Cultural Heritage Information Practices and iSchools Education for Achieving Sustainable Development

Since 2015, UNESCO began the process of inculcating culture as part of the UN’s post-2015 Sustainable (former Millennium) Development Goals, which member countries agreed to achieve by 2030. By conducting a thematic analysis of the 25 UN commissioned reports and policy documents, this research identifies 14 broad cultural heritage information themes that need to be practiced in order to achieve cultural sustainability, of which information platforms, information sharing, information broadcast, information quality, information usage training, information access, information collection, and contribution appear to be the significant themes. An investigation of education on cultural heritage informatics and digital humanities at iSchools (www.ischools.org) using a gap analysis framework demonstrates the core information science skills required for cultural heritage education. The research demonstrates that: (i) a thematic analysis of cultural heritage policy documents can be used to explore the key themes for cultural informatics education and research that can lead to sustainable development; and (ii) cultural heritage information education should cover a series of skills that can be categorized in five key areas, viz., information, technology, leadership, application, and people and user skills

Correction: Metric-based vs peer-reviewed evaluation of a research output: lesson learnt from UK's national research assessment exercise

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Leadership capability : an autopoietic perspective

There is a large body of literature by the Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, referred to as Autopoietic Theory. This theory describes the dynamics of living systems; dealing with cognition as a biological phenomenon. The theory, however, has found far wider application than may be suggested from its biological roots, to generate implications for epistemology, i.e. enactive view of cognition, communication and social systems theory. This paper presents key insights and explores their implication to understanding leadership capability from the perspective of an enactive view of cognition. Autopoiesis suggests that the quality of human experience, is determined by the interplay between the internal dynamics (biological processes) and the environment (social and other) of an active situated human agent, and thus offers an alternative perspective to interpreting and developing leadership capability. What is required is to foster an environment where awareness is actively developed, fragmentation of experience is avoided and language is used to promote creativity. A mini case study of the hearing aid manufacturer, Oticon A/S, is used for illustration

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A path of roses and financial literacy: exploring the usability of UK's digital banking services to improve younger-adult adoption.

Digital retail banking is a prominent method for customers to interact with their banks. However, over the last decade the banking industry has experienced a slowing of digital retail banking adoption rates worldwide, especially in younger adults. Scholars attribute this adoption slowdown on the dissimilar growth of adoption rates and development maturity of digital retail banking applications, where the adoption rates have summited faster than development maturity. As UK banks are advancing their capabilities in digital banking, to the extent of replacing traditional branches with self-service kiosks, it becomes essential to design usable applications for customers. In retail banking, younger customers tend to continue banking as they age with the institution of their first business, hence it becomes essential for banking institutions to provide mature digital services to attract and retain the digital natives. A focussed survey and interviews conducted by the research team indicates that younger adults find the current user-interfaces impede cognitive and visual access to information and are not user-specific. Additionally, it was also found that their lack of financial knowledge and information deters them from using various features and products provided digitally by the banks. Therefore, it appears that inculcation of accessible financial information and user-specificities into the design of digital banking applications, in addition to offering giveaways could improve user adoption rates in young adults

A recommendations-based reading list system prototype for learning and resource management

A reading list is a list of reading items recommended by an academic to assist students' acquisition of knowledge for a specific subject. Subsequently, the libraries of higher education institutions collect and assemble reading lists according to specific courses and offer the students the reading lists service. However, the reading list is created based on localised intelligence, restricted to the academic’s knowledge of their field, semantics, experience and awareness of developments. This investigation aims to present the views and comments of academics, and library staff, on an envisaged aggregated reading lists service, which aggregates recommended reading items from various higher education institutions. This being the aim, we build a prototype, which aggregates reading lists from different universities and showcase it to nineteen academics and library staff in various higher education institutions to capture their views, comments and any recommendations. In the process we also showcase the feasibility of collecting and aggregating reading lists, in addition to understanding the process of reading lists creation at their respective higher education institutions. The prototype successfully showcases the creation of ranked lists of reading items, authors, topics, modules and courses. Academics and library staff indicated that aggregated lists would collectively benefit the academic community. Consequently, recommendations in the form of process implementations and technological applications are made to overcome and successfully implement the proposed aggregated reading list service. This proof-of-concept demonstrates potential benefits for the academic community and identifies further challenges to overcome in order to scale it up to the implementation stage

Metric-based vs peer-reviewed evaluation of a research output: Lesson learnt from UK’s national research assessment exercise

Purpose There is a general inquisition regarding the monetary value of a research output, as a substantial amount of funding in modern academia is essentially awarded to good research presented in the form of journal articles, conferences papers, performances, compositions, exhibitions, books and book chapters etc., which, eventually leads to another question if the value varies across different disciplines. Answers to these questions will not only assist academics and researchers, but will also help higher education institutions (HEIs) make informed decisions in their administrative and research policies. Design and methodology To examine both the questions, we applied the United Kingdom’s recently concluded national research assessment exercise known as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 as a case study. All the data for this study is sourced from the openly available publications which arose from the digital repositories of REF’s results and HEFCE’s funding allocations. Findings A world leading output earns between £7504 and £14,639 per year within the REF cycle, whereas an internationally excellent output earns between £1876 and £3659, varying according to their area of research. Secondly, an investigation into the impact rating of 25315 journal articles submitted in five areas of research by UK HEIs and their awarded funding revealed a linear relationship between the percentage of quartile-one journal publications and percentage of 4* outputs in Clinical Medicine, Physics and Psychology/Psychiatry/Neuroscience UoAs, and no relationship was found in the Classics and Anthropology/Development Studies UoAs, due to the fact that most publications in the latter two disciplines are not journal articles. Practical implications The findings provide an indication of the monetary value of a research output, from the perspectives of government funding for research, and also what makes a good output, i.e. whether a relationship exists between good quality output and the source of its publication. The findings may also influence future REF submission strategies in HEIs and ascertain that the impact rating of the journals is not necessarily a reflection of the quality of research in every discipline, and this may have a significant influence on the future of scholarly communications in general. Originality According to the author’s knowledge, this is the first time an investigation has estimated the monetary value of a good research output

Impact Case Studies data of top 5 and bottom 5 HEIs in CM/ADS/GE/PHY/CCSLIM UoAs submitted for the REF2014.

This collection consists of the impact case studies data of top 5 and bottom 5 ranked higher education institutions which had submitted for the REF 2014 in clinical medicine, physics, general engineering, anthropology and development studies, Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management units of assessment

Dataset for the article: A framework to measure the impact of academic research in computer and information science on society

Dataset for the article: A framework to measure the impact of academic research in computer and information science on societ

Impact of datasets: Ranking datasets

In this file we rank various datasets in the physionet repository by their popularity and quality, hence providing an example of dataset evaluation