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- Golub, Koraljka, et al.
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Increasing visibility of culture through online information services : The case of Småland
- 2019
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In: Presented at iConference 2019.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Cultural events are of increasing importance as value creators in our society. They can serve to promote the attractiveness of a region, to increase social interactions and the quality of life and, not the least, to boost local economies. Today, a comprehensive and up-to-date online overview of cultural events in Småland, a region in southeastern Sweden, is missing mainly due the fact that information is distributed across different actors, communication channels and different media (e.g. individual organizers, commercial vendors, community calendars, newspapers calendars).The ultimate purpose of our research is to significantly increase access to information and awareness of cultural attractiveness in Småland using innovative web technologies, both for its inhabitants as well as tourists. Reporting on the first stage of the project, this paper focuses on the exploration of requirements to design a mobile application and a website.First guidelines for the design of web and mobile interfaces have been in existence since the early 2000s (Weiss, 2003) and have been updated accordingly to reflect the evolution of technology and the evolution of web and mobile applications. In order to get users to use the application or website, they need to be simple, easy to understand, and present meaningful information to the user (Rubino et al., 2014).Functionalities for a cultural event app and/or website include those referring to general ones pertinent to any user-friendly app and specific ones related to information on cultural events. General major functionalities identified in the literature include:Clear and concise way of displaying the content (Boiano et al., 2012);Interactive and quick responding interfaces (ibid.);An interface which is easy to understand with few controls (Gena et al., 2013);The ability to share information, write reviews and connect, which in turn will make the application more visible for the general public (ibid.); and,Utilising user-generated content (ratings, tags, comments, and so on) as a source of information about a user, and for adaptation and recommendation purposes (ibid.).Our methodological approach involved three major steps. First, an interview with cultural events providers, using contemporary art as a use case, was conducted in order to identify initial needs and requirements for building the two types of interfaces. The interviews were conducted with two representatives of a governmental institution promoting contemporary art in the region, called Nya Småland (in English New Småland, http://www.nyasmaland.se/9/). After the first round of interviews, initial mock-ups of the interfaces were built, followed by another round of interviews to gain insights and feedback on those designs. Themes in the interviews focused on requirements, functionalities, cultural event providers in the different regions and user groups. The interviewees said that it is generally important to make contemporary art galleries and their activities visible to a wider audience through a good-quality app and a web site. It is often hard to reach the public with cultural events; one reason could be lack of money for advertising. The information gathered from the interviews was then used when creating a new round of refined mock-ups.In conclusion, the interviewees consider a quality app and a website for cultural events on contemporary art an important way in which to increase visibility of cultural events in the region and beyond. In addition, preserving information about past events for future uses is considered important, especially for journalists, politicians and journalists. Future research efforts will focus on developing an interactive prototype and gain feedback from content providers and a range of potential end user groups.
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- Golub, Koraljka
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Digital Humanities Master at Linnaeus University
- 2017
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In: 2nd International Symposium Digital Humanities: Empowering Visibility of Croatian Cultural Heritage. ; , s. 21-21
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Linnaeus University has been leading several big initiatives at cross-sectora and cross- disciplinary axes over the past years, with the purpose of addressing future societal challenges. Digital Humanities is one of them; it has been receiving funds since 2016. Current big focus is placed on developing a Master program in Digital Humanities. The program is considered unique in that it defines a small core of obligatory courses and a big selection of elective from any relevant discipline at the university, grouped around three major suites: humanities, technology, business and economics. Further, major feature of the program is involving external sectors to the largest degree possible. The program will be given in the international online mode, free of charge to citizens of the European Union with a completed Bachelor degree. In order to test challenges and opportunities on this new interdisciplinary program, several courses were planned to be given in 2017 and 2018. The first course titled Programming for Digital Humanities is underway. The presentation will include these topics as well as discuss issues around bringing together different disciplines, students from different backgrounds, and teachers from different disciplines as well as from different sectors.
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- Golub, Koraljka, et al.
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EnTag : Enhancing Social Tagging for Discovery
- 2009
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In: JCDL '09 Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. - New York, NY, USA : ACM Press. - 9781605583228 ; , s. 163-172
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The EnTag (Enhanced Tagging for Discovery) project investigated the effect on indexing and retrieval when using only social tagging versus when using social tagging in combination with suggestions from a controlled vocabulary. Two different contexts were explored: tagging by readers of a digital collection and tagging by authors in an institutional repository; also two different controlled vocabularies were examined, Dewey Decimal Classification and ACM Computing Classification Scheme. For each context a separate demonstrator was developed and a user study conducted. The results showed the importance of controlled vocabulary suggestions for both indexing and retrieval: to help produce ideas of tags to use, to make it easier to find focus for the tagging, as well as to ensure consistency and increase the number of access points in retrieval. The value and usefulness of the suggestions proved to be dependent on the quality of the suggestions, both in terms of conceptual relevance to the user and in appropriateness of the terminology. The participants themselves could also see the advantages of controlled vocabulary terms for retrieval if the terms used were from an authoritative source.
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- Ihrmark, Daniel, 1993-, et al.
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Subject Indexing of LGBTQ+ Fiction in Sweden and China
- 2024
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In: Knowledge Organization for Resilience in Times of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities. - Baden-Baden : Ergon-Verlag. - 9783987400476 ; , s. 379-384
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Subject indexing of LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, and ace) materials is often criticized for being too general and superficial, as general subject headings systems rarely provide the desirable depth and breadth. LGBTQ+ fiction is an even bigger problem because fiction is most often indexed only for genre, place, and time, while themes remain unaddressed. Thus, many readers look outside the library catalogue to identify LGBTQ+ titles in social medial, personal social networks, or web search engines. This exploratory study builds on the Queerlit database of over 1800 Swedish LGBTQ+ works of fiction which have been subject indexed using a dedicated thesaurus. It aims to identify and discuss how Queerlit subject terms compare with those in the Swedish Union Catalogue (Libris), the social cataloguing website Goodreads as well as the Google Books API. In addition, subject access to LGBTQ+ works of fiction in China is discussed, particularly via Douban, the social networking platform.
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- Bergenmar, Jenny, 1973, et al.
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Subject Indexing : The Challenge of LGBTQI Literature
- 2020
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In: DHN 2020: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries. - : CEUR-WS. ; , s. 203-210
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Despite a growing number of digital LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer, intersex) history archives, and research-driven digital LGBTQI initiatives, queer perspectives have not been prominent in the digital humanities. Furthermore, investigations of LGBTQI in literary history is hampered by the fact that, to date, there are no broad scholarly inventories of such literature. Due to the absence of exhaustive bibliographies, scholars need to perform time-consuming, human reading of individual works and imprecise searches in order to locate LGBTQI motifs and themes. Research on subject indexing has also revealed that controlled vocabularies in use are too general to describe LGBTQI themes, motifs, and characters in a relevant manner. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how LGBTQI literature can be made more searchable, and more visible through the development of a quality-controlled subject specific database (QUEERLIT database) in which specialized subject indexing is applied. Methodological challenges pertaining to indexing of queer literary texts with implicit LGBTQI motifs are discussed, as well as theoretical considerations raised when assigning certain contemporary subjects to historical texts.
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- Golub, Koraljka, et al.
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Comparing and combining two approaches to automated subject classification of text
- 2006
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In: Research and advanced technology for digital libraries. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer. - 9783540446361 - 9783540446385 ; 4172, s. 467-470
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A machine-learning and a string-matching approach to automated subject classification of text were compared, as to their performance, advantages and downsides. The former approach was based on an SVM algorithm, while the latter comprised string-matching between a controlled vocabulary and words in the text to be classified. Data collection consisted of a subset from Compendex, classified into six different classes. It was shown that SVM on average outperforms the string-matching approach: our hypothesis that SVM yields better recall and string-matching better precision was confirmed only on one of the classes. The two approaches being complementary, we investigated different combinations of the two based on combining their vocabularies. The results have shown that the original approaches, i.e. machine-learning approach without using background knowledge from the controlled vocabulary, and string-matching approach based on controlled vocabulary, outperform approaches in which combinations of automatically and manually obtained terms were used. Reasons for these results need further investigation, including a larger data collection and combining the two using predictions.
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- Lund, Haakon, et al.
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Capturing contexts for web filtering in the humanities
- 2005
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In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2005 Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX). - Copenhagen : Royal School of Library and Information Science. - 8774152904 ; , s. 48-50
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)
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- Bakran, Juraj, et al.
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Reading rights
- 2000
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In: Intellectual property vs. the right to knowledge?. - Copenhagen : Royal School of Library and Information Science. - 8774152688 ; , s. 1-5
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The right to knowledge isn't questionable, only the ability to fulfil that right. Especially by the people with special needs, disabled people, in our case sight impaired and blind persons. Therefore the authors will talk about speech synthesis and ability to "read" books to sight impaired persons. The MBROLA speech synthesizer will be presented. Because nobody can deny any persons right to knowledge, the library and especially the National library has a duty to offer books to everybody who is interested in reading. The another thing that the authors will talk about is how to get books in digital form, which is needed for speech synthesis. The whole idea is making peace between intellectual property (authors) and right to knowledge (readers).
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- Bergenmar, Jenny, 1973, et al.
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Queerlit Database : Making Swedish LGBTQI Literature Easily Accessible
- 2022
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In: Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022). - : CEUR-WS.org. ; , s. 433-437
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This work focuses on questions of knowledge organization related to literary fiction. How can LGBTQI fictional literature become more accessible to readers and scholars? The project Queerlit Metadata Development and Searchability for LGBTQI Literary Heritage addresses this question in two ways: by the development of a thesaurus for the description of Swedish LGBTQI literature, and by building a curated bibliographical database for this material with flexible search options. Despite the community and scholarly interest in LGBTQI literature, relevant LGBTQI literature is hard to find both for readers and researchers. Subject indexing is underdeveloped for this topic, and subject headings have been historically inadequate and offensive. The paper focuses on how LGBTQI literature can be made more easily accessible through subject indexing. This will make new research possible, such as gaining overviews of the development of specific themes over time, the presence of LGBTQI literature within or outside of the literary canon or in different genres and changing ideas and perceptions concerning sexualities and gender identities. It will also accommodate user’s needs of better access to LGBTQI themed fictional literature.
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