The state of research on folksonomies in the field of Library and Information Science : a Systematic Literature Review

Purpose – The purpose of this thesis is to provide an overview of all relevant peer-reviewed articles on folksonomies, social tagging and social bookmarking as knowledge organisation systems within the field of Library and Information Science by reviewing the current state of research on these systems of managing knowledge. Method – I use the systematic literature review method in order to systematically and transparently review and synthesise data extracted from 39 articles found through the discovery system LUBsearch in order to find out which, and to which degree different methods, theories and systems are represented, which subfields can be distinguished, how present research within these subfields is and which larger conclusions can be drawn from research conducted between 2003-2013 on folksonomies. Findings – There have been done many studies which are exploratory or reviewing literature discussions, and other frequently used methods which have been used are questionnaires or surveys, although often in conjunction with other methods. Furthermore, out of the 39 studies, 22 were quantitative, 15 were qualitative and 2 used mixed methods. I also found that there were an underwhelming number of theories being explicitly used, where merely 11 articles explicitly used theories, and only one theory was used twice. No key authors on the topic were identified, though Knowledge Organization, Information Processing & Management and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology were recognised as key journals for research on folksonomies. There have been plenty of studies on how tags and folksonomies have effected other knowledge organisation systems, or how pre-existing have been used to create new systems. Other well represented subfields include studies on the quality or characteristics of tags or text, and studies aiming to improve folksonomies, search methods or tags. Value – I provide an overview on what has been researched and where the focus on said research has been during the last decade and present future research suggestions and identify possible dangers to be wary of which I argue will benefit folksonomies and knowledge organisation as a whole

New Access Structures to Scientific Information : The Case of Science 2.0

Since the early 1980s, the scholarly community has been witnessing a considerable increase in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Specifically the use the Web has led to qualitative changes in the research community. With the advent of the Web 2.0 a new level of possible functionalities for science has been reached, leading to the concept of Science 2.0. Will the new research technology 2.0 change the way research is done and what aspects are already visible in current structures of scientific communication are questions this paper tries to answer. Several clusters of expectation emerge from the prospect of applying the principles of Web 2.0 to scientific communication, like the opening of science communities towards public and the acceleration of dissemination of scientific research through new communication and collaboration tools. In the first part the authors will comment how the Web 2.0 challenges some traditional and known structures of scientific communication and explore possibilities of applying Web 2.0 principles (collaboration, collective validation, access and generation of information) to scientific work. In the second part the authors will present results gathered through analysis of Web 2.0 services that have been integrated into academic databases and vice versa, the analysis of scientific information spaces that have been created within the Web 2.0

Changing Higher Education Learning with Web 2.0 and Open Education Citation, Annotation, and Thematic Coding Appendices

Appendices of citations, annotations and themes for research conducted on four websites: Delicious, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook

Semantic Web Tools and Decision-Making

Semantic Web technologies are intertwined with decision-making processes. In this paper the general objectives of the semantic web tools are reviewed and characterized, as well as the categories of decision support tools, in order to establish an intersection of utility and use. We also elaborate on actual and foreseen possibilities for a deeper integration, considering the actual implementation, opportunities and constraints in the decision-making context.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Integrating content communities into your library

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Emerging technologies for learning (volume 1)

Collection of 5 articles on emerging technologies and trend