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Borgman, C.L.: ¬The conundrum of sharing research data (2012)
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- 11. 6.2012 15:22:29
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- Advances in information science
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 63(2012) no.6, S.1059-1078
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Borgman, C.L.; Scharnhorst, A.; Golshan, M.S.: Digital data archives as knowledge infrastructures : mediating data sharing and reuse (2019)
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- 7. 7.2019 11:58:22
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- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 70(2019) no.8, S.888-904
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Borgman, C.L.; Smart, L.J.; Millwood, K.A.; Finley, J.R.; Champeny, L.; Gilliland, A.J.; Leazer, G.H.: Comparing faculty information seeking in teaching and research : implications for the design of digital libraries (2005)
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- 3. 6.2005 20:40:22
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56(2005) no.6, S.636-657
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Borgman, C.L.: Psychological research in human-computer interaction (1984)
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- Annual review of information science and technology. 19(1984), S.33-64
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Borgman, C.L.: Children's use of an interactive science library : exploratory research (1990)
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Borgman, C.L.: Individual differences in the use of technology : work in progress (1985)
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- Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science. 48(1985), S.243-249
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Borgman, C.L.: Performance effects of a user's mental model of an information retrieval system (1983)
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- Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science. 46(1983), S.121-124
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Borgman, C.L.: Mental models: ways of looking at a system : training users with mental models can improve performance (1982)
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- Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. 9(1982) no.2, S.38-39
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Borgman, C.L.; Siegfried, S.L.: Getty's synoname and its cousins : a survey of applications of personal name-matching algorithms (1992)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 43(1992), S.459-476
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Borgman, C.L.: Toward a definition of user friendliness : a psychological perspective (1987)
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- Imprint
- Urbana, IL : University of Illinois / Graduate School of Library and Information Science
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Borgman, C.L.; Chignell, M.H.; Valdez, F.: Designing an information retrieval interface based on children's categorization of knowledge : a pilot study (1989)
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- Abstract
- The study assessed the ability of children to categorise concepts that will be used to organise an information retrieval interface. The work was done of Project SEED (Science for Early Educational Development), a project to develop hands-on science programmes for elementary schools. Aims to tailor an interface to the particular skills of children in organising science knowledge. The results are promising for the design of IR interfaces based on children's abilities to manipulate information.
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- ASIS'89. Managing information and technology. Proceedings of the 52nd annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, D.C., 30.10.-2.11.1989. Vol. 26. Ed. by J. Katzer and G.B. Newby
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Rosenberg, J.B.; Borgman, C.L.: Extending the Dewey Decimal Classification via keyword clustering : the Science Library Catalog project (1992)
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- Abstract
- The Science Library Catalog is a direct manipulation browsing oriented online catalogue intended for use by children. The catalogue provides an innovative interface tailored to the cognitive development of children, yet can be implemented by loading MARC records from extant library collections. Reprots on the implementation of keyword clustering algorithms used to extend the DDC class number assignments on a database of over 8.200 bibliographic records
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- Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Pittsburgh, 26.-29.10.92. Ed.: D. Shaw
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Borgman, C.L.; Walter, V.A.; Rosenberg, J.: ¬The Science Library Catalog project : comparison of children's searching behaviour in hypertext and a keyword search system (1991)
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- Abstract
- Reports on a continuing project to study children's use of a graphically-based direct manipulation interface for science materials. The Science Library Catalogue (SLC), a component of project SEED, has been implemented in the libraries of 21 elementary schools in Los Angeles and will soon be implemented in a public library. The interface employs a hierarchical structure drawn from the DDC and implemented in HyperCard on the Macintosh. The study on the 2nd version of the interface indicates that children are able to use the Science Library Catalogue unaided, with reasonable success in finding items. Search success on the same topics on a Boolean command driven system was equivalent, but Boolean searches were faster. However, the Boolean system was more sensitive to differences in age, with 12-year-olds having significantly better success rates than 10-year-olds; and to search topic, with one set of questions being much easier to search than the other. On average, children liked the 2 systems about the same; the Boolean system was more attractive to certain age and gender combinations, while the Science Library Catalogue was more consistently liked across groups. results are compared to prior studies on the Science Library Catalogue and other online catalogues
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Borgman, C.L.: a personal remembrance from the 1970s : Robert R. Korfhage (1999)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 50(1999) no.4, S.289-290
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Hirsh, S.G.; Borgman, C.L.: Comparing children's use of browsing and keyword searching on the Science Library catalog (1995)
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- Abstract
- Reports on a continuing project to study children's search behaviour on an automated library catalogue designed for children, called the Science Library Catalog. This experiment exployed an advanced version of the system which combines the browsing features of earlier versions with keyword capabilities that do not require correct spelling, searching alphabetical lists, or using Boolean logic. 5th grade children are able to use browsing and keyword searchs trategies successfully, relying on browsing to familiarize themselves with the system and graduating to keyword methods after they are comfortable with the system. Children's level of science domian knowledge was found to influence both their success in finding books and their search behaviour, with children with high domain knowledge finding books more successfully and utilizing more keyword and mixed search methgods. Results contribute to understanding of the factors affecting children's search behaviour
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- Forging new partnerships in information: converging technologies. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, ASIS'95, Chicago, IL, 9-12 October 1995. Ed.: T. Kinney
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Beaulieu, M.; Borgman, C.L.: ¬A new era for OPAC research : introduction to special topic issue on current research in Online Public Access Systems (1996)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(1996) no.7, S.491-492
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Borgman, C.L.: Will the global information infrastructure be the library of the future? : Central and Eastern Europe as a case example (1996)
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- IFLA journal. 22(1996) no.2, S.121-127
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Borgman, C.L.; Hirsh, S.G.; Walter, V.A.; Gallagher, A.L.: Childrens searching behavior on browsing and keyword online catalogs : the Science Library Catalog project (1995)
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- Abstract
- As we seek both to improve public school education in high technology areas and to link libraries and classrooms on the 'information superhighway', we need to understand more about children's information searching abilities. We present results of 4 experiments conducted on 4 versions of the Science Library Catalog (SLC), a Dewey Decimal based hierarchical browsing systems implemeted in HyperCard without a keyboard. The experiments were conducted over a 3-year period at 3 sites, with 4 databases, and with comparisons to 2 different keyword online catalogs. Subjects were ethnically and culturally diverse children aged 9 through 12; with 32 to 34 children participating in each experiment. Children were provided explicit instruction and reference materials for the keyword systems but not for the SLC. The number of search topics matched was comparable across all systems and all experiments; search times were comparable, thought hey varied among the 4 SLC versions and between the 2 keyword OPACs. The SLC overall was robust to differences in age, sex and computer experience. One of the keyword OPACs was subject to minor effects of age and computer experience; the other was not. We found relationships between search topic and system structure, such that the most difficult topics on the SLC were those hard to locate in the hierarchy, and those most difficult on the keyword OPACs were hard to spell or required children to generate their own search terms. The SLC approach overcomes problems with several searching features that are difficult for children in typical keyword OPAC systems; typing skills, spelling, vocabulary, and Boolean logic. Results have general implications for the desing of information retrieval systems for children
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 46(1995) no.9, S.663-684
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Borgman, C.L.; Wofford, M.F.; Golshan, M.S.; Darch, P.T.: Collaborative qualitative research at scale : reflections on 20 years of acquiring global data and making data global (2021)
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- Abstract
- A 5-year project to study scientific data uses in geography, starting in 1999, evolved into 20 years of research on data practices in sensor networks, environmental sciences, biology, seismology, undersea science, biomedicine, astronomy, and other fields. By emulating the "team science" approaches of the scientists studied, the UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures accumulated a comprehensive collection of qualitative data about how scientists generate, manage, use, and reuse data across domains. Building upon Paul N. Edwards's model of "making global data"-collecting signals via consistent methods, technologies, and policies-to "make data global"-comparing and integrating those data, the research team has managed and exploited these data as a collaborative resource. This article reflects on the social, technical, organizational, economic, and policy challenges the team has encountered in creating new knowledge from data old and new. We reflect on continuity over generations of students and staff, transitions between grants, transfer of legacy data between software tools, research methods, and the role of professional data managers in the social sciences.
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- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 72(2021) no.6, S.667-682
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Borgman, C.L.; Hirsh, S.G.; Hiller, J.: Rethinking online monitoring methods for information retrieval systems : from search product to search process (1996)
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- Abstract
- Searching information retrieval systems is a highly interactive, iterative process that cannot be understood simply by comparing the output of a search session (the 'search product') to a query stated in advance. In this article, we examine evaluation goals and methods for studying information retrieval behavior, drawing examples from our own research and that of others. We limit our review to research that employs online monitoring, also known as transaction log analysis. Online monitoring is one of few methods that can capture detailed data on the search process at a reasonable cost; these data can be used to build quantitative models or to support qualitative interpretations of quatitative results. Monitoring is a data collection technique rather than a research design, and can be employed in experimental of field studies, whether alone or combined with other data collection methods. Based on the the research questions of interest, the researcher must determine what variables to collect from each data source, which to treat as independent varaibles to manipulate, and which to treat as dependent variables to observe effects. Studies of searching behavior often treat search task and searcher characteristics as independent variables and may manipulate other independent variables specific to the research questions addressed. Search outcomes, time, and search paths frequently are treated as dependent variables. We discuss each of these sets of variables, illustrating them with sample results from the literature and from our own research. Our examples are drawn from the Science Library Catalog project, a 7-year study of children's searching behavior on an experimental retrieval system. We close with a brief discussion of the implications of these results for the design of information retrieval systems
- Source
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(1996) no.7, S.568-583
