Eliane Blumer

Information Literacy Competences of LIS-Students in Switzerland – A Case Study

This paper analyzes the information literacy competences of Swiss Library and Information Science students, in the context of the international Information Literacy Survey, supervised by the Department of Information Science at Hacettepe University of Ankara. The study has been conducted by the Department of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Geneva in collaboration with the Information Science Department at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur. For this study, a very small convenience sampling method has been used. Therefore, the findings are not representative for the basic population of all LIS bachelor students in Switzerland, but refer only to the respondents.

RODIN – An E-Science Tool for Managing Information in the Web of Documents and the Web of Knowledge

RODIN is a tool for user-defined federated search and the simultaneous exploration of the web of documents and the Semantic Web. The system combines a widget aggregation approach for general web resources with an ontology matching approach for Linked Open Data. The project is part of the E-lib.ch-project (www.e-lib.ch), the Swiss initiative for building a single-point-of-access digital library for Switzerland. Within this context, RODIN was basically designed as an innovative and alternative information portal approach for digital libraries that neither depends on indexing as do common search engines nor relies on harvesting approaches as many library information systems do.

Train The Trainer Workshop: How Do I Create A Course In Research Data Management?

Presentations and excercises of a train-the-trainer Workshop on how to create a course in research data management, given at the International Digital Curation Conference 2018 in Barcelona.

International, Collaborative and Online Education of LIS-students – A Step to the Future?

In this paper, we will analyze and discuss the quality of a project course with an international, collaborative and online format, whose content touches all Swiss information literacy standards. The analysis on a micro-level shall illuminate if the course setup can be declared as a more comprehensive teaching method for LIS students, than the simple teacher- or classroom- centered education.

Linking search results, bibliographical ontologies and Linked Open Data resources

This paper describes a lightweight approach to build an environment for scientific research that connects user-selected information resources with domain specific ontologies and the linked open data cloud. Search results are converted into RDF triples to match with ontology subjects in order to derive relevant subjects and to find related documents in external repositories data that are stored in the Linked Open Data Cloud. With the help of this deterministic algorithm for analyzing and ranking search subjects, the explicit searching process, as effectuated by the user, is implicitly supported by the LOD- technology.

Digitale Bibliotheksangebote und ihre Evaluation. Ein Erfahrungsbericht

Der Artikel gibt ein breit gefasstes Fazit über die Evaluation digitaler Bibliotheksangebote, die im Rahmen des Verbundprojekts e-lib.ch in der Schweiz durchgeführt wurden. Er schildert die dabei verwendeten Methoden und ihre Besonderheit im bibliothekarischen Kontext und greift zurück auf verallgemeinbare Ergebnisse, die während eines Zeitraums von mehr als drei Jahren bei der Ermittlung der Gebrauchstauglichkeit und des Nutzungswert unterschiedlichster digitaler Angebote (u.a. Metakataloge, Informationsportale, Manuskriptdatenbanken und digitalisierte Rara-Bestände) gewonnen wurden. Von besonderem Interesse soll dabei auch sein, wie sich Bibliotheken zukünftig in ihrem Alltag sowie mit ähnlich ausgerichteten Projekten zu positionieren haben, um bereits in der Projektplanung den Anforderungen eines benutzerorientierten Gestaltungsprozesses ihrer digitalen Angebote gerecht zu werden. Darüber hinaus spielen auch Überlegungen zum Do-it-yourself vs. einer externen Beauftragung von Evaluationen eine Rolle.