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Collaborative qualitative research at scale: Reflections on 20 years of acquiring global data and making data global J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Christine L. Borgman; Morgan F. Wofford; Milena S. Golshan; Peter T. Darch
A 5‐year project to study scientific data uses in geography, starting in 1999, evolved into 20 years of research on data practices in sensor networks, environmental sciences, biology, seismology, undersea science, biomedicine, astronomy, and other fields. By emulating the “team science” approaches of the scientists studied, the UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures accumulated a comprehensive collection
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Understanding information: Adding a non‐individualistic lens J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Yuanye Ma
The individualistic lens refers to the understanding of problematic information as something that is clearly identifiable, with objective criteria of measurement. This article argues for adding a non‐individualistic lens for understanding information. The necessity for adding a non‐individualistic lens grows from that the existing individualistic lens appears inadequate to make sense of information
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How do multilingual users search? An investigation of query and result list language choices J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Ben Steichen; Ryan Lowe
Many users of search systems are multilingual, that is, they are proficient in two or more languages. In order to better understand and support the language preferences and behaviors of such multilingual users, this paper presents a series of five large‐scale studies that specifically elicit language choices regarding search queries and result lists. Overall, the results from the studies indicate that
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The migration and preservation of six Norwegian municipality record‐keeping systems: Lessons learned J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Thomas Soedring; Pia Borlund; Markus Helfert
This article presents a rare insight into the migration of municipality record‐keeping databases. The migration of a database for preservation purposes poses several challenges. In particular, our findings show that relevant issues are file‐format heterogeneity, collection volume, time and database structure evolution, and deviation from the governing standard. This article presents and discusses how
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On the causal relation between real world activities and emotional expressions of social media users J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Seyed Amin Mirlohi Falavarjani; Jelena Jovanovic; Hossein Fani; Ali A. Ghorbani; Zeinab Noorian; Ebrahim Bagheri
Social interactions through online social media have become a daily routine of many, and the number of those whose real world (offline) and online lives have become intertwined is continuously growing. As such, the interplay of individuals' online and offline activities has been the subject of numerous research studies, the majority of which explored the impact of people's online actions on their offline
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Whither wilderness? An investigation of technology use by long‐distance backpackers J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Ed Hyatt; Morgan Harvey; Matthew Pointon; Perla Innocenti
The popular outdoor pursuit of backpacking is profoundly changing as the community embraces contemporary information technologies. However, there is little empirical evidence on the adoption and use of consumer electronics by backpackers, nor the implications this has for their habits, practices, and interactions. We investigate long‐distance backpackers' articulations with mobile information technology
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Topic diversity: A discipline scheme‐free diversity measurement for journals J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-12-13 Yi Bu; Mengyang Li; Weiye Gu; Win‐bin Huang
Scientometrics has many citation‐based measurements for characterizing diversity, but most of these measurements depend on human‐designed categories and the granularity of discipline classifications sometimes does not allow in‐depth analysis. As such, the current paper proposes a new measurement for quantifying journals' diversity by utilizing the abstracts of scientific publications in journals, namely
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Predicting users' continued engagement in online health communities from the quantity and quality of received support J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Xiangyu Wang; Andrew High; Xi Wang; Kang Zhao
Online health communities (OHCs) have been major resources for people with similar health concerns to interact with each other. They offer easily accessible platforms for users to seek, receive, and provide supports by posting. Taking the advantage of text mining and machine learning techniques, we identified social support type(s) in each post and a new user's support needs in an OHC. We examined
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Describing, organizing, and maintaining video game development artifacts J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Claire McDonald; Marc Schmalz; Allee Monheim; Stephen Keating; Kelsey Lewin; Frank Cifaldi; Jin Ha Lee
Game development artifacts resulting from the creation process of video games, such as design documents, style guides, test builds, and marketing materials, provide rich contextual information about how and why the game was created. Better organizing and preserving these materials will not only enrich our understanding of the history of these media but also educate and inspire the next generation of
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Term position‐based language model for information retrieval J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Arezki Hammache; Mohand Boughanem
Term position feature is widely and successfully used in IR and Web search engines, to enhance the retrieval effectiveness. This feature is essentially used for two purposes: to capture query terms proximity or to boost the weight of terms appearing in some parts of a document. In this paper, we are interested in this second category. We propose two novel query‐independent techniques based on absolute
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Enhancing keyphrase extraction from microblogs using human reading time J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Yingyi Zhang; Chengzhi Zhang
The premise of manual keyphrase annotation is to read the corresponding content of an annotated object. Intuitively, when we read, more important words will occupy a longer reading time. Hence, by leveraging human reading time, we can find the salient words in the corresponding content. However, previous studies on keyphrase extraction ignore human reading features. In this article, we aim to leverage
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“Heterogeneous couplings”: Operationalizing network perspectives to study science‐society interactions through social media metrics J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-11-07 Rodrigo Costas; Sarah de Rijcke; Noortje Marres
Social media metrics have a genuine networked nature, reflecting the networking characteristics of the social media platform from where they are derived. This networked nature has been relatively less explored in the literature on altmetrics, although new network‐level approaches are starting to appear. A general conceptualization of the role of social media networks in science communication, and particularly
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Orthogonality, dependency, and music: An exploration of the relationships between music facets J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Deborah Lee; Lyn Robinson; David Bawden
The classification of Western art music is a complex area of knowledge organization, yet the reasons for those complexities have not been fully studied. This research dissects the concept of orthogonality, in particular regard to music classification. Orthogonality (antonym: dependency) means that one facet acts independently from another facet. Although orthogonality is an assumed quality of facets
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Authority and priority signals in automatic summary generation for online reputation management J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Javier Rodríguez‐Vidal; Jorge Carrillo‐de‐Albornoz; Julio Gonzalo; Laura Plaza
Online reputation management (ORM) comprises the collection of techniques that help monitoring and improving the public image of an entity (companies, products, institutions) on the Internet. The ORM experts try to minimize the negative impact of the information about an entity while maximizing the positive material for being more trustworthy to the customers. Due to the huge amount of information
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Transforming public records management: Six key insights J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Paula Dootson; Mary Tate; Kevin C. Desouza; Peter Townson
Records management in the public sector is integral for delivering public good. However, several institutional challenges inhibit the required implementation of innovative and information‐centric tools to transform records management in response to the challenges of digitization and to capitalize on new opportunities in the digital economy. In this article, we make recommendations to overcome institutional
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Epistemology, epistemic belief, personal epistemology, and epistemics: A review of concepts as they impact information behavior research J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Matthew Kelly
A review of a range of epistemic concepts that are commonly researched was conducted with reference to conventional epistemology and with reference to foundational approaches to justification. These were assessed in relation to previous research undertaken linking information behavior and experience with paradigm, metatheory, and discourse. This research assesses how the epistemic concept is treated
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Resonance and the experience of relevance J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Ian Ruthven
In this article, I propose the concept of resonance as a useful one for describing what it means to experience relevance. Based on an extensive interdisciplinary review, I provide a novel framework that presents resonance as a spectrum of experience with a multitude of outcomes ranging from a sense of harmony and coherence to life transformation. I argue that resonance has different properties to the
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Mapping the online presence of small local sporting clubs J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Stephen Burgess; Craig M. Parker; Scott Bingley
The contribution of local (“grassroots”) sporting clubs to their economies amounts to billions of dollars. These clubs typically rely on volunteers who use Internet platforms (such as websites and social media) to support their roles. Use of the Internet can assist these volunteers by facilitating improved information access, communication, and efficiency. Little is known about how local sporting clubs
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Follow the leader: Documents on the leading edge of semantic change get more citations J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Sandeep Soni; Kristina Lerman; Jacob Eisenstein
Diachronic word embeddings—vector representations of words over time—offer remarkable insights into the evolution of language and provide a tool for quantifying sociocultural change from text documents. Prior work has used such embeddings to identify shifts in the meaning of individual words. However, simply knowing that a word has changed in meaning is insufficient to identify the instances of word
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Innovation adoption: Broadcasting versus virality J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Yujia Zhai; Ying Ding; Hezhao Zhang
Diffusion channels are critical to determining the adoption scale, which leads to the ultimate impact of an innovation. The aim of this study is to develop an integrative understanding of the impact of two diffusion channels (i.e., broadcasting vs. virality) on innovation adoption. Using citations of a series of classic algorithms and the time series of co‐authorship as the footprints of their diffusion
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Authors' noninstitutional emails and their correlation with retraction J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Xiaomei Liu; Xiaotian Chen
We collected research articles from Retraction Watch database, Scopus, and a major retraction announcement by Springer, to identify emails used by authors. Authors' emails can be institutional emails and noninstitutional emails. Data suggest that retracted articles are more likely to use noninstitutional emails, but it is difficult to generalize. The study put some focus on authors from China.
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Information informing design: Information Science research with implications for the design of digital information environments J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Stephann Makri
This debut curated “virtual special issue” of JASIST is on the theme of “information informing design.” It comprises several excellent scholarly research articles previously published in JASIST with important implications for the design of digital information environments. It covers articles that motivate the need for Information Science research to inform design and those that have empirically examined
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The measurement of “interdisciplinarity” and “synergy” in scientific and extra‐scientific collaborations J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Loet Leydesdorff; Inga Ivanova
Problem solving often requires crossing boundaries, such as those between disciplines. When policy‐makers call for “interdisciplinarity,” however, they often mean “synergy.” Synergy is generated when the whole offers more possibilities than the sum of its parts. An increase in the number of options above the sum of the options in subsets can be measured as redundancy; that is, the number of not‐yet‐realized
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Understanding the stability of medical concept embeddings J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-10-02 Grace E. Lee; Aixin Sun
Frequency is one of the major factors for training quality word embeddings. Several studies have recently discussed the stability of word embeddings in general domain and suggested factors influencing the stability. In this work, we conduct a detailed analysis on the stability of concept embeddings in medical domain, particularly in relations with concept frequency. The analysis reveals the surprising
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Understanding and predicting future research impact at different career stages—A social network perspective J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Zhiya Zuo; Kang Zhao
Performance assessment is ubiquitous and crucial in people analytics. Scientific impact, particularly, plays a significant role in the academia. This paper attempts to understand researchers' career trajectories by considering the research community as a social network, where individuals build ties with each other via coauthorship. The resulting linkage facilitates information flow and affects researchers'
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Discovering underlying sensations of human emotions based on social media J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Jun Lee; Adam Jatowt; Kyoung‐Sook Kim
Analyzing social media has become a common way for capturing and understanding people's opinions, sentiments, interests, and reactions to ongoing events. Social media has thus become a rich and real‐time source for various kinds of public opinion and sentiment studies. According to psychology and neuroscience, human emotions are known to be strongly dependent on sensory perceptions. Although sensation
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One size does not fit all: A study of badge behavior in stack overflow J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Stav Yanovsky; Nicholas Hoernle; Omer Lev; Kobi Gal
Badges are endemic to online interaction sites, from question and answer (Q&A) websites to ride sharing, as systems for rewarding participants for their contributions. This article studies how badge design affects people's contributions and behavior over time. Past work has shown that badges “steer” people's behavior toward substantially increasing the amount of contributions before obtaining the badge
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Validation of a survey for measuring scientists' attitudes toward data reuse J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Christa E. Winkler; Rebecca Fay Berenbon
This study investigated the validity of a survey measuring scientists' attitudes toward data reuse. Rasch analysis was used to examine the psychometric properties of the survey. Structural equation modeling was subsequently used to examine the validity of hypothesized relationships among the constructs measured by the survey. Overall, findings supported validity of the existing measure for use among
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Research data management policy and practice in Chinese university libraries J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Yingshen Huang; Andrew M. Cox; Laura Sbaffi
On April 2, 2018, the State Council of China formally released a national Research Data Management (RDM) policy “Measures for Managing Scientific Data”. In this context and given that university libraries have played an important role in supporting RDM at an institutional level in North America, Europe, and Australasia, the aim of this article is to explore the current status of RDM in Chinese universities
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Explicit diversification of search results across multiple dimensions for educational search J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-12 Sevgi Yigit‐Sert; Ismail Sengor Altingovde; Craig Macdonald; Iadh Ounis; Özgür Ulusoy
Making use of search systems to foster learning is an emerging research trend known as search as learning. Earlier works identified result diversification as a useful technique to support learning‐oriented search, since diversification ensures a comprehensive coverage of various aspects of the queried topic in the result list. Inspired by this finding, first we define a new research problem, multidimensional
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How users' knowledge of advertisements influences their viewing and selection behavior in search engines J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Sebastian Schultheiß; Dirk Lewandowski
According to recent studies, search engine users have little knowledge of Google's business model. In addition, users cannot sufficiently distinguish organic results from advertisements, resulting in result selections under false assumptions. Following on from that, this study examines how users' understanding of search‐based advertising influences their viewing and selection behavior on desktop computer
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Join the club? Peer effects on information value perception J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Yonit Rusho; Daphne R. Raban
While it is widely recognized that value perception increases when individuals engage in making physical objects, the impact of peer presence on value perception during production or consumption has not been studied. Peer production is prevalent for information products, which are the focus of the present study. Most research to date has focused on value as perceived by consumers, while consumers are
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Using information science to enhance educational preventing violent extremism programs J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-04 Kevin Wong; Geoff Walton; Gavin Bailey
Educational preventing violent extremism (EPVE) programs have had (to date) little if any theoretical underpinning. Given their proliferation in jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other European countries, such an absence is notable but not unexpected given the political sensitivities attached to them. These programs remain an emerging policy area which is still “finding
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Data curation as collective action during COVID‐19 J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Kalpana Shankar; Wei Jeng; Andrea Thomer; Nicholas Weber; Ayoung Yoon
In this commentary, the authors, an international group data curation researchers and educators, reflect on some of the challenges and opportunities for data curation in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We focus on some topics of particular interest to the information science community: data infrastructures for scholarly communication and research, the politicization of data curation and visualization
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Framing a discussion on paradigm shift(s) in the field of information J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Rong Tang; Bharat Mehra; Jia Tina Du; Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao
In this opinion paper, we frame a discussion on paradigm shift(s) in the field of information. We believe that in this astonishing historical moment of new directions and new opportunities both the existing paradigms and conceptual models in the field of information can benefit from re‐examination to stay current with the times. We propose a framework articulating key narratives associated with the
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The emergence, peak, and abeyance of an online information ground: The lifecycle of a Facebook group for verifying information during violence J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Abdul Rohman
Information grounds emerge as people share information with others in a common place. Many studies have investigated the emergence of information grounds in public places. This study pays attention to the emergence, peak, and abeyance of an online information ground. It investigates a Facebook group used by youth for sharing information when misinformation spread wildly during the 2011 violence in
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Hierarchical attention model for personalized tag recommendation J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-23 Jianshan Sun; Mingyue Zhu; Yuanchun Jiang; Yezheng Liu; Le Wu
With the development of Web‐based social networks, many personalized tag recommendation approaches based on multi‐information have been proposed. Due to the differences in users' preferences, different users care about different kinds of information. In the meantime, different elements within each kind of information are differentially informative for user tagging behaviors. In this context, how to
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Do new research issues attract more citations? A comparison between 25 Scopus subject categories J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Mike Thelwall; Pardeep Sud
Finding new ways to help researchers and administrators understand academic fields is an important task for information scientists. Given the importance of interdisciplinary research, it is essential to be aware of disciplinary differences in aspects of scholarship, such as the significance of recent changes in a field. This paper identifies potential changes in 25 subject categories through a term
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Medieval Spanish (12th–15th centuries) named entity recognition and attribute annotation system based on contextual information J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Mª Luisa Díez Platas; Salvador Ros Muñoz; Elena González‐Blanco; Pablo Ruiz Fabo; Elena Álvarez Mellado
The recognition of named entities in Spanish medieval texts presents great complexity, involving specific challenges: First, the complex morphosyntactic characteristics in proper‐noun use in medieval texts. Second, the lack of strict orthographic standards. Finally, diachronic and geographical variations in Spanish from the 12th to 15th century. In this period, named entities usually appear as complex
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Do better search engines really equate to better clinical decisions? If not, why not? J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Anton van der Vegt; Guido Zuccon; Bevan Koopman
Previous research has found that improved search engine effectiveness—evaluated using a batch‐style approach—does not always translate to significant improvements in user task performance; however, these prior studies focused on simple recall and precision‐based search tasks. We investigated the same relationship, but for realistic, complex search tasks required in clinical decision making. One hundred
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A flexible template generation and matching method with applications for publication reference metadata extraction J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-02 Ting‐Hao Yang; Yu‐Lun Hsieh; Shih‐Hung Liu; Yung‐Chun Chang; Wen‐Lian Hsu
Conventional rule‐based approaches use exact template matching to capture linguistic information and necessarily need to enumerate all variations. We propose a novel flexible template generation and matching scheme called the principle‐based approach (PBA) based on sequence alignment, and employ it for reference metadata extraction (RME) to demonstrate its effectiveness. The main contributions of this
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From bilingual to multilingual neural‐based machine translation by incremental training J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-08-02 Carlos Escolano; Marta R. Costa‐Jussà; José A. R. Fonollosa
A common intermediate language representation in neural machine translation can be used to extend bilingual systems by incremental training. We propose a new architecture based on introducing an interlingual loss as an additional training objective. By adding and forcing this interlingual loss, we can train multiple encoders and decoders for each language, sharing among them a common intermediate representation
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Do the stars align?: Stakeholders and strategies in libraries' curation of an astronomy dataset J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Peter T. Darch; Ashley E. Sands; Christine L. Borgman; Milena S. Golshan
When developing university‐based research data curation services, libraries face critical decisions around organization and sustainability that can affect dataset producers' satisfaction with these services. We present a study, involving interviews (n = 43) and ethnographic observation, of how two libraries partnered with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to curate a significant astronomy dataset
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Cross‐modal retrieval with dual multi‐angle self‐attention J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-07-16 Wenjie Li; Yi Zheng; Yuejie Zhang; Rui Feng; Tao Zhang; Weiguo Fan
In recent years, cross‐modal retrieval has been a popular research topic in both fields of computer vision and natural language processing. There is a huge semantic gap between different modalities on account of heterogeneous properties. How to establish the correlation among different modality data faces enormous challenges. In this work, we propose a novel end‐to‐end framework named Dual Multi‐Angle
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More than plain text: Censorship deletion in the Chinese social media J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Jun Liu; Jingyi Zhao
Although the Internet allows people to circulate messages using different media, most censorship studies discuss the removal of text content. This article presents a systematic study regarding the censorship of both plain text and multimedia content on the Chinese Internet. By analyzing both censored and surviving posts on the Chinese social media platform Weibo during the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
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#BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-06-29 Monique Mann, Peta Mitchell, Marcus Foth, Irina Anastasiu
This article explores technological sovereignty as a way to respond to anxieties of control in digital urban contexts, and argues that this may promise a more meaningful social license to operate smart cities. First, we present an overview of smart city developments with a critical focus on corporatization and platform urbanism. We critique Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs development in Toronto, which faces
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Cultural factors and the role of privacy concerns in acceptance of government surveillance J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Nik Thompson, Tanya McGill, Anna Bunn, Rukshan Alexander
Though there is a tension between citizens' privacy concerns and their acceptance of government surveillance, there is little systematic research in this space and less still in a cross‐cultural context. We address the research gap by modeling the factors that drive public acceptance of government surveillance, and by exploring the influence of national culture. The research involved an online survey
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Artificial intelligence and the world of work, a co‐constitutive relationship J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Carsten Østerlund; Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi; Matthew Willis; Karen Boyd; Christine T. Wolf
The use of intelligent machines—digital technologies that feature data‐driven forms of customization, learning, and autonomous action—is rapidly growing and will continue to impact many industries and domains. This is consequential for communities of researchers, educators, and practitioners concerned with studying, supporting, and educating information professionals. In the face of new developments
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Loosen control without losing control: Formalization and decentralization within commons‐based peer production J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 David Rozas; Steven Huckle
This study considers commons‐based peer production (CBPP) by examining the organizational processes of the free/libre open‐source software community, Drupal. It does so by exploring the sociotechnical systems that have emerged around both Drupal's development and its face‐to‐face communitarian events. There has been criticism of the simplistic nature of previous research into free software; this study
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Risks, benefits, and control of information: Two studies of smart electric meter privacy J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Angela Ramnarine Rieks, Jason Dedrick, Jeffrey Stanton
Smart electric meters collect data on electricity use to potentially improve efficiency for utilities, shape power consumption, and ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Consumer groups and experts have raised concerns about privacy, as smart meters can provide detailed information about activity within the home. This study examines privacy beliefs of U.S. consumers using qualitative data from
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Citation cascade and the evolution of topic relevance J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-05-29 Chao Min; Qingyu Chen; Erjia Yan; Yi Bu; Jianjun Sun
Citation analysis, as a tool for quantitative studies of science, has long emphasized direct citation relations, leaving indirect or high‐order citations overlooked. However, a series of early and recent studies demonstrate the existence of indirect and continuous citation impact across generations. Adding to the literature on high‐order citations, we introduce the concept of a citation cascade: the
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“To protect my health or to protect my health privacy?” A mixed‐methods investigation of the privacy paradox J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 Grace Fox
This paper examines the role of privacy in the health context by investigating the influence of privacy concerns and perceived benefits on individuals' acceptance of health technologies used by healthcare providers and their own adoption of mobile health technologies. The study adopts a two‐stage sequential mixed‐methods design. The first stage is a quantitative survey of 447 citizens from two countries
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“The dearest of our possessions”: Applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacy J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 David Bawden, Lyn Robinson
This conceptual article argues for the value of an approach to privacy in the digital information environment informed by Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information and information ethics. This approach involves achieving informational privacy, through the features of anonymity and obscurity, through an optimal balance of ontological frictions. This approach may be used to modify models for information
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Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-05-11 Libby Hemphill; Margaret L. Hedstrom; Susan Hautaniemi Leonard
Social media data (SMD) offer researchers new opportunities to leverage those data for their work in broad areas such as public opinion, digital culture, labor trends, and public health. The success of efforts to save SMD for reuse by researchers will depend on aligning data management and archiving practices with evolving norms around the capture, use, sharing, and security of datasets. This paper
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People and places: Bridging the information gaps in refugee integration J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-05-10 Olubukola Oduntan; Ian Ruthven
This article discusses the sources of information used by refugees as they navigate integration systems and processes. The study used interviews to examine how refugees and asylum seekers dealt with their information needs, finding that information gaps were bridged through people and places. People included friends, solicitors, and caseworkers, whereas places included service providers, detention
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Online privacy concerns and privacy protection strategies among older adults in East York, Canada J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-05-08 Anabel Quan‐Haase, Dennis Ho
As news headlines report on high‐profile online privacy breaches and the potential negative consequences for users, users are becoming concerned about their privacy. While much research has focused on the concerns of younger generations, few studies have investigated older adults, specifically those aged 65+ years. This study analyzes in‐depth interviews with 40 older adults living in East York, Toronto
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Detecting fake news stories via multimodal analysis J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-05-04 Vivek K. Singh; Isha Ghosh; Darshan Sonagara
Filtering, vetting, and verifying digital information is an area of core interest in information science. Online fake news is a specific type of digital misinformation that poses serious threats to democratic institutions, misguides the public, and can lead to radicalization and violence. Hence, fake news detection is an important problem for information science research. While there have been multiple
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Information behavior and social control: Toward an understanding of conflictual information behavior in families managing chronic illness J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 Lindsay K. Brown; Tiffany C. Veinot
The relationship between information and control interests social scientists; however, much prior work has focused on organizations rather than families. Work on interactive information behaviors has also focused on organizations and on collaboration rather than conflict. Therefore, in families managing chronic illness, we investigated information behaviors in the context of health‐related social control
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“We're being tracked at all times”: Student perspectives of their privacy in relation to learning analytics in higher education J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-04-06 Kyle M. L. Jones, Andrew Asher, Abigail Goben, Michael R. Perry, Dorothea Salo, Kristin A. Briney, M. Brooke Robertshaw
Higher education institutions are continuing to develop their capacity for learning analytics (LA), which is a sociotechnical data‐mining and analytic practice. Institutions rarely inform their students about LA practices, and there exist significant privacy concerns. Without a clear student voice in the design of LA, institutions put themselves in an ethical gray area. To help fill this gap in practice
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Library cultures of data curation: Adventures in astronomy J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. (IF 2.41) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Peter T. Darch; Ashley E. Sands; Christine L. Borgman; Milena S. Golshan
University libraries are partnering with disciplinary data producers to provide long‐term digital curation of research data sets. Managing data set producer expectations and guiding future development of library services requires understanding the decisions libraries make about curatorial activities, why they make these decisions, and the effects on future data reuse. We present a study, comprising