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Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), ventral view of individual G3192
(OBIS Canada, 1994-09)
Towards a Unified Vision for Ocean Data Management in Canada: Results of an Expert Forum
(MEOPAR, 2016-05)
The world’s oceans are a critical part of the Earth system. Sound knowledge and understanding of the oceans is essential for mitigating human impacts on the global environment and for promoting sustainable economic use of ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries
(Canadian Society for Information Science, 2011-01-01)
This paper uses transaction log data to examine how library users interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. Results indicate that user-generated content is not used extensively ...
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 ...
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 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 ...