., "El acceso abierto y el
progreso de la ciencia.". Análisis madri+d , 2008.
http://www.madrimasd.org/informacionIdi/analisis/analisis.asp?id=35062
Descriptores: Acceso abierto
Resumen: El poder para transformar la comunicación científica
puede estar al alcance de la mano de cualquier investigador Hay por ahí
un viejo dicho sobre alguien que pregunta por el camino para llegar a
cierto sitio, y a quien se responde que sería mejor no salir desde donde
uno está. Ésta es una buena forma de enmarcar algunos pensamientos acerca
de si nuestro sistema actual de comunicación académica ayuda al progreso
de la ciencia, o de si se interpone en su camino.
159. Tai, D. W.-S., Wu, H.-J., and Li, P.-H.,
"Effective e-learning recommendation system based on
self-organizing maps and association mining". The
Electronic Library, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879482
Descriptores: Enseñanza a distancia/Efectividad/Inteligencia
artificial
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this study is to propose a
hybrid system to combine the self-organizing map (SOM) of a neural
network with the data-mining (DM) method for course recommendation of the
e-learning system. Design/methodology/approach ? This research constructs
a hybrid system with artificial neural network (ANN) and data-mining (DM)
techniques. First, ANN is used to classify the e-Learner types. Based on
these e-Learner groups, users can obtain course recommendation from the
group's opinions. When groups of related interests have been established,
the DM will be used to elicit the rules of the best learning path. It is
ideal for this system to stimulate learners' motivation and interest.
Moreover, the hybrid approach can be used as a reference when learners
are choosing between classes. Findings ? In order to enhance the
efficiency and capability of e-learning systems, the SOM method is
combined to deal with cluster problems of DM systems, SOM/DM for short.
It was found that the SOM/DM method has excellent performance. Research
limitations/implications ? This research is limited by the fact that its
participants are from a business college of a university in Taiwan, and
it is applied by SOM/DM to recommend courses of e-learners. This research
is useful in the domain of the e-learning system. Originality/value ? The
results of this research will provide useful information for educators to
classify their e-learners or students more accurately, and to adapt their
teaching strategies accordingly to retain valuable e-learners subject to
limited resources. The experiments prove that it is ideal to stimulate
learners' motivation and interest.
160. TarÆ, J. J., "Self-assessment
exercises: A comparison between a private sector organisation and higher
education institutions: Special Section on Competitive Advantage through
Global Supply Chains". International Journal of
Production Economics, Vol. 114, No. 1, 2008, pp. 105-118.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VF8-4RMNYFK-1/1/d48d5d108cf445bf45d9dcd7db7aece6
Descriptores: EFQM/Calidad /Enseñanza
Resumen: The debate as to whether public organisations should
emulate private managerial practices in the light of contextual
differences is a long-running one. The aim of this paper is to compare
the way self-assessment processes have been applied in five public
administrative services at a public university and in a private
organisation. It examines self-assessment exercises, and illustrates
differences and similarities between the cases analysed. Based on the
case study methodology, the paper suggests that the same management model
(EFQM model) and a similar process may be applicable to the private
organisation and the public services, although differences exist between
them. The results also show that the benefits, difficulties and success
factors are similar in the cases compared but their emphasis differs.
This paper expands the theoretical literature about self-assessment in
higher education institutions and offers lessons for the public and the
private organisations to learn from one another
161. Tennis, J. T. and Sutton, S. A.,
"Extending the simple knowledge organization system for concept
management in vocabulary development applications".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59 , No. 1, 2008, pp. 25-37.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=496B8C4ABF49A6B281FD
Descriptores: Organización del conocimiento/Gestión/Conceptos
teóricos/Vocabulario
Resumen: In this article, we describe the development of an
extension to the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to
accommodate the needs of vocabulary development applications (VDA)
managing metadata schemes and requiring close tracking of change to both
those schemes and their member concepts. We take a neopragmatic epistemic
stance in asserting the need for an entity in SKOS modeling to mediate
between the abstract concept and the concrete scheme. While the SKOS
model sufficiently describes entities for modeling the current state of a
scheme in support of indexing and search on the Semantic Web, it lacks
the expressive power to serve the needs of VDA needing to maintain scheme
historical continuity. We demonstrate preliminarily that
conceptualizations drawn from empirical work in modeling entities in the
bibliographic universe, such as works, texts, and exemplars, can provide
the basis for SKOS extension in ways that support more rigorous demands
of capturing concept evolution in VDA.
162. Thelwall, M., "Extracting accurate
and complete results from search engines: Case study windows
live". Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 38-50.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=474982579D9CF66B2EF0
Descriptores: Motores de búsqueda/Ocurrencia/Recuperación de
la información/World Wide Web
Resumen: Although designed for general Web searching, Webometrics
and related research commercial search engines are also used to produce
estimated hit counts or lists of URLs matching a query. Unfortunately,
however, they do not return all matching URLs for a search and their hit
count estimates are unreliable. In this article, we assess whether it is
possible to obtain complete lists of matching URLs from Windows Live, and
whether any of its hit count estimates are robust. As part of this, we
introduce two new methods to extract extra URLs from search engines:
automated query splitting and automated domain and TLD searching. Both
methods successfully identify additional matching URLs but the findings
suggest that there is no way to get complete lists of matching URLs or
accurate hit counts from Windows Live, although some estimating
suggestions are provided.
163. Tsai, C.-S. and Chen, M.-Y.,
"Using adaptive resonance theory and data-mining techniques for
materials recommendation based on the e-library
environment". The Electronic Library, Vol. 26, No.
3, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470810879455
Descriptores: Mineria de datos/Enseñanza a
distancia/Inteligencia artificial
Resumen: Purpose ? The purpose of this research is to
illustrate the use of artificial neural network (ANN) and data-mining
(DM) technologies as a good approach for satisfying the requirements of
library users. Design/methodology/approach ? This research presents the
Intelligent Library Materials Recommendations System (ILMRS) which uses
the adaptive resonance theory (ART) network to distribute readers into
different clusters according to their personal background. When clusters
of related personal background have been established, the Apriori
algorithm is used to discover the suitable materials in which readers are
interested and which they may need. Findings ? The investigation results
indicate that the ART and Apriori mining techniques can be used to
improve the accuracy of the recommendations for reading materials in the
library. Moreover, readers can be divided by means of demographic
variables into three segments. Finally, the questionnaire survey proved
that the proposed recommender system will be a suitable approach for
stimulating the readers' motivation and interest. Research
limitations/implications ? This research is limited by its datasets from
a digital library of a university in Taiwan, and it is applied by ART and
Apriori mining techniques to recommend materials of readers.
Originality/value ? Today, digital information is becoming ever more
popular. The huge quantity and the diversity of digital information are
its main features. Therefore, readers are interested in obtaining useful
information in an efficient manner. In this research, a digital library
can use this approach to anticipate a reader's needs in advance based on
the mining results.
164. Vaglio, A. and D'Urso, M., "Library
customer service in an Italian university library: from ILL to
circulation and back". Interlending & Document
Supply, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2008.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02641610810878594
Descriptores: Italia/Préstamo interbibliotecario
Resumen: Purpose ? This paper aims to describe the changes taking
place at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, after the introduction of a
new automated system, and to propose the integration of the work of the
Document Supply (DS) and the Circulation Departments with radical changes
in the job descriptions of both. Design/methodology/approach ? The paper
is descriptive in nature. Findings ? Automation has led to process
changes but not yet to the staffing changes that have become possible.
Originality/value ? The paper shows how one university is responding to
the changes that are taking place technologically and particularly in
relation to document supply librarians and staff in the service areas of
the main library.
165. Vakkari, P., "Perceived influence of
the use of electronic information resources on scholarly work and
publication productivity". Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008,
pp. 602-612.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4B64BB6C4BA12E9B824E
Descriptores: Documentos electrónicos/Recursos
electrónicos/Estudio de usuarios/Producción científica/Comunicación
científica
Resumen: This study explores how the use of electronic information
resources has influenced scholars' opinion of their work, and how this is
connected to their publication productivity. The data consist of a
nationwide Web-based survey of the end-users of FinELib, the Finnish
Electronic Library, at all universities in Finland. Scholars feel that
the use of electronic literature has improved their work considerably in
several ways. This influence can be differentiated into two dimensions.
The first one is improved accessibility and availability of literature,
and the second is more directly related to the content and quality of
scholarly work. The perceived improved access is positively associated
with the number of international publications produced, among doctoral
students in particular. The more direct influence of e-resource use on
the content of scholarly work is, however, not associated with
publication productivity. The results seem to imply that investments in
academic digital libraries are beneficial for the researchers and for the
universities.
166. Vidale, C., "La ricerca medica nel
web: modelli e stili". E-LIS, 2008.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014731/
Descriptores: Ciencias de la salud/Medicina/Búsquedas
/Recuperación de la información/World Wide Web/Motores de
búsqueda
Resumen: La qualità di cura dei pazienti non può prescindere da
quella dei servizi di supporto offerti al personale sanitario dalle
biblioteche scientifiche e dagli specialisti dell'informazione. Il
bisogno d'informazione dei sanitari richiede una buona competenza
nell'affrontare ricerche bibliografiche di carattere biomedico. L'impegno
profuso dai sanitari a favore dell'assistenza al paziente assorbe la
quasi totalità dell'attività lavorativa; il personale sanitario,
pertanto, difficilmente ha tempo da dedicare allo studio del linguaggio
d'interrogazione delle molteplici banche dati e risorse disponibili nel
web. La stretta collaborazione con i bibliotecari documentalisti
biomedici, che sono i maggiori conoscitori delle modalità di ricerca e
recupero dell'informazione nel settore, può essere di notevole supporto
per i sanitari sia per l'aggiornamento continuo sia per dare risposte
puntuali ai problemi contingenti del malato. Lavorare assieme per il
raggiungimento di un unico scopo può produrre ottimi risultati in termini
di qualità, efficienza ed efficacia nella cura e assistenza del paziente.
In questo contributo sono presentati alcuni modelli applicabili per
impostare strategie di ricerca bibliografica in modo efficace, fra cui
PICO, PICOTT e PESICO. Sono inoltre proposti alcuni spunti di riflessione
sulle caratteristiche dei suddetti modelli e sulle condizioni per un loro
utilizzo ottimale. Viene presentato un contributo originale dell'autrice.
167. Vital, S. M., "Annual review of
information science and technology, Vol. 41". Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol.
59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 161-162 .
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=46D78E764C0BC0EBCD1B
Descriptores: Documentacion/Anuarios
Resumen: No abstract.
168. Vlachopoulos, S., "Translating into
a new LSP The translation of laws in the Republic of
Cyprus". Target: International Journal on Translation
Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 103-114.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=480AB55EEB41D2CEECE1
Descriptores: Chipre/Traducción/Traducción
especializada
Resumen: This paper deals with the translation of the
English-language Common Law legislation of the Republic of Cyprus into
Greek. The legislation introduced to Cyprus in 1935 was common law
codified by the British for use in the colonies. The aim of the paper is
threefold: (a) to research the historical background and highlight the
communicative implications for a community where the language of the law
is not the mother tongue of the people, (b) to reconstruct the methods
the translators applied when they translated the Law of Civil Wrongs from
English into Greek within the common law framework of the Republic of
Cyprus, and (c) to establish how the actual process of translation
affected the target LSP.
169. Voces, R. and Codina, L., "La
accesibilidad potencial y real del formato pdf: análisis de diarios
digitales españoles". Profesional de la información,
El, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2008, pp.
http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com/media/g19tqmlgqm2k6xxtwc2l/contributions/8/n/r/7/8nr728274237128p.pdf
Descriptores: Accesibilidad/PDF/Periódicos/Prensa
digital
Resumen: La accesibilidad de contenidos en internet no se limita
ni a las páginas web ni al formato Xhtml. En este trabajo
se argumenta que el formato pdf utilizado cada vez de forma más habitual
en la web para publicar información debe ser objeto también del interés
de los estudios de accesibilidad. En este sentido, se argumenta también
que accesibilidad potencial no implica accesibilidad real, y se realiza
un análisis de la accesibilidad real de las publicaciones en línea en
formato pdf de los principales diarios españoles
170. Westerveld, E., "The Project
Excellence Model«: linking success criteria and critical success factors:
Selected papers from the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International
Research Network for Organizing by Projects. Held in Renesse, Seeland,
The Netherlands, 28-31 May 2002.". International
Journal of Project Management, Vol. 21, No. 6, 2003, pp. 411-418.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V9V-488VXN4-D/1/84bc58a50bbd9d4fbb5c52e20ee49da1
Descriptores: EFQM/ICalidad total/Evaluación
Resumen: Although there has been significant research on both
project success criteria and critical success factors for projects, there
has not been a concept defined that can link the two. This while the need
to relate critical success factors to project success criteria is
identified in both theory and practice. The Project Excellence Model,
described in this paper, is adapted from the EFQM-model and is a concept
developed to fill this need. The Project Excellence Model is developed
using research findings from both studies on success criteria and
critical success factors for projects. The model consists of six result
areas covering project success criteria and six organisational areas
covering critical success factors. The Project Excellence Model uses five
different project types to describe the project organisation, giving
guidance to the application of the model. The paper includes findings of
a case study showing how the model was used to improve the performance of
a project.
171. Williams, D. E. and Plummer, K. A.,
"Tech services on the web". Technical Services
Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2007, pp. 99-105.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/Article.asp?ContributionID=13738299
Descriptores: World Wide Web/Procesos técnicos
Resumen: The article reviews several Web sites including the
http://www.teleread.org,
http://www.idpf.org
and
http://www.openreader.org.
172. Winget, M. A., "Annotations on
musical scores by performing musicians: Collaborative models, interactive
methods, and music digital library tool development".
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20876
Descriptores: Música/Etnografía /Bibliotecas
digitales
Resumen: Although there have been a number of fairly recent
studies in which researchers have explored the information-seeking and
management behaviors of people interacting with musical retrieval
systems, there have been very few published studies of the interaction
and use behaviors of musicians interacting with their primary information
object, the musical score. The ethnographic research reported here seeks
to correct this deficiency in the literature. In addition to observing
rehearsals and conducting 22 in-depth musician interviews, this research
provides in-depth analysis of 25,000 annotations representing 250 parts
from 13 complete musical works, made by musicians of all skill levels and
performance modes. In addition to producing specific and practical
recommendations for digital-library development, this research also
provides an augmented annotation framework that will enable more specific
study of human-information interaction, both with musical scores, and
with more general notational/instructional information objects.
173. Wolfram, D. and Zhang, J., "The
influence of indexing practices and weighting algorithms on document
spaces". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 3-11.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=47049E3B769D8E365115
Descriptores: Indización/Algoritmos
Resumen: Index modeling and computer simulation techniques are
used to examine the influence of indexing frequency distributions,
indexing exhaustivity distributions, and three weighting methods on
hypothetical document spaces in a vector-based information retrieval (IR)
system. The way documents are indexed plays an important role in
retrieval. The authors demonstrate the influence of different indexing
characteristics on document space density (DSD) changes and document
space discriminative capacity for IR. Document environments that contain
a relatively higher percentage of infrequently occurring terms provide
lower density outcomes than do environments where a higher percentage of
frequently occurring terms exists. Different indexing exhaustivity
levels, however, have little influence on the document space densities. A
weighting algorithm that favors higher weights for infrequently occurring
terms results in the lowest overall document space densities, which
allows documents to be more readily differentiated from one another. This
in turn can positively influence IR. The authors also discuss the
influence on outcomes using two methods of normalization of term weights
(i.e., means and ranges) for the different weighting methods.
174. Workman, M., "Wisecrackers: A
theory-grounded investigation of phishing and pretext social engineering
threats to information security". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
4, 2008 , pp. 662-674.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=472FB8B123DA18105EDF
Descriptores:
Seguridad/Investigación/Privacidad/Información
Resumen: The collection and dissemination of information about
people by businesses and governments is ubiquitous. One of the main
threats to people's privacy comes from human carelessness with this
information, yet little empirical research has studied behaviors
associated with information carelessness and the ways that people exploit
this vulnerability. The studies that have investigated this im-portant
question have not been grounded in theory. In particular, the extant
literature reveals little about social engineering threats and the
reasons why people may or may not fall victim. Synthesizing theory from
the marketing literature to explain consumer behavior, an empirical field
study was conducted to see if factors that account for successful
marketing campaigns may also account for successful social engineering
attacks.
175. Yao, H., Etzkorn, L. H., and Virani, S.,
"Automated classification and retrieval of reusable software
components". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2008, pp.
613-627.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=409C87EA515190E84A5A
Descriptores: Indización automática/Clasificación/Programas
informáticos/Recuperación de la información
Resumen: The authors describe their research which improves
software reuse by using an automated approach to semantically search for
and retrieve reusable software components in large software component
repositories and on the World Wide Web (WWW). Using automation and smart
(semantic) techniques, their approach speeds up the search and retrieval
of reusable software components, while retaining good accuracy, and
therefore improves the affordability of software reuse.A program
understanding of software components and natural language understanding
of user queries was employed. Then the software component descriptions
were compared by matching the resulting semantic representations of the
user queries to the semantic representations of the software components
to search for software components that best match the user queries.A
proof of concept system was developed to test the authors' approach. The
results of this proof of concept system were compared to human experts,
and statistical analysis was performed on the collected experimental
data. The results from these experiments demonstrate that this automated
semantic-based approach for software reusable component classification
and retrieval is successful when compared to the labor-intensive results
from the experts, thus showing that this approach can significantly
benefit software reuse classification and retrieval.
176. Yi, M., "Information organization
and retrieval using a topic maps-based ontology: Results of a task-based
evaluation". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20899
Descriptores: Mapas
conceptuales/Ontologías/Evaluación
Resumen: As information becomes richer and more complex,
alternative information-organization methods are needed to more
effectively and efficiently retrieve information from various systems,
including the Web. The objective of this study is to explore how a Topic
Maps-based ontology approach affects users' searching performance. Forty
participants participated in a task-based evaluation where two dependent
variables, recall and search time, were measured. The results of this
study indicate that a Topic Maps-based ontology information retrieval
(TOIR) system has a significant and positive effect on both recall and
search time, compared to a thesaurus-based information retrieval (TIR)
system. These results suggest that the inclusion of a Topic Maps-based
ontology is a beneficial approach to take when designing information
retrieval systems.
177. Yoo, E.-Y. and Robbins, L. S.,
"Understanding middle-aged women's health information seeking on
the web: A theoretical approach". Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No.
4, 2008, pp. 577-590.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=45ABA3BD51EDAB59AAA2
Descriptores: Necesidad de información/Mujeres/World Wide
Web
Resumen: No abstract.
178. Yunjie Xu and Hainan Yin,
"Novelty and topicality in interactive information
retrieval". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2008, pp. 201-215
.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=445BBFC4859D9143D479
Descriptores: Recuperación de la información/Interación
hombre-máquina
Resumen: The information science research community is
characterized by a paradigm split, with a system-centered cluster working
on information retrieval (IR) algorithms and a user-centered cluster
working on user behavior. The two clusters rarely leverage each other's
insight and strength. One major suggestion from user-centered studies is
to treat the relevance judgment of documents as a subjective,
multidimensional, and dynamic concept rather than treating it as
objective and based on topicality only. This study explores the
possibility to enhance users' topicality-based relevance judgment with
subjective novelty judgment in interactive IR. A set of systems is
developed which differs in the way the novelty judgment is incorporated.
In particular, this study compares systems which assume that users'
novelty judgment is directed to a certain subtopic area and those which
assume that users' novelty judgment is undirected. This study also
compares systems which assume that users judge a document based on
topicality first and then novelty in a stepwise, noncompensatory fashion
and those which assume that users consider topicality and novelty
simultaneously and as compensatory to each other. The user study shows
that systems assuming directed novelty in general have higher relevance
precision, but systems assuming a stepwise judgment process and systems
assuming a compensatory judgment process are not significantly
different.
179. Zhang, C., "Automatic Keyword
Extraction from Documents Using Conditional Random
Fields". Journal of Computational Information Systems
, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2008.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014710/01/Automatic_Keyword_Extraction_from_Documents_Using_Conditional_Random_Fields.pdf
Descriptores: Indización automática
Resumen: Keywords are subset of words or phrases from a document
that can describe the meaning of the document. Many text mining
applications can take advantage from it. Unfortunately, a large portion
of documents still do not have keywords assigned. On the other hand,
manual assignment of high quality keywords is expensive, time-consuming,
and error prone. Therefore, most algorithms and systems aimed to help
people perform automatic keywords extraction have been proposed.
Conditional Random Fields (CRF) model is a state-of-the-art sequence
labeling method, which can use the features of documents more
sufficiently and effectively. At the same time, keywords extraction can
be considered as the string labeling. In this paper, keywords extraction
based on CRF is proposed and implemented. As far as we know, using CRF
model in keyword extraction has not been investigated previously.
Experimental results show that the CRF model outperforms other machine
learning methods such as support vector machine, multiple linear
regression model etc. in the task of keywords extraction.
180. Zhou, L. and Chaovalit, P.,
"Ontology-supported polarity mining". Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol.
59, No. 1, 2008, pp. 98-110.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4CD9B1CB325A52823B51
Descriptores: Ontologías/Mineria de datos
Resumen: Polarity mining provides an in-depth analysis of semantic
orientations of text information. Motivated by its success in the area of
topic mining, we propose an ontology-supported polarity mining (OSPM)
approach. The approach aims to enhance polarity mining with ontology by
providing detailed topic-specific information. OSPM was evaluated in the
movie review domain using both supervised and unsupervised techniques.
Results revealed that OSPM outperformed the baseline method without
ontology support. The findings of this study not only advance the state
of polarity mining research but also shed light on future research
directions.
181. Ziman, H., "Sex taboo in literary
translation in China A study of the two Chinese versions of <i>The
Color Purple</i>". Vol. 54, No. 1, 2008, pp. 69-85.
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=446DB2B270CE6F86B2A0
Descriptores: Traducción/Censura/Sexo/Cine/Doblaje
Resumen: Descriptions of sexuality are of great artistic values in
many literary works. While translated into Chinese, such descriptions are
often deleted or euphemized. These deletions and euphemizing are mostly
lauded by translation scholars in China, who believe that they are
justified by the intolerance of Chinese morality towards matters of sex.
A study of the two Chinese versions of The Color Purple, however, shows
that such an argument is not convincing at all because similar
descriptions are readily found in Chinese literature, and there is no
evidence showing that the Chinese morality is more lenient towards
original writings than translated works. The most likely reason for these
deletions and euphemizing is the sex taboo among some Chinese
translators, similar to translation taboos illustrated by Douglas
Robinson.
182. Zitt, M. and Small, H., "Modifying
the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience
factor". Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology , Vol. 59, No. 9, 2008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fasi.20880
Descriptores: Factor de impacto/Análisis de citas
Resumen: A new approach to the field normalization of the
classical journal impact factor is introduced. This approach, called the
audience factor, takes into consideration the citing propensity of
journals for a given cited journal, specifically, the mean number of
references of each citing journal, and fractionally weights the citations
from those citing journals. Hence, the audience factor is a variant of a
fractional citation-counting scheme, but computed on the citing journal
rather than the citing article or disciplinary level, and, in contrast to
other cited-side normalization strategies, is focused on the behavior of
the citing entities. A comparison with standard journal impact factors
from Thomson Reuters shows a more diverse representation of fields within
various quintiles of impact, significant movement in rankings for a
number of individual journals, but nevertheless a high overall
correlation with standard impact factors.
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