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Information interactions as part of digital scholarship. Jela Steinerová Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia steinerova @fphil.uniba.sk. Agenda. Information interactions Information ecology Digital scholarship and information practices
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Informationinteractionsas part ofdigitalscholarship Jela Steinerová Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia steinerova@fphil.uniba.sk
Agenda • Information interactions • Information ecology • Digital scholarship and information practices • Selected studies of PhD. students and information managers, concept mapping • Proposal of a model of information interactions • Conclusions
Information interactions • Human information interactions: • relationships between people and information (interactions of scholars in sociotechnical systems) • Holistic approaches – need • History in information science: Belkin, Saracevic, Spink, Fidel • Our interest: academic information work • Scientific information spaces, shared cognitive attributes
Digital scholarship • New kinds of research – large volumes of data • Changing methods, tools • Challenges for information practices: • Innovations, information sharing, data mining • Open science, knowledge discovery • Digital repositories • Scientific information records • Collaboratories
Doctoral students: example • Young intellectual elites of universities • Activities: research, teaching, creativity, communication, development of expertise • Objectives of qualitative study: • Identify information and research practices • Model information interactions • Semi-structured interviews (16) • Information horizons
Information interactions: strategies Media,portals, wiki, blogs Consulting, discussions
Barriers Compatibility of sources Terminology Citing Self-efficacy Sharing of sources collaboration
Concept mapping for digital scholarship Visualize knowledge Concept mapping • Concepts and relationships • Critical reflection • Knowledge sharing • Creativity • collaboration • 15 master and PhD theses in LIS • Rules for space orientation • Relations: definition, associations, hierarchy
Community portal: example Information ethics Case studies Affective information management
References • BORGMAN, Christine. (2007). Scholarship in theDigitalAge. Information, Infrastructure and the internet. London: MIT Press. • FIDEL, R. (2012). HumanInformationInteraction: AnEcologicalApproach to InformationBehavior. Cambridge, MIT Press. • STEINEROVÁ, Jela a kol. 2012. Informačná ekológia akademického informačného prostredia. Záverečná správa z výskumu VEGA 1/0429/10. Editor Jela Steinerová. Autori: Jela Steinerová, Jana Ilavská, Lucia Lichnerová, Miriam Ondrišová, Helena Ondriašová, Linda Prágerová, Martina Haršányiová. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo UK, 2012. 96 s. ISBN 978-80-223-3178-4. • Steinerová, J., Grešková, M., Šušol, J. (2007). Prieskum relevancie informácií. Výsledky analýz rozhovorov s doktorandmi FiFUK. Bratislava, CVTI SR 150s • STEINEROVÁ, Jela, Grešková, Mirka, Ilavská, Jana. 2010. Informačné stratégie v elektronickom prostredí. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského 2010. 192s. ISBN 978-80-223-2848-7.