Browsing Information Management Faculty Research, Publications and Presentations by Title
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If you build it, they won’t come: What motivates employees to create and share tagged content: A theoretical model and empirical validation
The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors influencing employees’ knowledge-sharing behavior on social tagging supported systems. Using the strong theoretical background of the well-known technology acceptance model ... -
Illusions of a “Bond”: tagging cultural products across online platforms
Most studies pertaining to social tagging focus on one platform or platform type, thus limiting the scope of their findings. The purpose of this paper is to explore social tagging practices across four platforms in relation ... -
Indigenous Nationhood, Sovereignty and Linked Data: A Wikidata Case Study Examination of the Métis Nation
This chapter presents a critical analysis and discussion of ethical tensions in the documentation of Indigenous identity firstly through a discussion of concepts of identity, nationhood, and peoplehood, particularly in ... -
Individual Perspectives on Data Sharing: Human Factors Impacting the Digital Economy
Digital economies rely on the exchange and sharing of data, but this type of sharing is relatively new. Any digital transformation will include a shift from data as a protected asset to data as a tool for collaboration and ... -
Investigating biomedical research literature in the blogosphere: a case study of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)
Objective: The research investigated the relationship between biomedical literature and blogosphere discussions about diabetes in order to explore the role of Web 2.0 technologies in disseminating health information. Are ... -
Investigating biomedical research literature in the blogosphere: a case study of diabetes and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)
Objective: The research investigated the relationship between biomedical literature and blogosphere discussions about diabetes in order to explore the role of Web 2.0 technologies in disseminating health information. Are ... -
An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents
Goal: This study aims to understand how individuals communicated and acknowledged to COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. It mainly focused on identifying and demonstrating the differences in the perspective of United States and ... -
Is Our Ability to Detect Errors an Indicator of Mind Wandering? An Experiment Proposal
Mind wandering could have a variety of impacts on information systems phenomena, not least long monotonous tasks. Unfortunately, mind wandering states are difficult to measure objectively. In this paper, we describe ... -
Library catalogues of the future: A social space and collaborative tool?
Next-generation catalogues are providing opportunities for library professionals and users to interact, collaborate, and enhance core library functions. Technology, innovation, and creativity are all components that are ... -
Measuring Mind Wandering during Online Lectures Assessed with EEG
Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ... -
Measuring Mind Wandering During Online Lectures Assessed With EEG
Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ... -
N is for Network: New Tools for Mapping Organizational Change
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 ... -
Name Networks: A Content-Based Method for Automated Discovery of Social Networks to Study Collaborative Learning
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, ... -
OPACs, users, and readers’ advisory: Exploring the implication of user-generated content for readers’ advisory in Canadian public librarie
This article examines the contribution of social discovery platforms and user-generated content (UGC) on readers’ advisory (RA) services in Canadian public libraries. Grounded Theory was used to conduct a content analysis ... -
Proficient Use of Open Data Requires These Core Information Skills: An Open Data Community Perspective
Expanding access to open data, such as government data and research data, requires that we consider how citizens and stakeholders can best access the value these data hold. Should individuals rely on an intermediary to ... -
The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries
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 ... -
Quality is more important than quantity: Social presence and workplace ergonomics control predict perceived remote work performance
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a widespread disruption to the way that we work. One of its lasting consequences will be the ubiquity of remote work. The effective use of collaboration tools is therefore a critical factor ... -
The Respectful Terminologies Platform Project and Envisioning Indigenous Governance
This paper will discuss the Respectful Terminologies Platform Project (RTPP), a project focused on creating a system of Indigenous terminologies, and questions of governance within cataloging and other descriptive practices. ...