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CONCURRENCY
2008
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An ontology-based approach to handling information quality in e-Science
context. In contrast to previous approaches that take a very abstract view of IQ properties, we allow scientists to define the quality characteristics that are of importance to the...
Alun D. Preece, Paolo Missier, Suzanne M. Embury, ...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Comparing the use of tangible and graphical programming languages for informal science education
Much of the work done in the field of tangible interaction has focused on creating tools for learning; however, in many cases, little evidence has been provided that tangible inte...
Michael S. Horn, Erin Treacy Solovey, R. Jordan Cr...
IPM
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Remembering William Goffman: Mathematical information science pioneer
This paper reviews the career and legacy of William (Bill) Goffman, who served as a researcher, Professor, Dean and Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, f...
Glynn Harmon
JASIS
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
Tropes, history, and ethics in professional discourse and information science
: This paper argues that professional discourses tend to align themselves with dominant ideological and social forces by means of language. In twentieth century modernity, the use ...
Ronald Day
ISMB
1993
13 years 10 months ago
A Service-Oriented Information Sources Database for the Biological Sciences
Researchersin the biological sciencesrequire access to a variety of information sources locatedin variousplacesondifferent computer networks.In order to satisfy the information ne...
Gordon K. Springer, Timothy B. Patrick