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Ruth Kitchin Tillman; Gala Campos Oaxaca – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Even as librarians have spent the past twenty years documenting the rich world of scholarly communication beyond the catalog, repositories and catalogs too often remain completely siloed from each other. Current practices and tools to unite the two focus entirely on matching names, an imprecise method requiring substantial time spent on review.…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Development, Naming, Library Services
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Iliadis, Andrew; Liao, Tony; Pedersen, Isabel; Han, Jing – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2021
Machines produce and operate using complex systems of metadata that need to be catalogued, sorted, and processed. Many students lack the experience with metadata and sufficient knowledge about it to understand it as part of their data literacy skills. This paper describes an educational and interactive database activity designed for teaching…
Descriptors: Metadata, Databases, Learning Activities, Undergraduate Students
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Scalfani, Vincent F.; Dahlbach, Barbara J.; Robertson, Jacob – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2021
Chemical substances from theses are not widely accessible as searchable machine-readable formats. In this article, we describe our workflow for extracting, registering, and sharing chemical substances from the University of Alabama theses to enhance discovery. In total, 73 theses were selected for the project, resulting in about 3,000 substances…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Theses, Doctoral Dissertations, Scientific Research
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Stefania Spina; Irene Fioravanti; Luciana Forti; Fabio Zanda – Second Language Research, 2024
This article introduces the CELI corpus, a new learner corpus of written Italian consisting of ca. 600,000 tokens, evenly distributed among CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) proficiency levels B1, B2, C1 and C2. The collected texts derive from the language certification exams administered by the University for Foreigners…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Best Practices
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Yang, Yang; Yin, Aiqing; Guan, Tao – International Journal of Music Education, 2021
This metadata-based literature study provides a comprehensive mapping of China's music education by analysing 3,257 Chinese research articles published during 2007-2019. The selection of the articles is based on careful inspections of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database and rigorous coding of literature attributes. The…
Descriptors: Music Education, Metadata, Research Reports, Databases
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Sergiadis, Ashley D. R. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2019
East Tennessee State University developed a workflow to add journal publications to their institutional repository and faculty profiles using three tools: Zotero for entering metadata, SHERPA/RoMEO for checking copyright permissions, and Unpaywall for locating full-text documents. This study evaluates the availability and accuracy of the…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Library Materials, Academic Libraries, Metadata
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Pomykalski, James J. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2021
Many traditional Information Systems (IS) programs are either redesigning current courses to incorporate business/data analytics or expanding curricular offerings to include business /data analytics; our IS program chose the former route to meet the demand (from employers) for business/data analytics. In that transition, a traditional systems…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Information Science Education, Information Systems, Data Analysis
Smith-Yoshimura, Karen; Gatenby, Janifer; Agnew, Grace; Brown, Christopher; Byrne, Kate; Carruthers, Matt; Fletcher, Peter; Hearn, Stephen; Li, Xiaoli; Muilwijk, Marina; Naun, Chew Chiat; Riemer, John; Sadler, Roderick; Wang, Jing; Wiley, Glen; Willey, Kayla – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2016
Organizational affiliations of the creators of works are important to a variety of stakeholders, including academic administrators, funders, publishers, repository managers, software developers, rights agencies and individual researchers. Identifying and tracking these affiliations can be challenging, as organizations may be known by a variety of…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Higher Education, Metadata, Identification
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Aranha, Solange; Leone, Paola – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This contribution aims at (1) discussing the characteristics of collecting, filing and storing data to have a databank of oral interactions between university students whose main objective is the learning of a second language through teletandem; and (2) defining the steps for further collections and storage. Our data are Skype sessions of foreign…
Descriptors: Databases, Data Collection, College Students, Speech Communication
Maceli, Monica – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
This research study explores technology-related course offerings in ALA-accredited library and information science (LIS) graduate programs in North America. These data are juxtaposed against a text analysis of several thousand LIS-specific technology job listings from the Code4lib jobs website. Starting in 2003, as a popular library technology…
Descriptors: Information Technology, College Curriculum, Library Education, Graduate Study
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Hofer, Amy R.; Townsend, Lori; Brunetti, Korey – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Library Science
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Verbert, Katrien; Manouselis, Nikos; Drachsler, Hendrik; Duval, Erik – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
In various research areas, the availability of open datasets is considered as key for research and application purposes. These datasets are used as benchmarks to develop new algorithms and to compare them to other algorithms in given settings. Finding such available datasets for experimentation can be a challenging task in technology enhanced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Information Technology, Open Source Technology
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Tam, Vincent – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
Purpose: Learning Chinese is unquestionably very important and popular worldwide with the fast economic growth of China. To most foreigners and also local students, one of the major challenges in learning Chinese is to write Chinese characters in correct stroke sequences that are considered as significant in the Chinese culture. However, due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer System Design, Computer Software
Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities, 2011
This report from the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities provides Congress with vital recommendations for improving the ability of postsecondary students with disabilities to obtain accessible instructional materials in a timely and cost-effective manner. Over…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Postsecondary Education, Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2006
This paper summarizes the many uses of the California Postsecondary Education Commission's data system and describes work in progress on adding additional data elements. It describes how the Commission is using its Longitudinal Student Data System (LSDS) to examine the movement of students through California's public colleges and universities. The…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Metadata
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