Preliminary Conference Agenda

While heuristics are useful resources for designing the web’s information architecture (IA) from scratch today, IA practitioners occasionally receive requests to redesign established products, and guidelines are also needed to address such “redesign” requests. Past studies on IA design tend to focus on prototyping and how iterations contribute to final products, but such iterations have more to do with how users interact with the prototype than with its IA per se. This commentary paper reports a workflow for re-designing and optimizing two websites’ information architecture (IA). Based on two case studies, we explored a redesigned workflow of IA, which contains five stages: 1) screening, 2) synergizing, 3) synchronizing, 4) IA development 5) evaluation & execution. Compared to designing an IA from scratch, a team who redesigns an IA may communicate with more stakeholders and consider internal politics’ impact. Our proposed IA redesign workflow helps web designers allocate their resources and prioritize their work when given rede-sign tasks.

The fourth dimension of the Records Continuum Model, pluralize, is often characterized as the link to understanding records’ function in the societal and collective memory. Recently, Frings-Hessami (2021) presented the con-cept of societal embeddedness as an enhanced understanding of the fourth dimension. The concept is proposed to be used as a tool to interpret and ana-lyse pluralization processes, and Frings-Hessami argues that pluralization does not just involve sharing in the future—but also societal expectations in both records and recordkeeping. The purpose of this paper is, from a user perspective, to test the concept of societal embeddedness as an analytical tool in a specific recordkeeping story, and to reflect on the societal contexts of records to enhance sustainable recordkeeping of digital information. The paper is based on a research project in the context of the Swedish private sec-tor and digital recordkeeping of company bankruptcies. The results strongly suggest that the concept of societal embeddedness can contribute to an en-hanced understanding to why records are created, used, and consequently, understanding user need. Overall, analyses show that the fourth dimension affects all other dimensions and societal embeddedness can be used as a tool to understand the actions taking place in them.

Journal classification systems use a variety of (partially) overlapping and non-exhaustive subject categories which results in many journals being classified into more than a single subject category. Given a subject category, respective journals are often ranked based on a common metric such as the Journal Impact Factor or SCImago Journal Rank. However, given a specific journal, it might be ranked very differently across its associated subject categories.

In this study, we set to explore the possible association between the number of categories a journal is classified to and its associated rankings using the two most widely used indexing systems - Web Of Science and Scopus.

Using known distance measures, our results show that a higher number of classified categories per journal is associated with an increased range and variance of the associated rankings within them. Findings and possible implications are discussed.