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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Write While You Search: Ambient Searching of a Digital Library in the Context of Writing
(2006)
We consider ideas for a tighter integration of searching a digital
library while writing a paper. A prototype system based on web
services is described which allows us to explore the design space
of ambient search tools ...
Web APIs: A Step towards Greater Mobility of User-Created Data across Social Networking Websites and Their Implications for Research in Information Behavior
(2007)
As Internet users are joining more online communities
such as Facebook and MySpace, they are also becoming
more prolific content creators. But unfortunately, the task
of managing and exchanging content between their ...
Faceted navigation of social tagging applications
(ISKO-UK, 2011)
The goal of this paper is to conduct an analysis of seventeen existing and proposed methodologies for the use of facets in social tagging applications, with particular emphasis placed on the extent to which these methodologies ...
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 ...
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 ...