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Facet eBooks, Jul 5, 2018
New Review of Information Networking, Nov 1, 2011
This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Commit... more This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), a 3-month project which investigated the interoperability of Online Public Access ...
Library Review, Oct 12, 2010
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, May 20, 2010
This article summarizes the methodology and findings of the Online Catalogue and Repository Inter... more This article summarizes the methodology and findings of the Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), a project recently carried out by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde, funded by the Joint Information ...
The Information Society, Dec 22, 2015
WIDWISAWN, 2008
The online encyclopedia website Wikipedia is used by 10 percent of internet users; its English la... more The online encyclopedia website Wikipedia is used by 10 percent of internet users; its English language site contains over 2.8 million articles and counting, its German site over 722,000; in total, over 9 million articles exist across more than 250 language sites ( ...
New Review of Information Networking, 2011
This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Commit... more This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), a 3-month project which investigated the interoperability of Online Public Access ...
The Information Society, 2015
Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen a... more Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about which collections they would like to have made available digitally or why. This can be seen in a wide range of policy documents throughout the cultural heritage sector, where users are positioned as central but where their preferences are assumed rather than solicited. Post-digitisation consultation with end users isequally rare. How are we to know that digitisation is serving the needs of the Higher Education community and is sustainable in the long-term? The 'Digitisation in Special Collections: mapping, assessment and prioritisation' (DiSCmap) project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Research Information Network (RIN), aimed to:- Identify priority collections for potential digitisation housed within UK Higher Education's libraries, archives and museums as well as faculties and departments.-...
The importance and availability of new media technologies within universities is growing, as is t... more The importance and availability of new media technologies within universities is growing, as is the rhetoric around them. Research typically focuses on use, behaviour, and their incorporation or instrumentalisation within research and teaching environments. Attitude is rarely considered in any depth, yet as Crano, Cooper and Forgras explain, symbolic mental processes and real-life social behaviours are intrinsically linked. Attitudes guide the "subsequent behaviours" that both create and maintain our "social structures and systems". (Crano, Cooper and Forgras, 2011, pp. 3-5). This paper describes an original, flexible methodology developed for the study of new media from the attitudinal perspectives of academic users, taking account of contextual factors such as disciplinary tradition and personal experience. Three key research objectives are addressed: Devising a suitable methodology for the study of academic attitudes to new media that takes account of the conc...
1. The report describes the demonstration and evaluation of ISP1, which was designed to demonstra... more 1. The report describes the demonstration and evaluation of ISP1, which was designed to demonstrate the potential of the SHAMAN framework for digital preservation in the context of memory institutions and for the research and development community. 2. The demonstration process was carried out by means of presentations based on screen-casts in three locations, Frankfurt, Vilnius and Glasgow. The audiences for the demonstrations consisted persons occupying of a wide range of roles in memory institutions, including senior management, operational level staff and IT support staff. 3. The evaluation is based on the reports of focus groups held in the three locations, together with structured data from self-completed questionnaires, administered on the same occasions. 4. Participants in the focus groups responded favourably to the ideas demonstrated in the presentations. There was particular interest in the choice of mainly open source software and in automation of processes, both of which...
1. The report is accounting for the demonstration and evaluation of ISP2, which was designed to d... more 1. The report is accounting for the demonstration and evaluation of ISP2, which was designed to demonstrate the potential of the SHAMAN framework for digital preservation in the context of industri ...
This thesis examines the attitudes of UK academics toward new media as both cultural artefacts an... more This thesis examines the attitudes of UK academics toward new media as both cultural artefacts and tools, assessing the relationship of those attitudes to traditionally distinct disciplinary structures. An inclusive and conceptually informed framework was developed following a review of multi-disciplinary literatures addressing the organisation of disciplines, the management of Higher Education, and the multiple meanings of new media. The original contribution of the thesis is an enriched understanding of what new media mean to academics both symbolically and practically at a time of immense technological and organisational change. Empirical data were gathered from a sample of 209 UK academics in four academic fields which were selected strategically using a frame based on the work of Whitley (2000). The primary instrument used was a self-administered online questionnaire (distributed to 953 individuals in 112 in-scope institutions, hence the response rate is 22 percent) using Liker...
The aims and objectives of OCRIS were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in s... more The aims and objectives of OCRIS were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there; • Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information; • List the various services to institutional managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered respectively by OPACs and repositories; • Identify the potential for improvements in the links (e.g. using link resolver technology) from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services, such as finance or research administration; • Make recommendations for the development of possible further links between library OPACs and institutional repositories, identifying the benefits to relevant stakeholder groups. Key Findings Interoperability and services 1. Interoperability between IRs and LMSs in UK HEIs is currently rare - only 2 percent of questionnaire respondents state that thei...
Facet eBooks, Jul 5, 2018
New Review of Information Networking, Nov 1, 2011
This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Commit... more This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), a 3-month project which investigated the interoperability of Online Public Access ...
Library Review, Oct 12, 2010
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, May 20, 2010
This article summarizes the methodology and findings of the Online Catalogue and Repository Inter... more This article summarizes the methodology and findings of the Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), a project recently carried out by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde, funded by the Joint Information ...
The Information Society, Dec 22, 2015
WIDWISAWN, 2008
The online encyclopedia website Wikipedia is used by 10 percent of internet users; its English la... more The online encyclopedia website Wikipedia is used by 10 percent of internet users; its English language site contains over 2.8 million articles and counting, its German site over 722,000; in total, over 9 million articles exist across more than 250 language sites ( ...
New Review of Information Networking, 2011
This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Commit... more This article reports on the key findings and implications of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), a 3-month project which investigated the interoperability of Online Public Access ...
The Information Society, 2015
Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen a... more Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about which collections they would like to have made available digitally or why. This can be seen in a wide range of policy documents throughout the cultural heritage sector, where users are positioned as central but where their preferences are assumed rather than solicited. Post-digitisation consultation with end users isequally rare. How are we to know that digitisation is serving the needs of the Higher Education community and is sustainable in the long-term? The 'Digitisation in Special Collections: mapping, assessment and prioritisation' (DiSCmap) project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Research Information Network (RIN), aimed to:- Identify priority collections for potential digitisation housed within UK Higher Education's libraries, archives and museums as well as faculties and departments.-...
The importance and availability of new media technologies within universities is growing, as is t... more The importance and availability of new media technologies within universities is growing, as is the rhetoric around them. Research typically focuses on use, behaviour, and their incorporation or instrumentalisation within research and teaching environments. Attitude is rarely considered in any depth, yet as Crano, Cooper and Forgras explain, symbolic mental processes and real-life social behaviours are intrinsically linked. Attitudes guide the "subsequent behaviours" that both create and maintain our "social structures and systems". (Crano, Cooper and Forgras, 2011, pp. 3-5). This paper describes an original, flexible methodology developed for the study of new media from the attitudinal perspectives of academic users, taking account of contextual factors such as disciplinary tradition and personal experience. Three key research objectives are addressed: Devising a suitable methodology for the study of academic attitudes to new media that takes account of the conc...
1. The report describes the demonstration and evaluation of ISP1, which was designed to demonstra... more 1. The report describes the demonstration and evaluation of ISP1, which was designed to demonstrate the potential of the SHAMAN framework for digital preservation in the context of memory institutions and for the research and development community. 2. The demonstration process was carried out by means of presentations based on screen-casts in three locations, Frankfurt, Vilnius and Glasgow. The audiences for the demonstrations consisted persons occupying of a wide range of roles in memory institutions, including senior management, operational level staff and IT support staff. 3. The evaluation is based on the reports of focus groups held in the three locations, together with structured data from self-completed questionnaires, administered on the same occasions. 4. Participants in the focus groups responded favourably to the ideas demonstrated in the presentations. There was particular interest in the choice of mainly open source software and in automation of processes, both of which...
1. The report is accounting for the demonstration and evaluation of ISP2, which was designed to d... more 1. The report is accounting for the demonstration and evaluation of ISP2, which was designed to demonstrate the potential of the SHAMAN framework for digital preservation in the context of industri ...
This thesis examines the attitudes of UK academics toward new media as both cultural artefacts an... more This thesis examines the attitudes of UK academics toward new media as both cultural artefacts and tools, assessing the relationship of those attitudes to traditionally distinct disciplinary structures. An inclusive and conceptually informed framework was developed following a review of multi-disciplinary literatures addressing the organisation of disciplines, the management of Higher Education, and the multiple meanings of new media. The original contribution of the thesis is an enriched understanding of what new media mean to academics both symbolically and practically at a time of immense technological and organisational change. Empirical data were gathered from a sample of 209 UK academics in four academic fields which were selected strategically using a frame based on the work of Whitley (2000). The primary instrument used was a self-administered online questionnaire (distributed to 953 individuals in 112 in-scope institutions, hence the response rate is 22 percent) using Liker...
The aims and objectives of OCRIS were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in s... more The aims and objectives of OCRIS were to: • Survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for institutional library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there; • Examine the interoperability of OPAC and repository software for the exchange of metadata and other information; • List the various services to institutional managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered respectively by OPACs and repositories; • Identify the potential for improvements in the links (e.g. using link resolver technology) from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services, such as finance or research administration; • Make recommendations for the development of possible further links between library OPACs and institutional repositories, identifying the benefits to relevant stakeholder groups. Key Findings Interoperability and services 1. Interoperability between IRs and LMSs in UK HEIs is currently rare - only 2 percent of questionnaire respondents state that thei...