Archive for November 6th, 2006
I slipped into the Evaluation papers session yesterday afternoon (Sunday, November 5) and was very interested in the work of Hyunhee Kim of Myongji University and Yongho Kim of Pukyong National University, both universities in South Korea.
The work titled An Evaluation Model for the National Consortium of Institutional Repositories of Korean Universities focused on the evaluation method of various institutional repositories using the “dCollection” system of institutional repositories. The framework of evaluation consisted of:
- content (diversity, currency, size and metadata);
- system and network (interoperability, integration and dCollection homepage);
- uses, users and submitters (material use rate, user satisfaction, submitter satisfaction and support for users and submitters);
- management and policy (budget and staffs, awareness of IR, copyright management, marketing strategies, formal agreement, policies and procedures and archiving methods).
When I asked Ms. Kim what she perceived as the #1 issue in institutional repositories she stated that management and policy were the biggest inhibitors. There was often no ground work laid to attract policy makers to the idea or need for institutional repositories and therefore the value of an IR wasn’t perceived as very high. I’d love to see more about their findings.
November 6th, 2006 at 12:14pm
laura.robinson
The attendance at the New Member & First-Time Attendees Brunch had to be the largest group ever…117! I still can’t believe it has been three years since I was a new student member. I was one of the ASIS&T ‘celebs’ (Caryn and Elise the organizers are too kind) which included real notables like outgoing ASIST prez Michael Leach, Past Prez’ Sam Hastings and Candy Schwartz, Incoming Prez Edie Rasmussen, ASIST Membership Chair Kris Liberman (and founding chair of SIG-KNIT), KT Vaughn, (Constitution and Bylaws Committee (a rockin’ committee) chair and hilarious dining companion, Nadia Caidi, SIG III Chair, and Andrew Dillon, Dean of the I School at UT-Austin. Our duties included a short intro and raffling off information science books. There were also representatives from the various ASIST SIGs. After making it through the snaking food line and enjoying brunch we did something really fun to break the ice. After lining up along the walls of the room, we formed an inner and outside circle. We then took turns asking the person behind us several questions to be answered within 3 minutes. The person I queried about the historical figure she most identified with claimed Ranganathan. The response to most favorite crayon to eat was purple. I was stumped when asked to declare my favorite word, because, how could I possibly have just one favorite? The only crayon I’d even consider eating is a burnt orange one…why? Because most orange things usually taste good.
November 6th, 2006 at 10:55am
beatrice.pulliam
Dr. Barabási is Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at Notre Dame. He is also the director of the Center for Complex Network Research. He has written a few books on networks.
His talk was first an overview of the generalities of social network analysis, then continued on to discuss scale-free networks. He defined them in several ways and indicated that these networks have been found in nature in many different fields.
He spoke very quickly and covered quite a bit of ground, but he held the crowd in thrall. I took some real time notes and posted them on my personal blog.
November 6th, 2006 at 10:46am
christina.pikas
