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The Shattered Document Approach to Adaptive Hypertext. Design and Evaluation
No full textWe address the problem of improving, automatically, the usability of a large online document. We propose an adaptive hypertext approach, based on splitting the document into components smaller than the page or screen, called noogramicles, and creating each page as a new assemblage of noogramicles each time it is accessed. The adaptation comes from learning the navigation patterns of the usors (authors and readers), and is manifested in the assemblage of pages. We test this model across a number of configurations, including chance and non- adaptive systems. We evaluate our model through simulation. We have designed a simulator based on established findings about the behaviour of hypertext users. We have realised a quantitative evaluation based on hypertext usability measures adapted to the problem: session size, session cost
Publisher interest towards a role for journals in data-sharing: The findings of the JoRD project
No full textThe sharing of the data generated by research projects is increasingly being recognised as an academic priority by funders, researchers and STM publishers. The topic has been discussed by national and international organisations, for example, ICSU (the International Council for Science), [1] the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) [2] and the UK?s Royal Society [3]. The public statements that emerge from these scientific bodies call for both research transparency and freely available access to research data created with public funding for possible re-use. The issue of the policies on sharing set out by academic journals has been raised by scientific organisations, such as the US National Academy of Sciences, which urges journals to make clear statements of their sharing policies. On the other hand, the publishing community whilst broadly supporting the principle of open and accessible research data expresses concerns over the intellectual property implications of archiving shared data.The JoRD Project was a feasibility study on the possible shape of a central service on journal research data policies, funded by the UK JISC under its Managing Data Research Programme. It was carried out by the Centre for Research Communications Research at Nottingham University (UK) with contributions from the Research Information Network and Mark Ware Consulting Ltd. The project used a mix of methods to examine the scope and form of a sustainable, international service that would collate and summarise journal policies on research data for the use of researchers, managers of research data and other stakeholders. The purpose of the service would be to provide a ready reference source of easily accessible, standardised, accurate and clear guidance and information, on the journal policy landscape relating to research data. The specific objectives of the study were: to identify the current state of journal data sharing policies; to investigate the views and practices of stakeholders; to develop an overall view of stakeholder requirements and possible service specifications; to explore the market base for a JoRD Policy Bank Service; and to investigate and recommend sustainable business models for the development of a JoRD Policy Bank Service
Facilitating Access and Reuse of Research Materials: the Case of The European Library
No full textThe European Library provides access to research materials from the collections of Europe?s national and research libraries, representing members from 46 countries. This paper presents the current status, on-going work, and future plans of the resource dissemination services provided by The European Library, covering resources such as national bibliographies, digital collections, full text collections, its access portal and API, open linked data publication, and integration in digital humanities infrastructures. In the coming years, The European Library will work to provide the means and tools for digital humanities researchers to easily use research materials from libraries in their research activities
COMFy - A Conference ManagementFramework
No full textOrganizing the peer review process for a scientific conference can be acumbersome task. Electronic conference management systems support chairs andreviewers in managing the huge amount of submissions. These system implementthe complete work-flow of a scientific conference. We present a new approach tosuch systems. By providing an open API framework instead of a closed system itenables external programs to harvest and to utilize open information sources availableon the internet today
Repositories Recreated ? Working Towards Improved Interoperability and Integration by a Co-operative Approach in Sweden
No full textRecently the technological and organizational infrastructures of institutional repositories have been questioned. For example the British so-called Finch report from last summer argued that further development, as well as higher standards of accessibility of repositories, are needed in order to make them better integrated and interoperable to ultimately bring greater use by both authors and readers. Not only the technical frameworks and presumably low usage levels are criticized but also the lack of ?clear policies on such matters as the content they will accept, the uses to which it may be put, and the role that they will play in preservation?. The report concludes that: ?In practice patterns of deposit are patchy?.As in the UK, today, all universities and university colleges in Sweden, except a couple of very small and specialized ones, do have an institutional repository. A majority (around 80%) are working together on a co- operative basis within the DiVA Publishing System with the Electronic Publishing Centre at Uppsala University Library acting as the technical and organizational hub. Because the system is jointly funded, and the members contribute according to their size, it has been possible even for smaller institutions with limited resources to run a repository with exactly the same functionalities as the biggest universities.In this presentation we want to demonstrate the ever-increasing importance of institutional repositories in Sweden. Starting more than a decade ago the DiVA Consortium has, for some time, been addressing the problems now raised by the Finch report in a number of areas
Me4DCAP V0.1: a method for thedevelopment of Dublin Core ApplicationProfiles
No full textRecent studies show that there is no method to develop a Dublin CoreApplication Profiles (DCAP). A DCAP is a very important construct to implementinteroperability, therefore it is essential to have a method to be able to develop sucha construct, in order to give DCAP developers a common ground of work. Thispaper presents the first version of a method to develop Dublin Core ApplicationProfiles (Me4DACP V0.1) that has been developed in a PhD project with a DesignScience Research (DSR) approach. Me4DCAP was built having as starting pointthe Singapore Framework for DCAP and shows the way through the DCAP development.It encompasses a group of pre-defined interconnected activities, explicitlystates when they should take place, what techniques coul be used to execute themand what artifacts should result from their execution
3D gesture-based exploration and searchin document collections
No full textThis paper describes an approach towards the interaction with 3D representationsof large document collections. The goal was to provide the user with ahighly dynamic environment in which even the very mapping strategy to positiondocuments in space can be adjusted by the user depending on the specific task athand, on his preferences, or on the context. A modification to the FDP algorithmis proposed, as well as a new gesture-based interaction paradigm in which the usercan explore and search information in the collection just by simple hand movements.An experimental user evaluation was carried on to investigate the impact ofthe proposed approach on the precision of the mental model built by users throughexploration, on the effectiveness in information search tasks, and on the generaluser satisfaction and perception of utility
Evolving Definitions of Authorship in Ebook Design
No full textThe development of ebooks for tablet devices offers a rich space for collaboration between writers and designers. This paper examines how this emerging media affects ideas around collaboration and authorship. Specifically it considers the changing role of designers in shaping meaning and content and how this may affect existing paradigms of authorship. Using class-based projects as case studies, the paper presents and discusses examples of how designers have shifted their role from historic notions of ?crystal goblet? design or expressive design to genuine collaborators and authors
Freemium as a sustainable economic model for open access electronic publishing in humanities and social sciences
No full textBetween the two paths of open access - green and gold - the later is the harder to develop and has the less support from the research community. The main difficulty is about finding a sound economic model. Open Access journals usually depend on two funding sources: subsidies and/or donations from institutions and publication fees from research units in the authors-pay model. These two ways of funding open access journals and books proved effective in some cases (Plos), but are not flawless. The Center for Open Electronic Publishing, a french initiative for open access publishing in humanities and social sciences, has recently developed a new economic model based on ?freemium? for its full open access journals and books series, in order to address two issues: improve their economical soundness and give them more visibility in libraries. Freemium, the contraction of ?free? and ?premium?, preserves open access to information together with the marketing of premium services
