Journal of Documentation
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Converting and evolving a subject heading list into a thesaurus
Maria Teresa Guaglianone, Giovanna Aracri, Maria TavernitiThe objective of this paper is to describe the evolution of the available subject heading list, i.e. the CC Soggettario (Carabinieri Corps Soggettario), towards a thesaurus, that…
“The changing same” of whiteness in the US LIS academy: a cathartic testimonial from BIPOC faculty scholars
Vanessa Irvin, Kafi D. Kumasi, Kehinde AkinolaThere is little to no empirical research on the phenomenon of ways in which the racism of whiteness transpires within the faculties and classrooms of US-based ALA-accredited…
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists
Callum McDonald, Allen Edward Foster, Pauline RaffertyGenre is a valuable access point for popular music collections; however, the blurring of genre boundaries combined with changing listening habits and new forms of classification…
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology
Hannah Turner, Nancy Bruegeman, Peyton Jennifer MoriartyThis paper considers how knowledge has been organized about museum objects and belongings at the Museum of Anthropology, in what is now known as British Columbia, and proposes the…
Documentation as part of substance use rehabilitation: how workers account for the significance of documentation during interviews
Kirsi Günther, Eeva Ekqvist, Katja KuusistoThe focus of this article is in documentation in substance abuse inpatient rehabilitation. Our article scrutinizes how workers give accounts of the documentation in the inpatient…
Professional identity of public librarians, archivists and museum professionals in five European countries
Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Jamie Johnston, Kerstin Rydbeck, Andreas Vårheim, Isto Huvila, Máté Tóth, Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Anna MierzeckaThe purpose is to investigate the professional identity of public library, archive and museum (LAM) professionals in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Sweden.
Information search process model based on costs and benefits: a behavioural economics perspective
Jinglin Qi, Zhengbiao Han, Preben HansenThis study constructed an information search process model based on costs and benefits to reflect different information search processes under different decisions from a…
Building bridges and preserving voices: key factors in community oral history stewardship
Jeonghyun Kim, Ana Roeschley, Mimi ByunThe study aims to enhance our understanding of shared community oral history stewardship by exploring its practices and challenges from the perspectives of the stakeholders…
Democracy: a modern definition for the library field
John BuschmanDue to contemporary threats to democracy, the topic is highly prominent in news and social discourse. The Library and Information Science (LIS) field writes about democracy…
Learning to search and learning to slow down or “The quick and the dead”
Renee MorrisonThis study examines the temporal dynamics shaping our understanding of search in education and the role language plays in legitimising these dynamics. It critiques the way online…
Readers' advisory vs reference: a difference of stance
E.E. Lawrence, Virginia SharpeThe purpose of this paper is to determine how we ought to distinguish between reference and readers' advisory (RA) service, given the latter’s turn toward a whole collection…
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods
Jia Tina Du, Qing Ke, Clara M. Chu, Helen Partridge, Dandan MaThis scoping review article examined research on information behavior in communities over the past two decades (2000–2023). The review aims to uncover the characteristics and…
Barriers and facilitators to research data sharing: a lifecycle perspective
Zilong He, Wei FangThis study investigates the multifaceted barriers and facilitators affecting research data sharing across the research data lifecycle. It aims to broaden the understanding of data…
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension
Emily Baggs, Kaitlyn O'Neal, Andrew Robson, Lyn RobinsonThe paper reports on developments in the Information Seeking and Communication Model (ISCM) since it was first presented in 2013, focussing on how the model, derived by explicitly…
Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage
Ewan D. Hannaford, Viktor Schlegel, Rhiannon Lewis, Stefan Ramsden, Jenny Bunn, John Moore, Marc Alexander, Hannah Barker, Riza Batista-Navarro, Lorna Hughes, Goran NenadicCommunity-generated digital content (CGDC) is one of the UK’s prime cultural assets. However, CGDC is currently “critically endangered” (Digital Preservation Coalition, 2021) due…
“We are openly, proudly Subjective … This history is important to our contemporary survival”: queer embodied knowledge and the curatorial work of ICT-based LGBTQIA+ history content creators
Travis L. WagnerThis article reports on findings from interviews with ICT-based content creators whose work focuses on documenting and curating queer history and culture. The research…
Traditional, dialogical and complex scholarly communication: towards a renewed trust in science
Antonella Foderaro, David Gunnarsson LorentzenThe credibility crisis of science is a growing topic of investigation. This study approaches the problem from the sustainability of the scholarly communication system by merging…
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?
Lala Hajibayova, Mallory McCorkhill, Timothy D. BowmanIn this study, STEM resources reviewed in Goodreads were investigated to determine their authorship, linguistic characteristics and impact. The analysis reveals gender disparity…
Does information matter? Online discourse on the Yemenite children’s affair in Israel after release of archival documents
Roy Peled, Gal YavetzThis study evaluates how publicly available archival documents shaped online discussions about allegations that thousands of children were kidnapped during the 1950s in Israel…
Evolving legitimacy of the public library in the 21st century
Motoko Yamagishi, Masanori Koizumi, Håkon LarsenThe purpose of this research is to comprehensively describe the legitimacy of the public library in the 21st century.
Navigating change: an exploration of socio-epistemic process of extending Wikidata ontology with new properties
Marcin RoszkowskiThe paper addresses the issue of change in Wikidata ontology by exposing the role of the socio-epistemic processes that take place inside the infrastructure. The subject of the…
The institutional e-lending setup in Scandinavian libraries: logics in play in the eyes of library and policy actors
Maciej Liguzinski, Nanna Kann-RasmussenThe article investigates the institutional setup of e-lending in public libraries in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Our point of departure is that e-lending has necessitated new…
Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model
Yuchen YangRecent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of…
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections
Maja Krtalić, Lilach AlonThis theoretical paper introduces a conceptual framework for Personal Cultural Heritage Management (PCHM), derived from prior research on migrants' information practices. It…
Validating predictions of burial mounds with field data: the promise and reality of machine learning
Adela Sobotkova, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Orla Mallon, Shawn Adrian RossThis paper provides practical advice for archaeologists and heritage specialists wishing to use ML approaches to identify archaeological features in high-resolution satellite…
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research
Valerie Nesset, Elisabeth C. Davis, Nicholas Vanderschantz, Owen Stewart-RobertsonResponding to the continuing separation of participants and researchers in LIS participatory research, a new methodology is proposed: action partnership research design (APRD). It…
Automated Dewey Decimal Classification of Swedish library metadata using Annif software
Koraljka Golub, Osma Suominen, Ahmed Taiye Mohammed, Harriet Aagaard, Olof OstermanIn order to estimate the value of semi-automated subject indexing in operative library catalogues, the study aimed to investigate five different automated implementations of an…
User perspectives through cross-connections. The role of archives as part of the German digital research data infrastructure
Kai Naumann, Andreas NeuburgerStarting from the status quo, the paper outlines perspectives and challenges for the connection and interlinking of digitised and digital archival data. The following topics are…
Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues
Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou, Sarah KenderdineDespite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have…
Computer vision and machine learning approaches for metadata enrichment to improve searchability of historical newspaper collections
Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, Steven Verstockt, Nico Van de Weghe, Sally Chambers, Julie M. BirkholzHistorical newspaper collections provide a wealth of information about the past. Although the digitization of these collections significantly improves their accessibility, a large…
Unsilencing colonial archives via automated entity recognition
Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens, Giovanni ColavizzaThis paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.
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