Knowledge management (KM) offers a variety of tools to share and preserve knowledge. In particular, communities of practice (CoPs) have emerged as a KM approach that allows people from different disciplines to better share what they know and to build…

This research provides a theoretical and practical framework for the preservation of digital artifacts with a focus on the sustainability of the repertoire of contemporary music with live electronics. The sustainability of instrumental music relies on the organology of musical…

Knowledge Management (KM) to date has been poorly recognized, explained, and applied in China, and lack of empirical evidence has become a major barrier to the development of KM research in the Chinese academic community. The purpose of this study…

This project concerns the ways in which social computing functions as a rational steering medium in network societies. Exploring cases that include the structured data protocols of an ascendant "Web 3.0", Google PageRank and collaborative filtering services, the work unearths…

There is increasing attention to information users' feedback comments as they can be used to improve information resources. In contexts where information resources are rich in knowledge, optimal user feedback management is crucial for the information provider to make sure…

This study explored the information needs of rehabilitation therapists (occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech-language pathologists) working with patients with stroke, to characterize their clinical questions, that is, their formalized information needs. This study also investigated how rehabilitation therapists decide whether…

Information Science is an interdisciplinary field that interacts with other disciplines through its intellectual borders. While there is much research into the interdisciplinary nature of Information Science, little research exists that identifies the nature, extent, and quality of these extra-disciplinary…