Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 68 Issue 4

The structuring of information through search: sorting waste with Google

Jutta Haider

The purpose of this paper is to explore informational structures producing and organising the construction of waste sorting in Sweden. It shows how the issue is constructed by it…

Testing the stability of “wisdom of crowds” judgments of search results over time and their similarity with the search engine rankings

Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Judit Bar-Ilan, Mark Levene

One of the under-explored aspects in the process of user information seeking behaviour is influence of time on relevance evaluation. It has been shown in previous studies that…

Members of the Scottish Parliament on Twitter: good constituency men (and women)?

Graeme Baxter, Rita Marcella, Mary O'Shea

The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of Twitter by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) for the provision of constituency-related information, or in support of…

A study of user profile representation for personalized cross-language information retrieval

Dong Zhou, Séamus Lawless, Xuan Wu, Wenyu Zhao, Jianxun Liu

With an increase in the amount of multilingual content on the World Wide Web, users are often striving to access information provided in a language of which they are non-native…

Reuse of scientific data in academic publications: An investigation of Dryad Digital Repository

Lin He, Vinita Nahar

In recent years, a large number of data repositories have been built and used. However, the extent to which scientific data are re-used in academic publications is still unknown…

An empirical study of long-term personal project information management

Klen Copic Pucihar, Matjaž Kljun, John Mariani, Alan John Dix

Personal projects are any kind of projects whose management is left to an individual untrained in project management and is greatly influenced by this individual’s personal touch…