Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
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Canada’s Health Data Repositories: Challenges of Organization, Discoverability and Access
No full textEvidence-based medicine relies on health data. Open health data initiatives need to be supported with data repositories that are optimized for searchability and discoverability. Five Canadian open health data repositories were evaluated for metadata-based searching, browsing, and navigational functionalities. In the different national, provincial and institutional open data repositories evaluated, the preliminary findings reveal the variability in these functionalities. This research will contribute to the development of guidelines and best practices for implementing metadata and searching and browsing functionalities for open health data repositories that will ultimately lead to a more interoperable open health data environment
Bounded and Shielded: Assessing Security Aspects and Trustworthiness of Smart Contracts
No full textThis is an in-progress research project that aims to explore how archival science and cybersecurity can be applied to evaluate the trustworthiness and security of smart contracts. The analysis will be made using the requirements of trustworthy records and the investigation of vulnerabilities related to the development and implementation of smart contracts. The expected contribution is to improve smart contracts’ trustworthiness as archival records and evidence
Emerging Diversity of Research in Library Studies
No full textResearch can take many forms, especially in a field as diverse as library studies. This panel will bring together several emerging scholars as they relate and compare their differing approaches to research. For some the subject area requires special considerations for research methods, for others the end goal brings into question what counts as research at all. It is our hope that this panel will illustrate the range of effort possible in our field and prove illuminating to our fellow scholars, both new and established
Information in Pursuit of the "Good Death": Libraries’ Role in the Death Positivity Movement
No full textThe Death Positivity Movement (DPM) is a recent social and activist movement seeking to change the North American “culture of silence” surrounding death and dying. Seeking to engage with the conference theme of “conversations across boundaries,” this presentation presents arguments as to why libraries should be involved in the movement and also outlines more specifically actions that they can take to be involved. In this presentation, a short introduction to the DPM will be provided, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of the “good death”. Arguments will then be made explaining why libraries should be involved in the DPM and then the last section explores more specifically how libraries can be involved through collection development, community assistance and programming
Decolonizing the Ethics of Intellectual Freedom: Exploring a New Intersectional Framework for Allyship and Ethical Practice
No full textThe intersection between Indigenous allyship, intellectual freedom, and social responsibility is understudied in LIS literature. This conceptual paper employs literature-based critical analysis to explore the tension between these concepts and torwards the theoretical basis for a new interdisciplinary model for ethical information practice. The model draws on foundational aspects of human rights scholarship, human resources literature, philosophy, and uncertainty as a critical tradition for librarianship
Strengths and Limitations of Open Educational Resources to Advance Copyright Literacy
No full textThe proposed paper explores challenges associated with the creation of open educational resources (OER) for Canadian copyright education. Tensions include modeling best practices for open content licensing in copyright-related material, balancing narrative engagement with precise information on a complex subject, creating content for multiple audiences, and the use of open tools for the creation of accessible, adaptable materials. This case study outlines tactics for addressing these tensions, such as balancing a commitment to openness with a focus on engagement, discovery of easy-to-use multimedia tools for adding interactivity, and embracing perspectives outside legal and academic experts during content creation
Autonomous Information Behaviour: Towards a Conceptual Model
No full textAutonomous information behaviour (AIB) proposes that autonomous intelligent agents exhibit information behaviour characteristics (i.e. “need, seek, manage, give, and use information in different contexts” Fisher, Erdelez, & McKechnie, 2005, p. xix) similar to that in humans. A preliminary conceptual model of AIB, derived from Wilson (2016) and Domingos (2015), is presented. Understanding autonomous information behaviour is important given the increasing prevalence of algorithmic decision-making in everyday life
Comparing the Involvment of Academic Librarians in the Cycical Review Process for Graduate Programs in the Humanities and in the sciences
No full textIn Ontario, all graduate programs at publicly assisted universities must be reviewed on a cyclical basis at least once every eight years. This paper adopts a corpus-based approach to investigate and compare how academic librarians are integrated into the cyclical review process for graduate programs in the Humanities and graduate programs in the Sciences. Findings reveal that these two broad disciplinary cultures differ in the way and the degree to which they recognize libraries and involve librarians in the program review process
Remove me from this list: A case study of trolling in an academic mass email thread
No full textThis work examines in detail trolling behaviour that occurred during the mass email “reply allpocalypse” of 2019 at a university in southwestern Ontario. Whereas internet trolling is generally thought of as anonymous, antisocial behaviour, this event defies such characterizations in three ways: 1) all respondents participated on a real-name basis, 2) the majority of trolling messages sent were non-malicious attempts at humour, and 3) the email trolling seemed to have at least some pro-social, community-building effects. This study challenges assumptions about who engages in internet trolling and for what purpose by presenting an example of benign trolling in academia
Testimonies of Communication in Dementia Care
No full textThis paper presents a study of recorded conversations, qualitative interviews, and published memoirs to articulate the role of professional information services in answering the needs of persons caring for family members living with dementia. The data from these sources reveals evidence of working naïve classifications based on images of ritual, paradox, contrast, synchrony and stability. The findings suggest that information services need to align with caregivers’ working classifications, and that information, when appropriately delivered, plays a significant role in re-establishing temporary periods of stability in the caregiving relationship