Les Bibliothèques dynamiques et attractivesXavier Galaup
Les bibliothèques sont des lieux dynamiques et attractifs pour leur territoire.
Présentation du concept de bibliothèques 3ème lieu, de quelques éléments sur la loi des bibliothèques, de la manière dont les bibliothèques peuvent contribuer aux autres politiques publiques (culturelles, sociales, éducatives, écologiques, sportives...).
La bibliothèque doit aussi s'inscrire dans un réseau plus large afin d'avoir encore plus d'impacts sur la population.
This paper presents crack detection in concrete structure based on fuzzy logic. Safety inspection of concrete structures is very important since it is closely related with the structural health and reliability. Automated structural health monitoring system becomes necessity in recent years that encourages various researches to be going on in this area. Cheap availability of digital cameras makes research work in this field easier. This paper presents digital image processing and fuzzy logic based efficient crack detection technique in concrete structure. Here features from digital image of concrete structure are extracted by using morphological image processing technique and then extracted features are fed to fuzzy logic to accurately identify the crack.
Les Bibliothèques dynamiques et attractivesXavier Galaup
Les bibliothèques sont des lieux dynamiques et attractifs pour leur territoire.
Présentation du concept de bibliothèques 3ème lieu, de quelques éléments sur la loi des bibliothèques, de la manière dont les bibliothèques peuvent contribuer aux autres politiques publiques (culturelles, sociales, éducatives, écologiques, sportives...).
La bibliothèque doit aussi s'inscrire dans un réseau plus large afin d'avoir encore plus d'impacts sur la population.
This paper presents crack detection in concrete structure based on fuzzy logic. Safety inspection of concrete structures is very important since it is closely related with the structural health and reliability. Automated structural health monitoring system becomes necessity in recent years that encourages various researches to be going on in this area. Cheap availability of digital cameras makes research work in this field easier. This paper presents digital image processing and fuzzy logic based efficient crack detection technique in concrete structure. Here features from digital image of concrete structure are extracted by using morphological image processing technique and then extracted features are fed to fuzzy logic to accurately identify the crack.
Running Head DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING .docxtodd271
Running Head: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING 1
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING 2
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING
Name
Course
Institution
Instructor
Date
Computing descriptive statistics
Haukoos, J. S., & Lewis, R. J. (2015). Advanced statistics: bootstrapping confidence intervals for statistics with “difficult” distributions. Academic emergency medicine, 12(4), 360-365.
This article by Haukoos and Lewis describe how to use confidence intervals in reporting research results which the authors acknowledge to have increased in use and as a requirement for scientific journal editors. The article explores a number of resources that describe methods of computing statistical confidence intervals for descriptive statistics that have descriptions that are not easy to mathematically represent which is a challenging task. The article is relevant to the topic matter in that it describes the methods along with how the resources availed describing the computing methods for descriptive statistics. The authors propose the use of bootstrap technique which they argue allows a researcher to make inferences from data without making strong assumptions about distribution of the data or the statistics under calculation. The strengths of the article include the fact that it describes the bootstrapping concept and demonstrates how to estimate confidence intervals for the median and the spearman rank correlation coefficient for data not normally distributed. the weakness of this resource is the fact that it does not generally describe how to compute descriptive statistics but narrows down to describing how to compute descriptive statistics confidence intervals. The article used a qualitative research method on a clinical study that used two commonly used statistical software packages of strata and SAS in its discussion of limitations of the bootstrap.
Team, R. C. (2013). R: A language and environment for statistical computing.
The document by Andy Bunn and Mikko Korpela describes the basic features of dendrologists program library in R, which is in itself a package used by dendrologists to handle the processing and analysis of data. The document follows the basic steps an analyst follows when working with a new tree-ring data set. This document is a vignette commences by describing how to read in ring widths and how to plot them. The vignette is relevant in this study as it describes a number of methods available for trending and detrending and shows how to extract basic descriptive statistics. It also shows how to build and plot a simple chronology of the mean value. The building of the mean-value chronology is shown in the vignette using the expressed signal; of the population from the detrended ring widths as a way of doing complicated computing by the use of The Dendrochronology Program Library in R (dplR). The vignette highlights how to.
From Bibliometrics to Cybermetrics - a book chapter by Nicola de BellisXanat V. Meza
Disclaimer: All original texts and images belong to their rightful owners.
Chapter 8 of the book "Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis" by Nicola de Bellis.
Finding Your Literature Match - A Recommender SystemEdwin Henneken
In this document I give a non-technical description of what a recommender system is and how it helps in the process of finding relevant information in times of information overload
Scientometric Analysis of Library and Information Studiesijtsrd
A scientometric analysis is an effective method to increase the scope of library and information studies. The research articles presented have been revised to highlight the research done in the library and information studies area and to enable readers to read more information. In this research, a total of 9 volumes, 36 issues, 713 articles, and 8956 citations, etc, published in the International Journal of Library and Information Studies from 2011 to 2019 were referred for scientometric analysis. It shows the annual growth of published articles, authors distributions, geographical distribution, citations distribution, Degree of Collaboration, Etc. In a changing age, this study will certainly be useful to track the research literature available to expand the scope of library and information studies and to make transparent research. Narwade Mukesh Ramesh "Scientometric Analysis of Library and Information Studies" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30857.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/home-science/other/30857/scientometric-analysis-of-library-and-information-studies/narwade-mukesh-ramesh
Ontology Based Approach for Classifying Biomedical Text AbstractsWaqas Tariq
Classifying biomedical literature is a difficult and challenging task, especially when a large number of biomedical articles should be organized into a hierarchical structure. Due to this problem, various classification methods were proposed by many researchers for classifying biomedical literature in order to help users find relevant articles on the web. In this paper, we propose a new approach to classifying a collection of biomedical text abstracts by using ontology alignment algorithm that we have developed. To accomplish our goal, we construct the OHSUMED disease hierarchy as the initial training hierarchy and the Medline abstract disease hierarchies as our testing hierarchy. For enriching our training hierarchy, we use the relevant features that extracted from selected categories in the OHSUMED dataset as feature vectors. These feature vectors then are mapped to each node or concept in the OHSUMED disease hierarchy according to their specific category. Afterward, we align and match the concepts in both hierarchies using our ontology alignment algorithm for finding probable concepts or categories. Subsequently, we compute the cosine similarity score between the feature vectors in probable concepts, in the genrichedh OHSUMED disease hierarchy and the Medline abstract disease hierarchy. Finally, we predict a category to the new Medline abstracts based on the highest cosine similarity score. The results obtained from the experiments demonstrate that our proposed approach for hierarchical classification performs slightly better than the multi-class flat classification.
Finding articles and books using database for your discipline pubricaPubrica
A literature search is a well-organised and systematic survey from the already published data to become aware of a breadth of good pleasant references on a particular topic. Formulating a well-focussed question is an important step for facilitating accurate scientific research.
Continue Reading: http://bit.ly/39A1fyx
Why Pubrica?
When you order our services, we promise you the following – Plagiarism free, always on Time, outstanding customer support, written to Standard, Unlimited Revisions support and High-quality Subject Matter Experts.
Reference: literature review writing services
Contact us :
Web: https://pubrica.com/
Blog: https://pubrica.com/academy/
Email: sales@pubrica.com
WhatsApp : +91 9884350006
United Kingdom: +44-1143520021
Reflection AssignmentThis week there will be no formal discu.docxringrid1
Reflection Assignment
This week there will be no formal discussion for our class. However, there is a reading assignment. Based on the reading assignment there is a reflection requirement. This is basically a written paragraph of about five to six sentences about what you have read. Your reflection should be posted on the discussion board (remember it is just a paragraph of five to six sentences) regarding your readings for this week. No discussions are required this week.
Reading Assignment
Our reading assignment for our class this week will involve:
Chapter 16 – Internet, Secondary Analysis and Historical Research
Chapter 17 - Intervention
Your class participation is the basis for grading of this requirement. Please note that I am actively going through everyone’s phrase three written assignments. Thank you for your continued diligence in our course.
Under chapter 16 this week, we will explore topics such as incorporating the internet for your research, revisiting participant testing as well as interviewing. Ethical concerns, historical research, and its appraisal.
In review of chapter 17, intervention in research will be explained. As per our text, not all research involves an intervention. Frequently, interventions are seen within improvement projects frequently completed in DNP programs. At this phase of research, the principle investigator interacts with their research team. Documentation stems from the methodology section.
Investigating the internet in research, please know and understand the following.
Internet-based research method
refers to any research method that uses the Internet to collect data. Most commonly, the Web has been used as the means for conducting the study, but e-mail has been used as well. The use of e-mail to collect data dates back to the 1980s while the first uses of the Web to collect data started in the mid-1990s. Whereas e-mail is principally limited to survey and questionnaire methodology, the Web, with its ability to use media, has the ability to execute full experiments and implement a wide variety of research methods. The use of the Internet offers new opportunities for access to participants allowing for larger and more diverse samples.
Reference
Salkind, N. J. (2010).
Encyclopedia of research design
(Vols. 1-0). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412961288
Secondary analysis
is the re-analysis of either qualitative or quantitative data already collected in a previous study, by a different researcher normally wishing to address a new research question.
Reference
Tate, J. A., Happ, M. B. (2018). Qualitative secondary analysis: A case exemplar.
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
. Volume 32, Issue 3, p. 308-312.
Historical inquiry
proceeds with the formulation of a problem or set of questions worth pursuing. In the most direct approach, students might be encouraged to analyze a document, record, or site itself. Who produced it, when, how, and why? What is the e.
DCDC16 | Joining the dots: projects on conservation and research of Malian wr...ResearchLibrariesUK
Dmitry Bondarev and Maria Luisa Russo (University of Hamburg)
The University of Hamburg, with the financial support of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Gerda Henkel Foundation, runs two projects dealing with the written cultural heritage of Mali. The environment of interconnected social space created by this collaborative work helps maintain careful attitude to what constitutes cultural heritage. Through participation in different modules of the projects, the members of the complex multilingual and multicultural communities find connective space in the activities related to manuscript preservation, cataloguing, and research.
Running Head DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING .docxtodd271
Running Head: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING 1
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING 2
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COMPUTING
Name
Course
Institution
Instructor
Date
Computing descriptive statistics
Haukoos, J. S., & Lewis, R. J. (2015). Advanced statistics: bootstrapping confidence intervals for statistics with “difficult” distributions. Academic emergency medicine, 12(4), 360-365.
This article by Haukoos and Lewis describe how to use confidence intervals in reporting research results which the authors acknowledge to have increased in use and as a requirement for scientific journal editors. The article explores a number of resources that describe methods of computing statistical confidence intervals for descriptive statistics that have descriptions that are not easy to mathematically represent which is a challenging task. The article is relevant to the topic matter in that it describes the methods along with how the resources availed describing the computing methods for descriptive statistics. The authors propose the use of bootstrap technique which they argue allows a researcher to make inferences from data without making strong assumptions about distribution of the data or the statistics under calculation. The strengths of the article include the fact that it describes the bootstrapping concept and demonstrates how to estimate confidence intervals for the median and the spearman rank correlation coefficient for data not normally distributed. the weakness of this resource is the fact that it does not generally describe how to compute descriptive statistics but narrows down to describing how to compute descriptive statistics confidence intervals. The article used a qualitative research method on a clinical study that used two commonly used statistical software packages of strata and SAS in its discussion of limitations of the bootstrap.
Team, R. C. (2013). R: A language and environment for statistical computing.
The document by Andy Bunn and Mikko Korpela describes the basic features of dendrologists program library in R, which is in itself a package used by dendrologists to handle the processing and analysis of data. The document follows the basic steps an analyst follows when working with a new tree-ring data set. This document is a vignette commences by describing how to read in ring widths and how to plot them. The vignette is relevant in this study as it describes a number of methods available for trending and detrending and shows how to extract basic descriptive statistics. It also shows how to build and plot a simple chronology of the mean value. The building of the mean-value chronology is shown in the vignette using the expressed signal; of the population from the detrended ring widths as a way of doing complicated computing by the use of The Dendrochronology Program Library in R (dplR). The vignette highlights how to.
From Bibliometrics to Cybermetrics - a book chapter by Nicola de BellisXanat V. Meza
Disclaimer: All original texts and images belong to their rightful owners.
Chapter 8 of the book "Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis" by Nicola de Bellis.
Finding Your Literature Match - A Recommender SystemEdwin Henneken
In this document I give a non-technical description of what a recommender system is and how it helps in the process of finding relevant information in times of information overload
Scientometric Analysis of Library and Information Studiesijtsrd
A scientometric analysis is an effective method to increase the scope of library and information studies. The research articles presented have been revised to highlight the research done in the library and information studies area and to enable readers to read more information. In this research, a total of 9 volumes, 36 issues, 713 articles, and 8956 citations, etc, published in the International Journal of Library and Information Studies from 2011 to 2019 were referred for scientometric analysis. It shows the annual growth of published articles, authors distributions, geographical distribution, citations distribution, Degree of Collaboration, Etc. In a changing age, this study will certainly be useful to track the research literature available to expand the scope of library and information studies and to make transparent research. Narwade Mukesh Ramesh "Scientometric Analysis of Library and Information Studies" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30857.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/home-science/other/30857/scientometric-analysis-of-library-and-information-studies/narwade-mukesh-ramesh
Ontology Based Approach for Classifying Biomedical Text AbstractsWaqas Tariq
Classifying biomedical literature is a difficult and challenging task, especially when a large number of biomedical articles should be organized into a hierarchical structure. Due to this problem, various classification methods were proposed by many researchers for classifying biomedical literature in order to help users find relevant articles on the web. In this paper, we propose a new approach to classifying a collection of biomedical text abstracts by using ontology alignment algorithm that we have developed. To accomplish our goal, we construct the OHSUMED disease hierarchy as the initial training hierarchy and the Medline abstract disease hierarchies as our testing hierarchy. For enriching our training hierarchy, we use the relevant features that extracted from selected categories in the OHSUMED dataset as feature vectors. These feature vectors then are mapped to each node or concept in the OHSUMED disease hierarchy according to their specific category. Afterward, we align and match the concepts in both hierarchies using our ontology alignment algorithm for finding probable concepts or categories. Subsequently, we compute the cosine similarity score between the feature vectors in probable concepts, in the genrichedh OHSUMED disease hierarchy and the Medline abstract disease hierarchy. Finally, we predict a category to the new Medline abstracts based on the highest cosine similarity score. The results obtained from the experiments demonstrate that our proposed approach for hierarchical classification performs slightly better than the multi-class flat classification.
Finding articles and books using database for your discipline pubricaPubrica
A literature search is a well-organised and systematic survey from the already published data to become aware of a breadth of good pleasant references on a particular topic. Formulating a well-focussed question is an important step for facilitating accurate scientific research.
Continue Reading: http://bit.ly/39A1fyx
Why Pubrica?
When you order our services, we promise you the following – Plagiarism free, always on Time, outstanding customer support, written to Standard, Unlimited Revisions support and High-quality Subject Matter Experts.
Reference: literature review writing services
Contact us :
Web: https://pubrica.com/
Blog: https://pubrica.com/academy/
Email: sales@pubrica.com
WhatsApp : +91 9884350006
United Kingdom: +44-1143520021
Reflection AssignmentThis week there will be no formal discu.docxringrid1
Reflection Assignment
This week there will be no formal discussion for our class. However, there is a reading assignment. Based on the reading assignment there is a reflection requirement. This is basically a written paragraph of about five to six sentences about what you have read. Your reflection should be posted on the discussion board (remember it is just a paragraph of five to six sentences) regarding your readings for this week. No discussions are required this week.
Reading Assignment
Our reading assignment for our class this week will involve:
Chapter 16 – Internet, Secondary Analysis and Historical Research
Chapter 17 - Intervention
Your class participation is the basis for grading of this requirement. Please note that I am actively going through everyone’s phrase three written assignments. Thank you for your continued diligence in our course.
Under chapter 16 this week, we will explore topics such as incorporating the internet for your research, revisiting participant testing as well as interviewing. Ethical concerns, historical research, and its appraisal.
In review of chapter 17, intervention in research will be explained. As per our text, not all research involves an intervention. Frequently, interventions are seen within improvement projects frequently completed in DNP programs. At this phase of research, the principle investigator interacts with their research team. Documentation stems from the methodology section.
Investigating the internet in research, please know and understand the following.
Internet-based research method
refers to any research method that uses the Internet to collect data. Most commonly, the Web has been used as the means for conducting the study, but e-mail has been used as well. The use of e-mail to collect data dates back to the 1980s while the first uses of the Web to collect data started in the mid-1990s. Whereas e-mail is principally limited to survey and questionnaire methodology, the Web, with its ability to use media, has the ability to execute full experiments and implement a wide variety of research methods. The use of the Internet offers new opportunities for access to participants allowing for larger and more diverse samples.
Reference
Salkind, N. J. (2010).
Encyclopedia of research design
(Vols. 1-0). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412961288
Secondary analysis
is the re-analysis of either qualitative or quantitative data already collected in a previous study, by a different researcher normally wishing to address a new research question.
Reference
Tate, J. A., Happ, M. B. (2018). Qualitative secondary analysis: A case exemplar.
Journal of Pediatric Health Care
. Volume 32, Issue 3, p. 308-312.
Historical inquiry
proceeds with the formulation of a problem or set of questions worth pursuing. In the most direct approach, students might be encouraged to analyze a document, record, or site itself. Who produced it, when, how, and why? What is the e.
DCDC16 | Joining the dots: projects on conservation and research of Malian wr...ResearchLibrariesUK
Dmitry Bondarev and Maria Luisa Russo (University of Hamburg)
The University of Hamburg, with the financial support of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Gerda Henkel Foundation, runs two projects dealing with the written cultural heritage of Mali. The environment of interconnected social space created by this collaborative work helps maintain careful attitude to what constitutes cultural heritage. Through participation in different modules of the projects, the members of the complex multilingual and multicultural communities find connective space in the activities related to manuscript preservation, cataloguing, and research.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
Digital Artifact 2 - Investigating Pavilion Designs
Examining the Potential Role of ...
1. Examining the Potential Role of Text-
Based Recommendations in Academic
Information Seeking
1
Keenious, Norway
2
Uppsala University Library, Sweden
Technological advancements allow for new
opportunities in the way research is
conducted. One such example is the
application of artificial intelligence systems to
explore academic literature.
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness
and user experience of Keenious, a text-based
article recommendation tool, in comparison
to Web of Science, a conventional keyword-
based information retrieval system. The user
study involved 16 librarians from Uppsala
University Library.
The results revealed both similarities and
differences between the two approaches to
information retrieval. The librarians perceived
Keenious as a valuable addition to their
information-seeking process, however, they
also expressed the need for increased
transparency regarding the ranking of results.
Abstract
Poster Presentation
RLUK23 Virtual Conference 22-24 March 2023
Barkelind, M., Hartman, A., Jansson, C., Kotka, A., Aure, J. B. & Johansen, J. S.
1 1 1 1 2 2
2. What We Did
To compare WoS and Keenious, we used a test design inspired by a
similar study (3). 16 librarians from UU were assigned the task to identify
relevant research articles related to a given abstract (see the three
alternative abstracts on the next page).
Participants completed two separate discovery sessions based on the
same assigned abstract; one session with WoS and one with Keenious.
After each discovery session, the librarians reported the articles they
identified as relevant during the session and filled out a questionnaire
about their experience using the respective tool.
Background and Motivation
Academic libraries are likely to adopt varied applications of artificial
intelligence (AI) in the future, and knowledge discovery could be one of
the most profound areas of use (1). To ensure that the library and its
users' needs are met, it has been argued that librarians should play an
active role in the development of AI systems by collaborating closely
with technology actors (2).
With this approach in mind, Uppsala University Library (UU) and the
startup company Keenious investigated the potential role of AI-based
recommendations in the information-seeking process by comparing
the effectiveness and user experience of Web of Science (WoS) and
Keenious.
We were curious as to how librarians would perceive the relevance of
the information provided by keyword- versus a text-based research
tool. What are the benefits and disadvantages? How could AI-based
recommendations fit with traditional information retrieval?
3. Common
Introduction
Keenious
Group 1
Web of Science
Group 2
Keenious
Group 2
Web of Science
Group 1
What We Did
Abstracts
Test Design
Nippert-Eng, C. (1996). Calendars
and keys: The classification of
“home” and “work”. Sociological
forum, 11(3), 563-582.
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02408393
.
Goto, Y., Hayasaka, S., & Nakamura,
Y. (2012). Bathing in hot water,
bathing in Japanese style hot
spring and drinking green tea may
contribute to the good health
status of Japanese. The Journal of
the Japanese Society of
Balneology, Climatology and
Physical Medicine, 75(4), 256-267.
https://doi.org/10.11390/onki.75.256
Murakami, E.T., Tornsen, M, &
Pollock, K. E. (2014). Expectations
for the Preparation of School
Principals in Three Jurisdictions:
Sweden, Ontario and Texas.
Canadian and International
Education, 43(1), Article 7.
Common
Discussion
4. What We Learned
Polarised Perception of Keyword-Based Searching
When asked about the ease of finding relevant articles for the topic,
the results of the questionnaire showed a close similarity in the
average scores for both tools, with WoS receiving slightly more
positive ratings (2.27) than Keenious (2.07).
The figure below showcases the responses to be more diverse for
WoS compared to Keenious. More participants reported "To a very
large extent" when using WoS, however, there was also a higher
portion of participants who reported "To a small extent" compared
to Keenious’ ratings. This suggests a more polarized viewpoint about
the ease of finding relevant articles when using WoS.
0
Not at all
1
To a little
extent
-
I don't
know
2
To some
extent
3
To a large
extent
4
To a very
large extent
"It was easy to find relevant articles for the topic"
5. Very Little Overlap Between Results
We also analyzed the number of articles the librarians identified as
relevant when using the respective tools. The figure below shows
that the total number of articles identified was similar across the
two tools*. Interestingly, only 4 (4.3%) articles appeared in both lists
- meaning that different articles were considered relevant
dependent on the tool that was used.
The difference in participants' article selection with WoS and
Keenious may have several explanations. For example, the initial
dataset is not the same. Secondly, the participants did not have a
genuine need for information, which in turn may have influenced the
selection. However, the findings raise the question as to whether
there are qualitative differences in the kinds of articles being
discovered through keyword-based searches and text-based
recommendations.
4 of 94 (4.3%) 46 (48.9%)
48 (51.1%)
A Venn diagram of the number of relevant articles identified with each tool.
The intersection illustrates the 4 articles that were identified with both tools.
*Two outliers were excluded from the analysis.
What We Learned
6. Positive Attitudes towards Combining The Tools
The absence of result overlap between the tools does not signal any
definitive advantage or disadvantage in itself. Therefore the ratings
on the question "Do you see advantages in combining the two
tools?" revealed an intriguing insight.
As the pie chart below illustrates, 5 of the participants answered "To
a very high extent", 4 answered "To a great extent", and 6 answered
"To a certain extent", indicating a generally positive view towards
combining the two tools. The positive attitude of librarians towards
combining the tools suggests that the dissimilarities between the
tools may prove beneficial to the overall information-gathering
process.
What We Learned
4 - To a very large extent
31%
I don't know
6%
2 - To some extent
38%
3 - To a large extent
25%
"Do you see advantages in combining the two
tools?"
Note. "Not at all" = 0%, "To a litte extent" = 0%
7. Discussion
Based on this study, it appears that the participating librarians perceived AI-
based recommendation tools such as Keenious as a useful complement to
traditional search tools such as Web of Science, rather than a replacement.
The main findings in our case study were that articles identified as relevant
during the discovery sessions varied greatly between the two tools, with only
4 of 94 articles appearing in both tools’ lists. This suggests that the two tools
offer different kinds of relevant articles. That finding was further supported by
the participant's positive attitudes toward combining the tools as part of the
information-seeking process.
The main objection to Keenious' recommendations was the lack of a clear
description of how searching and ranking work - librarians wanted more
transparency. The learnings from this case study led to a follow-up workshop
where Keenious and 21 librarians from UU sat together to further understand
how AI-based discovery tools can improve system transparency.
Curious to know more about the study?
Contact: jesper@keenious.com
References
1. Cox, A. (2023). How artificial intelligence might change academic library work:
Applying the competencies literature and the theory of the professions. Journal of
the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(3), 367-380.
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24635
2. Gasparini, A., & Kautonen, H. (2022). Understanding artificial intelligence in
research libraries–extensive literature review. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the
Association of European Research Libraries, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.10934
3. Johansen, J.S., & Borlund, P. (2022). Academic information searching and
learning by use of Keenious and Google Scholar: a pilot study. In Proceedings of
CoLIS, the 11th. International Conference on Conceptions of Library and
Information Science, Oslo, Norway, May 29 - June 1, 2022. Information Research,
27(Special issue), paper colis2231. https://doi.org/10.47989/colis2231