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Papers by Joan Beaudoin
Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building, May 1, 2008
We describe a series of studies aimed at identifying specifications for marking up textual input ... more We describe a series of studies aimed at identifying specifications for marking up textual input for an image indexer's toolkit. Given an image and a text extract that describes an art or architectural work depicted in an image, our goal is to identify the semantic function served by a span of text with respect to image description. We illustrate this below in Figure 1.
This presentation given at Digital Libraries 2014 (conjoined conference for both the ACM/IEEE Joi... more This presentation given at Digital Libraries 2014 (conjoined conference for both the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference), London, UK, September 11, 2014.
This article presents the findings of a recent study which identified the image resources that pr... more This article presents the findings of a recent study which identified the image resources that professional user groups acknowledged were useful to their work processes. The information behaviors relating to images of several professional user groups-archaeologists , architects, art historians, and artists-were examined in a qualitative research study conducted in 2008-2009. Presented here are findings that clarify where these patrons turned for their visual information needs and what factors influenced their image resource decisions. The final section provides suggestions to improve the image-related experiences of these user groups and discusses avenues for future research.
Joan Beaudoin is a doctoral student at Drexel University. She can be reached by email at jeg56<... more Joan Beaudoin is a doctoral student at Drexel University. She can be reached by email at jeg56<at>drexel.edu. T he development and subsequent popularity of image tagging at sites such as Flickr (www.flickr.org) has been a phenomenon to receive considerable attention over the course of the last few years. After spending more than a decade cataloging and providing access to images in an academic setting I, too, felt compelled to take a look at what this Web 2.0 image-sharing site had to offer. There were two interconnected ideas at play when I began thinking about performing a study of Flickr tagging. The first of these ideas had to do with looking for an underlying pattern for the image tags. It seemed likely that some commonalities would occur among what at first glance appeared to be the chaos of personally applied image tags. Finding these common patterns among the tags would clarify what types of information people typically associate with their images. The second idea conc...
... retrieved images. Image indexing the application of conceptual terms for intellectual acces... more ... retrieved images. Image indexing the application of conceptual terms for intellectual access to images. ... Image retrieval the processes involved in searching for, finding and evaluating ... image seeking process starting would include the user's beginning efforts to find an image. ...
Knowledge Organization, 2015
This paper examines the development of a specialization for digital content management at the Sch... more This paper examines the development of a specialization for digital content management at the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University. Addressed in this case study are the pedagogical approach taken in the specialization’s curriculum development and the steps that were taken in developing the curriculum. The paper highlights five core characteristics that were used to describe the kinds of knowledge and skills expected from students completing the specialization. Additionally, the paper discusses the resources needed to support the specialization and the indicators to be used in the evaluation of its success. Keywords—digital content, digital curation, curriculum development, curriculum support.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2017
This inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) consists of a ... more This inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) consists of a series of 16 separately authored chapters gathered under the area known as cultural heritage informatics (CHI). This area examines topics that are located at the intersection of people, information, technology, and cultural heritage collections. Individuals with varied areas of expertise work within CHI to support the access, use, and preservation of cultural heritage materials. The text, organized into six thematic sections, highlights the rich variation to be found in the current research and practice surrounding CHI. Thoughtfully organized, this edited volume begins with a useful list of chapter titles and abstracts, which can be examined for direct access to items of particular interest. This is followed by a general overview of the volume’s contents through a brief introduction. Each of the volume’s six sections also contains a short introduction to the common theme of the papers, a summary of the contents of its chapters, and an account of the chapters’ authors. This background information is helpful for understanding the various approaches found in the gathered chapters and for explicating the commonalities to be found among the distinct chapters. An index arranged in a single alphabetical sequence is found after the final section, and it provides access to the volume’s topics and authors. A brief biographical sketch of the editor rounds out the text. The first part of the book, titled “Best Practices,” consists of three chapters offering recommendations on practices to support the preservation of, and access to, digital cultural heritage. The first chapter presents a historical overview of efforts to preserve our past and notes that the current approach to digital preservation is becoming a distributed effort supported through collective activities among stakeholders. The second chapter reviews the topic of folksonomies applied to cultural heritage collections through a discussion of traditional avenues of access (e.g., description, indexes, and controlled vocabularies), growing user expectations, and the strengths and weaknesses of folksonomic methods. The authors note that while user applied tags can be leveraged to provide increased knowledge of, and access to, cultural materials, their effectiveness is based on the support of institutional resources. The third and final chapter in this section presents case studies outlining sociopolitical barriers to the successful completion of digital preservation projects undertaken by library and information science (LIS) student groups assisting cultural heritage institutions. Suggestions for remedying difficulties in future digital preservation projects are provided. These consist of ensuring that institutional staff receive training as the project progresses, and that staff have clear expectations about what can be achieved. Additionally, these authors note that in future projects host institutions will receive a list of project requirements to ensure that appropriate resources are available to achieve expected outcomes. These three chapters, beyond providing recommendations, also point to the strong social forces that impact the work being done in cultural heritage collections. A continuation of social themes can also be found in Part II, titled “Digital Communities.” This brief section of the book offers two studies that examine the representation of cultural heritage in the online environment. The first chapter in this section examines how the holistic healing system Ayurveda is presented on U.S. websites, and shows how images and other representations can reveal incomplete cultural understanding. The second chapter presents a study of knitting blogs and advocates that preserving their content, represented through conversations, imagery, patterns, progress reports, difficulties, and accomplishments, allows for a deeper understanding of the craft and its online community. Both of the studies in this section bring into focus the importance of treating cultural heritage with sensitivity to the beliefs and norms of cultural groups. Part III, titled “Education,” provides specific details concerning the skills and knowledge needed by individuals to support their work with cultural heritage collections and their users. The two chapters in this section offer different approaches to the topic of education, but both arrive at a similar set of competencies required for working with cultural materials. The first chapter in this section reviews the Cultural Heritage Information Management concentration offered through the LIS department of the Catholic University of America. The curriculum is organized around the development of five core competencies consisting of an awareness of contextual factors, collection management (and preservation), information organization, information services, and technological skills. The second chapter, which provides VC 2016 ASIS&T
International Journal of Digital Curation, 2015
This article reports the results of a study examining the state of data guidance provided to auth... more This article reports the results of a study examining the state of data guidance provided to authors by 50 oncology journals. The purpose of the study was the identification of data practices addressed in the journals’ policies. While a number of studies have examined data sharing practices among researchers, little is known about how journals address data sharing. Thus, what was discovered through this study has practical implications for journal publishers, editors, and researchers. The findings indicate that journal publishers should provide more meaningful and comprehensive data guidance to prospective authors. More specifically, journal policies requiring data sharing, should direct researchers to relevant data repositories, and offer better metadata consultation to strengthen existing journal policies. By providing adequate guidance for authors, and helping investigators to meet data sharing mandates, scholarly journal publishers can play a vital role in advancing access to re...
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 2005
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 2007
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 2011
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015
This article reports the findings of a qualitative research study that examined professional imag... more This article reports the findings of a qualitative research study that examined professional image users' knowledge of, and interest in using, content‐based image retrieval (CBIR) systems in an attempt to clarify when and where CBIR methods might be applied. The research sought to determine the differences in the perceived usefulness of CBIR technologies among image user groups from several domains and explicate the reasons given regarding the utility of CBIR systems for their professional tasks. Twenty participants (archaeologists, architects, art historians, and artists), individuals who rely on images of cultural materials in the performance of their work, took part in the study. The findings of the study reveal that interest in CBIR methods varied among the different professional user communities. Individuals who showed an interest in these systems were primarily those concerned with the formal characteristics (i.e., color, shape, composition, and texture) of the images being sought. In contrast, those participants who expressed a strong interest in images of known items, images illustrating themes, and/or items from specific locations believe concept‐based searches to be the most direct route. These image users did not see a practical application for CBIR systems in their current work routines.
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2013
This panel examines the state of visually oriented research methods used within the domain of lib... more This panel examines the state of visually oriented research methods used within the domain of library and information science through a series of recently completed and in-progress studies. The nature of the research questions being asked within studies using visual research methods forms the core of this examination and this is further clarified through an assessment of how these methods have been put into practice within the research process.
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2007
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008
Advances in Classification Research Online, 2008
Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building, May 1, 2008
We describe a series of studies aimed at identifying specifications for marking up textual input ... more We describe a series of studies aimed at identifying specifications for marking up textual input for an image indexer's toolkit. Given an image and a text extract that describes an art or architectural work depicted in an image, our goal is to identify the semantic function served by a span of text with respect to image description. We illustrate this below in Figure 1.
This presentation given at Digital Libraries 2014 (conjoined conference for both the ACM/IEEE Joi... more This presentation given at Digital Libraries 2014 (conjoined conference for both the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference), London, UK, September 11, 2014.
This article presents the findings of a recent study which identified the image resources that pr... more This article presents the findings of a recent study which identified the image resources that professional user groups acknowledged were useful to their work processes. The information behaviors relating to images of several professional user groups-archaeologists , architects, art historians, and artists-were examined in a qualitative research study conducted in 2008-2009. Presented here are findings that clarify where these patrons turned for their visual information needs and what factors influenced their image resource decisions. The final section provides suggestions to improve the image-related experiences of these user groups and discusses avenues for future research.
Joan Beaudoin is a doctoral student at Drexel University. She can be reached by email at jeg56<... more Joan Beaudoin is a doctoral student at Drexel University. She can be reached by email at jeg56<at>drexel.edu. T he development and subsequent popularity of image tagging at sites such as Flickr (www.flickr.org) has been a phenomenon to receive considerable attention over the course of the last few years. After spending more than a decade cataloging and providing access to images in an academic setting I, too, felt compelled to take a look at what this Web 2.0 image-sharing site had to offer. There were two interconnected ideas at play when I began thinking about performing a study of Flickr tagging. The first of these ideas had to do with looking for an underlying pattern for the image tags. It seemed likely that some commonalities would occur among what at first glance appeared to be the chaos of personally applied image tags. Finding these common patterns among the tags would clarify what types of information people typically associate with their images. The second idea conc...
... retrieved images. Image indexing the application of conceptual terms for intellectual acces... more ... retrieved images. Image indexing the application of conceptual terms for intellectual access to images. ... Image retrieval the processes involved in searching for, finding and evaluating ... image seeking process starting would include the user's beginning efforts to find an image. ...
Knowledge Organization, 2015
This paper examines the development of a specialization for digital content management at the Sch... more This paper examines the development of a specialization for digital content management at the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University. Addressed in this case study are the pedagogical approach taken in the specialization’s curriculum development and the steps that were taken in developing the curriculum. The paper highlights five core characteristics that were used to describe the kinds of knowledge and skills expected from students completing the specialization. Additionally, the paper discusses the resources needed to support the specialization and the indicators to be used in the evaluation of its success. Keywords—digital content, digital curation, curriculum development, curriculum support.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2017
This inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) consists of a ... more This inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) consists of a series of 16 separately authored chapters gathered under the area known as cultural heritage informatics (CHI). This area examines topics that are located at the intersection of people, information, technology, and cultural heritage collections. Individuals with varied areas of expertise work within CHI to support the access, use, and preservation of cultural heritage materials. The text, organized into six thematic sections, highlights the rich variation to be found in the current research and practice surrounding CHI. Thoughtfully organized, this edited volume begins with a useful list of chapter titles and abstracts, which can be examined for direct access to items of particular interest. This is followed by a general overview of the volume’s contents through a brief introduction. Each of the volume’s six sections also contains a short introduction to the common theme of the papers, a summary of the contents of its chapters, and an account of the chapters’ authors. This background information is helpful for understanding the various approaches found in the gathered chapters and for explicating the commonalities to be found among the distinct chapters. An index arranged in a single alphabetical sequence is found after the final section, and it provides access to the volume’s topics and authors. A brief biographical sketch of the editor rounds out the text. The first part of the book, titled “Best Practices,” consists of three chapters offering recommendations on practices to support the preservation of, and access to, digital cultural heritage. The first chapter presents a historical overview of efforts to preserve our past and notes that the current approach to digital preservation is becoming a distributed effort supported through collective activities among stakeholders. The second chapter reviews the topic of folksonomies applied to cultural heritage collections through a discussion of traditional avenues of access (e.g., description, indexes, and controlled vocabularies), growing user expectations, and the strengths and weaknesses of folksonomic methods. The authors note that while user applied tags can be leveraged to provide increased knowledge of, and access to, cultural materials, their effectiveness is based on the support of institutional resources. The third and final chapter in this section presents case studies outlining sociopolitical barriers to the successful completion of digital preservation projects undertaken by library and information science (LIS) student groups assisting cultural heritage institutions. Suggestions for remedying difficulties in future digital preservation projects are provided. These consist of ensuring that institutional staff receive training as the project progresses, and that staff have clear expectations about what can be achieved. Additionally, these authors note that in future projects host institutions will receive a list of project requirements to ensure that appropriate resources are available to achieve expected outcomes. These three chapters, beyond providing recommendations, also point to the strong social forces that impact the work being done in cultural heritage collections. A continuation of social themes can also be found in Part II, titled “Digital Communities.” This brief section of the book offers two studies that examine the representation of cultural heritage in the online environment. The first chapter in this section examines how the holistic healing system Ayurveda is presented on U.S. websites, and shows how images and other representations can reveal incomplete cultural understanding. The second chapter presents a study of knitting blogs and advocates that preserving their content, represented through conversations, imagery, patterns, progress reports, difficulties, and accomplishments, allows for a deeper understanding of the craft and its online community. Both of the studies in this section bring into focus the importance of treating cultural heritage with sensitivity to the beliefs and norms of cultural groups. Part III, titled “Education,” provides specific details concerning the skills and knowledge needed by individuals to support their work with cultural heritage collections and their users. The two chapters in this section offer different approaches to the topic of education, but both arrive at a similar set of competencies required for working with cultural materials. The first chapter in this section reviews the Cultural Heritage Information Management concentration offered through the LIS department of the Catholic University of America. The curriculum is organized around the development of five core competencies consisting of an awareness of contextual factors, collection management (and preservation), information organization, information services, and technological skills. The second chapter, which provides VC 2016 ASIS&T
International Journal of Digital Curation, 2015
This article reports the results of a study examining the state of data guidance provided to auth... more This article reports the results of a study examining the state of data guidance provided to authors by 50 oncology journals. The purpose of the study was the identification of data practices addressed in the journals’ policies. While a number of studies have examined data sharing practices among researchers, little is known about how journals address data sharing. Thus, what was discovered through this study has practical implications for journal publishers, editors, and researchers. The findings indicate that journal publishers should provide more meaningful and comprehensive data guidance to prospective authors. More specifically, journal policies requiring data sharing, should direct researchers to relevant data repositories, and offer better metadata consultation to strengthen existing journal policies. By providing adequate guidance for authors, and helping investigators to meet data sharing mandates, scholarly journal publishers can play a vital role in advancing access to re...
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 2005
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 2007
Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 2011
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015
This article reports the findings of a qualitative research study that examined professional imag... more This article reports the findings of a qualitative research study that examined professional image users' knowledge of, and interest in using, content‐based image retrieval (CBIR) systems in an attempt to clarify when and where CBIR methods might be applied. The research sought to determine the differences in the perceived usefulness of CBIR technologies among image user groups from several domains and explicate the reasons given regarding the utility of CBIR systems for their professional tasks. Twenty participants (archaeologists, architects, art historians, and artists), individuals who rely on images of cultural materials in the performance of their work, took part in the study. The findings of the study reveal that interest in CBIR methods varied among the different professional user communities. Individuals who showed an interest in these systems were primarily those concerned with the formal characteristics (i.e., color, shape, composition, and texture) of the images being sought. In contrast, those participants who expressed a strong interest in images of known items, images illustrating themes, and/or items from specific locations believe concept‐based searches to be the most direct route. These image users did not see a practical application for CBIR systems in their current work routines.
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2013
This panel examines the state of visually oriented research methods used within the domain of lib... more This panel examines the state of visually oriented research methods used within the domain of library and information science through a series of recently completed and in-progress studies. The nature of the research questions being asked within studies using visual research methods forms the core of this examination and this is further clarified through an assessment of how these methods have been put into practice within the research process.
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2007
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008
Advances in Classification Research Online, 2008