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Usability of University Research in the Internet Age
Creation of new knowledge by universities is typically assessed in terms of publications and citations in scholarly venues, and the same measures are used to assess capacity for future contributions. As the production and dissemination of knowledge becomes increasingly mediated by the Internet, the Internet presence of researchers is becoming a more valid and relevant measure of knowledge capacity than the conventionally used publication and citation data. This article proposes a methodology that includes the use of the scholar.google.com search engine to supplement the conventional indices for knowledge capacity in a policy-relevant field of knowledge. The methodology addresses presence as well as validation. The proposed approach is explicated through a study of Information and Communication Technology infrastructure reform relevant knowledge capacity in East, South East and South Asia. University research is viewed within the context of the larger body of knowledge available to users over the Internet and a greater usability of university research through a higher Internet presence is stressed.
From Capacity to Presence: Enhancing the Usability of University Research in the Internet Age (PDF format, 112Kb)
Digital archive for Communication Policy Research (CPR)
LIRNEasia is looking to work with local programmers, web developers, etc to customize DSpace, a FOSS dynamic digital repository system, based on Java technology, which captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material, for the CPRsouth website.
The proposed website will work as a platform for scholars and practitioners in communication policy research (CPR) in the southern hemisphere to self archive their publications and access the works of others. The site will provide an interface for any user to search for authors and their publications, download full texts of these articles if available, and archive their own work, using a customized DSpace template.
Specifications for the CPRsouth website include:
Homepage will be a News and Events page (in a blog format). People (Authors) – sorting by name, institution, key words and country. Will drill down to CVs/profiles where available. List of authors with CVs for some will be submitted with the work order. Publications – sorting by year, author, institution, category (keywords), and country. Full list with full-texts for some will be submitted along with the work order. Online registration facilities for visitors and approval facilities for administrator. Only registered users will be able to post their own publications; however, anybody will be ..read more
Still blogging, after all these years
LIRNEasia.net started in September 2004, long, long ago in Internet time. We still do close to one blog a day on average and we are still fortunate to have readers who spend an average of 2 minutes per visit (that means a significant number who spend much longer with us), and occasionally leave a comment or two. So we’re happy to be in the 5 per cent left standing, according to Technorati and the New York Times:
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.