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View article: Success factors of E-assessment in computer science for higher education: perspectives from instructors
Success factors of E-assessment in computer science for higher education: perspectives from instructors Open
Assessment is an essential element in higher education processes, and its use is becoming increasingly widespread with the digitalisation of universities. E-assessment plays a major role in the success of the educational process due to its…
View article: #SouthAsians4BlackLives: racial positionality in digital allyship and the prospects for cross-racial solidarity for racial justice in the USA
#SouthAsians4BlackLives: racial positionality in digital allyship and the prospects for cross-racial solidarity for racial justice in the USA Open
The presence of multiple racial groups was a key feature of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in 2020. This study investigates racial positionalities embedded in expressions of digital allyship with BLM on Instagram by South Asians in the …
View article: When data meets citizens: an investigation of citizen engagement in data-driven innovation programmes
When data meets citizens: an investigation of citizen engagement in data-driven innovation programmes Open
Publicly funded data-driven innovation programmes frequently involve partnerships between small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and municipal authorities utilizing citizen data. The intention of these projects is to benefit citizens. However…
View article: To App or Not to App? Understanding Public Resistance to COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing and its Criminological Relevance
To App or Not to App? Understanding Public Resistance to COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing and its Criminological Relevance Open
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital contact tracing has been developed and promoted in many countries as a valuable tool to help the fight against the virus, allowing health authorities to react quickly and limit contagion. Ve…
View article: Tweets and Quacks: Network and Content Analyses of Providers of Non-Science-Based Anticancer Treatments and Their Supporters on Twitter
Tweets and Quacks: Network and Content Analyses of Providers of Non-Science-Based Anticancer Treatments and Their Supporters on Twitter Open
Despite the consensus in the medical discipline that certain treatments lack scientific evidence and are worthless if not potentially dangerous, the promotion and selling of fake cures advertised as safe and effective has long plagued heal…
View article: Smart Rural: The Open Data Gap
Smart Rural: The Open Data Gap Open
The smart city paradigm has underpinned a great deal of the use and production of open data for the benefit of policy makers and citizens. This paper posits that this further enhances the existing urban rural divide. It investigates the av…
View article: Open Source Research Software
Open Source Research Software Open
In computational science and in computer science, research software is a central asset for research. For good scientific practice, the resulting research software should be open source software. Established open source software licenses pr…
View article: Pie Chart or Pizza: Identifying Chart Types and Their Virality on Twitter
Pie Chart or Pizza: Identifying Chart Types and Their Virality on Twitter Open
We aim to understand how data, rendered visually as charts or infographics, “travels” on social media. To do so we propose a neural network architecture that is trained to distinguish among different types of charts, for instance line grap…
View article: Microcosm (in a Virtual Machine)
Microcosm (in a Virtual Machine) Open
A working copy of the Microcosm program, an important pre-Web hypertext system developed at Southampton University
View article: From FAIR research data toward FAIR and open research software
From FAIR research data toward FAIR and open research software Open
The Open Science agenda holds that science advances faster when we can build on existing results. Therefore, research data must be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) in order to advance the findability, reproducibilit…
View article: Frontmatter
Frontmatter Open
it -Information Technology is a strictly peer-reviewed scientific journal.It is the oldest German journal in the field of information technology.Today, the major aim of it -Information Technology is highlighting issues on ongoing newsworth…
View article: Virality Measures of "Data Tweets"
Virality Measures of "Data Tweets" Open
This dataset consists of two files in TSV format derived from a large number of tweets (16754250) that were identified as containing different forms of "numeric data" in an extended collection of tweets from Twitter's 1% public sample over…
View article: FAIR and Open Computer Science Research Software
FAIR and Open Computer Science Research Software Open
In computational science and in computer science, research software is a central asset for research. Computational science is the application of computer science and software engineering principles to solving scientific problems, whereas c…
View article: Interactive Multi-Submission Deposit Workflows for Desktop Applications
Interactive Multi-Submission Deposit Workflows for Desktop Applications Open
Online submission and publishing is the norm for academic researchers. With the pressure on these authors to submit their work to conferences, journals and Institutional Repositories, this leads to demands on the author to go through multi…
View article: Understanding the production and circulation of social media data: Towards methodological principles and praxis
Understanding the production and circulation of social media data: Towards methodological principles and praxis Open
Social media data have provoked a mixed response from researchers. While there is great enthusiasm for this new source of social data – Twitter data in particular – concerns are also expressed about their biases and unknown provenance and,…
View article: Next Generation Repositories: Behaviours And Technical Recommendations Of The Coar Next Generation Repositories Working Group
Next Generation Repositories: Behaviours And Technical Recommendations Of The Coar Next Generation Repositories Working Group Open
The widespread deployment of repository systems in higher education and research institutions provides the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication. However, repository platforms are still…
View article: Maintaining the Web: Web Archiving, Labour and the Internet Archive
Maintaining the Web: Web Archiving, Labour and the Internet Archive Open
This paper presents the preliminary results of an ethnographic study of web archiving, in an effort to explore the ways in which practitioners shape the preservation and maintenance of the archived Web in its various forms. A combination o…
View article: Observing Archives: Web Archiving as Socio-Technical Practice
Observing Archives: Web Archiving as Socio-Technical Practice Open
This paper presents the preliminary results of an ethnographic study of web archiving, in an effort to explore the ways in which practitioners shape the preservation and maintenance of the archived Web in its various forms. A combination o…
View article: A Glimpse into Babel
A Glimpse into Babel Open
Multilinguality is an important topic for knowledge bases, especially Wikidata, that was build to serve the multilingual requirements of an international community. Its labels are the way for humans to interact with the data. In this paper…
View article: Inhibiting Fingerprinting Technique with FP-prevention
Inhibiting Fingerprinting Technique with FP-prevention Open
A number of fingerprinting countermeasures has been proposed to the public.Today, none of the concrete results indicate which countermeasures might be applicable.The research attempts to prove their claims, requires studying the effectiven…
View article: Observing Web Archives
Observing Web Archives Open
This paper makes the case for studying the work of web archivists, in an effort to explore the ways in which practitioners shape the preservation and maintenance of the archived Web in its various forms. An ethnographic approach is taken t…
View article: EMSoD — A conceptual social framework that deliversKM values to corporate organizations
EMSoD — A conceptual social framework that deliversKM values to corporate organizations Open
As social software is becoming increasingly disruptive to organizational structures and processes, Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives that have hitherto taken the form of a ‘knowledge repository’ now need redefining. With the emergence …
View article: Bots and political influence: a sociotechnical investigation of social network capital
Bots and political influence: a sociotechnical investigation of social network capital Open
This study explains how bots interact with human users and influence conversational networks on Twitter. We analyze a high-stakes political environment, the UK general election of May 2015, asking human volunteers to tweet from purpose-mad…
View article: Automation, Algorithms, and Politics| Bots and Political Influence: A Sociotechnical Investigation of Social Network Capital
Automation, Algorithms, and Politics| Bots and Political Influence: A Sociotechnical Investigation of Social Network Capital Open
This study explains how bots interact with human users and influence conversational networks on Twitter. We analyze a high-stakes political environment, the UK general election of May 2015, asking human volunteers to tweet from purpose-mad…
View article: Towards a model for monitoring public services projects in Saudi Arabia
Towards a model for monitoring public services projects in Saudi Arabia Open
Information and communication technology (ICT) has been adopted by many governments around the world in the form of e-government to facilitate service delivery to the public. Saudi Arabia is an example of such a country that has adopted te…
View article: Next generation repositories: Scaling up repositories to a global knowledge commons
Next generation repositories: Scaling up repositories to a global knowledge commons Open
The current system for disseminating research, which is dominated by commercial publishers, is far from ideal. In an economic sense, prices for both subscriptions and APCs are over-inflated and will likely continue to rise at unacceptable …
View article: Knowledge Discovery from Social Media Data: A Case of Public Twitter Data for SMEs
Knowledge Discovery from Social Media Data: A Case of Public Twitter Data for SMEs Open
Making sense of social media data is increasingly becoming a subject of concern to corporate organisations. It is therefore, no coincidence that the subject of Knowledge Identification and Discovery is currently receiving a huge attention …
View article: Digital Data Infrastructures: interrogating the social media data pipeline
Digital Data Infrastructures: interrogating the social media data pipeline Open
Far from being 'naturally occurring', as is sometimes claimed, this paper begins from the premise that social media data are shaped through complex social and technical processes: from creation, to access, storage, analysis and visualizati…