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- Status of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Archives
- This paper explores the role of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) archives in preserving the history and cultural heritage of these institutions and investigates the factors that contribute to the disparities observed in the availability of digital collections and the staffing of archivists across HBCUs in the United States. Data was collected from 102 HBCU websites and the National Center for Education Statistics, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and ordinary linear regression. The findings revealed notable disparities in the staffing of archivists and the presence of digital archive collections, with geography, enrollment, and endowment emerging as potentially significant factors. The study highlights the importance of understanding key factors in the availability of digital archive collections and the staffing of archivists at HBCUs.
- A Chat with ChatGPT: How will AI and GPT impact scholarly publishing?
- Working paper exploring ChatGPT. It begins with an introduction to ChatGPT and then proceeds into a transcript of a conversation with the platform about it and related AI technologies’ impact on the future of scholarly publishing, before concluding with some discussion on the further implications.
- Agile Practices in Data Science and Data Analytics Projects: A Research Agenda
- The digital age comes with transformational activities (also referred to as digital transformation) triggered by emerging fields and technologies, such as data science and analytics, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and nanotechnology; helping organizations stay current and competitive. This paper focuses on agile frameworks that support the delivery of data science/analytics projects to ensure organizations rapidly deliver analytics products and services to their customers.
- COVID19: Mask Misinformation and Social Noise
- Disinformation and misinformation are pervasive in unregulated social-media environments, which are used habitually for obtaining news. Fenn et al in 2019 stated that “Given that people tend to share interesting information to maintain social relationships or to manage their impressions, information that receives more likes may subsequently be shared more often” (Fenn, Ramsay, Kantner, Pezdek, & Abed, 2019, p.133) Recent studies also revealed that misinformation from politicians and celebrities has increased in recent years which lead to more engagement on Twitter (Brennen, et al. 2020 ). There has been a lot of misinformation pertaining to COVID-19 masks on Twitter. Due to the misinformation, many people might not believe in the effectiveness of masks. Even though studies have shown the effectiveness of wearing masks in different countries (Lyu and Wehby, 2020). Not wearing masks affects people's health and indirectly increases the spread of COVID-19. Studies of social noise and misinformation cases on social media are needed, specifically focusing on how social noise influences and contributes to the spread of misleading and possibly harmful messages.
- Development of Micro and Pilot Projects, Evaluation of Technologies, and Developing Data/Information Infrastructure
- Successful organizations are continuously looking for better ways to improve efficiency. Knowledge management (KM) in institutions is essentially based on an understanding of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer. At Tarrant County College, we are currently developing a District-wide knowledge management (KM) program. This KM process is implemented via micro pilot projects and processes; and an analysis of current technology, structure, and culture. We carefully try to anticipate challenges we will encounter as the project is executed (geographical distance during a pandemic, cultural barriers, dealing with tacit knowledge…). Next, we carefully begin to create a road map for the KM process including: Establishing objectives, preparing culture change, creating a high-level process, identifying KM/communication/knowledge dissemination gaps, selecting appropriate technology, and deciphering the current status of KM throughout the District. Then, we attempt to implement our KM process via micro pilot projects. We will soon develop methods for evaluating our KM workflow. Our initial results suggest Laserfiche might be able to host 70% of or data and information, however other tools such as ITSM, Microsoft TEAMS, Team Dynamics… will also be needed to host data and information.
- Exploring Knowledge Creation from Project Management Processes using an Analytics Approach: A First Look
- Organizations struggle to harness tacit knowledge – the knowledge that resides in the heads of knowledge workers, whereas there are always opportunities to capture knowledge during project management activities. Using a literature review, this paper analyzes how knowledge can be captured during different project management phases. It attempts to bridge frequently ignored areas of project management, knowledge management, and analytics.
- The Impact of Cyber Addiction on Information Overload and Workplace Performance
- Cyber addiction refers to the excessive use of internet and cyber application leading to adverse outcomes such as stress, distractions, reduced motivation levels, and challenges in task orientation. Uncontrolled consumption of the internet leads to information overload that impact productivity and workplace performance (Griffiths, 2010). In such cases, the ubiquitous availability of information can lead to IT-related stress where users derive a reduced sense of satisfaction (Diomidous et al. 2016). People who frequently access the internet can experience various issues, which encompass anxiety, depression, and self-image challenges. Physically, affected individuals experience disrupted sleep patterns, irritability and high levels of fatigue. Social networking sites increase the risk of addiction and online dependency, aspects associated with low levels of productivity (Hoq, 2014). As illustrated in fig 1, the paper hypothesizes that there is a direct relationship between information overload and workplace performance and job satisfaction. The assumption is that cyber addiction worsens the problem of information overload, which in return, impacts information behavior and use and workplace/job performance (Riaz & Qureshi, 2019). The study addresses the following research questions: What is the impact of cyber addiction on workplace performance? What are the relationships between cyber addiction, information workload and information behavior and use? The findings indicate cyber addiction adversely affects job performance and significantly correlates with the concept of information overload and information behavior and use. Prominent issues among a majority of users include poor prioritization and planning, as employees often opt for non-essential functions at the expense of critical ones.
- Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arab Gulf Counties: A case study of Alqabas Archive
- The goal of this study is to explore how information is currently organized in digital cultural heritage collections in Arabian Gulf countries. it focused on Alqabas – a Kuwaiti institution with a strong reputation of early adopter of digital archiving and developer of major digital collections in Arab Gulf counties, accumulated experience in knowledge management. The mixed-methods study combined semi-structured interview of the Alqabas archive manager and in-depth content analysis of a sample of metadata records that represent items in Alqabas digital collections for accuracy, completeness, consistency, use of knowledge organization systems. The study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators. This indicates potential barriers to metadata interoperability in an aggregated environment for future projects similar to DPLA or Europeana.
- Knowledge Management in Cybersecurity Education Using Concept Maps
- The purpose of this research is to explore concept maps as a viable and effective knowledge management tool for cybersecurity education. Concept maps serve as a visual representation of knowledge. They are commonly utilized to support the teaching and learning process or as a student learning evaluation tool. While the focus of education research is on tools specific to cybersecurity such as learning management systems and cyber ranges, there is little dedicated to understanding how concept maps can be applied as an effective element within the security education. This paper reviews relevant research related to the applications of concept maps in diverse knowledge domains. The aim is to leverage previous research applications to garner support for concept maps as a useful knowledge management tool in cybersecurity. This is accomplished by highlighting successful applications of concept maps in related fields. Concept maps are poised to be extremely helpful with complex subjects such as information and cyber security where understanding the subject depends on the application of disparate but interrelated concepts.
- Leveraging Geographical Disparities of Socio-Economic Factors to Predict Vulnerable Teenagers to Teen Birth: Chicago as A Case Study
- Teen birth (TB) imposes serious health and economic burdens to both individuals and government. Various attempts have been made to overcome TB such as teen pregnancy prevention evidence-based programs. However, these programs might have declined teen birth rate (TBR), most of which do not address the influencing socio-economic factors linked to areas where teenagers live. This study is aimed at investigating socio-economic factors contributing to TB and identify their geographical disparities. The methodology was developed using the vulnerability theory to examine the complex relationship between TB and socio-economic factors. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) were employed to analyze census data. Findings suggest that socio-economically disadvantaged minorities, including unemployed black and uneducated Hispanic, are more vulnerable to TB. Additionally, geographic locations of communities where such teenager live are recognized. The outcomes verified the utility of the vulnerability theory to predict the geographical locations of vulnerable teens that can be leveraged by policymakers to allocate more health resources and perform place-specific interventions to effectively reduce TBR.
- An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia
- Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experiences of facts, data, and situations. Knowledge management includes techniques and processes to represent, store, search, integrate, and analyze knowledge that is available in digital form. Ontology is a formal explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest and it is a building block of the semantic web and formal description of knowledge. Ontologies capture the structure and knowledge about some domain of interest by describing the concepts in the domain and also the relationships that hold between those concepts. Even though Ethiopia has potential tourist destinations, the country is not benefited from its resources due to misperception about image of the country; lack of promoting the potential tourism resources of the country to the world; problems with sharing, searching and retrieval of tourist information. Thus, the country is forced to accept smaller number of tourists and not getting the benefits it deserves. The objective of this paper is to build ontology for Ethiopian Tourism so that it makes Ethiopian tourism destinations visible to international visitors. We use OWL language implemented in Protégé with other ontology development activities proposed in METHONTOLOGY to build Ethiopian tourism ontology. We also use OWL reasoners and SPARQL for inference and querying respectively.
- Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia
- This paper will report on a research to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia) using Hidden Markov Modeling technique. The portable and open source toolkit called Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolkit is used to perform the experiment. The development of HMM based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires both text and speech corpus for training and testing the HMM. In order to have a model that incorporates different features of the language, we included the different dialects of Kafi Noonoo in the corpus and then prepared the training and test corpus from the scratch, and after preprocessing we have sampled and performed feature extraction using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) feature extraction technique.
- Using Operative Data Governance Roadmaps for Business Process Management Success: The Role of Leadership and the Impact of Information Technology Adoption
- The unquestionable demand for data generation and consumption in organizations in this century prompt an increasingly notion of data as a valuable asset, provoking the urgency for reliable analysis and reporting of complex data assets towards a critical business decision making process. Computing languages like SQL, Sequential Query Language, Data Mining and Warehouse, and data visualization tools are some examples of how information technology is being applied to the problem solving strategy related to data governance and management. The objective of this article is to provide an overall framework for effective data governance, through the examination of the hierarchy data-wisdom, that can be applied to business processes improvement and business intelligence approaches. Its purpose is to present roadmaps that will lead to superior management decisions impacting the pipeline and the relationship between leaders, staffs, stakeholders, and the corporate governance in terms of data processing and consumption. This literature review work presents the argument that effective use of information technologies, the consolidation of a learning culture, and the fostering of a technological framework that is insightful and enabler of a responsible and steward data management process have decisive impact in the business processes operations and strategies in which leadership plays a pivotal role.
- Wisdom and Veterans: Enhance the Perspective, Experience, and Resilience of the Workforce
- Wisdom is defined as “a uniquely human quality demonstrated through an ability to apply self-insight, experience, and sound judgment in conjunction with applicable data, information, and knowledge to create a course of action leading to beneficial and productive decisions for both individuals and society” (Allen et al., 2020, p. 159). Using this definition as a foundation, this research explores how veterans use wisdom to enhance the workforce through perspective, experience, and resilience.
- Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
- This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
- Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit
- Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented studies achievement scores and affinity towards STEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understanding a solenoid.
- Interview Guide for Archive Managers: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
- This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
- Interview Guide for End Users: Researchers, Depositors, Language Communities: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
- This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
- Observation Guide: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives
- This is an observation guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
- Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time
- This paper presents a new corpus of Wikipedia articles annotated with temporally-oriented possession or tracking concrete objects as they change hands over time.
- Managers or Librarians: Roles and Competencies in RDM
- This paper describes a workshop to analyze the roles and competencies of data curators in different contexts such as enterprises and academic libraries in mainland China.
- Panel on the Nexus of Knowledge Management and Information Science: What Past and Present Trends Tell Us About the Future
- This panel brings together leaders from knowledge management and information science to discuss the trends and opportunities for collaboration within and between these fields.
- Characterization of a Semantic Relations Taxonomy in Biomedical Science
- This paper characterizes the Ontobee relations ontology in the biomedical science domain with comparisons to the Conflict and Mediation Event Observation (CAMEO) relations taxonomy and the UMLS semantic network relations.
- Document Expansion for Short Text Conversation
- This paper reports a study on improving the retrieval of comments made to previous posts that can potentially be relevant to new posts in the open social media domain.
- Fostering Scholarly Creativity: Modeling Functional Browsing through the Lens of Complexity
- This paper models scholarly browsing.
- Harnessing Knowledge Management Sharing (Kms) in the Era of Cloud Computing: A New Horizon for Organizations and the Analysis of Some Case Studies
- This paper investigates knowledge management sharing in organizations in an era of cloud computing solutions.
- How Does Your Knowledge Flow? Exercises in Spatial Syntax
- This paper describes a workshop that introduces participants to the practice of spatial syntax and provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to map assess the knowledge flows of their working environments.
- Information Overload & Its Effect on High School Students
- This paper studies how high school students experience information overload, as well as their specific physical, emotional, and mental reactions.
- Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View
- This paper describes a panel that provides an overview of the global landscape of open science.
- Towards an Understanding of Data Ethics in LIS
- This paper aims to delineate data ethics in the library and information science fields based on the diverse body of literature on the topic.
- What is a Data Librarian?: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements for Data Librarians in the United States Academic Libraries
- This paper attempts to understand what is required to be a data librarian by applying a content analysis approach to job advertisements by hiring professionals in academic libraries in the United States.
- Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis
- This paper presents models to predict event durations.
- Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era
- Paper presented for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This paper discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.
- Editing of Library Metadata Records and its Effect on Subject Access: An Empirical Investigation
- This paper was presented at the 2016 IFLA World Library and Information Congress Satellite Meeting on Subject Access: Unlimited Opportunities. This paper reports on the change in a sample of MARC 21 library metadata records over a period of two years.
- Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS)
- Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper introduces a new theoretical model utilizing Turner and Baker’s (2017) Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation (TELDE) model as a tool to facilitate interactions imbedded in complex adaptive systems.
- Integrated Learning of Metadata Quality Evaluation and Metadata Application Profile Development in a Graduate Metadata Course
- Poster paper presented at the 2017 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. This paper describes an experiment in the design of an advanced graduate metadata course.
- Knowledge Creation and Information Sharing through Open Education Resources
- Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper proposes a taxonomy for open education resources.
- Security and Privacy Issues with Smart Thermostats – A First Look
- Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper uses the Brenda Dervin sense making model to explain human behavior and way of reasoning with making purchasing decisions of smart thermostats.
- The Challenges Of Implementing A Data Driven Framework in K-12 Education
- Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper examines the challenges of data managements and use in K-12 education through the technical, knowledge, application, climate and cultural aspects.
- Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices
- Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses data sharing practices and compliance with open data mandates by using the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) knowledge transfer spiral model to understand behaviors and create resources for researchers.
- Learning Analytics and Learning Technologies
- Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses the roles of learning analytics and learning management systems in instructional design.
- Managing Project Teams with Artificial Intelligence
- Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper explores the use of artificial intelligence in business to improve organizational effectiveness.
- Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge: Faculty Views on Open Access Publishing as a New Channel of Scholarly Communication
- Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper studies how general faculty members view open access (OA) publishing.
- Towards a Dimensional Model for Community Knowledge
- Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper proposes a dimensional model with "aspects of a corpus, such as topic or opinion, as derived star schema dimensions." Focusing on a case study on Twitter the paper demonstrates how the derived dimensions, combined with transactional facts and derived facts can uncover "the collective tacit knowledge in Twitter communities."
- A Cooperative Model for Preserving Historical Television News Context
- This paper was presented at the 2016 IFLA World Library and Information Congress News Media Satellite Meeting on News, new roles & preservation advocacy: moving libraries into action. This paper provides and overview of the partnership between the University of North Texas and the Dallas/Forth Worth affiliate station of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC 5/KXAS) to preserve the content of the oldest television news station in Texas, including discussions of copyright, funding, and access to audio/visual collections.
- Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations
- This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns.
- Immersion Librarianship: An assessment of transforming LIS students' professional worldview through a service learning project at an international school library
- This paper was presented at the 2017 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. This paper contains a summary of the study to discern what students learned from a library and information science service learning study abroad program to Russia in 2012.
- A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Translation Quality
- This paper explores the possibility of applying Machine Learning for Machine Translation evaluation.
- STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks
- This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
- Factors Influencing Knowledge Management Use in Technology Enterprises in Southern United States
- This paper from the International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings investigates the factors influencing with the Knowledge Management use process in Information Technology enterprises in the Southern United States.