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Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick zum Stand der Besucherforschung in Museen ausgehend vom physischen hin zum digitalen Publikum. Dabei werden einige Problemfelder der aktuellen Forschung aufgezeigt. Im Mittelpunkt stehen das digitale Museumspublikum und sein Informationssuchverhalten. Ausgehend von verschiedenen, sehr heterogenen Studien wird versucht allgemeingültige Erkenntnisse zum Suchverhalten des Online-Publikums zu gewinnen. Die daraus entwickelten Kategorien sollen Hinweise für die praktische Anwendung liefern, um Suchvorgänge zu unterstützen und erfolgreicher zu machen. Darauf aufbauend wird ein vereinfachtes, praxisorientiertes Kategorisierungsschema für Online-Besucher vorgeschlagen und auf Alternativen zur feldbasierten Suche eingegangen. The paper provides an overview of the state of the art of visitor research in museums, both traditional and virtual visitors followed by highlighting some problematic issues of current audience research. The paper focuses on digital museum audiences and how they search for information. Based on an analysis of a number of quite heterogeneous studies, both a generalising synopsis of search behaviour and a simplified model of online visitor classification are developed. In addition, alternatives to fielded searching are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliometrics is a current topic in many libraries. It is often associated with many questions, which are also repeated from time to time. In this article, the two authors have identified the 10 most frequently asked questions and try to answer them in separate and independent sections. They address questions about data providers such as Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions, but also PubMed, ArXiv, EconBiz, as well as bibliometric indicators such as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), CiteScore (CS), Scimago Journal Rank (SJR), Source Normalized Impact per paper (SNIP). However, spotlights will also be put on related topics such as Open Access and Altmetrics e. g. Altmetric.com, Plum Metric and Article-Level-Metric (ALM). The organizational embedding, the question of how culture-changing topics affect science management and libraries as well as the aspect that libraries should take on an expert function on these data-driven topics complete the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The APE2022 took place as an online event again due to the pandemic situation. This time, the thematic focus was on the "record," the actual object of science. Various aspects and manifestations of the "record" were examined, with the observation that permanence can also mean change and adaptability. The differences between preprints and publisher versions were also discussed. One panel addressed the excesses in scientific publishing, particularly fake publications and paper mills. New dotcoms that showcase trends and innovations in science communication were also introduced. APE stands out for its critical examination of current developments and its special "spirit." [Extracted from the article]

The titles of scientific articles have a special significance. We examined nearly 20 million scientific articles and recorded the development of articles with a question mark at the end of their titles over the last 40 years. Our study was confined to the disciplines of physics, life sciences and medicine, where we found a significant increase from 50 % to more than 200 % in the number of articles with question- mark titles. We looked at the principle functions and structure of the titles of scientific papers, and we assume that marketing aspects are one of the decisive factors behind the growing usage of question-mark titles in scientific articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Open Science and, above all, the Open Access movement have their origins primarily in the STEM subjects. The movement is dominated by their publication cultures and the corresponding infrastructures. With the technical developments of the last three decades, both have been gradually translated from analogue to digital. But what if openness is not translated but rethought? The paper presents the differences, challenges, and special needs of the arts and point out possible solutions. For this purpose, topics such as diversity, infrastructure for multimedia materials or homogeneous data management will be considered. After a brief outline practical reports from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch (HfS), the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (HZT) and the Universität der Künste (UdK) will show the situations for artistic institutions and their way to openness. A change of perspective is indispensable for rethinking, which is why the STEM subjects should take the arts into account. With their diversity and creativity, they meet the challenges of the digital world with innovation and vision. The arts create a modern openness for all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fortbildungsveranstaltungen zur Dokumentation wurden vom Lehrinstitut für Dokumentation (LID) in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Dokumentation (DGD) von 1974 bis 1991 angeboten. Themen waren u. a. die dokumentarische Methodik, Arbeitsabläufe, Dienstleistungsangebote, Produkte und neuesten Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien sowie der Umgang mit den dadurch ausgelösten Veränderungen ggf. auch aus Leitungsperspektive. Die Strukturen, Entwicklungsphasen, Themenschwerpunkte, Kooperationen – insbesondere mit Partnereinrichtungen aus der Mediendokumentation, aber auch mit regionalen Organisationen von Informationsspezialist*innen innerhalb und außerhalb der DGD – und der Stellenwert der LID-Fortbildung im Rahmen der Qualifizierungsangebote der DGD werden in diesem Beitrag beschrieben und analysiert. Training courses on documentation were offered by the Lehrinstitut für Dokumentation (LID) in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Dokumentation (German Society for Documentation, DGD) from 1974 to 1991. Topics included documentary methodology, work processes, service offerings, products and the latest information and communication technologies, as well as dealing with change caused by these developments, if necessary also from a management perspective. The structures, development phases, main topics, cooperations – especially with partners from media documentation, but also with regional organizations of information specialists within and outside the DGD – and the significance of LID training within the framework of the DGD's qualification lines are described and analyzed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Science Barometer 2021 shows that despite the Corona pandemic, the population's trust in science and research remains high. In particular, people trust the statements of scientists regarding the pandemic situation and trust doctors and medical personnel. However, there are also skeptical voices who believe that scientists are not disclosing all information about the coronavirus and that the pandemic is being exaggerated. Most respondents wish for political decisions based on scientific knowledge and for science to contradict political decisions when they ignore scientific findings. The internet is the most common source of information about science and research, with websites and media libraries of news media being the most used. The Fraunhofer Institute and Kairntech have created a knowledge graph for psychiatric illnesses to assist medical professionals in making decisions about therapies. The Tagesspiegel paper archive is looking for a new location to preserve its historical collection from 1945 to 1993. Scientists are calling for the strengthening of STEM education in all areas of education in a position paper. The use of the internet has become even more important for many people during the Corona pandemic. However, there is also an increased digital divide in society, which is based on factors such as age, level of education, and household net income. A representative survey by the Bertelsmann Foundation shows that the pandemic has further exacerbated existing differences in digital sovereignty. Older people, people with low levels of education, and people with low incomes are particularly affected. The results of the survey highlight the need to take measures to improve digital participation for all population groups. A study shows that younger people and women attach more importance to the internet than older people and men. The use and value of the internet also increase with higher levels of education. However, for older people over 60, the importance of internet use has decreased compared to the pre-corona period. Independent searching for solutions on the internet has increased the most compared to 2019. Around half of the respondents use the internet to search for answers and solve problems. Many wish for support in learning digital skills, especially in the form of instructional videos or online courses. [Extracted from the article]

The ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences has digitized and made available online historical literature on infectious diseases. In Hessen, a digital index has been introduced to measure the use of digital services during the Corona pandemic. The document heritage for restitution after 1945 is being made digitally accessible. The State Archives of Baden-Württemberg and FIZ Karlsruhe are working on a thematic portal for restitution. "Bad Bots" were responsible for a large part of the global internet data traffic in 2021, especially in Germany. The DAAD has launched the Konrad-Zuse-Schools to promote AI talent. The DFG has published a position paper on scientific publishing. Germans are increasingly using video consultations and have had positive experiences. The German National Library has introduced a new system for automatic content indexing. The BBK and FOKUS have developed a data space for crisis information. The BMBF is funding the "HERAKLION" project to improve the use of crisis data. The Fraunhofer Institute EMI will create a decentralized data space for civil security. The Federal Ministry of Transport is promoting the digital transformation of urban mobility. A Forsa survey shows interest in scientific further education. The Petitions Committee recommends alternative uses for essential services. [Extracted from the article]

Research information systems (CRIS) evaluate research achievements and should contribute to the continuous improvement of research. Based on an online survey and interviews with experts from the euroCRIS organization, this research paper gives an overview of the ethical aspects in the field of research information management and shows how CRIS represent ethical dimensions of scientific research and how their development, implementation and functioning should comply with common ethical standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the course of digitization, the social role and value of writing is changing. This article discusses how literacy practices are differentiated along the two modes of text-oriented writing and interaction-oriented writing (Storrer 2018) and why and how this process can be observed in particular in the everyday life of adolescents. Finally, in order to argue that adolescents make use of different registers of writing, which are grounded in metacommunicative awareness, depending on the communicative context the paper provides insight into the results of a recently published study on adolescents' digital texting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are a variety of data sources that can be used for educational research as well as for educational monitoring in Switzerland. Nevertheless, the landscape is fragmented. Individual existing sources are sometimes hard to find and their research potential is difficult to assess. Integrating data sources could add value to research and education monitoring. This paper presents a panel discussion on this topic and goes further by presenting three approaches to improve the potential of data for the Swiss education space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A majority of the German population would be willing to make their mobility data anonymous and openly accessible in order to develop new mobility offerings. Many want to improve traffic flow and optimize existing offerings. The majority believes that mobility offerings in Germany are too expensive and demands stronger support from the government. The digital association Bitkom is calling for a "right to digital education" for all people in Germany. Most companies want their employees to return to the office after the pandemic. The Science Council has published a position paper on science communication. The German MeSH, a biomedical thesaurus, is available for free download. The Rapid Alert System (RAS) was created to improve cooperation in the EU in dealing with disinformation. The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has launched a new research project database. An internal Facebook study shows that people with low digital competence are more often confronted with inappropriate content. [Extracted from the article]

The Center for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Simulation (DAViS) at the University of Applied Science of the Grisons and the Swiss Center of Allergy and Asthma Research supports research on applications in topics like machine learning, big data, visualization, and simulation. The paper illustrates complex data analysis of life science data in a common research project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Performing company valuations within the domain of biotechnology, pharmacy and medical technology is a challenging task, especially when considering the unique set of risks biotech start-ups face when entering new markets. Companies specialized in global valuation services, therefore, combine valuation models and past experience with heterogeneous metrics and indicators that provide insights into a company's performance. This paper illustrates how automated knowledge discovery, extraction and data fusion can be used to (i) obtain additional indicators that provide insights into the success of a company's product development efforts, and (ii) support labor-intensive data curation processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data are considered to be the "oil of the 21st century". However, the owners of this "commodity" are not multinational companies, but each individual. This paper presents selected results from a representative population survey in the USA and Switzerland. The results show that although financial motives play a role, two other basic motives (information, social influence) are more important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fields of information and media literacy have already been focused by researchers in many institutions worldwide for several years. The Department of Information Science at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany and the Department of Information Science and Information Systems at the University of Graz in Austria contributed to several aspects in this field. Apart from testing the information literacy skills of several target groups, new approaches for promoting information literacy have been focused on. This paper gives an overview of the research projects on information literacy at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Graz during the last years. Therefore, this paper will first introduce the theoretical background of information and media literacy and point out the efforts of both institutions in this field. This is followed by a comparison and discussion of the results of the various studies conducted at both institutions. Additionally, possible approaches for promoting information literacy even further are pointed out. In this context an emphasis will be put on the promising approach of MOOCs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Network knowledge management in companies do not work without proactive motivation of their users. Users need to know what their benefits are when sharing knowledge and contributing actively in social network enterprise tools. This paper, on one hand describes the development of the different benchmark means of quantifying work together in measuring and assessing users' performance and thus stimulating their willing to cooperate in their collaborative work, and on the other hand this paper shows some examples of how the benchmarks can be visualized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In research evaluations, the impact of scientific publications is often measured by the number of their citations with the help of quantitative (bibliometric) methods. Bibliometric data support and complement the work of experts. Alternatively, one can also examine the literature of a chosen research field with respect to most frequently cited publications, authors, and journals. It is particularly interesting for the origin and development of a research field to understand which publications have, in the course of time, made an outstanding contribution to its development. This opens up an opportunity to pursue the development of research fields chronologically and to quantify the weight of individual publications. The data are based on the scientific community as a whole and they provide, e.g. for science historians, the potentially important contributions they should consider in their scientific work in order to avoid incompleteness and distortions. The appropriate bibliometric method is called Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) and it makes use of the fact that very frequently cited papers occur as prominent peaks in the corresponding publication years. A program called Cited References Explorer (CRExplorer) has been developed for the final analysis. In this paper, we would like to present the RPYS method on the basis of two selected examples and discuss its application to topics of the history of science. The result of our analysis reflects the knowledge of the scientific community as a whole: one can find all the essential early contributions cited in the corresponding scientific historical literature regarding a specific research field. The method works without any additional assumptions and thus avoids, e.g. a personal selection, which is inevitable in the case of individual authors of scientific historical publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Instructions for many different topics, so called Tutorials, have experienced a boom for some time passed. More and more offers are posted online; consequently the demand for proper platforms and search engines increases in order pool the variety and make it more searchable. This paper will focus on the less considered phenomena of a "Tutorial" and the search for this special medium. Different terms of the word "Tutorial" as well as social drivers that influence the increasing trend to produce and receive Tutorials are focused in this paper. Currently existing special search engines as one approach to search for Tutorials will be collected and accessed by their strengths and weaknesses in a market observation. The outcome of this survey will define requirements for optimized search engines for this application purpose and its exemplary implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper derives the new research field of information didactics from two existing research desiderata relating to didactics and information science, namely the formal description of information and the practical process of „informing oneself". The goal of information didactics research is perceived on the one hand as involving a review of these two areas of investigation as factors influencing the building of didactic models and on the other as incorporating a contribution towards the empirical description of information as one of the basic categories of the information sciences. In addition the paper elucidates the methodical framework of information didactics research within the context of applied research at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. The paper concludes by suggesting that information didactics be positioned within the specialist information sciences discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A party responsible for marketing or advertising is content to do a tradeoff between a preferably high operating distance of the companies' ad activities on the one side and a target-oriented approach on the other side. Behavioral Targeting allows pleasing both backgrounds. It is primary used to carry out efficient online campaigns and possesses next to a precipitous learning curve an extensive potential for success. This state-of-the-art paper gives an introductive overview and focuses on the classification, development and functionality of Behavioral Targeting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The antithetic interplay of change and stability can be better understood and shaped with a hybrid approach than with the prevalent approaches of path constitution, sedimented change or punctuated equilibrium. The paper provides an overview of the generic architectures of hybrid approaches, especially the principles, qualitative patterns and quantitative proportions of the coupling of change and stability, thus providing new answers to the questions of how, when, where and how much of a configuration of continuous and discontinuous change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first part of this contribution, published in issue 4/2017, took stock of the measures and effects of the DGI's Information Literacy Initiative, based on the recommendations of the DGI memorandum[1] on Promoting information literacy in the education sector (2008) and the position paper[2] Medien- und Informationskompetenz - immer mit Bibliotheken und Informationseinrichtungen! published by Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Bibliotheks- und Informationsverbände (BID), a federation of German library and information associations. In the second part, we will now discuss the measures required to promote the integration of information literacy in education and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

„Big Data” is a catchphrase referring to algorithmic procedures to process large amounts of data. It owes its success, and in particular its medial prominence, in part to its opposition to the established paradigm of relational database theory, whose main tenets, will be sketched in a first step. It is by contrasting „Big Data” with this traditional traditional procedure that the crucial contrast regarding the availability of an overwhelming mass of information can be drawn. Proponents of the former approach claim that a change of paradigm is called for because conventional theory is not equipped to handle these unprecedented challenges. The ensuing debate is presented in the second section of this paper. The opposing views can, as it turns out, be traced back to divergent epistemological attitudes. The contribution concludes with a discussion about the questionable move to establish the category „raw data” as an underlying domain for an innovative theory of data processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few years a new form of social media has emerged and gained popularity, namely Social Live- Streaming Services (SLSSs). YouNow-our case study-is an SLSS, which is especially popular among adolescents and young adults. SLSSs grant their users the opportunity to broadcast themselves in real time, interact with the viewers and even receive some form of reward from the viewers. A theoretical framework for investigating the information behavior on SLSSs was employed by using the Lasswell Formula as well as the Uses and Gratification Theory. Accordingly, five research questions are being answered in this paper: What motives do viewers and streamers display to apply YouNow? What information production behavior do the users exhibit on YouNow? What law infringements can be observed while streaming? What multi-channel behaviors do users of YouNow exhibit? How do users rate the quality of YouNow? To answer these questions an online survey (N = 123) was implemented and live streams (N = 2,021) were systematically examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies metaphor as a part of the linguistic code in a discipline's professional communicative spheres and, most important, metaphor as a knowledge-transferring mechanism where concepts from one discipline are transferred into the domain of another discipline. Donald Schön's so-called 'generative metaphor' is introduced and applied to the 'static' structure of disciplinary terminology by analyzing one characteristic example of metaphorical transfer of linguistic theory and terminology into the domain of the information sciences. The paper concludes with some ideas on a research project, taking explicitly the metaphorical stance towards the relations between different disciplines and terminologies.

Blackletter prints still challenge computers and scholars alike when it comes to accuracy of text recognition. In this paper we show our approach to evaluate OCR accuracy of old text documents. Thus we challenge funding agencies' demands on accuracy by arguing that mixed methods like scalable reading help to achieve sufficient results from text documents of insufficient accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper gives an overview and holistic interpretation of current development trends of the social web and discusses its significance for information science as a scientific discipline. For this purpose, important technological and social trends of the internet are outlined. Building on this, the social web is illustrated through an exemplary presentation of prominent social communities and applications. Following that, it is classified as a global architecture of participation. From a holistic point of view, the social web can be judged as a vehicle and expression of a long-term process that will have a fundamental impact on social knowledge and communication processes for the society as a whole. Thus, seen from an information science perspective one can conclude that the social web enriches important fields like Information Retrieval, Human-Computer-Interaction, and Knowledge Management with many new aspects. At the same time, new research fields emerge. The article sketches this with an exemplary presentation of new fields that are currently expanding the research and teaching portfolio of information science at the University of Hildesheim, particularly the newly created assistant professorship "Social Networks and Collaborative Media". The paper concludes that current development trends of the internet emphasize the importance of information science as a future-oriented teaching and research discipline, offer opportunities to expand its specific topics, and should be seen as a chance to boost the profile of the discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper consists of two parts. In part one methods of semantic knowledge representation are related to principles for designing retrieval scenarios for conceptual searches and in particular for knowledge exploration. Starting with heterogeneous indexing situations, ideas are presented how to overcome the heterogeneity situation by semantic interoperability. Based on a formal model to assist in the understanding of semantic interoperability, presented in part 2 of the paper, a proposal for an overall system is developed, which consists of an ontological spine and associated localized semantic networks with extended relational inventories. The possibilities for searching and conceptual exploration within such a framework are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of open access publishing is free access to scholarly journals via internet. Reduction of costs is highlighted as an important reason for libraries to head for a paradigm shift from the subscription based and licence based journal model to open access. The paper discusses economical aspects of two possibilities of open access. In the „golden road“ variant the author pays and publishes his original research paper in an open access journal, whereas in the „green road“ model the author archives a copy of his previously published paper in an institutional or subject repository. Both possibilities carry potential risks particularly for institutions with a strong focus on research or with a high output on scholarly papers. The implementation of the paradigm shift will rise costs compared to the traditional publication model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sir Karl Popper postulates the public character of scientific methods. „Objectivity“ is not the product of individual highly self-controlled scientists, but the result of public control and criticism. Robert K. Merton distinguishes four institutional imperatives of the scientific ethos: universalism, communism, disinterestedness, and organized skepticism. Conventional „peer reviewed“ paper journals are said to be the "backbone" of scientific communication. Their mainly function is the control of scientific communication. Digitalized scientific / scholarly communication has many advantages. The future of „open access“ publishing depends on several factors, among others: Are the functions of paper journals really "indispensable"? If yes: Is it possible to substitute the functions of conventional paper journals by open access publishing and communication? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design and usability guidelines present design experiences and support the design of interactive systems with useful sets of recommendations or prescriptions. This paper presents the development and evaluation of a web-based tool for the management of guidelines. The tool aims to provide system developers and usability experts as well as students with facilities for administrating and retrieval of guidelines in use situations. This paper describes the theoretical foundation and the functionalities of the system and also reports on the initial evaluation results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scanning the global business environment for new trends and developments is a critical success factor in Competitive Intelligence (CI). However, due to the ill-defined structure of the business environment - in terms of content, source, and time - seeking for information in the business environment is cumbersome: The limited time and information-processing capacities of managers hamper a full screening of the broad range of relevant aspects. Moreover, details from many different sources have to be combined to receive an interpretable picture of future developments. This paper analyses the structure of the business environment and outlines different information seeking strategies. The paper provides a state-of-the-art review on new technologies for supporting information search in CI and discusses the value added by these tools with respect to the introduced CI challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the development of an application for data maintenance in the Digital Archive of the Pina Bausch Foundation. First, the requirements of the Linked Data archive are outlined. The Linked Data Management System Callimachus is introduced, whereupon aspects of the approach of the application development are described. In the last part Callimachus is evaluated and discussed as a tool for information scientists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today's knowledge workers not only have to be able to find, process and analyse data, but increasingly have to be able to present them in graphical form, so as to effectively communicate their point with data visualisations. One can learn from data journalists how to do this, who have taken data visualization to a form of art. With the help of examples, this paper argues that effective data visualization, as it can be found in the media, tries to achieve one or more of the following aims: 1) it attracts the attention of the reader, 2) it helps explain a fact, and 3) it creates lasting memories of the text's content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on an unsolved problem of information retrieval this paper presents an ontology-based model of indexing and retrieval which combines the methods and experiences of cognitive-to-interpret indexing languages with the strengths and possibilities of formal knowledge representation. The core component of the model consists of using inferences along the paths of typed relations between the entities arranged into facets within a knowledge representation for the determination of hit quantities in the context of retrieval processes. The possible consequences for indexing and retrieval are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a table of contents for the August 2013 issue of "Information -- Wissenschaft und Praxis" information science journal along with a call for papers for a May 8-9, 2013 conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the generation and online transmission of knowledge and information quality.

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of articles from journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS), subject category 'Information Science & Library Science'. The results confirm the Anglo-American dominance in the library and information science literature (included in WoS) which is even stronger if only information science journals are considered. The two major exceptions are the Scandinavian countries and the field of scientometrics. The visibility of Germany and Austria turned out to be relatively low.

The paper discusses the chasm between the actual usability qualities of linguistic annotation tools and the requirements of current usability engineering standards and practices. A usability study of three selected annotation tools illustrates typical usability problems. A collection of 28 design guidelines for annotation tools is derived from these data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social tagging is a widespread activity for indexing user-generated content on Web services. This paper summarizes research on folksonomies and their retrieval effectiveness. A TREC-like retrieval test was conducted with tags and resources from the social bookmarking system delicious, which resulted in recall and precision values for tag-only searches. Moreover, several experimental tag-based databases (i. e., power tags, Luhn-tags) have been tested regarding their retrieval effectiveness. Test results show that folksonomies work best with short queries although recall values are high and precision values are low. Here, a search function “power tags only” greatly enhances precision values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper at hand raises the question of research at colleges and Universities of Applied Sciences in general, and displays a closer look at research efforts at the Department of Information Sciences at the UAS Potsdam in particular. It starts with an investigation of the general framework for research at colleges. Taking the example of the UAS Potsdam, it then illustrates additional research elements such as externally funded projects, sabbatical leaves for university teachers and options for publication – which research in general and foremost is associated with. It turns out that research is in its varied facets is extremely useful and necessary for practice-related teaching. An immediate, direct connection with teaching is crucial for colleges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A conference paper about the potential of the Visual Web 3.0 is presented. It discusses the previous revolution of internet technology and culture, known as the Social Turn. It predicts the emergence of a Visual Turn, which will open the way to global communication methods relying on pictures, videos, and aesthetic search spaces, rather than writing.

Informational Cities are urban developments of the knowledge society. According to Castells, in informational cities flows of capital, power and information are superior to the space of places. Yet, the concept of informational cities is not limited to this attribute. There are several typical aspects which form an informational city. Informational Cities are always knowledge cities and creative cities in which well developed information and communication infrastructures play an important role as well as soft location factors like shopping opportunities and leisure time activities. The latest research considers the single attributes of informational cities for different cities. But up to now there are few case studies which concentrate on the informationality of a particular city. This paper applies Stock's theoretically discussed indicators of informational cities to Singapore because it is assumed to be a prototypical informational city. The presented results come from field research, interpretation of statistics, and interviews with representatives from knowledge-intensive institutions conducted in June 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Job-Polarization is a phenomenon which changes the working environment and their professions as a consequence of automation and computerization. Routine occupations, which are mostly practiced by the middle class, are replaced by computer-controlled programs or machines. On the one hand the middle class is put off to the upper class and on the other hand to the lower class, this is crea- ting a gap between the rich and poor and educated and uneducated. Information technology allows companies to replace skilled and unskilled workers just as well facilitate their employment. This paper discusses an empirical study, which concentrates on the theory of Job-Polarization on city level. Thereby the cities of Singapore, London and Düsseldorf are analyzed by their changes in the labor markets in the last ten years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the experiences with and the results of a microblogging project at the University of Hildesheim. Within a seminar on Search Engine and Social Media Marketing the opportunity was given to exchange comments about the contents of the course by using a microblog. The participation was optional. Using this study, we tried to figure out the degree this new form of communication is accepted and if it is possible to provide additional benefit for research and teaching. The use of microblogging can support transparency within the discussion of learning contents and a more active exchange of ideas of the course participants. Due to a lack of participation, the anticipated potential could not be realized. The results of the study still provide relevant information for modeling further implementations of microblogging in E-Learning contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an evaluation of the online marketing tool twitter and its use in companies' marketing strategies and attempts to outline guidelines for successful twittering. These guidelines are designed to support companies to develop sustainable twitter profiles for commercial use. The analysis is supported by and based on relevant literature and research on the topic, along with insights gained from interviews that were conducted with companies that are already using twitter as a commercial tool. Finally, these guidelines focus on three main strategy stages and can be adopted into practical applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following essay locates the position of information science in the national and international canon of scholarly disciplines, pointing out its main characteristics and tracing its roots. The focus is on information science as practised at the University of Hildesheim, where there is an emphasis on international human-computer interaction and on cross-language information retrieval. Newer research fields and methods are also outlined briefly, and the paper concludes with a look at future prospects for development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper offers an overview of the development and the goals of the European Digital Library Europeana. It describes a project evaluating the "look & feel" of the prototype of the Europeana as of December 2009. The method applied is called Plus-Minus and is used by master students of communication design. The results are presented according to selected criteria, criterion is described by positive and negative judgments and additional suggestions for improvements, all given by users interviewed with the Plus-Minus method. The results are discussed in the context of the tasks of a cultural portal and with regard to the latest user and functional testing conducted by Europeana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of formal requirements and methodological concepts of admission procedures applied in German Master programs in the library and information science field Inspired by the Bologna process, LIS Master programs now come with quite different admission criteria and admission procedures. Purely formal criteria - like e.g. the grade of an earlier degree - were replaced by university-specific admission procedures which differentiate by program related criteria. Ranking of applicants is now determined by scores related to working experience, by subject-based qualification, and by relevant criteria from the labour market. Interviews and assessments have been introduced as the second stage of the admission procedures. This paper gives a comprehensive overview on the different concepts applied to LIS Master programs at universities in Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will show the meaning of Web 2.0-tools for scientists and it will show why they think they are useful. Therefor a survey with scientists of different faculties will be presented. This survey is about which Web 2.0-tools are known and what they are used for. After a short introduction about Web 2.0 and the research-level up to now the results of the survey will be discussed, which will show, that Web 2.0-tools are well known, but mainly used for personal reasons and entertainment, rather than for scientific work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]