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2. Hyperdocumentation: origin and evolution of a concept
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Le Deuff, Olivier and Perret, Arthur
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- 2019
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3. A hierarchical typology of scholarly information units: based on a deduction-verification study
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Yu, Liangzhi, Fan, Zhenjia, and Li, Anyi
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- 2020
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4. Considering a non-document: concepts, components, and contexts
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Kosciejew, Marc Richard Hugh
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- 2019
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5. Landscapes as documents : The relationship between traditional Sámi terminology and the concepts of document and documentation
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Grenersen, Geir, Kemi, Kjell, and Nilsen, Steinar
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- 2016
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6. Understanding subjects contained in Dunhuang mural images for deep semantic annotation
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Wang, Xiaoguang, Song, Ningyuan, Zhang, Lu, and Jiang, Yanyu
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- 2018
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7. A task completion framework to support single-interaction IR research
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van der Vegt, Anton, Zuccon, Guido, Koopman, Bevan, and Bruza, Peter
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- 2018
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8. From fact to fantasy : Scientific illustrations and visual representations in the early work of Gaston Backman
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Kjellman, Ulrika
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- 2019
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9. Landscapes as documents.
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Grenersen, Geir, Kemi, Kjell, and Nilsen, Steinar
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DOCUMENTATION ,TERMS & phrases ,INTERDISCIPLINARY approach to knowledge ,SCIENCE & the humanities ,THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the following questions: what is the origin of the concepts of documents and documentation? Are there a need for these concepts in every culture? Who gives the terms for their definitions, and what are the consequences of different terminology?Design/methodology/approach The authors use interdisciplinary methodology, combining document and information theory and Sámi linguistics. The aim of this paper is to discuss documentation from the perspective of the Sámi, with some examples from other indigenous groups.Findings Oral accounts, legends, traditional songs and traces in the landscape are seen as documents and documentation in Sámi and other indigenous cultures. The paper presents different theories in order to interpret and understand the specific information content in indigenous forms of documentation.Practical implications Indigenous ways of documentation have been accepted as valid proof of ownership or the right to extensive use of land resources. When no written records exist, oral testimonies and the landscape itself can be seen as documenting traditional use and has been accepted as evidence in high courts in Norway and Canada. The authors have also seen that the rich Sámi snow terminology is used as concepts in different fields of natural sciences.Originality/value The Sámi understanding of the concepts of document and documentation contributes to the traditional information and documentation disciplines by introducing ways of seeing natural phenomenon as fundamental forms of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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10. On the composition of scientific abstracts.
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Atanassova, Iana, Bertin, Marc, and Larivière, Vincent
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SCIENCE ,COMPLEXITY (Philosophy) ,ORATORY ,PUBLISHED articles ,ABSTRACTING - Abstract
Purpose – Scientific abstracts reproduce only part of the information and the complexity of argumentation in a scientific article. The purpose of this paper provides a first analysis of the similarity between the text of scientific abstracts and the body of articles, using sentences as the basic textual unit. It contributes to the understanding of the structure of abstracts. Design/methodology/approach – Using sentence-based similarity metrics, the authors quantify the phenomenon of text re-use in abstracts and examine the positions of the sentences that are similar to sentences in abstracts in the introduction, methods, results and discussion structure, using a corpus of over 85,000 research articles published in the seven Public Library of Science journals. Findings – The authors provide evidence that 84 percent of abstract have at least one sentence in common with the body of the paper. Studying the distributions of sentences in the body of the articles that are re-used in abstracts, the authors show that there exists a strong relation between the rhetorical structure of articles and the zones that authors re-use when writing abstracts, with sentences mainly coming from the beginning of the introduction and the end of the conclusion. Originality/value – Scientific abstracts contain what is considered by the author(s) as information that best describe documents’ content. This is a first study that examines the relation between the contents of abstracts and the rhetorical structure of scientific articles. The work might provide new insight for improving automatic abstracting tools as well as information retrieval approaches, in which text organization and structure are important features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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11. The information work of community archives: a systematic literature review.
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Poole, Alex H.
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META-analysis ,COMMUNITIES ,CITATION indexes ,ARCHIVES ,RECORDS management ,INFORMATION services - Abstract
Purpose: This paper scrutinizes the scholarship on community archives' information work. Community archives and archiving projects represent unprecedentedly democratic venues for information work centering on essential documentary concepts such as custody, collection development and appraisal, processing, arrangement and description, organization, representation and naming, collaboration, resource generation and allocation, activism and social justice, preservation, reuse, and sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: Unearthed through databases searches, citation chaining, and browsing, sources examined include peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters published in the English language between 1985 and 2018. Findings: The literature on community archives' information work shows considerable geographical (six continents), topical, and (inter)disciplinary variety. This paper first explores scholars' efforts to define both community and community archives. Second, it unpacks the ways in which community archives include new stakeholders and new record types and formats even as they leverage alternative archival principles and practices. Third, it discusses community archives as political venues for empowerment, activism, and social justice work. Fourth, this paper delves into the benefits and challenges of partnerships and collaborations with mainstream institutions. Fifth, it documents the obstacles community archives face: not only tensions within and among communities, but also sustainability concerns. Finally, it sets forth six directions for future research. Originality/value: This paper is the first systematic review of the community archives literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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12. Arts and humanities research evaluation: no metrics please, just data.
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Thelwall, Mike and Delgado, Maria M.
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ARTS -- Research ,HUMANITIES research ,SCIENTOMETRICS ,INFORMATION science ,DOCUMENTATION ,PARAPSYCHOLOGISTS - Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to make an explicit case for the use of data with contextual information as evidence in arts and humanities research evaluations rather than systematic metrics. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of the strengths and limitations of citation-based indicators is combined with evidence about existing uses of wider impact data in the arts and humanities, with particular reference to the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework. Findings – Data are already used as impact evidence in the arts and humanities but this practice should become more widespread. Practical implications – Arts and humanities researchers should be encouraged to think creatively about the kinds of data that they may be able to generate in support of the value of their research and should not rely upon standardised metrics. Originality/value – This paper combines practices emerging in the arts and humanities with research evaluation from a scientometric perspective to generate new recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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13. Differences over discourse structure differences: a reply to Urquhart and Urquhart.
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Abrahamson, Jennie A. and Rubin, Victoria L.
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DISCOURSE analysis ,DOCUMENTATION ,INFORMATION sharing ,MEDICAL communication ,PHYSICIAN-patient relations ,INFORMATION retrieval - Abstract
Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to respond to Urquhart and Urquhart's critique of the previous work entitled "Discourse structure differences in lay and professional health communication", published in this journal in 2012 (Vol. 68 No. 6, pp. 826-851, doi: 10.1108/00220411211277064). Design/methodology/approach -- The authors examine Urquhart and Urquhart's critique and provide responses to their concerns and cautionary remarks against cross-disciplinary contributions. The authors reiterate the central claim. Findings -- The authors argue that Mann and Thompson's (1987, 1988) Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) offers valuable insights into computer-mediated health communication and deserves further discussion of its methodological strength and weaknesses for application in library and information science. Research limitations/implications -- While the authors agree that some methodological limitations pointed out by Urquhart and Urquhart are valid, the authors take this opportunity to correct certain misunderstandings and misstatements. Originality/value -- The authors argue for continued use of innovative techniques borrowed from neighbouring disciplines, in spite of objections from the researchers accustomed to a familiar strand of literature. The authors encourage researchers to consider RST and other computational linguistics-based discourse analysis annotation frameworks that could provide the basis for integrated research, and eventual applications in information behaviour and information retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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14. Guidelines for mandated documents.
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Westbrook, Lynn
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DOMESTIC violence ,INTIMATE partner violence ,LAW enforcement ,POLICE ,RESPONSE rates ,CRIMINAL justice system - Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present findings on the efficacy of documents that US police are required to provide to domestic violence survivors, specifically intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. Triangulating data from survivors, shelter staff, and law enforcement officers across four stages of IPV experiences, this national study identifies priorities among essential information needs and proposes information guidelines for law enforcement. Design/methodology/approach - A nationally distributed, 13-item, e-mail questionnaire was submitted to a stratified sample (ten largest, median, and smallest) of law enforcement agencies in all 50 states. Domestic violence shelters in each of the 1,500 cities were similarly recruited; survivors were recruited indirectly via shelter staff. The questions were clustered in terms of four common situations. Responses from 839 individuals were obtained, self-identified as police officers (481), shelter staff (263), and IPV survivors (95). Findings - Documents should be formatted for safety (i.e. small), developed for specific situations, and written simply. They should also offer information about non-law enforcement services. All three of the populations queried agreed that the immediate needs of survivors are stronger than their long-term needs. Research limitations/implications - The primary limitations are that the survey could include no means of determining the degree to which the respondents match the sample, and the response rate was insufficient to support inferential statistical analysis. Originality/value - This national study, the first of its kind, explicates the nuances of information elements in the personally situated experiences of survivors, and it presents the first set of suggested law-enforcement document design guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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15. On the composition of scientific abstracts
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Iana Atanassova, Marc Bertin, and Vincent Larivière
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- 2016
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16. Arts and humanities research evaluation: no metrics please, just data
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Mike Thelwall and Maria M Delgado
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- 2015
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17. On the composition of scientific abstracts
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Vincent Larivière, Iana Atanassova, Marc Bertin, Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires et transculturelles - UFC (EA 3224) (CRIT), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Centre Interuniversitaire de Rercherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), Université de Montréal (UdeM), Centre Interuniversitaire de Rercherche sur la Science et la Technologie ( CIRST ), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires et transculturelles - UFC ( CRIT ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie ( CIRST ), Université de Montréal, and Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,[ INFO.INFO-TT ] Computer Science [cs]/Document and Text Processing ,Computer science ,02 engineering and technology ,Library and Information Sciences ,computer.software_genre ,[INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL] ,Argumentation theory ,Computer Science - Information Retrieval ,Abstracts ,H.3.3 ,Similarity (psychology) ,Abstracting ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Information retrieval ,Digital Libraries (cs.DL) ,[ INFO.INFO-CL ] Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL] ,Composition (language) ,H.3.1 ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Structure (mathematical logic) ,Information science and documentation ,business.industry ,I.2.7 ,05 social sciences ,Computer Science - Digital Libraries ,Scientific article ,Text retrieval ,[INFO.INFO-TT]Computer Science [cs]/Document and Text Processing ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Artificial intelligence ,0509 other social sciences ,050904 information & library sciences ,business ,computer ,Sentence ,Natural language processing ,Algorithms ,Information Retrieval (cs.IR) ,Information Systems - Abstract
Scientific abstracts contain what is considered by the author(s) as information that best describe documents' content. They represent a compressed view of the informational content of a document and allow readers to evaluate the relevance of the document to a particular information need. However, little is known on their composition. This paper contributes to the understanding of the structure of abstracts, by comparing similarity between scientific abstracts and the text content of research articles. More specifically, using sentence-based similarity metrics, we quantify the phenomenon of text re-use in abstracts and examine the positions of the sentences that are similar to sentences in abstracts in the IMRaD structure (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion), using a corpus of over 85,000 research articles published in the seven PLOS journals. We provide evidence that 84% of abstract have at least one sentence in common with the body of the article. Our results also show that the sections of the paper from which abstract sentence are taken are invariant across the PLOS journals, with sentences mainly coming from the beginning of the introduction and the end of the conclusion., Comment: Preprint: Journal of Documentation, vol. 72, issue 4. Submitted 12-Sep-2015, accepted 10-Feb-2016. 13 pages
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- 2016
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