Journal of Documentation: Volume 77 Issue 4

Engaging interaction and long-term engagement with WhatsApp in an everyday life context: exploratory study

Juan-Antonio Martinez-Comeche, Ian Ruthven

The aim of this exploratory study is to analyze if the most used factors related to the engaging interaction and long-term engagement with online applications can be applied to…

Toward a conceptual framework of health crisis information needs: an analysis of COVID-19 questions in a Chinese social Q&A website

Qing Ke, Jia Tina Du, Lu Ji

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the contextual factors of health crisis information needs are different from a general health context and how these factors work…

The Chinese philosophy of information by Kun Wu

Tianqi Wu, Kaiyan Da

By introducing the basic concepts and theories of the philosophy of information created by Kun Wu, and making some comparisons of the philosophy of information and related…

Information activities in serious leisure as a catalyst for self-actualisation and social engagement

Yazdan Mansourian

This paper reports findings from a research project about human information behaviour in the context of serious leisure. Various forms of information activities in this context…

Data modeling and evaluation of deep semantic annotation for cultural heritage images

Xiaoguang Wang, Ningyuan Song, Xuemei Liu, Lei Xu

To meet the emerging demand for fine-grained annotation and semantic enrichment of cultural heritage images, this paper proposes a new approach that can transcend the boundary of…

Migrating a complex classification scheme to the semantic web: expressing the Integrative Levels Classification using SKOS RDF

Ceri Binding, Claudio Gnoli, Douglas Tudhope

The Integrative Levels Classification (ILC) is a comprehensive “freely faceted” knowledge organization system not previously expressed as SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization…

A critical comparison analysis between human and machine-generated tags for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection

Elena Villaespesa, Seth Crider

Based on the highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, the purpose of this paper is to examine the similarities and differences between the subject keywords tags…

A dual lens approach to exploring informal communication's influence on learning in a political party

Susannah Micaela Hanlon

The study aims to explore and discuss the extent of influence of informal communication on learning in a European social democracy political party through a dual lens approach…

Grammar and social action: two schools of thought in knowledge organization research

Jack Andersen

The purpose is to map and discuss two schools of thought in knowledge organization research. The objective of this mapping is to examine the conceptual views and the derived…

Exploring the information practices of lawyers

Jenny Bronstein, Yosef Solomon

This study examines the information practices of Israeli lawyers highlighting the central role that information plays in professional communities of practice. Examining the…