...Isto Huvila; Olle Sköld; Dydimus Zengenene; Lisa Andersson Purpose Data-documentation standards offer diverse means to represent processes, an aspect of datasets that generally lack adequate documentation for their reuse. This study aims to generate new knowledge of to what extent data...

...Sabina Batlle Baró Purpose The aim of this paper is to study the data management practices and perspectives of archaeological researchers in the Spanish region of Catalonia. Data management is becoming increasingly challenging for archaeological research as the data grow in volume and complexity...

...Saguna Shankar; Lisa P. Nathan Purpose Service providers, government agencies and other entities gather data on immigration and settlement for myriad reasons. In Canada, newcomers to the country are required to provide personal information to access essential services from community-based...

...Stefan Ekman; Olle Sköld; Isto Huvila Purpose The purpose of this article is to increase our understanding of data papers as research narratives, with a focus on the functions that paradata – information about data creation and management processes and their underlying reasons – have, apart from...

...Ceilyn Boyd Ceilyn Boyd can be contacted at: ceilyn.boyd@simmons.edu 15 08 2021 30 01 2022 08 02 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only A definition of data called data as assemblage...

...Veronica Johansson; Jörgen Stenlund Purpose Representations of time are commonly used to construct narratives in visualisations of data. However, since time is a value-laden concept, and no representation can provide a full, objective account of “temporal reality”, they are also biased...

...Jennifer L. Thoegersen; Pia Borlund This study examines how researcher data sharing has been studied in the research literature. Over the past decade, there has been an increasing, international demand to make the data underlying research more available to the research community and the public...

..., at the centre of the scholarly communication universe. Originality/value The implications of the shift towards individuation are revealed as part of a broader trend in scholarly communication infrastructure towards data extraction, mirroring a trend within digital capitalism more generally. The ways...

... of information, data, and knowledge in the cognitive system (domain) of the observer. Design/methodology/approach In addition to the literature review, a proposed description of the communication and knowledge acquisition processes within the observer's cognitive system/domain is elaborated. Findings...

...Johanna Drucker Design Linguistics Information visualization Data Documents Data visualization Enunciation Theories of the subject In the 1990s and early 2000s, many constructs from critical theory were incorporated into analysis of information, particularly in the work by Bernd...

...Young-seok Kim; Louise Cooke Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a big data analysis of public library operations and services of two cities in two countries by using the Chernoff face method. Design/methodology/approach The study is designed to evaluate library services...

... representation was derived from the conceptual designation of information “as a flow” and, accordingly, by the corresponding redrawing of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) pyramid. The knowledge acquisition process is symbolically represented by the growth of a “tree of knowledge” which is planted...

... (National Research Council of the National Academies, 2015). 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, data curation, and management of information assets over...

... – This study adopts a deductive approach to conceptualization, starting from one given, a priori concept. Findings – This paper develops a constellation of concepts which offer mutual clarification for each other. Having defined data by drawing on its existing denotations, it defines “information...

...Tibor Koltay Purpose – The role of data literacy is discussed in the light of such activities as data a quality, data management, data curation, and data citation. The differing terms and their relationship to the most important literacies are examined. The paper aims to discuss these issues...

... (Aitchison et al., 1969) that the advantage for indexing and retrieval was clearly demonstrated in the combination of a faceted classification and thesaurus in the same volume, having a one‐to‐one correspondence between facets and descriptors. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Internet Data...