INLS 180 Day 11 Notes
1. One minute papers
Main Points
Citation analysis pros and
cons
Hyperlinks are types of
citations [are types of relationships]
Informetrics can mine/discover new relationships
Links/citations as indicators
of quality
Questions
Impact
factor?
How are bioinformatics, biblio/informatics (cultural informatics, etc.) related?
Is citation analysis
important outside academe? [consider google, amazon, ebay ratings]
How to leverage links
(relationships) without being programmers?
Do referees comment on
references/quality? [yes!]
Answer gardens were disliked
from the end users’ perspective [and interpreted as phone menus], what are the
customer service system views?
Are reference librarians answer gardens?
What are the alternatives to
text metadata?
2. Collaboration
What does it take to
collaborate?
What are the benefits? Costs?
How can collaboration be
improved or facilitated? Roles of information resources?
Roles of technology?
3. Reading discussion
4. Guest lecture: Recommender systems. Explicit and Implicit
collaboration??
5. Read for next meeting:
Dibbell, J. (1996). A rape in
cyberspace: How an evil clown, a Haitian trikster
spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a
society. In Mark Stefik
(Ed.) Internet dreams: Archetypes, myths, and metaphors.
6. One-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class
with today?