Browsing Faculty of Management by Issue Date
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The structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalog
(2007-09)This article examines the linguistic structure of folksonomy tags collected over a thirty-day period from the daily tag logs of Delicious, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against the National Information ... -
The Analysis of Online Communities using Interactive Content-based Social Networks
(2008)Today the Internet has become a convenient and ubiquitous platform for anyone with access to publish their thoughts and ideas, express their opinions, argue with their peers on various issues and, most importantly, organize ... -
Automated Discovery and Analysis of Social Networks from Threaded Discussions
(2008)To gain greater insight into the operation of online social networks, we applied Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to text-based communication to identify and describe underlying social structures in online ... -
Analyzing Networked Learning Texts
(2008)Social interactions are essential in understanding the collaborative processes in networked learning environments. Although individuals may learn by retrieving information from online archives, dictionaries and ... -
Privacy and Online Social Networks: A Proposed Approach for Academic Librarians in University Libraries
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2008)This paper analyzes the ways in which academic librarians in university settings can educate the staff, students, and public involved in the library community of both the risks and benefits of involvement in online social ... -
Fostering a Balanced Library: How Practicing the Principles of Slow Library Movement Could Lead to a Sustainable Future for Libraries
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2008)The increasing ubiquity of digital information in recent decades has altered the potential form and role of libraries of the future. In order to fulfill their most fundamental mandate, libraries must provide relevant ... -
Reducing Resistance to the Adoption of Open Source Systems
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2008)This paper examines the background and psychology of the open source movement and suggests ways to decrease resistance to the adoption of open source systems in libraries, which have typically favoured proprietary systems. ... -
Digital Audio Collections
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2008)This paper is about the possibility of libraries creating digital music or audio collections based on the current state of the digital music industry, and in comparison with the difficulties librarians have found in ... -
Name Networks: A Content-Based Method for Automated Discovery of Social Networks to Study Collaborative Learning
(2009)As a way to gain greater insight into the operation of Library and Information Science (LIS) e-learning communities, the presented work applies automated text mining techniques to text- based communication to identify, ... -
A Different Kind of Memory: Examining the Effect of Technology through the Ages
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)The effect of new technologies on human memory is a subject of interest for educators, technology developers, and information specialists. However, such a preoccupation is not new to contemporary society. The current ... -
Perceptions of Privacy and the Consequences of Apathy: Biometrics in the 21st Century
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)Privacy, long considered one of our most valuable rights, is at risk. Younger generations are increasingly becoming de-sensitized to the disclosure of their personal and confidential information. With little or no ... -
New Textual Formats: Reading online is re-wiring the human brain and changing how we process information
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)The experience of reading online is different from reading the hard copy of a printed item. This is relevant to librarians and those in the information studies field who need to be aware that the way young people and future ... -
Automated Discovery of Emerging Online Communities Among Blog Readers: A Case Study of a Canadian Real Estate Blog
(2009)More than 184 million people worldwide have started a web blog, that collectively attracted at least 346 million blog readers. Due to their popularities, web blogs have been the focus of many recent Internet studies. Aside ... -
The Application of Library Outreach Strategies in Archival Settings
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)Librarians and archivists in the Halifax Regional Municipality were surveyed using a series of online questionnaires in order to identify library outreach strategies that could potentially be used by archives. Participants ... -
Reference Analysis as an Aid in Collection Development: A Study of Master of Architecture Theses at Dalhousie University
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)Librarians face difficult collection management decisions due to the proliferation of potential resources and the limited funding available to libraries. Reference analysis can act as a tool for selecting and de selecting ... -
Information Warfare: Doing Battle in the 21st Century
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)This paper outlines Information Warfare as perceived by Western militaries. It maps out and defines Information Warfare as a multi-faceted strategy that relies on coherent and synchronized application of virtual and physical ... -
E-government: The Canadian Experience
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)The Canadian government was one of the first administrations to adapt to an online service delivery model and was distinguished early on as one of the most innovative in the development of its e-government tool. This article ... -
Stability of Curved Interfaces in the Perturbed Two-Dimensional Allen-Cahn System
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009)We consider the singular limit of a perturbed Allen-Cahn model on a bounded two-dimensional domain: $\left\{\begin{array}{@{}ll@{}} u_t = \varepsilon^2 \Delta u - 2 (u - \varepsilon a) (u^2 - 1), & x \in \Omega \subset ... -
Protecting Personal Information Nova Scotia’s Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act and the USA Patriot Act
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009-01-01)This paper looks at Nova Scotia's Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act (PIIDPA), a piece of legislation that was specifically designed to protect Nova Scotia's citizens from having their personal ... -
N is for Network: New Tools for Mapping Organizational Change
(2010)Understanding network dynamics is important for underrepresented minorities and women in technological organizations, who can easily spend their entire careers on the periphery, far away from the flow of information ...