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Ranganathan’s Layers of Classification Theory and the FASDA Model of Classification
Describes four waves of Ranganathan’s dynamic theory of classification. Outlines components that distinguish each wave, and porposes ways in which this understanding can inform systems design in the contemporary environment, ... -
Recording: Open Data Challenges in the Public Library Domain
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2021-11-22)Public librarians are eager to learn more about their communities and to provide services or programming that address current community needs. Open data has the potential to answer many of the questions librarians are ... -
Reflections on Usable Privacy for Location-Awareness Systems
(2005-06-29)For the past decade, the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab now at the University of Washington has been investigating privacy in public in relation to information technologies. More recently, we have begun collaborations ... -
Renewing a National Resource: Re-Skilled Bulgarian Teachers Return to Work
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008)This paper is part of a project at the Center for Information and Society to broaden and deepen our understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). Our intention is to ... -
Repeat Spreaders and Election Delegitimization: A Comprehensive Dataset of Misinformation Tweets from the 2020 U.S. Election
(2022-09-15)This paper introduces and presents a first analysis of a uniquely curated dataset of misinformation, disinformation, and rumors spreading on Twitter about the 2020 U.S. election. Previous research on misinformation—an ... -
Researching the links between ICT skills and employability: An analytical framework
(Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), 2009-04)This article proposes an analytical framework to better understand the role of ICT skills in improving employment opportunities for low-income groups. The research draws upon the experiences of seventy NGOs that provide ... -
Respuesta a los desastres en Chile El papel fundamental de las bibliotecas y los telecentros
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2012)Los telecentros y las bibliotecas, como puntos de acceso público a Internet, desempeñan un papel importante en la prevención y manejo de desastres. Después del terremoto que sacudió a Chile en 2010, estas organizaciones ... -
The Road to Employability: Austrian Program Brings “Computer Driver’s Licenses” to Vienna’s Most At-Risk Women
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008)Evidence narratives are cousins to human-impact stories. While everyone likes a good statistic, collecting meaningful, large-scale quantitative data in the settings where Microsoft grantees operate is often not cost-effective. ... -
The role of libraries in misinformation programming: A research agenda
(Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2020-10-26)Misinformation, or fake news, has exploded across social media platforms and communities over the past few years, with serious social and political implications. Many library practitioners and organizations have argued ... -
Romania English
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Romania Romanian
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Scheme Versioning in the Semantic Web
This paper describes a conceptual framework and meth- odology for managing scheme versioning for the Semantic Web. The first part of the paper introduces the concept of vocabulary encoding schemes, distinguished from ... -
SKOS and the Ontogenesis of Vocabularies
The paper suggests extensions to SKOS Core to make explicit where concepts in a knowledge organization system have changed from one version of the system to another. -
SmartSites Toolkit for Evaluating Course Web Sites
(2004-12-17)To facilitate the design of effective web sites for classroom-based courses, we developed a systematic heuristic evaluation methodology and relevant heuristics. To facilitate reuse of the methodology, we developed an ... -
Social equity is key to sustainable ocean governance
(npj Ocean Sustainability, 2022-08-10)Calls to address social equity in ocean governance are expanding. Yet ‘equity’ is seldom clearly defined. Here we present a framework to support contextually-informed assessment of equity in ocean governance. Guiding ... -
Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing: Fordist Relexivity and Intertextuality
Social tagging, as a particular type of indexing, has thrown into question the nature of indexing. Is it a democratic process? Can we all benefit from user-created tags? What about the value added by professionals? Employing ... -
The social, cultural & technological impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in family farming: the case of Washington State
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2022-04-30)The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated transformations that we were expecting to happen in decades. The so-called "new normal" gave way to a covidianity characterized by structural instability affecting daily life, the ... -
Some Temporal Aspects of Indexing and Classification: Toward a Metrics for Measuring Scheme Change
In this paper we discuss the temporal aspects of indexing and classification in information systems. Basing this discussion off of the three sources of research of scheme change: of indexing: (1) analytical research on the ... -
Spain English
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Spain Spanish
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