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2012
Rathi, Dinesh, Shiri, Ali, Lucky, Shannon
This paper reports on the ways in which two national and two public digital libraries from four different countries (Canada, United States, Britain, Australia) have made use of metadata elements and social media features such as social tags and recommendations to support searching, browsing and...
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Increasingly Unambitious: A Thematic Analysis of Canadian Broadband Policy and Programs
2015-06-04
Evaniew, Jennifer, McNally, Michael B., Rathi, Dinesh, Stobbs, Robyn
This paper provides a thematic analysis of federal and provincial broadband programs and policies in Canada from 1995 to 2015. The analysis reveals that programs are becoming increasingly unambitious with regard to increasing broadband availability and the speeds at which broadband service must...
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Inter-organizational Knowledge Management within an NGO Community: A Pilot Study of a Unique Knowledge Sharing Structure
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Rathi, Dinesh, Lucky, Shannon, Albrecht, Brad
Knowledge management principles have traditionally been derived from for-profit organizations but are increasingly being utilized to support the success of non-profits organizations (NPOs). This pilot study examines the knowledge needs of a group of Alberta-based NPOs linked by a hub organization...
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2018-09-28
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: The Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) communities in the Western Arctic face significant challenges in engaging with and utilizing digital technologies to interactively and systematically preserve, transmit, revitalize, and provide access to oral cultural heritage. This...
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2016-07-01
Farnel, Sharon, Campbell, Sandy, Stobbs, Robyn, Rathi, Dinesh, Maloney, Elaine, Shiri, Ali, Piltingsrud, Anastasia, Cockney, Cathy
The Digital Library North is being developed jointly by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre and the University of Alberta. The goal is to create a digital library that will meet the needs of the Inuvialuit people. The Inuivialuit people recognize three dialects of the Inuvialuktun language:...
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Linked Data Meets Big Data: A Knowledge Oraganization Systems Perspective. The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR) Workshop
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The objective of this paper is a) to provide a conceptualanalysis of the term big data and b) to introduce linked dataapplications such as SKOS-based knowledge organizationsystems as new tools for the analysis, organization, representation, visualization and access to big data.
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Open Ideas@UAL 2019 Book of Abstracts
2019-04-05
University of Alberta Libraries
This is the program listing and book of abstracts from the 2019 Open Ideas @UAL is a research symposium that provides UofA libraries academic staff a chance to present their completed and in-progress research. The symposium provides a supportive environment for new and emerging researchers...
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2010-10-05
Polar Impact was an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute. It looks at the changes in the polar and sub-polar regions of the world and it highlights aspects of some of the research carried out by University of Alberta faculty in these unique and...
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2012
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of thesauri in search user interfaces across a range of information search and retrieval systems—from bibliographic and full-text databases to digital libraries, portals, open archives, and content management systems. It explores various...
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Program and Abstract Booklet. Wisdom Engaged: Traditional Knowledge and Northern Community Well-Being
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Johnson, Leslie Main, Cardinal, Clifford, Dewitt-Schleifman, Meda, Maloney, Elaine, Waugh, Earle, Ferguson, Gary, Benditt, Riva, Lewis, Peggy
This is the Program and Abstract Booklet for the Gathering.