Transcript Information interactions as part of digital scholarship

Jela Steinerová
Comenius University Bratislava
Slovakia
[email protected]
Agenda
 Information interactions
 Information ecology
 Digital scholarship and information practices
 Selected studies of PhD. students and information
managers, concept mapping
 Proposal of a model of information interactions
 Conclusions
Objectives and contexts
Challenges of
information
science
Objectives
Informationintensive work in
science
Analysis of
information
interactions
New ways of
interaction with
digital environment
New models of
digital scholarship,
social science,
humanities
Questions
Which information activities are
typical for digital scholarship?
How to develop new models?
Can we integrate information ecology
with digital scholarship?
Information interactions
 Human information interactions:
 relationships between people and information
(interactions of scholars in sociotechnical systems)
 Holistic approaches – need
 History in information science: Belkin, Saracevic, Spink,
Fidel
 Our interest: academic information work
 Scientific information spaces, shared cognitive
attributes
Information ecology
• Davenport,
Prusak
• Making
information
meaningful
• Nardi,
O´Day
• Places of
information
activities,
tools, social
relations
• Our
approach
• Values,
community,
tools
Vision
Ecological
approach
• Integration of human information
behavior with design
• Adaptations
Cognitive
information
processing
• Satisficing, optimizing, personalization
• Re-use of information objects
Transformation
of scientific
communication
• Information sharing, digital scholarship
• Simple organisms, social systems
Digital scholarship
 New kinds of research – large volumes of data
 Changing methods, tools
 Challenges for information practices:
 Innovations, information sharing, data mining
 Open science, knowledge discovery
 Digital repositories
 Scientific information records
 Collaboratories
Digital social sciences, humanities
Humanistic
scholarship:
Information
objects
Interpretation,
analyses, research
story
Social sciences:
Understand
human behavior
Data – surveys :
interpretation,
cognition,
Making
knowledge
explicit
Interdisciplinary
interconnections
with
technologies:
Assistance in
interpretations
and collaboration
Integration of
cultural objects
Data sharing
Selected studies
Relevance: PhD. students
• Relevance 2.0
Information ecology: information managers
• Model of information ecology
Information and research behavior of doctoral
students
Doctoral students: example
 Young intellectual elites
of universities
 Objectives of qualitative
study:
 Identify information
 Activities: research,
teaching, creativity,
communication,
development of expertise
and research practices
 Model information
interactions
 Semi-structured
interviews (16)
 Information horizons
Initial results: selection of topic
topic
Interest
incentives
Curiosity
Personal relations
New information
Environment
Previous study
Verification of
information
Role of supervisor
Problem solving
Department
Narrowing the
topic, focus
Topicality
Information interactions:
strategies
Browsing:
Internet, web
Keywords,
citation chaining
Libraries
Media,
portals,
wiki,
blogs
Digital libraries
Google
Google Scholar
Electronic
databases of
scientific
documents
Consulting,
discussions
Social media
Passive use
Reading
Sharing
Questionnaires
Benefits:
Discussion fora
Blogs
Wiki
Personal,
Private
communication
Influence of academic community
Supervisors
Foreign experts
Concept definitions
Relationships
Information literacy courses
Academic webpages
Barriers
Lack of time
Lack of sources
Disintegration of systems
Information overload
Compatibility of
sources
Terminology
Citing
Lack of personal
communication
Outdated
documents
Self-efficacy
Sharing of
sources
collaboration
Proposals - help
Writing theses
Citations
Information literacy
Use of electronic
sources
Sharing of sources,
strategies, tools,
methods
Collaboration with
colleagues
E-learning
Repositories
Integration of
systems
Learning
Implications
Need:
Cultivation of
information
environment
Building
academic
communities:
Digital
environment:
Community
spaces
Informationintensive process:
Add value to
information in
information
interactions
Model of information interactions
in digital scholarship
Implications for digital scholarship
Make implicit
knowledge
explicit
From lower levels
of context to the
highest levels
Visualization
Interpretation
Discovery of
knowledge
Ecology:
Adding value
Re-use
Concept mapping for digital
scholarship
Visualize knowledge
Concept mapping
 Concepts and relationships
 15 master and PhD theses in
 Critical reflection
LIS
 Rules for space orientation
 Relations:
 Knowledge sharing
 Creativity
 collaboration
definition,
associations, hierarchy
Concept map - example
Benefits of concept mapping
New
interpretations
Discovery of
context
• Ontological
models
Collaboration
Knowledge
managment
Knowledge
discovery
Community portal: example
Project mgmt
Information
ethics
Case studies
Orientation in
sources
Concept
infrastr.
Research:
curiosity
Interactions
Methodological
tools
Experts,
suprevisors
Social
networking
Affective
information
management
Conclusions
Multiple
scholarly
interactions
• Community models
• Social networking, dialogue,
reviewing
Integration of
information
behavior with
design
• Conceptual infrastructures
• From data cleaning to
interpretations
• Guidance for research work
Conclusions
Value-added ecological information
interactions for digital sciences
availability
convenience
collaborations
networking
visibility
creativity
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