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With the expansion of the digital culture, deep reflection on how to research audiences is necessary. If before the individual was placed in a social category determining cultural tastes, now technology identifies patterns of behavior from the direct record of their actions. This text explores the type of knowledge that can be gained on audience participation in TikTok. We propose a methodology that consist in the analyse of usage metadata. Fieldwork has focused on «A2ality», an information account with 4.4 million followers in Spain. We analyzed all videos shared during six weeks of the first quarter of 2023 (n=173). The purpose was to know (a) the degree of the linear correlation between the metadata of the same piece and (b) the existence of correlations between metadata and type of video/ content. For each metadata available in open (comments, likes, saves, shares and very high), four activity levels have been established (low, medium, high and top). The majority trend indicates that the levels obtained by the metadata of the same content are not coincident, that is, a video will have more or less scope according to the observed metadata. The homogeneity of the videos has caused that only clear correlations between topic and metadata are detected. Topics with less presence can reach high levels of activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research will analyze the adequacy of the representations of cartographic resources included in information retrieval systems to the search and access needs of the community specialized in Geography. Among the proposed objectives are to survey such systems at the public, governmental, and national levels; to identify the metadata standards or schemes used, and to study the ways of searching, accessing and using these resources. The work methodology to be implemented will be based on a descriptive-exploratory and quantitative-qualitative approach to be developed in three phases or work stages. The first phase will be devoted to the analysis of the representations based on the identification of the systems and the subsequent application of evaluation criteria and instruments to carry out the observation. The second phase will include a survey of the selected population to learn how users access the information contained in the cartographic resources, which will be complemented with semi-structured interviews based on a purposive sample of key subjects. In a third stage, the results of phase one and two will be analyzed comparatively in order to identify the relationships between the representations, the existing systems and the expectations and search needs of the users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Metadata is a precise focus of academic research and professional practice within the disciplines of information, documentation and librarianship. This article is an exploration of its conceptualisation. It introduces the subject from a high-level perspective and discusses the main research problems and applied challenges. The paper discusses the different conceptions of its meaning, origin and evolution as a topic within the field of data and information, as well as identifying the essential characteristics. Metadata can be understood as both a process and a product, being the result of both human action and automated processes. Because of the central role they assume today as a support for knowledge - they embody evidence - it is necessary for researchers and practitioners in the field to reflect critically on what our practices are with them and the systems in which these elements are embedded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cryptocurrencies have established themselves as a topic of discussion in the academic and professional field. This work aims to characterize the perceived risk in the use of cryptocurrencies; for which, a review of academic literature is carried out in articles indexed in Scopus. For this purpose, a search equation is proposed, which includes words related to cryptocurrencies; as well as categories or terms that include perceived risk and related constructs such as technological acceptance. The approach to perceived risk is based on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA); with which it is intended to understand and explain the use of a technology in different environments and places through the analysis of people's behavior. Twenty-four documents were found on which the review was carried out; although well, the ten most influential were selected to deepen their characterization, using the number of citations received as a criterion. This characterization is based on a table that allows identifying some important metadata such as the author, the year, the document and the journal; as well as an extract of content that allows to account for its approach to the perceived risk. From the above, a theoretical discussion is carried out, where the findings are integrated with other theoretical references. In the end, it is concluded that, although the perceived risk is an important category of analysis; It is also key to address other factors that induce the adoption of technology, such as the perceived usefulness of use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) are a group of key invertebrates in the montane ecosystems of Colombia; they participate in the recycling of organic matter, are intermediate links in the trophic chains, and are sensitive to anthropogenic disturbances. The few studies in the department of Caldas have focused on morphological and taxonomic aspects, whereas their ecology and natural history are poorly known. Currently, this family is represented in the department by six species. The objective of this study was to establish the patterns of potential distribution of Pseudothelphusidae and promote conservation areas in the western-central region of Colombia. The records from the Entomological Collection of the University of Caldas (CEBUC) and secondary information (metadata) of different bioecological aspects of the voucher specimens were consolidated. 91 georeferences were compiled and 37 new geo-records are reported for the department. Maps on information gaps and potential distribution models of the studied species were generated with the MaxEnt algorithm. A wide distribution was detected in the middle and lower zones in the Magdalena and Cauca rivers, and three convergence nodes were generated for the conservation of the freshwater crab species in Caldas and Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a comparative study resulting from the design and simulation of a system of prediction of climatic conditions using machine learning models, in which the results obtained when using a database of environmental conditions are compared with another database generated from the treatment of the data through the analysis by main components. In the first phase of the study, metadata is generated through the subspaces created with the analysis by main components, a second phase consists of developing a system of prediction of climatic conditions using several machine learning models, which will use as a resource the original data and metadata generated in the first phase of the study, in the final phase of the study, both results are compared with the aim of observing the behavior of solar radiation inference systems. The proposed data processing strategy allows to extract information from environmental databases facilitating interpretation and observation as a time series of data, additionally, it is possible to build an experimental frame of reference for the inference of solar radiation using different supervised learning techniques on the generated databases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the support of governments, research funding agencies or academic institutions, Open Access is taking hold in the field of scholarly communication. More and more cases are found where recommendations on Open Access publication are transformed into obligations that researchers must comply with. Plan S, the Spanish Law on Science, Technology and Innovation or several university mandates are some examples of this change in trend. Given this situation, it is necessary to check compliance with these mandates from at least two points of view, on the one hand, to ensure that publications are in Open Access and on the other hand, that they comply with the established deadlines. So far, several attempts have been made to monitor compliance with the mandates from different perspectives, however, few have considered the time frame in which a publication must be in Open Access. To improve this monitoring, we propose the use of existing information in the repositories, such as, information on the funders, date of publication of the work in the academic journal and date of deposit in the repository, as well as the presentation of this information through the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative - Procotol for Metadata Harvesting). In this way, monitoring could be improved at the institutional level. In addition, this information could also be collected by harvesters such as Recolecta, so that they can become a tool for monitoring Open Access publication mandates at the national level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There were analyzed 100 Latin American scientific journals of Legal Sciences with 19,826 articles published between 2005 and 2019. The objective is to offer a comprehensive perspective of the discipline based on the scientific output that circulates in non-commercial Open Access channels (Diamond OA), highlighting its publication and collaboration dynamics. The journals were identified from some of the main global Open Access platforms: DOAJ, Latindex, Redalyc and SciELO. Metadata was obtained based on Redalyc, OJS and SciELO. The analysis is based on automatic information retrieval and a complementary normalization strategy. A tendency to publish mainly at the national level and, secondly, at the institutional level is documented; as well as little presence of the Caribbean and Central America; and a growing trend of scientific collaboration, mainly driven by institutional networks. It is suggested that currently the communication of knowledge in the Latin American Legal Sciences takes place predominantly from a Diamond Open Access model and in this context, challenges of interoperability, retrieval and organization of bibliometric information are identified, in articulation with a growing legitimization of commercial publishing universes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed infodemics as an aggravating factor in health emergencies, a situation that enhanced the role of data verification journalism in crisis situations. This article aims to know the dynamics of publication and interaction on Facebook of the international fact-checking group LatamChequea Coronavirus during the first two months after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the WHO (March 11, 2020 - May 11, 2020). Methodology: The contents, metadata and reactions generated in a total of 5736 posts published by 31 different fact-checkers were collected with Crowdtangle and analyzed. Results: Among the most shared publications, those related to the COVID-19 generated more reactions and comments than those referring to other topics; the volume of shares is high in relation to other generally more frequent interactions and publications that include links achieved more interactions of all kinds than those based on videos or images. There are positive correlations between the number of likes and the number of shares, and between the angry reaction and the number of comments. Discussion and conclusions: The relevance of sharing in the set of interactions would indicate a high interest of the users to share the denials about fake news, something that distances from previous referenced investigations. The results also point to the influence of the emotional reaction expressed in the interaction with the content in the form of sharing or commenting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliometrics is facing an intricate universe of data that is constantly changing and expanding, with a wide ecosystem of data sources in which it is easy to get lost. In this complex setting, APIs are positioned as the perfect solution to deal with this heterogeneity and to obtain adapted data. Although APIs have not come as a surprise, it is now time to highlight their value and promote their use, which will make them easier to utilize. In this paper we therefore take a practical approach to APIs in the bibliometrics field. To this end, we provide an introduction to APIs and the new work processes that their use entails. We also offer a corpus in which we compile 49 APIs of interest to bibliometricians, organized by type and access, as well as programming packages in R and Python that facilitate their use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Territorial Information System of Navarre - SITNA, after more than twenty years of experience, initiated in April 2020 a project, focused on restructuring, modernising and improving the range of services offered to the society. As a result, the project set out a new geoportal, capable of offering all the official geospatial information of the entities of Navarre: https://geoportal.navarra.es/ The main objective of the geoportal is to offer a single channel of communication that facilitates the continuous dissemination of relevant content for people of different profiles, both technical and with no prior knowledge of geospatial information. The mission of the geoportal is, therefore, to bring to the general public, all the geospatial information of Navarre through an easy and intuitive navigation, capable of attracting any type of web user. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we present the results of quality evaluation of budget open datasets in Spain. To achieve this quality evaluation we have applied the Metadata Quality Assurance (MQA) methodology proposed to check the European open data portal. Following this, a methodology to test the five dimensions of MQA grouped by the spatial property has been developed. In addition, an automatic procedure to create comparative graphs, the first describing the spatial property of the corpus and the second following the MQA ranking. The results show that, even with some different dataset (and metadata) producers, the MQA value is similar in all the cases and are mainly limited by the policy that defines the design of open data portal in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this article is to discuss the concept of provenance and highlight its importance in the digital environment, focusing on the perspective of Information Science. As methodological procedures, it was characterized by being a qualitative and exploratory research, from a literature review on the context of provenance in different domains. The article presents a discussion of the term provenance in several contexts, such as in Achival Science, Museology, Digital Preservation and Computing, highlighting its importance in the digital sphere. As discussed the relevance of provenance in different contexts, the need for more in-depth studies is highlighted, analyzing whether the instruments to represent provenance are adequate to guarantee the veracity and inalterability of the information. Thus, the discussions exposed in this article reveal possibilities in identifying metadata for each characteristic that the provenance may present, in addition to the feasibility of expansion to other contexts [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study analyses six Arabisms through a corpus of administrative documents linked to the territories that constituted the Kingdom of Granada during the 16th and 17th centuries from a historical-linguistic point of view: alarguez, albotín, almáciga, almea, almoraduj and atutía. The historical conditions that are observed in this territory have made the Spanish variety developed there especially suitable for the studying of Arabims, against the general trend to the loss of these terms since the late 15th century. The selected lexicon is framed in the field of the names of plants and minerals, which reveals as especially fruitful to the documentation of Arab loanwords and in which numerous lexical doublets are produced between Arabic loanwords and voices of Greek and Latin origin. New data about the aforementioned voices and its main changes are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work explores the relationships between the field of literary studies based on data inspired by the "distant reading" school and the digital humanities and the activity of libraries and other agents of the book sector in the ecosystem of recommendation and discovery of readings. Projects for enriching catalogues and description resources about literary fiction are presented, such as OCLC FictionFinder and Kirjasampo, within the framework of transmedia and open metadata, understood in relation to the practices of digital content consumption platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. Besides, other practices of annotation and editing of literary texts are outlined. Finally, I explain opportunities to develop digital Library Laboratories supported by open data infrastructures such as Wikidata for the enriched description past and present of narrative fictions in a collaborative way, to enable projects and services for the discovery of related readings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The thesis proposed in this article maintains the full validity of metadata as an element of validation of documents in the new digital media and formats of today, in the same way that Diplomacy -as far as the science of the documentused, as today, elements of documentary validation that made them and make them authentic and indubitable in physical supports such as parchment or paper. This is why we trace here a brief evolution of the document validation system from the Middle Ages, to demonstrate that the document considered authentic was what it claimed to be, in order to connect these traditional elements of validation with current elements, through metadata, with the same functionality of guaranteeing the integrity and reliability of modern digital documents. To this end, we first approach documents on physical support through the analysis of their subscriptions, signs, monograms, wheels, signatures and seals. Subsequently, as a contribution to what we could call e-Diplomatic, we valued the digital forms of validation, which are produced through the metadata of the management of e-documents, approaching the origin of their legitimacy as elements that guarantee that they are authentic, available and reliable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Local administration acts both as producer and user of large volumes of geoinformation, very useful for analysis, diagnosis, planning and management and, in general, design and implementation of public policies. If this information is harmonized, it facilitates the implementation of common policies at the supra-municipal level. Local SDIs respond to many obligations of the local administration established by law, in addition to the publication through INSPIRE services of geographic information under its competence (INSPIRE Directive and transposition, LISIGE) and the satisfaction of the needs of municipal management and governance. In the Diputación de Barcelona, the SDI is implemented on the SITMUN platform. The geoportal publishes the available resources: a web GIS tool that offers services to Barcelona city councils, decentralized municipal entities (EMD), regional councils and the Diputacióm itself; INSPIRE services; a gazetteer based on the geodatabase; a metadata catalog, and the SDI portals of Barcelona city councils. The SITMUN platform promotes the homogenization of spatial data and helps in the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive. Having SDI resources and a centralized geodatabase, with more than 700 layers, makes it easier to respond to the obligations and needs of local administrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A method for quickly and dynamically building controlled vocabularies, especially for the media, using Wikidata and Wikipedia as sources of terminological information, is proposed. The method is applied to construct a vocabulary about the Covid-19 pandemic. For this purpose, it is proposed to exploit the structure of items and properties of Wikidata and links and backlinks of Wikipedia articles. Using a process based on the definition of Wikidata relationship expansion rules, an algorithm was designed, starting from a set of initial items and then being executed in successive iterations, followed by a review of the results. In this way, the Wikidata entities relevant to the thematic coverage of the vocabulary are collected. The algorithm has been implemented in an open-source application whose results for the Covid-19 pandemic vocabulary collection have been published in a repository. The algorithm can be used to verify the results using the same or other expansion rules or applied to compile vocabularies in other thematic areas. The results in terms of the elements collected in each iteration and the validation proposal through the links and backlinks of Wikipedia articles are also analyzed. The application of SKOS to achieve an interoperable representation of vocabularies obtained by this method is proposed as future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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