The document discusses inspiration architecture and the future of libraries. It addresses some key challenges libraries currently face, such as fragmentation across multiple sites and domains making it difficult for users to find what they need. It also notes that most users do not enter the library directly from the home page, and can be confused by what they find once they enter. The document advocates for designing libraries in a way that makes their resources more easily findable for users.
Altmetrics: the movement, the tools, and the implicationsKR_Barker
Measuring scholarly impact has traditionally been tied to the calculation of a scholarly article’s number of citations and the Impact Factor of its journal. Today, however, scholarly contributions take many forms: computer code, data sets, blog postings, tweets, practice guidelines and beyond. As the products of research evolve, so will the way in which credit is measured. This class will provide an overview of “altmetrics”, the movement to assess influence of both traditional and non-traditional scholarly contributions. We will define altmetrics, discuss why it is important in today’s digital scholarly environment, and demonstrate tools available to measure influence. After completing this course, the learner will be able to define altmetrics and compare it to traditional forms of measuring scholarly impact; name examples of scholarly contributions that are alternatives to traditional methods (e.g. datasets, blog postings, tweets, etc.); name examples of alternative means of measuring scholarly contributions (e.g. download counts, tweets about, etc.); discuss why today’s online, social environment necessitates a change in the way scholarly contributions are measured; name resources to learn more about altmetrics such as altmetrics.org; and name tools to measure alternative scholarly contributions such as Altmetric.com, Impact Story, Plum Analytics, etc.
Reputation Management for Early Career ResearchersMicah Altman
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications, researchers are faced with a fast growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Early career scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
Dr. Micah Altman briefly reviews a number of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, Dr. Altman suggests some steps early career researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public reviews and discussion.
Writing Analytics for Epistemic Features of Student Writing #icls2016 talkSimon Knight
Talk presented at #ICLS2016 presented in Singapore. I discuss levels of description as sites of epistemic cognition focusing on writing and use of textual features to associate rubric scores with epistemic cognition.
My thanks to my collaborators (listed on the paper) particularly Laura Allen, who also generously let me adapt the later slides on NLP studies of writing.
Abstract: Literacy, encompassing the ability to produce written outputs from the reading of multiple sources, is a key learning goal. Selecting information, and evaluating and integrating claims from potentially competing documents is a complex literacy task. Prior research exploring differing behaviours and their association to constructs such as epistemic cognition has used ‘multiple document processing’ (MDP) tasks. Using this model, 270 paired participants, wrote a review of a document. Reports were assessed using a rubric associated with features of complex literacy behaviours. This paper focuses on the conceptual and empirical associations between those rubric-marks and textual features of the reports on a set of natural language processing (NLP) indicators. Findings indicate the potential of NLP indicators for providing feedback regarding the writing of such outputs, demonstrating clear relationships both across rubric facets and between rubric facets and specific NLP indicators.
This presentation sketches a few projects and concepts that I'm interested in that illustrate potential opportunities for modeling civic intelligence for the common good.
Altmetrics: the movement, the tools, and the implicationsKR_Barker
Measuring scholarly impact has traditionally been tied to the calculation of a scholarly article’s number of citations and the Impact Factor of its journal. Today, however, scholarly contributions take many forms: computer code, data sets, blog postings, tweets, practice guidelines and beyond. As the products of research evolve, so will the way in which credit is measured. This class will provide an overview of “altmetrics”, the movement to assess influence of both traditional and non-traditional scholarly contributions. We will define altmetrics, discuss why it is important in today’s digital scholarly environment, and demonstrate tools available to measure influence. After completing this course, the learner will be able to define altmetrics and compare it to traditional forms of measuring scholarly impact; name examples of scholarly contributions that are alternatives to traditional methods (e.g. datasets, blog postings, tweets, etc.); name examples of alternative means of measuring scholarly contributions (e.g. download counts, tweets about, etc.); discuss why today’s online, social environment necessitates a change in the way scholarly contributions are measured; name resources to learn more about altmetrics such as altmetrics.org; and name tools to measure alternative scholarly contributions such as Altmetric.com, Impact Story, Plum Analytics, etc.
Reputation Management for Early Career ResearchersMicah Altman
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications, researchers are faced with a fast growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Early career scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
Dr. Micah Altman briefly reviews a number of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, Dr. Altman suggests some steps early career researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public reviews and discussion.
Writing Analytics for Epistemic Features of Student Writing #icls2016 talkSimon Knight
Talk presented at #ICLS2016 presented in Singapore. I discuss levels of description as sites of epistemic cognition focusing on writing and use of textual features to associate rubric scores with epistemic cognition.
My thanks to my collaborators (listed on the paper) particularly Laura Allen, who also generously let me adapt the later slides on NLP studies of writing.
Abstract: Literacy, encompassing the ability to produce written outputs from the reading of multiple sources, is a key learning goal. Selecting information, and evaluating and integrating claims from potentially competing documents is a complex literacy task. Prior research exploring differing behaviours and their association to constructs such as epistemic cognition has used ‘multiple document processing’ (MDP) tasks. Using this model, 270 paired participants, wrote a review of a document. Reports were assessed using a rubric associated with features of complex literacy behaviours. This paper focuses on the conceptual and empirical associations between those rubric-marks and textual features of the reports on a set of natural language processing (NLP) indicators. Findings indicate the potential of NLP indicators for providing feedback regarding the writing of such outputs, demonstrating clear relationships both across rubric facets and between rubric facets and specific NLP indicators.
This presentation sketches a few projects and concepts that I'm interested in that illustrate potential opportunities for modeling civic intelligence for the common good.
Presented at WiLSWorld Workshop Wednesday on August 3rd, 2016 by Joshua Morrill, Senior Information Processing Consultant, UW-Madison
Libraries gather and interpret data for a variety of purposes: to evaluate the content and accessibility of products bought for users, to understand community dynamics and demographics, to identify new services or improvements to existing ones, and much more. In the haystack of numbers available to library professionals, how do we identify the needles, and how do we polish them? This workshop will help you evaluate data quality and communicate it effectively to a variety of stakeholders.
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Guest lecture for the Hyperlinked Library MOOC, a free online course offered by Michael Stephens, Kyle Jones, and the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University.
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Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
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Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
6. 6
The Library of Congress
“To further the progress of knowledge and creativity.”
7. Fragmentation
Fragmentation into multiple sites,
domains, and identities is a major
problem. Users don’t know which
site to visit for which purpose.
Findability
Users can’t find what they need
from the home page, but most users
don’t come through the front door.
They enter via a web search or a
deep link, and are confused by what
they find. Even worse, most never
use the Library, because its
resources aren’t easily findable.
21. “With respect to learning by failure, it’s all fun and
games until someone gets a larval cyst in the brain.”
22.
23.
24.
25. “There is a problem in discussing
systems only with words. Words and
sentences must, by necessity, come only
one at a time in linear, logical order.
Systems happen all at once. They are
connected not just in one direction, but
in many directions simultaneously.”
26. Food Scarcity
(overpopluation)
T T
Inflow
(birth rate)
Outflow
(death rate)
Stock
(population)
T T
Disease
(canine parvovirus)
Immigration
(via ice bridge)
Parasites
(moose tick)
Weather
(mild winter)
Inflow
(birth rate)
Outflow
(death rate)
Stock
(population)
27. “It is the responsibility of the
architect to know and concentrate
on the critical few details and
interfaces that really matter.”
28. The design and management
of information systems.
Understanding the nature
of information in systems.
44. The outcome is the goal (or problem) you want to work on.
If a problem (Current state, change is needed):
- What is the outcome we are seeing?
- How do we know it’s a problem?
If a goal (Desired state):
- What is the outcome we want?
- How would we know we succeeded??
Behaviors are activities that are
observable.
- Ask people to share stories about
good (or bad) experiences they
have had with the culture.
- Look for concrete, tangible
examples.
Stated levers are explicit. They
include how people are rewarded
and punished, rules, resources and
budgets, policies, processes, physical
office layout or distribution, and
organizational structure.
Unstated levers are implicit. They include
unwritten rules, “the way we do things around
here,” routines and habits, values, beliefs, and
politics that may be unconscious or hidden. They
are not usually discussed openly, although they
may be “open secrets” that everyone knows and
discusses in private.
Use the Culture Map to explore and understand your organization’s readiness for
change or growth. You can also use the Culture Map to design new incentives and
structures that will increase your initiative’s chances of success.
47. “There’s a secret about MRIs and
back pain: the most common
problems physicians see on MRI and
attribute to back pain – herniated,
ruptured, and bulging discs – are
seen almost as commonly on MRIs of
healthy people without back pain.”
48. “If you want to accelerate
someone’s death, give him a
personal doctor. I don’t mean
provide him with a bad doctor.
Just pay for him to choose his
own. Any doctor will do.”
49. 49
Roger Bannister, Iffley Road Track, Oxford, 1954
56. Doctoral Work
E x p l o r a t i o n
R e s e a r c h ,
E x p e r i m e n t ,
F i e l d w o r k
A n a l y s i s ,
S y n t h e s i s
W r i t i n g ,
E d i t i n g ,
F e e d b a c k
P u b l i s h i n g
I d e a
G e n e r a t i o n
P r o m o t i o n
Methodology
Data Awareness
Network,
Colleagues,
Teaching
Harvard
Business
Review
Conferences,
Workshops,
Networking
Popular
Press
Literature Review
Writing
Cases
Books
Journal Articles
HBS Working Papers
Data
Fieldwork
Interviews
Observations Experiments
Research Program
Clean &
Integrate Data
Working
Knowledge
Conceptual Framework
Reading
Research Question
Google /
Scholar
Books
Syllabi
Data
Visualization
Data
Analysis
Global
Research
Centers
Harvard
Business
Publishing
Research
Computing
Services
Software
Programming
Find & Acquire:
data, images,
multimedia, etc.
HOLLIS
Research
Exchange
Storage and
Archiving
Article
Databases
57. MBAStudents
ResearchActivities
Pre-HBS Post-HBSYear 1 Year 2
CareerCourse Individual
Admissions
Recruiting
Previous Career
Orientation
Nearing Graduation
- copy before losing access
- academic research winds down
- career search ramps up
Request Cases
- via library site
- hard to search
Library Overview in Class
- depends on faculty invitation
Internship
Papers and Projects
FIELD 1
FIELD 2
FIELD 3
Personal Interests and Entrepreneurship
CPD: Industry 101 Presentations
CPD: Target List Presentations
CPD: Interview
Presentation Prep
60. “Where architects use forms and spaces to design
environments for inhabitation, information architects use
nodes and links to create environments for understanding.”
Jorge Arango, Architectures (2011)