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Spring 2017
This thesis explores the role of academic librarians as researchers, according to the perceptions of academic librarians themselves, as well as non-librarian faculty. Data collection included surveying 60 participants, including 30 librarians and 30 non-librarian faculty from six Canadian...
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Fall 2019
The 2008 debut of Bitcoin marked the first large-scale implementation of blockchain technology, and its decentralized approach to monetary systems has since been abstracted to more generalized purposes like distributed computing. Platforms like Ethereum, which function as a global, decentralized...
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Fall 2016
Canada’s federal privacy legislation does not include a definition or explanation of the word ‘privacy’, yet an understanding of the meaning of ‘privacy’ is essential to understanding how much or how little privacy to expect in terms of the protections afforded within the law. The purpose of this...
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From Explanation to Demonstration: A Conceptual Framework for the Study and Strategic Design of Interactive Visualizations
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Interactive visualization is a burgeoning class of cognitive and communicative tools that is challenging to define. Typically, interactive visualizations have been evaluated by the multimodal features they are comprised of, or for the communicative tasks they support, but this contributes little...
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Information Architecture of CiteLens: A Visualization Tool for Context and Content Analysis of References in Traditional Humanities Monographs
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This thesis investigates new avenues of conducting context and content citation analysis for long-form publications in traditional humanities, an area of scholarly output which has been, to a large extent, ignored by index-based citation analysis studies. The contributions brought here are...
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Fall 2012
This thesis examines and compares printed and digital scholarly editions from three separate but complementary perspectives. The overarching aim is to increase the understanding of the relative merits of printed and digital scholarly editions. The perspectives employed include a theoretical...
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Using Machine Learning to Understand the National Security Agency’s Data Surveillance Trends
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For over six decades, the public has remained ignorant about the National Security Agency (NSA) and its activities and has been shielded from the agency’s invasive and unlawful projects. While the NSA’s activities have proven valuable to the United States and its allies, it sometimes undertakes...
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Fall 2014
Here, we use the premise of an actual image-retrieval application to examine how various approaches and techniques in computer vision help to bridge the much talked about semantic gap. A lot of cross-fertilization of ideas from the world of text processing has found its way into image processing...