Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
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The Legal Information Needs of Women Who Experience Online Harassment
No full textWomen experience various forms of harassment online that threaten their safety, their well-being, and their ability to participate in the digital world. Our job as researchers is threefold: to understand the harassment that women experience online, to learn what information needs women who experience online harassment have (particularly their legal information needs), and to investigate their information search behaviour. Only with a solid understanding of these concepts can we as information professionals begin to address this phenomenon
The Many Faces of Marcia Bate\u27s Contributions: System Design Influence and Citation Impact
No full textThis paper provides a current and holistic perspective of the citations made to Marcia Bates’s work using a variety of data and citation sources. Further, it will provide new insight into the ways in which Bates’s scholarly work has influenced the design and development of Information Retrieval (IR) systems and search interfaces
Does advisors’ disciplinary background affect LIS doctoral students’ publishing productivity and quality?
No full textThe purpose of this study is to investigate LIS doctoral students’ publication since the 1960s and measure the impact of LIS doctoral advisors’ disciplinary background on their publication productivity and quality. After analyzing the LIS doctoral graduates’ publications since the 1960s, we found that LIS doctoral students supervised by advisors with non-LIS background publish more research that is cited more often
Making Invisible College Visible: Comparing ASIS&T and CAIS Annual Conferences as Two Scientific Communities
No full textThis paper reports an ongoing research that conceptualizes two major LIS academic conferences in NorthAmerica as two dynamic scientific communities: ASIS&T Annual Meetings and CAIS AnnualConferences. Using a social network analysis approach, this study compares and visualizes how these twoscientific communities have been structured and organized between 1993 and 2015
Users\u27 Perceptions of Social Issues and the Representation and Inclination to Use Social Video
No full textAssociations between users\u27 presumptions of social issues, video representations, and inclinations to use video in social contexts are explored. A total of 330 online surveys were collected and quantitatively analyzed. Results produced significant findings and correlations between the variables of the study. Implications include connecting perspectives of interface evaluation with connotations of social contexts
CAIS CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2017, Toronto, Ontario 3 WELCOME FROM THE CAIS 201 7 CONFERENCE CO - CHAIRS
No full textWelcome to the 45th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS)
Everyday Life Information Seeking Behaviour of New Muslim I mmigrants in Montreal
No full textThe study will examine the everyday life information seeking behavior of new Muslim immigrants in Montreal, as well as their information needs and the challenges they face. While there has been some work that focuses on the information needs and information seeking behavior of new immigrants in the United States, to date there has been little research within the Canadian context. Specifically, there is a failure to account for new Muslim immigrants\u27 information needs in Montreal from the perspective of the library and information science field. Most information behavior research categorizes Muslim immigrants in Canada according to nationality or gender
Performance of Crowdsourcing to Monitor and Filter Relevant S c ien tific L iterature
No full textWith the ever-growing volume of scientific literature, it is challenging for researchers to stay up-to-date. This prospective study aims to engage a heterogeneous group of participants in monitoring and filtering articles on online consumer health information and measure the “crowd’s” performance to determine whether crowdsourcing could be a reliable solution
Marcia J. Bates: Past -- >Present -- >Future
No full textThis panel session explores, critiques, and celebrates the work of canonical information scientist, Marcia J. Bates. To begin, Dr. Jenna Hartel will survey her oeuvre. Then, three of Hartel’s graduate students will report on their semester-long explorations of a singular conceptby Bates. Each student’s talk will feature a summary and critical examination of the seminal idea in its original historical context. Then, the same concept will be considered in the light of this Information Age. Following each talk, Marcia J. Bates will share her reflections. Ample time will be provided for discussion among Dr. Bates, the panelists, and attendees
Metadata as Data: Exploring Ethical Metadata Sharing and Access for Indigenous Resources Through OCAP Principles
No full textMetadata is often defined as “data about data”, and although practitioners and scholars often broaden that definition, there may be value in approaching metadata as a type of data when addressing questions of ethical sharing and access. In this conceptual paper I review the challenges of ethical metadata practice for Indigenous resources, and explore the potential of the OCAP: Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession framework to act as a common language that Indigenous communities and metadata scholars and practitioners can use to engage in meaningful conversations about ethical metadata access and sharing.Les métadonnées sont souvent définies comme des «données sur les données» et bien que les professionnels et les chercheurs élargissent souvent cette définition, il peut être valable d\u27aborder les métadonnées comme un type de données lorsqu\u27on aborde les questions de partage et d\u27accès éthique. Dans cet article conceptuel, je passe en revue les défis de la pratique éthique des métadonnées pour les ressources autochtones et explore le potentiel du cadre PCAP: propriété, contrôle, accès et possession, pour servir de langage commun aux communautés autochtones et aux spécialistes et aux professionnels des métadonnées afin d’engager des conversations significatives sur l\u27accès et le partage des métadonnées éthiques