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Data papers, a new class of scholarly publication emerging from the open‐science movement, foster data discovery and reuse by offering comprehensive descriptions of research data. Yet, despite their promising growth, the role of data papers in scholarly communication remains underexplored. This work therefore investigates the perceived contributions and functions of data papers to scholarly communication by interviewing 14 data‐paper authors operating in the field of natural science. Using conceptual frameworks adopted from Borgman (2007) and Van de Sompel et al. (2004), we identify four general functions of scholarly communication (i.e., legitimization; dissemination; access, preservation, and curation; and rewarding). Additionally, our data lead us to propose that verification is a distinct scholarly communication, underscoring the importance of data papers in validating research findings in the context of ensuring research transparency. By elucidating the crucial role that data papers now play within the scholarly communication ecosystem, this study seeks to raise the academic community's awareness of their fundamental position, as well as their co‐existence with other forms of data publication, in advancing scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A paradigm shift is currently underway with the emergence of the Collections as Data movement, which advocates the creation and dissemination of cultural heritage collections that are amenable to large‐scale computation to empower both collection managers and users. Although this discourse is beginning to gain some traction in the literature, critical evidence‐based assessments of the opportunities and risks of this process are underexplored. This paper presents the results of a content analysis of the official position statements (n = 83) produced in the Collections as Data forums and written by international professionals working with digital collections. Although preliminary, the analysis presented and discussed here sheds light on the initial reception of the idea of Collections as Data and its articulation in practice. The study represents the first systematic attempt to explore the complexities of the intersection of ethics and artificial intelligence in the context of cultural heritage, aiming at providing a valuable precedent for further elaboration and discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New media platforms have enhanced the efficiency and diversity of information dissemination, providing new possibilities for the dissemination and promotion of academic papers. Currently, a large number of Chinese academic journals from different disciplines have established WeChat official accounts to promote their papers. This study examines WeChat official accounts from three disciplines: social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine. We analyze the existing paper promotion methods employed by these academic journal official accounts from four dimensions: content presentation format, number of papers promoted in a single post, interactive forms, and publishing time. The findings reveal that the current promotion methods for academic papers on WeChat official accounts are relatively limited, with low utilization of multimedia content. Therefore, there is a need for further improvement in new media promotion for academic papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific breakthroughs have the potential to revolutionize the course of research and shape the trajectory of scientific knowledge. This study investigates the characteristics of Disruptive Citing Papers (DCP) and Consolidating Citing Papers (CCP) associated with Nobel‐winning scientific breakthroughs, aiming to provide insights into the mechanisms of knowledge creation and dissemination. By analyzing a dataset of Nobel‐winning papers and their citation networks, we find that Nobel‐winning papers tend to attract a higher proportion of DCP compared to CCP. However, CCP exhibit a higher impact, as evidenced by their citation counts and likelihood of becoming hit papers. Furthermore, DCP are associated with larger research teams, highlighting the collaborative nature of disruptive research, while CCP employ a higher degree of professional language style characterized by shorter titles and specialized jargon. These findings deepen our understanding of the role played by disruptive and consolidating impact in scientific breakthroughs, shedding light on the dynamics of knowledge creation and dissemination in the scientific community. This research contributes to the broader understanding of scientific progress and provides valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders in the scientific ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although open government information awareness has enhanced since China implemented the Open Government Information Regulation, the complaints about the information disclosure work also increased. Previous research has ignored the impact of the department's responsibilities on information disclosure, which are essential as some departments handle information that should not be disclosed. From this standpoint, this paper is the first to analyze the differences in departments' open government information performance from their annual information openness reports. Variance and correlation analysis show that the potential harm of disclosure to third parties' legitimate rights and interests, the availability of relevant information, and duplicate requests can explain their differences in government information disclosure on request. Besides, this paper calls for an elastic criterion for openness evaluation and finds that the benchmark effect in previous research does not apply to departments with different responsibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific retractions can be an indicator that misinformation is present in a research paper. Retractions are therefore an interesting research object to explore news coverage of misleading scientific information. This poster presents how problematic research (before and after retraction) is portrayed in news outlets, the impact of the retraction on these reports and the relationship of retracted scientific results and the spread of false information. Starting from a list of 270 retracted COVID‐19 papers from the Retraction Watch blog (https://retractionwatch.com), we analysed news articles of 16 retracted publications, that were immensely discussed in journalistic formats. By presenting three different use cases, we show how misinformation emanates from retractions, how problematic research is presented in media and what factors influence the message of the article. Our research contributes to a better understanding of how retractions are used and perceived in propagating scientific misinformation on one hand and in mitigating it on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data quality assurance (DQA) is critical to research data sharing and reuse. There has been a growing recognition of data transparency, reproducibility, credibility, and validity in research. Although the research data curation literature is large, it lacks data quality theory‐guided examinations of DQA practices in research data repositories. This poster paper reports on the preliminary findings of a larger study that examines DQA practices in research data repositories, including their use of DQA ontologies, standards, and metadata vocabularies. In particular, the paper examines two quality standards and an ontology for their conceptualization of DQA activities and their structure. The authors used the findings of the analysis and the data quality literature to synthesize an initial model of a DQA process in research data repositories that conceptualizes three DQA activities: evaluation, intervention, and communication. This paper can inform the development of ontologies and best practice guides for designing and evaluating DQA workflows in research data repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Author keywords attached to academic papers are often used in intellectual structure analysis. However, the length and selection criteria for keywords vary across publications and, even some publishers do not require keywords for their articles. To explore the opportunity to overcome such keyword inconsistency issues, this study compared author keywords from papers focused on the digital divide with those extracted using the language models, BERT and ChatGPT. Preliminary findings reveal structural variations across the keyword networks and suggest a potential need to revisit keyword‐based research. Future research will expand the scope of the dataset and conduct an in‐depth analysis of keyword patterns across the language models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes "information borderlands" as a framework for bounding a unique information environment that is constituted by individual and community level practices, physical landscapes (natural and human‐shaped), as well as large‐scale sociotechnical systems and systems of documentality. Taking the borderlands of the U.S. Southwest as a unique case, existing research literature is reviewed and directions forward for future research are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The LIS Forward initiative is addressing the urgent question: As LIS evolves within the context of iSchools, how do we best position our research and education programs to lead the field and the future of libraries? The initiative stems from the recognition that the evolution of iSchools presents opportunities and challenges for LIS and that there is great value in iSchools working together on charting directions forward. The growing coalition of iSchools is working to support LIS in taking full advantage of the multidisciplinary knowledge and expertise within iSchools, foster future leaders who will champion LIS within iSchools, and confront the dynamic tensions in research intensive iSchools. This session aims to engage international, professional, and academic stakeholders to guide activities and coalition building that can continue to strengthen LIS in iSchools. A panel will present highlights from a recent position paper to catalyze interactive, facilitated dialogue within the ASIS&T community on critical issues in LIS research and education. Breakout sessions will generate responses and recommendations to advance collaborative planning and strategy of value to LIS academic programs and the profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dementia is a progressive and incurable disease which impacts both people who have been diagnosed with some type of neurocognitive disorder but also their family members. Since dementia care has lately started to include not only pharmacological treatment and medical care but also a person‐centred and evidence‐based (neuro)rehabilitation in the community, library and information science scholars and professionals have started to investigate how they can contribute to development of dementia‐friendly communities. The paper discusses how findings from an ongoing multi‐phase research have been translated into practice in the city of Osijek, Croatia. Information sciences scholars have collaborated with librarians, civic organizations, neurology and human rights professionals to develop diverse programs in the local community, which aim to raise the quality of life of older citizens, people with dementia and their caregivers through information sharing and raising awareness, supporting their health and wellbeing, and capacity building of librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Threats against electronic medical and health records are on the rise. These threats include phishing attacks, malware and ransomware, encryption blind spots, cloud threats, and most important one is the internal threat caused by gaps in the level of awareness and knowledge of the employees and health practitioner of handling sensitive healthcare data. Cyber hygiene is a term used to describe both the technical and non‐technical threats. In the same way, personal hygiene practices are used to maintain one's own health and protect against diseases, cyber hygiene security practices are important in protecting and preserving sensitive electronic health information systems. In this paper, we report on the findings of a cyber hygiene study carried out in Kuwait with the objectives of assessing the level of awareness, knowledge and experience of physicians and healthcare professionals. The study identified seven different areas or barriers that impacted the cyber hygiene and the adoption of electronic health medical records in Kuwait. The seven areas include financial barriers, time, difficulty of using technology, lack of management support, negative attitude toward the use of electronic medical records, legal and ethical issues, as well as cultural barriers. Most of the physicians interviewed lacked the awareness and basic knowledge needed to practice cyber hygiene. Most physicians were not aware of regulation or standards pertaining to the use of electronic medical records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

History has repeatedly shown that when it comes to healthcare, there exist significant disparities across different sub‐populations. Part of this problem is challenges with access to healthcare services and providers. In recent years, we have seen solutions emerge that attempt to address this issue, namely telehealth. But little to no work has been done to glean insights into factors contributing to lower access and whether telehealth adequately supports populations that struggle with physical access issues. In this paper, we present findings from an exploratory, cross‐dataset analysis of healthcare access in Virginia, USA. We conducted quantitative and qualitative analyses lyses to determine correlations between socioeconomic factors and physical access. We found that population density significantly impacts physical access to healthcare. We also found that lower income communities in rural areas appear to be less satisfied with the quality of care and less likely to have adequate access to alternative options such as telehealth services. Our work has implications for research aimed at understanding healthcare access and practice that aims to derive solutions to close the healthcare access gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stack Overflow (SO) represents one of the most vibrant Question Answering Communities (QACs), providing a crucial platform for developers to pose and respond to questions. SO preserved duplicate questions due to their potential for furnishing additional insights or suggestions. In this paper, we delve into the study of duplicates within SO, with the objective of unraveling their positive value, particularly through the lens of knowledge networks and the evolution. We propose a categorization of knowledge evolution within QACs into two key dimensions: depth and breadth. Our exploration reveals that duplicate questions play a constructive role in fostering both the depth and breadth of knowledge evolution. This finding illuminates the underestimated value of duplicate questions, underlining their significance for the ongoing expansion of knowledge within QACs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ICT advancement and people's increasing cultural needs have stimulated China's online form of cultural activity organization. With highlights on such a new trend, this paper analyzes the impact of the newly‐invented online activity organization form on the participation ratio of parent–child cultural activities, which are vital in China's public cultural service system. Regression analysis indicates that the online activity organization form reduces the impact of limited available tickets and web browsing. It also relaxes the special time limit for public participation. Such an online form of activity organization deserves further attention considering its flexibility and convenience valued by the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding the interactions between science and technology (S&T) is crucial for driving major innovations. Previous studies have typically focused on identifying scientific and technical topics separately and analyzing their association through semantic or citation. In this study, we propose a novel approach to identifying linked topics that directly reflect the interactions within the S&T domain. Our approach integrates semantic characteristics and citation relationships, allowing for a comprehensive analysis of the specific content and structure of these interactions. We test our approach using a dataset of 2,821 patents and 4,626 papers from the field of genetic engineering vaccines, spanning the years 1980 to 2020. The results demonstrate that our approach provides a more direct and detailed understanding of the content and structural characteristics of S&T interactions. This research contributes to the methodology of linked topics identification in the field of S&T, offering new insights and analytical perspectives for related studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The application of AI(artificial intelligence) in libraries is not only the result of the development of technology, but also the choice of libraries to improve their service. However, how to better integrate libraries and AI still needs further exploration, and libraries also need guidance in implementing AI technology. This study uses a systematic literature review method to analyze the literature on the application of AI in libraries published before 2023. Based on sorting out the application of AI in libraries, this paper summarizes and analyzes the practice and attitudes of applying AI in libraries. We find that there is a broad prospect of AI applications in libraries, but the current application is scattered and lacks a comprehensive view. There are different attitudes towards the application of AI in libraries and it is important to learn about different views. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much work has been carried out to highlight the accessibility challenges of blind programmers. Yet, relatively little has been known about how blind programmers help each other to solve problems. We present a data‐driven approach to explore collaborative problem‐solving of users in the Program‐l community of, by, and for blind programmers. We collected 8,344 longitudinal email threads from 778 users from 2004 through 2022 to observe the dynamics of collaborative problem‐solving among blind programmers. Our embedding‐based topic modeling and assortativity network analysis reveal that the knowledge of blind programmers diverges between when asking and answering questions. Our findings also suggest that users who have a high cluster level in the first year of activity and members are more likely to interact with other members with different roles. Our paper contributes to the field of social computing by introducing the first large‐scale study of a unique community of blind programmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a practical seven‐layer model that provides a holistic framework for creation an optimal foundation for organizational knowledge management (KM). The research corpus consists of three data collection tools; In the physical field we conducted personal interviews and a focus groups with 52 KM professionals. In the online arena we conducted a web ethnography, in which we surveyed tens of thousands of posts and comments which were posted in two virtual KM groups on the Facebook social network. The research is based on the qualitative‐constructivist paradigm. The data were analyzed according to the thematic analysis method, relying on the grounded theory approach. The proposed conceptual framework contributes to the empirical knowledge of the KM field, and may stand to guide practitioners in successful implementation of KM practices in organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data governance policy is of great importance for the development of digital economy. This paper proposes a four‐dimensional policy mining framework to analyze the 1,097 central data governance policies. We depict the development trajectory, analyze the policy subjects involved into the policy‐making, trace the sources of policy, and characterize the policy tool structure based on the policy coding. We find that the core departments of data governance policy making need to strengthen the awareness of data governance; Policy‐making should source enough convincing and authoritative policies to strengthen the long‐term effectiveness and impact policies; There are imbalances and deficiencies of policy tool structure. It provides reference for other countries in data governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drug–Drug Interaction (DDI) may affect the activity and efficacy of drugs, potentially leading to diminished therapeutic effect or even serious side effects. Therefore, automatic recognition of drug entities and relations involved in DDI is of great significance for pharmaceutical and medical care. In this paper, we propose a generative DDI triplets extraction framework based on Large Language Models (LLMs). We comprehensively apply various training methods, such as In‐context learning, Instruction‐tuning, and Task‐tuning, to investigate the biomedical information extraction capabilities of GPT‐3, OPT, and LLaMA. We also introduce Low‐Rank Adaptation (LoRA) technology to significantly reduce trainable parameters. The proposed method achieves satisfactory results in DDI triplet extraction, and demonstrates strong generalization ability on similar corpus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyzes the results of a study that is part of a larger, interdisciplinary, and multi‐institutional project that examines the usability and effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) training for library and information science (LIS) graduate students and professionals in gaining skills for interacting effectively with patrons in crisis. This paper reports on key findings related to the effectiveness of VR training for teaching empathy, confidence, and de‐escalation skills for LIS graduate students. The findings illustrate that VR has the potential to impact LIS graduate education by reaching a wider audience that introduces training in low‐stakes, immersive environments and that does not pose harm to patrons in crisis. This study also contributes innovative approaches that support training in skills including empathy, confidence, and de‐escalation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an overview of coverage of OpenAI's ChatGPT in media outlets from November 2022–March 2023, a comparison to previous media coverage of the chatbot Tay across the same outlets, and a count of ChatGPT media articles pertaining to government legislation and regulation. The New York Times, Wired, Gizmodo, The Globe and Mail, and The Guardian were searched for coverage. Across all five outlets there is an uptick in media coverage surrounding ChatGPT, with total numbers of included articles per month being 0 in November, 39 in December, 68 in January, 104 in February, and 143 in March. Findings exemplify the trend of increased coverage of ChatGPT in media public discourse, which contrasts with previous smaller media coverage of Tay. Examination of headlines and subheadings of included articles reveals minimal coverage (5.7%) dedicated to government legislation of ChatGPT. Future research will evaluate what is being said about ChatGPT within these media outlets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This poster introduces an ongoing project to develop a scale for measuring information credibility on current and newly emerging interactive web platforms. The poster reports on preliminary findings from an initial phase in the project to generate an item pool based on an analysis of existing scales for credibility (n = 3) and empirical studies in the library and information science literature on web credibility assessments in the social media context (n = 19). Results show that in most papers analyzed (16 of 19; 84.2%), credibility was conceptualized as a one‐dimensional construct and often measured with only one item (e.g., credible, believable), despite the common view among scholars that credibility is a high‐level, multifaceted concept. The analysis also identified 59 semantically distinct items as an initial pool, which will be validated and tested with empirical data in subsequent project phases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to investigate the topics regarding disabled people in library and information science research areas through systematic content analysis, with the intention to profile the critical issue of accessibility and its development in LIS research and practices. 330 research papers in LISA published during 2011–2021 were collected and analyzed to understand the distribution of the research topics, subjects, methodologies, and findings about disabled people. The results showed an extended period of user‐oriented research concerns yet very little exploration of service framework issues of policies, legislation, and technical services, in actual practices. Based on the results, specific and necessary research topics and issues were identified for future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Authority and Agency have been central concepts in information science since its beginnings in 19th century documentalism. This paper begins with a brief historical overview of how these concepts have been constructed in the traditional and user‐centred paradigms. It will then explore how an information practices perspective affords the possibility of seeing authority and agency not as oppositional but rather as synergistic: two sides of the same theoretical coin. This exploration will be contextualised by examples drawn from the author's own research over more than two decades across a range of studies. This body of research includes studies of academic, artistic and serious leisure communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE), a U.S. NSF DataNet Partner, seeks to provide cyberinfrastructure for "open, persistent, robust, and secure access to earth science observational data". Scientists participating in DataONE are able to deposit, search, and reuse data available through various DataONE tools. The research presented in this poster-paper reports on two studies examining data sharing and reuse in the DataONE environment. The two studies include 1) a profiling data assessment that examines the data and metadata being deposited into the DataONE system for data sharing, and 2) a pilot think-aloud study that examines what factors influence decisions regarding data reuse. From the profiling data assessment, preliminary results indicate that data being deposited into the DataONE for sharing have three specific types of metadata available including a) dataset, b) access, and c) additional metadata. Results also indicated that there is variation regarding the robustness and completeness of information. Additionally, through the think-aloud study results indicated that particular aspects the metadata information was useful for decision-making regarding reuse of data for scientists, while other metadata aspects were described as not useful. The results section provide specific details of these findings and demonstrate how these two studies examine both data sharing and reuse within the DataONE environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]