Journal of Documentation: Volume 72 Issue 5

Pictorial metaphors for information

Jenna Hartel, Reijo Savolainen

Arts-informed, visual research was conducted to document the pictorial metaphors that appear among original drawings of information. The purpose of this paper is to report the…

To document the undocumentable: Photography in the scientific practice of physical anthropology and race biology

Ulrika Kjellman

The purpose of this paper is to see how the disciplines of physical anthropology and race biology used photographs as documenting tools when trying to prove the existence of…

Perceived self-efficacy and interactive video retrieval

Dan Albertson, Boryung Ju

The purpose of this paper is to examine perceived self-efficacy of users within an interactive video retrieval context. The motivation for this research includes that…

Towards global music digital libraries: A cross-cultural comparison on the mood of Chinese music

Xiao Hu, Jin Ha Lee

The purpose of this paper is to compare music mood perceptions of people with diverse cultural backgrounds when they interact with Chinese music. It also discusses how the results…

The construct validity of the h-index

Cameron Stewart Barnes

The purpose of this paper is to show how bibliometrics would benefit from a stronger programme of construct validity.

Nanook of the North (USA, 1922/1947/1976/1998) and film exhibition in the classical silent era: A document unbounded?

Roswitha Skare

The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion on whether more traditional documents like a film of the classical silent era can be discussed as an unbounded document.

Information in the knowledge acquisition process

Boris Bosancic

The purpose of this paper is to propose an appropriate symbolic representation, as well as its metaphorical interpretation, to illustrate the special role of information in the…

Using the domain analytical approach in the study of information practices in biomedicine

Annikki Roos, Turid Hedlund

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the information practices of the researchers in biomedicine using the domain analytical approach.

The conceptual landscape of digital curation

Alex H. Poole

The purpose of this paper is to define and describe digital curation, an emerging field of theory and practice in the information professions that embraces digital preservation…