Browsing by Author "Storie, Dale"

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A study of drag‐and‐drop query refinement and query history visualization for mobile exploratory search
(Wiley, 2024-12-30) Payandeh, Mohammad Hasan; Hoeber, Orland; Boon, Miriam; Storie, Dale; Ramshaw, Veronica
When undertaking complex search scenarios, the underlying information need cannot be satisfied by finding a single optimal resource; instead, searchers need to engage in exploratory search processes to find multiple resources by itera- tively revising and reformulation their queries. This process of query refinement is particularly challenging when using a mobile device, where typing is difficult. Furthermore, in mobile search contexts interruptions can lead to searchers los- ing track of what they were doing. To address these challenges, we designed a public digital library search interface for mobile devices that includes two novel features: drag-and-drop query refinement and query history visualization. To assess the value of this interface compared to a typical baseline, we conducted a controlled laboratory study with 32 participants that included pursuing complex search scenarios, being interrupted in the midst of the search, and resuming the search after the interruption. While participants took more time, they generated longer queries and reported positive subjective opinions about the usability of the exploratory search and task resumption features, along with a greater increase in certainty. These findings show the value of leveraging new touch- based interaction mechanisms within mobile search contexts, and the benefits that visualization can bring to supporting search task resumption
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Community-Driven Digital Preservation with COPPUL
(2019-05-03) Storie, Dale; Vajcner, Mark; Holobetz, James
In 2015, COPPUL decided to strategically focus on supporting digital preservation, by hiring a Digital Preservation Coordinator and establishing what is now known as the COPPUL Digital Stewardship Network (CDSN). The CDSN, which is overseen by a steering committee, is intended to help COPPUL member institutions preserve, manage, and provide access to unique digital collections through offering a suite of preservation services built on open and flexible technologies, building capacity among COPPUL members, and working together with other digital preservation groups across Canada and the world.
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Doing What Real Doctors Do: Engaging Medical Students in Information Literacy by Simulating Continuing Medical Education
(University of Regina Library, 2015-06-02) Storie, Dale; Campbell, Sandy; Johnson, Brettany; Hayward, Robert
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Graduate Student Search Strategies within Academic Digital Libraries
(International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2023) Hoeber, Orland; Storie, Dale
Purpose: When searching within an academic digital library, a variety of information seeking strategies may be employed. The purpose of this study is to determine whether graduate students choose appropriate information seeking strategies for the complexity of a given search scenario, and to explore among other factors that could influence their decisions. Methods: We used a survey method in which participants (n=176) were asked to recall their most recent instance of an academic digital library search session that matched two given scenarios (randomly chosen from four alternatives), and for each scenario identify whether they employed search strategies associated with four different information seeking models. Results: Among the search strategies, only lookup search was used in a manner that was consistent with the complexity of the search scenario. Other factors that influenced the choice of strategy were the discipline of study and the type of academic search training received. Patterns of search tool use with respect to the complexity of the search scenarios were also identified. Conclusion: These findings highlight that not only is it important to train graduate students on how to conduct academic digital library searches, more work is needed to train them on matching the information seeking strategies to the complexity of their search tasks and developing interfaces that guide their search process.}
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Implementing Elastic App Search for Digital Collections
(2021-10-22) Ramshaw, Veronica; Parvin Nishath, Sanjida; Storie, Dale
This presentation will describe our recent experimentation using the cloud-based version of Elastic App Search to accomplish two goals: 1) to build a simple search layer connecting our digital collection platforms and 2) to provide a more robust search option for our static sites (including full-text document search).
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Making Meaning of our Cultural Record: Digital Scholarship Now and in the Future
(2019-11-27) Storie, Dale
Research and scholarship is changing. Information once confined to archives and libraries is now broadly available for computational analysis, while advances in information technology are transforming the ways in which knowledge is created and communicated. What skills and tools are needed to preserve, analyze, interpret and make meaning out of a cultural record that is largely digital?
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Open Citations
(2019-04-26) Winter, Christina; Storie, Dale
Citations are the links that knit together our scientific and cultural knowledge. They are primary data that provide both provenance and an explanation for how we know facts. They allow us to attribute and credit scientific contributions, and they enable the evaluation of research and its impacts. In sum, citations are the most important vehicle for the discovery, dissemination, and evaluation of all scholarly knowledge.
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Unpaywall
(2019-04-26) Storie, Dale
This presentation gives an overview of Unpaywall, an open database of open access publications