...Naimat Ullah Shah; Salman Bin Naeem; Rubina Bhatti; Amjid Khan; Xia Wang Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine the level of awareness among library and information science (LIS) professionals regarding the perceived utility of big data (BD) and data analytics (DA) in academic libraries...

...Khurram Shahzad; Shakeel Ahmad Khan Purpose The purpose of this study are to identify the factors influencing the adoption of big data in libraries, determine the challenges causing the hindrance of big data implementation and reveal the best practices for the efficient adoption of big data...

...Xuhui Li; Liuyan Liu; Xiaoguang Wang; Yiwen Li; Qingfeng Wu; Tieyun Qian Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a graph-based representation approach for evolutionary knowledge under the big data circumstance, aiming to gradually build conceptual models from data. Design/methodology...

... and robust regarding the assumptions of their embedded classifier (Hajmohammadi et al., 2014 ; Nigam and Ghani, 2000). Classification Text mining Big data Data mining Originally proposed by Zhou and Li (2005) , tri-training is another co-training-type algorithm that can be readily...

...Ming Zhan; Gunilla Widén Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the roles of public libraries in the context of Big Data. Design/methodology/approach A mixed method approach was used and had two main data collection phases. A survey of public libraries was used to generate an overview...

...Jorina Smeda Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify the business imperatives characteristic of an organisation that will benefit from the use of Big Data, to give business managers, knowledge workers and librarians guidance as to whether their business will benefit from the use...

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