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The Status of the Organization of Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Institutions in Arabian Gulf Countries

Description: No published studies to date examined the practices in creation or adoption of metadata in cultural heritage institutions or evaluated metadata in bibliographic databases in the Arabian Gulf counties and assessed its potential interoperability in the aggregation that would provide a central point of access to bibliographic databases of cultural heritage institutions. This exploratory study aimed to address this gap with the goal of: (1) developing understanding of the current state of informat… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh H
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Understanding the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) of Data Professionals in United States Academic Libraries

Description: This study applies the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) framework for eScience professionals to data service positions in academic libraries. Understanding the KSAs needed to provide data services is of crucial concern. The current study looks at KSAs of data professionals working in the United States academic libraries. An exploratory sequential mixed method design was adopted to discover the KSAs. The study was divided into two phases, a qualitative content analysis of 260 job advertise… more
Date: December 2021
Creator: Khan, Hammad Rauf
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Take the Trouble to Compile a Whole New World: The Role of Event-Based Participatory Projects in Institutional Archives

Description: Event-based mediated participatory archives, in which communities of ordinary people contribute their records to archives during collection day events represent a paradigm shift within the archival field. Applying a qualitative approach, this study investigates event-based mediated participatory archives using Bastian's communities of records and memory as a guiding framework. Using the Mass. Memories Road Show as a case study, data collection and analysis took place over three phases. In Phase… more
Date: December 2021
Creator: Roeschley, Ana Knezevic
Partner: UNT Libraries

Understanding the Diffusion of COVID-19-Related Information on Social Media

Description: Very few studies have examined information sentiment and explored other factors that contribute to health information dissemination and sharing. In particular, there is a lack of studies that performed these combined analyses in the modern social network environment during the disease outbreaks, such as with zika, ebola, SARS, or COVID-19. This study aimed to fill the gap in the literature by investigating what drives social media users to widely disseminate health-related information during a … more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Alasmari, Hanan Mohammed
Partner: UNT Libraries

Factors that Affect HIPAA Compliance: A Bibliometrics Study

Description: According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), patients and providers do not understand the Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Non-compliance with HIPAA is primarily due to confusion, along with insufficient understanding. HSS has taken measures to simplify the language they use to communicate HIPAA, however, they have not taken steps that consider if one's culture, religious and social perspectives, institutional training, credentials, and comprehe… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Drayden, Craig M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Artificial Intelligence Teammates in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment from the Perspective of Women Engineers in the United States

Description: The purpose of this study was to collect design requirements from women engineers on artificial intelligence teammates such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Trello. A mixed methods research design was used for this study with an online survey and semi-structure interviews. The study results revealed design requirements from women engineers including solutions to sociotechnical issues that could arise from artificial intelligence teammates in the workplace. The results showed various ways women en… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Floyd, Schenita A
Partner: UNT Libraries
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At the Junction of Dissemination and Implementation: Facilitating Access to Behavior Analytic Research

Description: Research in scholarly communication is usually limited to the use and dissemination of scientific material by scholars. This excludes the transfer of knowledge from research producers to service providers. Some may argue the primary function of science is to investigate the conditions in the lab so everyday interactions with the environment are more effective and efficient. This is the underlying philosophy of the science of behavior analysis. Comprised of a basic science, an applied science an… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Bank, Nicole L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Information Theoretic Analysis of Multimodal Readability

Description: Educators often inquire about the readability of books and other documents used in the classroom, with the idea that readability supports students' reading comprehension and growth. Documents used in classrooms tend to be language-based, so readability metrics have long focused on the complexity of language. However, such metrics are unsuitable for multimodal documents because these types of documents also use non-language modes of communication. This is problematic because multimodal reading i… more
Date: December 2021
Creator: Hovious, Amanda S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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PubMed Commons: What Happened on the Way to the Forum? Retrospective Explanatory Case Study Research and Lessons Learned from the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Online Forum for Open Science

Description: The U.S. National Library of Medicine brought the intensifying interest in open science to national attention when it joined enthusiastic scientists to introduce and host an Amazon-like rating forum on PubMed—the world's largest database of indexed biomedical and life sciences literature. The result was PubMed Commons. In June 2013, the commenting forum was introduced for open discussion about published scientific literature as part of a three-pronged approach to improve research rigor, reprodu… more
Date: December 2021
Creator: Farabough, Michelle Claire
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Modeling Email Phishing Attacks

Description: Cheating, beguiling, and misleading information exist all around us; understanding deception and its consequences is crucial in our information environment. This study investigates deception in phishing emails that successfully bypassed Microsoft 365 filtering system. We devised a model that explains why some people are deceived and how targeted individuals and organizations can prevent or counter attacks. The theoretical framework used in this study is Anderson's functional ontology constructi… more
Date: December 2021
Creator: Almoqbil, Abdullah
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Scope and Value of Healthcare Data Science Applications

Description: Health disparities are a recognized public health concern and the need to address these disparities remains worthy of bringing new methods that assist in closing the gap. This research examined the effectiveness of data science to highlight health disparities, and to convey the value of data science applications in related health care applications. The goal of this research was accomplished by undertaking a multi-phased and multi-method approach, best represented in three individual essays. In … more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Huerta, Jose Oscar
Partner: UNT Libraries

A Quantitative Approach to Understand Cyberbullying

Description: After more than two decades, bullying and cyberbullying is still negatively impacting the lives of many of our youth and their families. The prevalence of the phenomenon is widespread and part of the everyday life activities. The impact of cyber aggression and violation can have severe consequences, up to the destruction of lives. While cyberbullying prevention programs exist, not much progress seems to have been made in the effort to combat the phenomenon. This research provides new insights i… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Stegmair, Juergen Georg
Partner: UNT Libraries

Sustaining Multilinguality: Case Studies of Two Multilingual Digital Libraries

Description: Digital libraries have become valuable learning resources for information users. However, language barriers have greatly limited information access for many digital libraries, as users do not understand those languages. This study explored technical and operational challenges digital libraries faced in sustaining multilinguality. Using the multiple-case method, the study investigated two digital libraries that have sustained multilinguality for over a decade: the World Digital Library and the D… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Wu, Anping
Partner: UNT Libraries
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