{"title":"Exploring the dynamic contribution behavior of editors in wikis based on time series analysis","authors":"Linghe Huang, Qinghua Zhu, J. Du, Baozhen Lee","doi":"10.1108/PROG-06-2013-0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-06-2013-0034","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – Wiki is a new form of information production and organization, which has become one of the most important knowledge resources. In recent years, with the increase of users in wikis, “free rider problem” has been serious. In order to motivate editors to contribute more to a wiki system, it is important to fully understand their contribution behavior. The purpose of this paper is to explore the law of dynamic contribution behavior of editors in wikis. Design/methodology/approach – After developing a dynamic model of contribution behavior, the authors employed both the metrological and clustering methods to process the time series data. The experimental data were collected from Baidu Baike, a renowned Chinese wiki system similar to Wikipedia. Findings – There are four categories of editors: “testers,” “dropouts,” “delayers” and “stickers.” Testers, who contribute the least content and stop contributing rapidly after editing a few articles. After editing a large amount of content, dropouts stop contr...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"41-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-06-2013-0034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62197788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMAT: core ontology of matter","authors":"D. Madalli, A. Sulochana, A. Singh","doi":"10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – Matter is an important topic of science as a discipline since its inception. Nevertheless, along with the evolution of semantic web, matter has got equal importance among the ontology developers. The current work describes an ontology of matter that the authors developed in the lab. The purpose of this paper is to come up with an exhaustive list of concepts and relations to cover matter domain under one umbrella, after identifying the gaps in the present ontologies. Design/methodology/approach – Ontology was developed following faceted analytico-synthetic approach of knowledge organization. The authors followed hybrid developmental approach which includes top-down as well as bottom-up development strategy, for creating classes and subclasses. The authors modelled matter domain comprehensively considering different aspects of matter. The theories behind the modelling approach helps to maintain the consistency of further extensions. Findings – Final ontology has around 280 concepts and as many as ...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"103-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62196237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing the complementarity of web infrastructure and eInnovation for business value generation","authors":"S. Popa, Pedro Soto-Acosta, E. Loukis","doi":"10.1108/PROG-09-2015-0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-09-2015-0065","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – In recent years, there has been much debate about the value generated by the firms’ investments in information technology (IT). Although literature suggests that technology itself will rarely create superiority, web infrastructure can be critical for knowledge sharing and the formation of virtual teams to execute innovation processes which, in turn, may enhance e-innovation and business value. Building on these antecedents, the purpose of this paper is to explore whether and how web infrastructure and e-innovation can create business value by complementing each other. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm this paper develops a conceptual model to assess the effects of web infrastructure and e-innovation on business value as well as the complementarity between these resources. To test the associated hypotheses, a regression model was estimated and tested on a large sample of Spanish firms from different industries. Findings – The results show that web in...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"118-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-09-2015-0065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62199053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance and accuracy analysis of semantic kernel functions","authors":"M. Manuja, D. Garg","doi":"10.1108/PROG-04-2014-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-04-2014-0028","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – Syntax-based text classification (TC) mechanisms have been overtly replaced by semantic-based systems in recent years. Semantic-based TC systems are particularly useful in those scenarios where similarity among documents is computed considering semantic relationships among their terms. Kernel functions have received major attention because of the unprecedented popularity of SVMs in the field of TC. Most of the kernel functions exploit syntactic structures of the text, but quite a few also use a priori semantic information for knowledge extraction. The purpose of this paper is to investigate semantic kernel functions in the context of TC. Design/methodology/approach – This work presents performance and accuracy analysis of seven semantic kernel functions (Semantic Smoothing Kernel, Latent Semantic Kernel, Semantic WordNet-based Kernel, Semantic Smoothing Kernel having Implicit Superconcept Expansions, Compactness-based Disambiguation Kernel Function, Omiotis-based S-VSM semantic kernel function a...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"83-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-04-2014-0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62197180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chaolemen Borjigin, H. Feng, Bin Zhang, Guojun Zhao
{"title":"The information resources utilization index: a case study in China","authors":"Chaolemen Borjigin, H. Feng, Bin Zhang, Guojun Zhao","doi":"10.1108/PROG-07-2013-0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-07-2013-0041","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel method for measuring the utilization of information resources (IRs) in order to provide a complementary index for existing information development indices and to reveal the links between the use of IRs and the readiness of ICT. Design/methodology/approach – This research mainly employs three types of research methodologies: literature study was conducted for defining the term of IRs and for finding the common features of the relevant indices; methods to construct composite indicators are used for developing a theoretical framework, selecting variables, imputation of missing data, normalization of data, weighting and aggregation of the novel index; a case study is carried out to provide a typical application for the index and to reveal the underlying links between the use of IRs and the readiness of ICT. Findings – This paper for the first time proposes a method to measure the utilization of IRs from a Chinese perspective and provides its theoreti...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"2-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-07-2013-0041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62197949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yannis Tzitzikas, Carlo Allocca, C. Bekiari, Yannis Marketakis, P. Fafalios, M. Doerr, N. Minadakis, T. Patkos, Leonardo Candela
{"title":"Unifying heterogeneous and distributed information about marine species through the top level ontology MarineTLO","authors":"Yannis Tzitzikas, Carlo Allocca, C. Bekiari, Yannis Marketakis, P. Fafalios, M. Doerr, N. Minadakis, T. Patkos, Leonardo Candela","doi":"10.1108/PROG-10-2014-0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-10-2014-0072","url":null,"abstract":"– Marine species data are scattered across a series of heterogeneous repositories and information systems. There is no repository that can claim to have all marine species data. Moreover, information on marine species are made available through different formats and protocols. The purpose of this paper is to provide models and methods that allow integrating such information either for publishing it, browsing it or querying it. Aiming at providing a valid and reliable knowledge ground for enabling semantic interoperability of marine species data, in this paper the authors motivate a top level ontology, called MarineTLO and discuss its use for creating MarineTLO-based warehouses. , – In this paper the authors introduce a set of motivating scenarios that highlight the need of having a top level ontology. Afterwards the authors describe the main data sources (Fisheries Linked Open Data, ECOSCOPE, WoRMS, FishBase and DBpedia) that will be used as a basis for constructing the MarineTLO. , – The paper discusses about the exploitation of MarineTLO for the construction of a warehouse. Furthermore a series of uses of the MarineTLO-based warehouse is being reported. , – In this paper the authors described the design of a top level ontology for the marine domain able to satisfy the need for maintaining integrated sets of facts about marine species and thus assisting ongoing research on biodiversity. Apart from the ontology the authors also elaborated with the mappings that are required for building integrated warehouses.","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"50 1","pages":"16-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-10-2014-0072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62199481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research data management and openness: The role of data sharing in developing institutional policies and practices","authors":"R. Higman, S. Pinfield","doi":"10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between research data management (RDM) and data sharing in the formulation of RDM policies and development of practices in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach – Two strands of work were undertaken sequentially: first, content analysis of 37 RDM policies from UK HEIs; and second, two detailed case studies of institutions with different approaches to RDM based on semi-structured interviews with staff involved in the development of RDM policy and services. The data are interpreted using insights from Actor Network Theory. Findings – RDM policy formation and service development has created a complex set of networks within and beyond institutions involving different professional groups with widely varying priorities shaping activities. Data sharing is considered an important activity in the policies and services of HEIs studied, but its prominence can in most cases be attributed to the positions adopted by larg...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"49 1","pages":"364-381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62196245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special issue: Research Data Management","authors":"A. Cox","doi":"10.1108/PROG-08-2015-0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-08-2015-0055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62198880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building a research data management service for the London school of hygiene & tropical medicine","authors":"G. Knight","doi":"10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of work performed at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to set-up a Research Data Management Service and tailor it to the needs of health researchers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the motivations for establishing the RDM Service and outlines the three objectives that were set to improve data management practice within the institution. Each of the objectives are explored in turn, stating how they were addressed. Findings – A university with limited resources can operate a RDM Service that pro-actively supports researchers wishing to manage research data by monitoring evolving support needs, identifying common trends and developing resources that will reduce the time investment needed. The institution-wide survey identified a need for guidance on developing data documentation and archiving research data following project completion. Analysis of ongoing support requests identifies a need for guidance on data m...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"49 1","pages":"424-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-01-2015-0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62195792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Searle, M. Wolski, Natasha Simons, Joanna Richardson
{"title":"Librarians as partners in research data service development at Griffith University","authors":"S. Searle, M. Wolski, Natasha Simons, Joanna Richardson","doi":"10.1108/PROG-02-2015-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-02-2015-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the evolution to date and future directions in research data policy, infrastructure, skills development and advisory services in an Australian university, with a focus on the role of librarians. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have been involved in the development of research data services at Griffith, and the case study presents observations and reflections arising from their first-hand experiences. Findings – Griffith University’s organisational structure and “whole-of-enterprise” approach has facilitated service development to support research data. Fostering strong national partnerships has also accelerated development of institutional capability. Policies and strategies are supported by pragmatic best practice guidelines aimed directly at researchers. Iterative software development and a commitment to well-supported enterprise infrastructure enable the provision of a range of data management solutions. Training programs, repository support ...","PeriodicalId":49663,"journal":{"name":"Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems","volume":"47 1","pages":"440-460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/PROG-02-2015-0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62195833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}