Personal digital libraries: Keeping track of academic reading material

This paper discusses optionsfor tracking academic reading material and introduces a personal digital library solution. We combined and extended the open source projects Zotero and Greenstone such that material can be easily downloaded and ingested into the combined system. Our prototype system has been explored in a small user study

Faculty Seminar On Collaboration Syllabus

This is a collectively-built, in-progress syllabus for a faculty seminar on the topic of collaboration at Swarthmore College, Spring 2016. Topics include competing definitions of collaboration across disciplines, formal and informal collaboration, rich descriptions of collaboration, metrics and measures of collaborations, digital and analog tools for collaboration, literary and historical forms of collaboration, cost/benefit analyses of collaboration, crossinstitutional collaborations, institutional versus individual collaborations, collaboration narratives, failed or tragic collaborations, and teaching collaborations. Seminar members include statisticians, historians, psychologists, visual artists, literary critics, physicists, philosophers, engineers, education studies researchers, linguists, art historians, and computer scientists. Our format will accommodate both discussions of readings based on the syllabus as well as small experiments, and planning for possible future related projects

Pemanfaatan Zotero dalam penyusunan karya tulis ilmiah Pustakawan

Selain memberikan pelayanan prima, seorang Pustakawan juga harus bisa menuangkan gagasan dalam tulisan. Karya tulis ilmiah menjadi tuntutan bukan hanya sebagai syarat kenaikan pangkat/jabatan namun juga sebagai bentuk tanggungjawab profesi Fungsional. Memang tidak mudah menjadi seorang penulis. Perlu persiapan dan fokus dalam penuangan gagasan. Selain ide dan tema dalam kajian, juga perlu didukung bahan rujukan yang berkualitas. Zotero menjadi solusi terbaik bagi penyusunan sebuah karya ilmiah. Dengan zotero akan memudahkan Pustakawan dalam mendapatkan bahan rujukan berkualitas sekaligus pengelolaan dan sitasinya. Kemudahan dalam instalasi dan fitur pengelolaan data menjadikan zotero software yang sangat rekomended untuk digunakan

Review: Frank G. Bennett. Citations, Out of the Box Adapting Zotero for Legal and Multilingual Research

A review of Frank Bennett\u27s Citations, Out of the Box: Adapting Zotero for Legal and Multilingual Research. Bennett helps users set up Multilingual Zotero plugin. Often referred to simply as MLZ, the plugin helps those who work in multiple languages keep track of their sources and citations. The review put some emphasis on citing in Japanese

Firefox Extensions and Tools: Using iMacros and Zotero

This session will focus on two Firefox extensions and tools. Quinn will highlight iMacros which takes advantage of the macro concept and tabbed browsing capabilities and which can be used as an alternative to federated search and for performing repetitive tasks. Borkenhagen will discuss Zotero which allows users to capture bibliographic information about books, journal articles, and web pages while doing your research. Zotero will also allow you to organize these resources into folders and add notes about each item. During this session, participants will have an opportunity to download/create these Firefox add-ons and look at the ways in which librarians and library patrons can use them

Amabile‘s consensual assessment technique: Why has it not been used more in design creativity research?

Amabile’s Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) has been described as the “gold standard” of creativity assessment; been extensively used within creativity research, and is seen as the most popular method of assessing creative outputs. Its discussion within scholarly research has continued to grow year by year. However, since 1996, a systematic review of the CAT has not been undertaken, and, within design journals, appears not to have occurred, in relation to design, or more broadly, the creative industries in general. Yet, the consensus of domain judges is a prevalent methodology for design education, and professional design awards. This paper presents the findings from a systematic literature review of the CAT covering works from 1982 to 2011. It details key journals and authors publishing or citing CAT related studies, and highlights the limited number of CAT studies within design journals, with suggestions for why this may be the case

BioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics

Background: Linking together the data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) requires services that can mint, resolve, and discover globally unique identifiers (including, but not limited to, DOIs, HTTP URIs, and LSIDs). Results: BioGUID implements a range of services, the core ones being an OpenURL resolver for bibliographic resources, and a LSID resolver. The LSID resolver supports Linked Data-friendly resolution using HTTP 303 redirects and content negotiation. Additional services include journal ISSN look-up, author name matching, and a tool to monitor the status of biodiversity data providers. Conclusion: BioGUID is available at http://bioguid.info/. Source code is available from http://code.google.com/p/bioguid/

Text Data Mining from the Author's Perspective: Whose Text, Whose Mining, and to Whose Benefit?

Given the many technical, social, and policy shifts in access to scholarly content since the early days of text data mining, it is time to expand the conversation about text data mining from concerns of the researcher wishing to mine data to include concerns of researcher-authors about how their data are mined, by whom, for what purposes, and to whose benefits.Comment: Forum Statement: Data Mining with Limited Access Text: National Forum. April 5-6, 2018. https://publish.illinois.edu/limitedaccess-tdm

Repurposing Zotero for Sustainable Assessment and Scalable Modified Embedding

Purpose – This paper aims to describe a new application of Zotero, a citation management system, for embedded librarianship and assessment. It explores student reception of this approach and maps Zotero’s capacities to represent citations to learning outcomes and information literacy frames that instruction librarians assess. Design/methodology/approach – The librarian worked with a course using Zotero group libraries for collaborative work, used Zotero to communicate with students and assess their information literacy skills and surveyed the students to determine their perception of librarian participation via Zotero. Findings – Using Zotero’s features made it possible to formatively and summatively assess student work quickly, and students were receptive to librarian participation via Zotero. Practical implications – This suggests that librarians facing difficulty embedding in online courses or those seeking to assess student work may wish to explore Zotero as a sustainable solution to both challenges. Originality/value – This paper posits a solution to common challenges for online embedded librarianship and suggests a new technique for assessing student information literacy in a context that supports information literacy