Preliminary Conference Agenda

This paper reports on an in-progress study analyzing youth technology experiences through a collection of stories created and openly licensed by students. We analyzed the transcripts of student-created animated video stories for a student media lab-based project in a social media studies course in spring 2021. Open coding of 44 transcripts found that students reflect on their past social media experiences through key thematic heuristics, such as contexts of adoption including grade level, mood, and influence; and dimensions of growing self-awareness around use including influences of others, changes in popular platforms like Instagram, and changes from playful to curated self-presentation. We present early analysis of code co-occurrences including emotion and influence, grade level and influence, and emotional weight specifically around Instagram. We end with plans for further research on this and related datasets, including audiovisual data and analysis through the lens of media literacy, and implications for researchers and instructors in information, new media, and education.

Abstract. As social media such as Twitter has become an important medium for disseminating information, it is essential to understand how the information diffusion on social media influences public adoption of vaccines. Based on the innovation diffusion theory, we construct a user and information quality indicator system for early adopters of COVID-19 vaccination by identifying their creation of user-generated content on social media. Machine learning approaches and text analysis methods are used to perform topic clustering and sentiment analysis on vaccination-related tweets on Twitter. Based on each country’s vaccination data in January 2021, the study examines the relationship between the quality of social media early adopters, and the quality of the information they publish with vaccine adoption by using the OSL regression model. The empirical results show that the total number of tests, the number of new COVID-19 cases, and the human development index have a significantly positive influence on vaccine adoption. Neutral emotions and offensive language of early adopters on social media have a significantly negative relationship with vaccine adoption. These interesting findings can help governments and public health officials understand early adopters' perceptions of vaccines, and play an important role in targeted policy interventions.

Social networks currently serve not only as platforms for pub-lishing content but also as fundamental tools for accessing information. This role in providing access is mediated by a series of opaque, algorithm-based mechanisms for personalising the content. This article draws on ex-isting literature on the relationship between possible mental health disor-ders and the functioning of these platforms to try to understand their effects on elements such as self-esteem and emotions. To this end, it focuses on the Instagram social network, which is prominent in the user groups corre-sponding to the Millennial and Z generations due to its high visual and multimedia content, its capacity for uncovering trends, and its integration with social commerce. It presents the results of a study (n=100) of Insta-gram users between the ages of 18 and 39. These results provide relevant da-ta on patterns associated with the following: time spent on the platform and excessive use, the risk of emotional loneliness or isolation, displacement of daily activities, and feelings of inferiority. They also reveal a real lack of awareness of how the algorithms on these types of platforms work and an interest in the mechanisms of disconnection and digital well-being. Lastly, the results open up new possibilities for inclusion of these risks in digital literacy programmes.

An emphasis on stylometry has the potential for advancing digital humanities methods in creative and exciting ways. For example, some of the established methods in stylometry were created for the detection of authenticity/authorship, peculiar linguistic or thematic patterns employed by an author, tropes meant to trigger emotions or expectations, and specific geographical and/or regional influences. Beyond methodological advances, applications created based on these methods can improve interaction, retrieval, interpretation, and analysis of large and complex textual corpora. The goal of the panel is to spur vigorous discussions on intersecting areas, motivate the development of new computational methods with applications in digital humanities, and also identify potential pedagogical topics that could enhance courses and content taught in iSchool degree programs.

This panel aims to encourage an open and dynamic discussion about research integrity (RI) education. In recent years, RI has been actively debated and has emerged as a topic of global interest. This panel will invite well-known RI educators and researchers from around the world to share and discuss their experiences, views, and insights. The goal of the panel is to increase the attention to RI education among colleagues in the iCommunity.

Duo to the differences in individual’s color perception and the variations in color naming and color rendering under different settings, color has historically been a challenging trait in describing species for taxonomic and systematic research. Re-using a noisy color dataset collected from high-quality images of Carex speci-mens, we developed a data mining method (e.g., clustering and classification) for constructing domain-specific color palettes. Color palettes associated with color values measured in a color space help systematists record color data in a way that the differences in colors can be more accurately compared and computed, making color data interoperable and reusable. The Carex color palette was evaluated by Carex experts and the evaluation data showed that experts overwhelmingly pre-ferred using color palette over color strings.

This study reviews existing studies on misinformation. Our purposes are to understand the major research topics that have been investigated by re-searchers from a variety of disciplines, and to identify important areas for further exploration for library and information science scholars. We con-ducted automatic descriptive analysis and manual content analysis after selecting journal articles from 4 major databases. The automatic analysis of 5,586 journal articles demonstrated that misinformation has been an increasingly popular research area in recent 12 years, and scholars in more than 1,200 fields of study have published related articles in more than 2,400 journals. Topics explored include misinformation environments, impact of misinformation, users/victims, types of misinformation, misinformation detection & correction, and others; The content analysis of 151 articles published in library and information studies journals found that more than 40 different theories/models/frameworks have been applied to under-stand or fight misinformation. Furthermore, information scholars have suggested that the research of misinformation could be explored further in 5 categories, including further understanding misinformation, its spread, and impacts; misinformation detection and correction, Policy and education to fight misinformation, more case studies, and more theory and model devel-opment. This study provides a broad picture of misinformation research, which allow researchers and practitioners to better plan and develop their projects and strategies for fighting misinformation. It also provides evidence to information schools to enhance curriculum development for educating the next generation of information professionals.

Diversity indices are widely used in many scientific disciplines to quantify the distribution of types within a dataset and are perhaps most strongly associated with the fields of ecology and economics. This paper synthesizes knowledge from four fields (ecology, economics, bibliometrics, team science) to show how diversity has been operationalized over time and to identify opportunities to advance studies of team diversity in team science research, a comparatively new and emerging field. In recent years, increasing efforts have been made to support interdisciplinary research teams and to better understand the relationship between interdisciplinarity and research outcomes through the lens of diversity measures. We find that diversity measures such as Shannon's and Simpson's indices have been prevalent proxies to capture the extent to which research teams comprise of interdisciplinary knowledge sources and perspectives. We also find that the ecological perspective of ``beta diversity'', an approach considering the relative differences between rather than within groups, offers compelling opportunities for teams and science of team science research. We describe the concept of beta diversity, and provide several examples of how a beta diversity perspective offers a lens to address research questions of interest to science of team science scholars.

This workshop explores existing data competency frameworks established by library and information science professional associations and connects these frameworks with current data skills training and educational programs. Research intensive institutions focus on data reproducibility, data reuse, compliance with federal mandates for data sharing, and data integrity. Information professionals play an important role in establishing data services. There is a shortage of qualified professionals. The existing workforce needs to be retooled. Given this context and the growing demand of data services, an increasing number of professional associations have developed data services competency frameworks. This workshop introduces competency-based education, and key data competency frameworks, and compares them with two data services training programs - RDMLA (Research Data Management Librarian Academy) and DSCPE (Data Services Continuing Professional Education). There are limited opportunities for retooling the professional workforce. This workshop addresses strategies for bridging the gap and preparing the workforce to provide successful data services.

The integration of theory and practice is the basic guarantee for the harmonious development of librarianship. Library Society of China (LSC) is an important force to promote the integration of research and practice in China, but the research-practice gap in Chinese library science still remain. This pilot study employed an inductive case study approach. 5 core members of LSC were interviewed using a semi-structured question script designed based on the theoretical framework of Community of Practice (CoP). According to the theory of CoP, this paper carried out the analysis procedure and summarized the development experience of LSC in bridging the research-practice gap from three perspectives: micro-level of identity, meso-level of practice and macro-level of cooperation. And this research puts forward some suggestions to improve LSC’s work on strengthening the integration of theory and practice. The result of this study provides solutions for the research-practice gap in other countries and other applied disciplines.

Access to information plays an important role in supporting sustainable development goals. In marginalised communities where people have limited access to information, preservation of information previously accessed can play a crucial role in supporting economic, social and personal activities and fostering sustainable development. However, little is known about how marginalised rural communities in developing countries preserve information and how digital technologies have impacted on their practices. In order to investigate how individuals in remote rural communities access and preserve the information that they need to support their work and daily activities, the author organised two focus group discussions and ten individual interviews with village men and women in the district of Satkhira in Bangladesh. The findings from the research show that villagers, who have limited access to smartphones and to the internet, are conscious of the fragility of digital technologies and digital data and use paper notebooks as a form of backup for information found on the internet, and that some of them also use digital backups to preserve important information. These findings highlight the importance of ensuring the sustainability of information and of encouraging the use of methods to access and preserve information that are appropriate to the cultural and technological contexts and that meet the needs of the marginalised communities.

This study examined how automation system enhanced the operations of university Libraries in Nigeria and United Kingdom (UK) during the Covid-19 pandemic. It reviewed literature on the extent of automation, effectiveness of the use of automation technology and ascertained the challenges of automation in the operations of university libraries during covid-19 lockdown in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The study found out that university libraries automation in Nigeria is more than 3decades behind the UK. Also, University libraries in the UK were able to appreciably leverage automation to provide services during the lockdown while libraries in Nigeria shut down operations. University library operations in the UK and Nigeria were faced with challenges during the covid-19 lockdown such as obsolesce in ICT infrastructure, inadequate staff access to computer and internet, poor power supply, inadequate ICT skills and expertise. The study concluded that University Libraries in the UK and Nigeria should embrace more technology if they want to be effective in their operations and be able to compete favorable in the global space.

This workshop draws from the emerging area of community archives to present principles and protocols for ethically conducting community-engaged IS research with (rather than just about) minoritized communities. Based on a white paper (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v00k2qz) collaboratively authored between community archivists and archival studies scholars, the first half of the workshop will address the current state of academic research on community archives, its impact on communities represented and served by such organizations, and ways to envision and enact more equitable relationships moving forward. The second half of the workshop will give participants a chance to comment on the proposed principles and protocols for community-engaged research, apply them to their own research projects in LIS, and brainstorm about designing more equitable community-engaged research projects in LIS moving forward.

It is a participatory and reflective workshop designed based on both theoretical and practical work on web archiving. This workshop is applying already established participatory practices to the emerging field of web archives. It not only aims to support information professionals and researchers to develop critical skills of contextualising web archives for research purposes, but also serves as a participation opportunity involving community partners in web archive development, which feeds back to the web archive community.

Organisers and participants will collaboratively co-curate a web archive collection, discuss and debate various philosophical, ethical and technical issues during key stages of collection development as a case study. The workshop will be concluded with a brainstorming session to explore the potential research questions that the collection can support to answer, and propose concepts of novel research methods and tools that can advance the use of web archives.

Curriculum development and design is informed by the voice of the discipline as an institution, the voice of the world of work for whom we train, the voice of the students including their motivation, aspirations and prior knowledge, and the voice of the academic as a researcher and an educator. These voices are influenced by the past, present and possibilities of the potential future. Reflecting on the disruptions that knowledge managers experienced over the past few years resulted in analysing the knowledge management curriculum that needs to skill and capacitate graduates as knowledge managers in a progressively demanding future towards Society 5.0. The purpose of this panel is to stimulate discussion in terms of the curriculum needed to sufficiently prepare knowledge managers to meet the growing demands of Society 5.0 by acknowledging the lessons learned from our past in order to prepare our students for their future.

Capstone programs, whether they be in the form of final projects, research or thesis, offer culminating experiences for iSchool students to demonstrate their learning in a real-world project where the students attempt to tackle a significant information problem, address a social issue, or explore a market opportunity. The session intends to bring together the iSchools community with interest and experience in Capstone programs to discuss their potential, practices and opportunities for expanded students' experiential learning, faculty engagement and industry partnerships.

About 19.3 million people are newly diagnosed with cancer each year, but only a small percentage of all diagnoses refer to young adults (18 - 39 years). Therefore, they are often not focused on within the healthcare infrastructure, although they have age-specific information, care and service needs. This results in difficulties that will be examined in this article concerning the information journey of the target group. Based on fourteen semi-structured qualitative interviews, this article describes the use of information sources during the cancer patient journeys of young adults. Furthermore, it describes problems the target group experiences. The data indicate that young adults, regardless of whether they actively seek information or rarely seek information at all, often have to rely on serendipity to obtain helpful information. Furthermore, problems regarding the reliability of information sources have been identified and information relating to non-medical needs must be sought autonomously, which results in overload and uncertainty. For the circumvention of these difficulties, improvements are needed in the provision of information for young adults. The knowledge about validated information sources would support the information journeys during their cancer patient journeys.

This paper reports early results from an ongoing study exploring the personal information management of nonbinary people in Ireland. Cushing [1, 2] and other PIM scholars have found that personal information is maintained because it represents an individual’s identity to them-selves and others. In the context of inequality, Cushing and Kerrigan [3] found that PIM can be perceived as a burden. This study furthers our PIM-B work through exploring the lived experiences of nonbinary individuals that have to maintain personal information that does not represent their identity in order to engage in society. Nonbinary people often find themselves in the position of maintaining personal information that does not represent their gender identity as a result of the traditional binarised structure of society more broadly. How does the requirement to maintain this information that is not representative of gender diversity mediate PIM? Using reflexive thematic analysis, our early analysis of 3 interviews suggests that nonbinary people in Ireland perceive both the information use and the exertion of control over distribution of personal information as a burden. This finding can be used to refine the concept of a PIM-B, while also using PIM-B as an indicator of the inequalities gender minorities face.

Research shows that music helps people regulate and process emotions to positively impact their mental health, but there is limited research on how to build music systems or services to support this. We investigated how engagement with music can help the listener support their mental health through a case study of the BTS ARMY fandom. We conducted a survey with 1,190 BTS fans asking about the impact BTS’ music has on their mental health and wellbeing. Participants reported that certain songs are appropriate for specific types of mood regulations, attributed largely to lyrics. Reflection, connection, and comfort were the top three experiences listeners shared during and after listening to BTS’ music. External factors like knowledge about the context of a song’s creation or other fans’ reactions to a song also influenced people’s feelings toward the music. Our research suggests an expanded view of music’s impact on mental health beyond a single-modal experience to a dynamic, multi-factored experience that evolves over time within the interconnected ecosystem of the fandom. We present the Dynamic Music Engagement Model which represents the complex, multifaceted, context-dependent nature of how music influences people’s mental health, followed by design suggestions for music information systems and services.

In this workshop we propose to make an introduction to game-based learning, defining what it is, how board and card games can be used for learning, what basic strategies can be considered to design and develop board and card games and how they can be applied to the domain of Library and Information Science studies. To show the audience an example of one of these games, attendees will have the chance to test a prototype card game design to explain certain concepts on knowledge organization systems.

Data storytelling is an emerging area for information organizations that can powerfully build on the rich 130+ year history of storytelling in library and information science. Researchers engaging qualitative and communications theories are invited to learn about the process of building a functional data storytelling toolkit for libraries. The presentation portion will introduce the IMLS-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians (DSTL). We will detail the concepts behind our work, including 1) theories of storytelling and data storytelling, 2) practices of qualitative research to identify key applications of data storytelling as advocacy or justification, 3) software tools to build plug-and-play data visualizations for typical data types, and 4) mixed qualitative methods to refine toolkit designs. Breakouts and discussions will explore future contexts for building data storytelling toolkits for information organizations.

Globally society strives to address cultural diversity and marginalisation. Vision and mission statements address access, equity, diversity and inclusion (AEDI). South Africa, e.g., hosts a diversity of indigenous cultures and through global migration (e.g., refugees), many other countries accommodates diverse cultures. Cultural knowledge, casted against marginalisation, including disability, is essential to fully address AEDI. Extended reality (XR), including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) can address cultural understanding, inclusion, awareness and representation, e.g. letting people experience scenarios from the perspective of others (e.g., placed in the body of someone from a different gender, race or culture). Means are needed to promote awareness and deepen understanding. This panel will share experiences in teaching and using XR and work on cultural understanding, exclusion and marginalisation and how these can be aligned. Guiding questions will stimulate discussion of future collaboration and action.

Extracting information from academic PDF documents is crucial for numerous indexing, retrieval, and analysis use cases. Choosing the best tool to extract specific content elements is difficult because many, technically diverse tools are available, but recent performance benchmarks are rare. Moreover, such benchmarks typically cover only a few content elements like header metadata or bibliographic references and use smaller datasets from specific academic disciplines. We provide a large and diverse evaluation framework that supports more extraction tasks than most related datasets. Our framework builds upon DocBank, a multi-domain dataset of 1.5M annotated content elements extracted from 500K pages of research papers on arXiv. Using the new framework, we benchmark ten freely available tools in extracting document metadata, bibliographic references, tables, and other content elements from academic PDF documents. GROBID achieves the best metadata and reference extraction results, followed by CERMINE and Science Parse. For table extraction, Adobe Extract outperforms other tools, even though the performance is much lower than for other content elements. All tools struggle to extract lists, footers, and equations. We conclude that more research on improving and combining tools is necessary to achieve satisfactory extraction quality for most content elements. Evaluation datasets and frameworks like the one we present support this line of research. We make our data and code publicly available to contribute toward this goal.

Referencing scholarly documents as information sources on Wikipedia is important because they complement and improve the quality of Wikipedia content. However, little is known about them, such as how rapidly they are added and how fresh they are. To answer these questions, we conduct a time-series analysis of adding scholarly references to the English Wikipedia as of October 2021. Consequently, we detect no tendencies in Wikipedia articles created recently to refer to more fresh references because the time lag between publishing the scholarly articles and adding references of the corresponding paper to Wikipedia articles has remained generally constant over the years. In contrast, tendencies to decrease over time in the time lag between creating Wikipedia articles and adding the first scholarly references are observed. The percentage of cases where scholarly references were added simultaneously as Wikipedia articles are created is found to have increased over the years, particularly since 2007-2008. This trend can be seen as a response to the policy changes of the Wikipedia community at that time that was adopted by various editors, rather than depending on massive activities by a small number of editors.

Access to informational research resources is critical to successful scien-tific work across disciplines. This study leverages a previously conducted survey of corresponding authors of a sample astronomy journal articles to investigate the existence and nature of a global “scientific digital divide”. Variables from the survey are operationalized, including GDP of respond-ent, whether the paper was produced through international collaboration, whether the author collected original observational data, and whether the author located data through accessing the literature. For exploratory pur-poses, Pearson’s r and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients were calcu-lated to test possible relationships between variables, and some prelimi-nary evidence is presented in support of a scientific digital divide in as-tronomy. International collaboration is more common for respondents in lower-GDP countries; collecting observational data is more common with international collaboration; paper citation is impacted for respondents who do not collaborate internationally; and respondents from lower GDP coun-tries do not discover data through the scholarly literature less frequently. The study concludes that collaborative networks may be key to mitigating information seeking challenges in astronomy. These dynamics should be investigated through further research.

This panel of iSchools educators will share their experiences and stimulate discussion with attendees on the successes and challenges in altering cohort curricular experiences, and reflect on the takeaways that allow all to strengthen our pedagogical approaches. The systematic inclusivity and other lessons learned in moving planned in-person cohort education to virtual settings at several iSchools will lead to new teaching and research considerations for an improved normalcy designed with inclusion in-mind as well as the best ways to parlay virtual and physical spaces as each have their own benefits and costs. Finally, breakout groups on any themes introduced or that may emerge will be conducted to allow for a more focused discussion on the use of virtual and physical spaces in teaching. An outcome of the panel will be a whitepaper on the various perspectives authored by all willing attendees.

n this workshop we invite participants to join in mapping the research space of the many ways that information plays a role in the production and consumption of food. These informational uses can be fragmented by disciplinary focus. Our aim is to show the advantages of the big picture approach to considering the use of information in the work of farming, food processing and distribution, food marketing, retailing, purchasing, cooking, eating in restaurants and at home, diet and personal health, tourism, cultural heritage, and many more food related contexts. As well as creating opportunities for interesting and productive multidisciplinary research collaborations, we also think that discussion of informated food can be pedagogically effective in conveying various abstractions of information science to wider audiences.

Addressing equity, diversity, inclusion, and equal information access (EDIA) are acknowledged priorities. Challenges with hearing impairment are researched at various stages of development and academic levels. The potential isolation of people with a hearing impairment from scholarly information sharing and discourse can be addressed from multiple perspectives (information ethics, information behaviour). Hearing impairment manifests on a spectrum from mild to profound. Although written publications are the dominant means of scholarly information sharing, the value of meeting participation and oral communication (e.g., conference presentations, YouTube videos) are acknowledged in addition to debates on the importance of in-presence versus virtual meetings. Assistive technologies (e.g., accessible telephones/videophones) and sign language offer solutions. The use of these in scholarly information sharing is not apparent. This panel will discuss how and with what consequences, people with hearing impairment are excluded from scholarly information sharing (excluding written communication) and how challenges can be addressed.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is currently in its Sixth Assessment cycle to assess scientific, technical, and socio-economic information concerning climate change. The information provided by the IPCC assessment reports assists the Government, private sector, academia, civil society, and other stakeholders in taking climate action. Since the iSchools has been working on different aspects of information around the world, information related to climate action has emerged as a significant area of focus within iSchools universities. Consequently, an initiative to form a Climate Action Coalition within iSchools has been taken to promote climate action-related information research. Therefore, it is crucial to discuss the research agenda the coalition can pursue in the coming months. The proposed workshop at the iConference 2023 aims to discuss developing a research agenda for iSchools on information and climate action that the Climate Action Coalition could later champion.

This study investigates what information that was spread the most on Twitter regarding #BlackLivesMatter during the Black History Month of February 2022. We distinguished political affiliation through a series of interpretations of network structure and content. In doing so, we observed different political groups offering unique curated information flows on Twitter. Using qualitative coding, our findings confirmed that opinion leaders affiliated with different political groups or movements tend to curate different kinds of messages. Our findings also show that opinion leaders on the political left discuss #BlackLivesMatter in a clear supportive way towards the movement, while the ones on the political right describe the movement in a more provocative way. Further, we observed that opinion leaders in the political right group have more dense connections than the political left group. This work contributes to the bodies of literature using the theory of curated logics, the influence of opinion leaders, viral information, and the empirical work around #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter.

The popularity of social media has made meme culture more popular than ever. As a result, memes have become a digital language that extends beyond digital culture within information societies. Unfortunately, recent studies have not examined diverse factors of meme communication in interactive contexts. This study investigates how memes are used for interactive forum-based communication as cybersecurity groups interact in cyberspace. More specifically, we examine synchronous meme communication between hackers and cyber defender groups from the 2022 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Qualification Competition. We adopt the theoretical lens of information domains to examine interactive meme communication scripts in fo-rum-based interactions. Collective identity and characteristics representing each information society tend to appear in synchronous meme communication between these two groups. This study also identifies unique information representation systems endemic to cyber security society. Moreover, this study interestingly finds that memes describing individual participants’ emotions and attitudes are actively used in synchronous communication. These memes reflect individuals’ emotions, and also describe the attitudes of the participants such as looking down at the opposite team. This phenomenon has rarely been observed in previous studies about meme communication in asynchronous situations.

In this article perspectives are offered by an instructor, author, and researcher involved in the open textbook Humans R Social Media and resulting OEC (Open Educational Collection) developed at a large southwestern university. The iVoices OEC is described as the unplanned fruit of teaching in connection with Open Educational Practices. OECs in general are discussed as logical outcomes of pedagogical theories including open pedagogy in general, and the theories of Funds of Knowledge and Universal Design for Learning as well as user privacy protection strategies in particular. Lessons learned are offered as recommendations for planning future OEPs and OECs including changes in memoranda language, budgeting for collection management assistance, and clearer partnerships with institutional repositories. This case study of an open textbook and accompanying OEC is offered to deepen understanding of open pedagogy in praxis.

Data science skills are critical for current and future generations of researchers, information professionals, policymakers and citizens. Until the development of these skills is embedded in the curricula of schools or in undergraduate coursework, there is an opportunity to teach the skills as a literacy skillset within an Information Science curriculum. The University of Pretoria’s Information Science Department has, in collaboration with partners, adopted a foundation-level curriculum developed by the CODATA-RDA Data Science School to facilitate a learning opportunity for Masters, PhD and post-Doc learners in South Africa. Participants from other emerging economies are also considered and provided they adhere to the qualifying criteria, are admitted to the data science school. After presenting this curriculum for three years, it is essential to re-evaluate the skills taught within this curriculum to ensure that the training still reflects the required multi-disciplinary knowledge and competencies that are needed by 4IR-age scholars.

This workshop brings together researchers working on disinformation, conspiracy theories and counter-establishment research to share methods, methodologies and theoretical frameworks. Despite the apparent “newness” of these issues, particularly in the wake of the 2016 election and the resurgence of mass white nationalism, many of the foundational concerns and questions involved in this research have deep intellectual lineages in the library and information science (LIS) field. Given this year’s theme which explicitly calls attention to “normality,” we intend to interrogate the normative assumptions embedded in current approaches to these areas of research and hope to highlight the complexity, relationality and historicity of conspiracism. The goal of this workshop is to foster intellectual community, share resources and address the state of research around counter-establishment research and conspiracy.

This panel focuses on an emerging theme in information research: data literacy. As the growth of big data transforms many aspects of daily life, not every citizen is ready to understand the value of the openly available data and read, work with, and utilize it. This raises the question: How can organizations and individuals innovate to address digital exclusion and enable individuals to use the resources that are available to participate in a connected information environment? This interactive panel aims to describe and discuss creative and experimental approaches to address data literacy practices in different contexts, theoretical models, and philosophical arguments. We address this from a variety of perspectives, including community college students’ data literacy needs, research data management in libraries, data literacy for Hispanic students in high schools, and inclusive data literacy curriculum design.

This workshop will explore key issues and challenges in digital inclusion research, drawing on the organizers’ experiences of researching the field during the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop will have a particular focus on engaging participants from priority groups in digital inclusion research, and on longitudinal research. The workshop will be structured around interactive group activities including a game and group brainstorming, the results of which will be written up as a discussion paper made available open access online. By engaging workshop participants in guided discussion and reflection on current topics and concerns facing digital inclusion researchers, the organizers aim to grow a community of practice within the broader iSchools organization to share knowledge and understanding of effective practice in digital inclusion research.

Misinformation is a critical problem in our society as it undermines civic discourse and leads to distrust in social institutions and people. As an attempt to help combat misinformation and increase awareness of the topic through play-based approaches, researchers at the University of Washington Information School have designed multiple escape rooms as an experiential format for building (mis)information literacy. In this workshop, we will play one of the escape rooms titled “The Euphorigen investigation.” This will be followed by a discussion on effective strategies for building resilience to misinformation, opportunities and challenges of games or other play-based approaches, and implications for the concepts and principles of information literacy.

This panel embraces the conference theme: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity to focus on researching virtual and physical phenomena in virtual environments and contexts, and featuring research with participants from underrepresented groups, including LQBTQIA+ communities. Expert researchers will address their involvement in ongoing projects, as they shifted from physical to virtual methods of data collection (and sometimes shifted back or blended approaches) and data verification during the pandemic and its longtail. Themes addressed include: research benefits and pitfalls presented by the pandemic including accessibility and inclusivity, lessons learned, and projections regarding the “next normal.” They will touch upon practical concerns posed by social distancing, ethical questions heightened in online data collection, and coping with the pandemic’s effect on current and future research. Following the panel, participants will engage in “solution room” groups to share problems encountered within virtual research situations and brainstorm to create solutions, concluding with a summary debrief.

Citizen scientists make valuable contributions to science but need to learn about the data they are working with to be able to perform more advanced tasks. We present a set of design principles for identifying the kinds of background knowledge that are important to support learning at different stages of engagement, drawn from a study of how free/libre open source software developers are guided to create and use documents. Specifically, we suggest that newcomers require help understanding the purpose, form and content of the documents they engage with, while more advanced developers add understanding of information provenance and the boundaries, relevant participants and work processes. We apply those principles in two separate but related studies. In study 1, we analyze the background knowledge presented to volunteers in the Gravity Spy citizen-science project, mapping the resources to the framework and identifying kinds of knowledge that were not initially provided. In study 2, we use the principles proactively to develop design suggestions for Gravity Spy 2.0, which will involve volunteers in analyzing more diverse sources of data. This new project extends the application of the principles by seeking to use them to support understanding of the relationships between documents, not just the documents individually. We conclude by discussing future work, including a planned evaluation of Gravity Spy 2.0 that will provide a further test of the design principles.

Memory organisations need to constantly address the adoption of digital technology to remain relevant in light of recent innovations that constitute the so-called fourth technological revolution. This study aims to expand the understanding of the current adoption of Artificial Intelligence for digital preservation tasks by investigating it through the lenses of the Diffusion of Innovations theory in relation to disruptive innovations. The analysis takes the form of an exploratory qualitative inquiry, performed on the transcripts of four focus groups presenting opinions on specific applications of Artificial Intelligence systems, mostly related to Computer Vision, expressed by professionals engaged in digital preservation. The study results indicate that there is strong interest in adopting these innovations. However, further research and the development of a dialogue among the involved communities of practice are necessary to determine the implications and potential outcomes of this technological advancement in the context of digital preservation.

A participatory geographic information system (GIS) is a process through which disadvantaged groups can access geospatial information technologies and techniques to enhance their capacity to generate, manage, analyze, and communicate different spatial information. Environmental information regarding climate change impacts, natural disasters, access to natural resources, and ecological degradation are significant for nature-dependent disadvantaged groups in developing climate-vulnerable countries, making participatory GIS relevant. These groups can also use such information to claim environmental justice at local, national, and global levels since their marginalization is due to unequal exploitation of ecological resources by more powerful groups. The fisherfolk community in Bangladesh is a nature-dependent disadvantaged, unorganized working group where participatory GIS could be relevant to build an environmental information ecosystem for them to claim environmental justice. However, since fisherfolks lack participation in the policymaking process due to a lack of information, motivation, organization, and digital inclusion impacted by their socio-economic status, participatory GIS may not work without understanding the enabling socio-economic factors. Therefore, this short research paper aims to set a research agenda for participatory action research by exploring the potential of a participatory geographic information system since academic literature has not adequately focused on this issue.

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.

Privacy is a complicated and extensively discussed topic in human-computer interaction (HCI) research and practice. Helen Nissenbaum’s con-textual integrity (CI) theory, which examines privacy by the integrity of en-trenched information collection and flows in a particular context, has been a popular theoretical lens to consider privacy in HCI. Many HCI scholars have also advocated for and applied the CI theory to investigate privacy is-sues in various contexts. However, this article critiques using the CI theory when its original positions and limitations about context, norms, and phys-ical privacy are somewhat dismissed in HCI research. Finally, this article proposes that privacy contains specific universal and fundamental values that are not necessarily context-dependent.

What makes a technology privacy-enhancing? In this study, we construct an explanation grounded in the technologies and practices that people report using to enhance their privacy. We conducted an online survey of privacy experts (i.e., privacy researchers and professionals who attend to privacy conferences and communication channels) and laypersons that catalogs the technologies they identify as privacy enhancing and the various privacy strategies they employ. The analysis of 123 survey responses compares not only self-reported tool use but also differences in how privacy experts and laypersons explain their privacy practices and tools use. Differences between the two samples show that privacy experts and laypersons have different styles of reasoning when considering PETs: Experts think of PETs as technologies whose primary function is enhancing privacy, whereas laypersons conceptualize privacy enhancement as a supplemental function incorporated into other technologies. The paper concludes with a discussion about potential explanations for these differences, as well as questions they raise about how technologies can best facilitate communication and collaboration while enhancing privacy.

Cross-session search (XSS) describes situations in which users search for information related to the same task across multiple sessions. While there has been research on XSS, little attention has been paid to users’ motivations for searching multiple sessions in real-life contexts. We conducted a diary study to investigate the reasons that lead people to search across multiple sessions for their own tasks. We applied Lin and Belkin’s [24] MISE theoretical model as a coding framework to analyze users’ open-ended responses about their XSS reasons. We open-coded reasons that the MISE model did not cover. Our findings identified a subset of session resuming reasons in the MISE model (i.e., spawning, transmuting, unanswered-incomplete, cultivated-updated, and anticipated) as the main reasons that caused people to start a search session in our participants’ real-world searches. We also found six additional session resuming reasons rarely discussed in the context of XSS: exploring more topic aspects, finding inspiration and examples, reviewing the information found earlier, monitoring task progress, completing a search following a scheduled plan, and feeling in the mood/having the energy to search. Our results contextualize and enrich the MISE session resuming reasons by examining them in real-world examples. Our results also illustrate that users’ XSS motivations are multifaceted. These findings have implications for developing assisting tools to support XSS and help design different types of search sessions to study XSS behavior.

Provenance is the story of objects: how they have come to be, what they could have been, what they will be. This paper explores the temporal complexity of provenance and suggests the need for the concept of subjunctive provenance. Using the example of building an IKEA LACK table, the authors explore the established concepts of retrospective and prospective provenance to highlight gaps and the potential for subjunctive provenance.

Metadata education is evolving in the Arabian Gulf region. To ensure the effective instruction and skill-building, empirical data is needed on the outcomes of these early metadata instruction efforts. This paper is the first one to address this need and provide such data from one of the countries in the region. It reports results of the examination of metadata records for Arabic-language eBooks. The records were created by novice metadata creators as part of the undergraduate coursework at a Kuwaiti university in one of the classroom assignments over three semesters. Analysis focused on two important criteria of metadata quality: accuracy and completeness. The results are presented in-context, after introducing the metadata teaching practices at this undergraduate program, and the major Dublin Core skill-building assignment. Discussion of results is followed by discussion of future research.

This exploratory study is the first one that examined student-created metadata for physical non-text resources. We applied in-depth qualitative and quantitative content analysis to the Dublin Core (DCTERMS) metadata created by the graduate students in two sections of an introductory digital library metadata course. The analysis of bibliographic records that represent paintings identified record fields in which novice metadata creators tend to make mistakes. Examples of the most common kinds of metadata errors for each quality criterion (accuracy, complete-ness, and consistency) are discussed and compared with results of previous relevant research. Finding of comparative analysis for the asynchronous course section and the section with synchronous class meetings are also presented. Implications are discussed, along with future directions for research.