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Scientific Research Methodology for Library & Information Science Research: With Information System Development Methodology as Example
No full text近年來圖書館學與資訊科學有學科領域融合的現象。因為學科領域融合的結果，學科內涵的包容範圍擴大；過去傳統的圖書館學之研究，比較多關於社會科學層面之研究，因此，社會科學的研究方法，已在圖書館學的研究中，成為成熟化的一套研究方法。但是，自從圖書館自動化與資料庫系統建置也成為圖書館學中重要的一環之後，圖書館學的科學層面之研究益形重要，然而相對的研究方法，在圖書館學的研究中，並不及社會科學的研究方法一般成熟。為了幫助圖書館學中的技術科學領域，尋找更能有效解決問題的方法，以提升作業績效與服務上的讀者滿意度，本文乃研究有關科學研究方法的理論，參酌資訊科學領域的學者對於研究方法的見解，以系統開發的研究為例，彙整可行的一套研究方法，而論述科學技術性的作業與系統開發等相關研究，可以採用科學研究的方法。本文除了討論圖書資訊學科學研究法的基本精神與可能的步驟之外，並分析科學研究法的實質效益，希望能為圖書資訊學中的技術科學研究，指出可行的研究途徑，冀期圖書館學的科學研究方法終能發展至成熟之水準，而裨益日益重要的圖書館學之相關科學研究。The cross boundary research between library science and information science shows a great advancement in recent years. In the past, discourse of most researchers in library science had their focus on social aspects; therefore, the adopted sociology research methodologies have developed to a sophisticated level. In fact, the cross-disciplinary development has brought changes to library science research paradigm. With the broader scope of current library and information sciences, it would be very useful if we could also develop suitable research methodology for scientific researches. It is believed that
suitable research methodology could help solve problems in an effective way so as to ensure good operational performance and user satisfaction. Reviewing some theories
of scientific researches and scholars opinions regarding information science research methodologies, the author had information system development research as an example
and advocated that researches concerning technical services of library science needed to adopt scientific research methodologies. The author also introduced the positive heuristic
research approach and associated aspects that need to be included in the process for scientific researches of information system development and pointed out the possible
benefits of a scientific research approach for such researches. It is hoped that this initial discussion could anticipate the development of a set of sophisticated scientific research
methodology for library science researchers and be beneficial
The New Historical Research Possibilities from Digitization Projects:A Cross-referencing Research Example of Taiwan Relic Rubbings and Tan-Hsin Archive
No full text本文運用臺灣大學「臺灣文獻文物典藏數位化計畫」建置的資料庫，就臺灣古拓本與《淡新檔案》中的特定案例，進行相互參照的研究。臺灣大學圖書館典藏豐富，其中的古碑拓本涵蓋行政、建設、宗教、民俗等主題，資料型式為單件；《淡新檔案》為清代北臺灣的淡水廳、臺北府及新竹縣的地方行政及司法文書，資料型式為多份單件構成一個案件。該批此二種不同來源之史料產生時空環境相近，二者為研究上的相輔相成素材。然因拓本資料原件尺寸偏大，不便利用；而《淡新檔案》數量龐大，僅利用複製紙本或微縮資料，亦不易找出特定事件之相關案件。臺灣大學圖書館將此二種資料典藏數位化並建置資料庫之後，透過於資料庫中的搜尋，很容易可以比對出各資料群中關於相同事件之史料，而促成參照利用不同的史料進行研究之可能。本文擇一臺灣古碑拓本的「嚴禁自盡圖賴碑記」之例，透過整理《淡新檔案》中的相關公文案卷，重建當時臺灣地方政府的行政程序，並探討「自盡圖賴」事件背後所反映的社會意義。作者進一步為臺灣古碑拓本與《淡新檔案》等二種清季臺灣文獻，勾勒參照性比對研究的其他可能，將臺灣大學典藏的古碑拓本，逐一對照《淡新檔案》可能相關的類目，載於文末附錄，以供研究者參考。This research was conducted by using the database established under the Digital Archives Project on Taiwan Historical Collections of National Taiwan University. The authors took a special case ”Forbidden of Suicide in Fraud of Others” which appeared in both the Taiwan University's rubbings collection and the Tan-Hsin Archive as an example, and demonstrated how cross-referencing use of these two collections could help to uncover some historical problems of the Taiwan society and the solutions from the government. The monumental stone rubbings, mostly single autonomous items, depict various aspects such as politics, social development, religion, customs and culture of the early Taiwan society. The Tan-Hsin Archive, on the other hand, is significant in having series of documents concerning a single event happened in the old Taiwan society. As these two collections have similar spatial and geographic coverage, the Tan-Hsin Archive could serve as supplements to the rubbings for doing research on the subjects described in the relic rubbings. However, the rubbings are mostly over-sized documents and not easy to provide for use. The Tan-Hsin Archive contains a tremendous amount of documents, therefore, it is difficult to retrieve documents concerning a definite topic by using microfilms or duplicates of the originals. Now that database of these two collections is available, it is possible to easily retrieve documents concerning the same event from these two collections. As a result, it enables cross-referencing use of these first-hand historical resources. The paper hopes to initiate new research possibilities based on the rubbings and encourage in-dept research from referencing use of Tan-Hsin Archive. In addition, the authors made an approximately corresponding topical map of these two collections from subject analysis, adding it as an appendix of this article for researchers' reference
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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