Presentations of the Swiss Institute for Information Science - University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons

Abstract: In Switzerland, the main responsibility for education and culture lies with the 26 cantons. In 2006 it was decided that some cornerstones of the Swiss education system has to be harmonized nationally. The Swiss national objectives in education are some of these cornerstones. They describe which competencies students in all cantons should have obtained after 2, 4 and 9 years of school. In 2016 first surveys about the national objectives in education were conducted. More are planned for 2017. For the management of these surveys software tools will be developed which support documentation with DDI for the questionnaires. Further metadata standards are currently in discussion to be used because no current standard alone seems to meet all demands. In our presentation we wouldl ike to present where DDI can be supportive in the area of educational assessments and where gaps within DDI has to be filled for this special field.

Abstract: Currently two large educational assessment programs exist in Switzerland which are institutionalized by the cantons: PISA, the well-known Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an OECD initiative that involves a large number of nations and the Swiss National Core Skills Assessment Program (in German: ÜGK – Überprüfug der Grundkompetenzen). Following completion of the PISA 2015, the core skills assessment program was initiated to focus on the assessment based on Swiss measurement instruments to get more results with national relevance.Both programs are computer based assessments since 2016 but the IT systems for both programs are not yet optimized for supporting the fieldwork in an adequate manner. Therefore a software tool will be developed to support on the one hand the administration and the field monitoring during the data collection. On the other hand the idea is to optimize the data documentation process. In this presentation we would like to show which processes should be modeled and where documentation und metadata could be generated as a byproduct without additional effort. This includes in particular also paradata which provide interesting opportunities for analysis.

Abstract: Rogatusis an open source questionnaire and metadata solution basing on the DDI 3.2 and SDMX standard and using the Generic Longitudinal Business Process Model (GLBPM) to specify its tool chain. Currently the project is supported by DIPF, TBA21, OPIT, IAB and GESIS and creates more and more interest especially with NSIs and data collection agencies. This presentation gives an update on new developments since NADDI 2013 including the data management portal, coding support for ISCED, improvements on the case management system, compatibility to other platforms like Colectica or MMIC plus an outlook on the mobile sampling client.

Abstract: During the last years several different tools for DDI Lifecycle have been published. Nevertheless none of the current tools is able to cover the full lifecycle from beginning to end. This presentation wants to show how a survey process from creating a study from the scratch, designing the instruments, performing the data collection, handling the administrative processes, curating the data, disseminating the data, publication and at last data archiving for secondary usage could be handled with individual tools. Next to well - known programs like Colectica or Questasy this presentation will also introduce a first outlook into Rogatus QMMS - an open source toolset currently in development at DIPF with support of GESIS, TBA21 and OPIT. Rogatus consists of different DDI compliant applications (e.g. Questionnaire Builder, Translation Builder, Metadata Builder, Rogatus Portal) to support a multitude of survey processes.

Abstract: In the last decade, discussion of Information Literacy (IL) found its way into Switzerland, as well. The increased interest in this subject resulted in projects for developing standards and concepts, as for example, the Swiss Information Literacy Standards. Although studies are conducted in this field, little research has been done about information literacy among Library and Information Science (LIS) students. In order to obtain more insights into the Swiss situation and in the context of the International Information Literacy Survey of LIS students, developed by the Information Science Department of Hacettepe University in Ankara, the School of Business Administration in Geneva has conducted a survey in both Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences which offer undergraduate programs in Information Science, namely the University of Applied Sciences in Technique and Economy in Chur, and the above mentioned school in Geneva. In this context, an adapted online questionnaire, based on the general questionnaire of the international IL-survey, which had been created with the Open Source Software LimeSurvey, has been sent to 290 Bachelor students. Adaptations have been made in regard to the evaluation scale, the organization of the Bachelor curriculum as well as the survey language. As one university is situated in the German-speaking part and the other in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the questionnaire has been translated into French and German. All participants have been contacted by mail and the survey was accessible during a time period of three months. The response rate is of 17%. At this time, the present paper, starting with a state of the art description of the information literacy standards, concepts and frameworks within Switzerland, and putting a special interest on Universities of Applied Studies that offer an Information Science curriculum, aims to give a statistical result review of the Swiss Information Literacy Survey. The findings presentation concentrates first on the question of whether or not a statistical significant change is visible between the different semesters of the Bachelor curriculum, and tries, if Yes, to give possible explanations for them. In a further step, an analysis is done in regard to the participants' ‘abilities in six areas, based on the Swiss IL-standards – information need, information retrieval, information assessment, information organization, information application, and responsibility within information society – as well as in regard to the Information Literacy Competence Grid that has been established in Switzerland. This grid aims to define a person’s position in Information Literacy - Beginner, Advanced or Expert - and the learning outcomes that come along with every level. In doing so, the authors suppose that at the end of a Bachelor program, a student should have the Beginner’s status. In this way, the Swiss LIS-students' level in Information Literacy are deduced and differing topics are identified which will deliver starting-points for improvement. Finally, the conclusion gives room for recommendations within IL-education in the Swiss context in alignment with the six abovementioned areas.

Abstract: Long-term personal information management (PIM) scenarios entail unique challenges not only for those practicing PIM but also for those attempting to study it; overcoming these challenges will require very good data collection tools. In this position paper we note some important traits that such tools should have, thereby producing a kind of wishlist, and comment on the strengths and limitations of existing PIM methods that result from the absence of such tools. In accordance with my current research, most examples are drawn from studies of users’ file management behaviour. We then briefly outline the tool we have built to treat several of these limitations.

Abstract: Dans le cadre de son travail quotidien, l’archiviste se pose sans doute très régulièrement la question de savoir si les standards de description du Conseil international des archives sont encore adaptés à sa réalité professionnelle, alors que les outils de gestion de l’information permettrait, par exemple, de rendre la description archivistique beaucoup plus précise et d’améliorer ainsi de manière significative la contextualisation des dossiers et documents décrits. Le Conseil international des archives est du reste conscient de cette nécessité, puisqu’il élabore actuellement un nouveau modèle de données (Records in Context). Parallèlement, les technologies de l’information et de la communication ont poursuivi leurs développements en direction notamment du Linked Open Data. Cette technologie permet non seulement de mieux relier des ressources entre elles, mais surtout de les relier à des ensembles plus vastes, améliorant ainsi de manière significative la description de ces ressources. Le “Matterhorn RDF Data Model” entend répondre à ce double défi en proposant une meilleure contextualisation des archives à l’aide des technologies sémantiques. Dans le cadre de nos réflexions, nous avons ainsi développé un nouveau modèle de données qui se base sur des ontologies déjà existantes (DC Terms, RDA ou Premis), qui connaissent un très haut niveau de diffusion, une base d’utilisateurs importante et des processus de maintenance bien établis. En cela, notre approche se distingue de celle de l’EGAD, qui propose une nouvelle ontologie dans le cadre du “Records in Context”. Nous présenterons deux exemples de dossiers d’archives décrits en Matterhorn RDF Data Model: des dossiers d’archives électroniques tirés du processus décisionnel du Conseil d’Etat du Canton du Valais et des dossiers d’archives papier tirés d’archives d’entreprises suisses. Nous pourrons ainsi montrer des convergences innovantes et concrètes entre description archivistique et Linked Open Data et apporter une contribution à une meilleure communication des fonds d’archives en direction de nos publics.

Abstract: Das Ziel dieses Projektes ist es, den Einsatz von «Extended Reality» mittels VR-Headsets innerhalb von Lehrveranstaltungen zu erproben. Hierbei werden zwei Lehr- und Lernszenarien realisiert: Szenario 1: Projektbezogene Gruppenarbeit und Präsentation innerhalb eines virtuellen 3D-Raums Szenario 2: Kollaborative Erstellung eines neuen thematischen 3D-Raums

Abstract: Makerspaces sind ein vieldiskutiertes mögliches Betätigungsfeld für Bibliotheken in der Zukunft. An der HTW Chur wurde ein LibraryLab eingerichtet, in dem sich Studierende mit dem Konzept Makerspace und mit verschiedenen Technologien vertraut machen können. Im Workshop werden dieses LibraryLab sowie die Ergebnisse eines Projektkurses mit Studierenden präsentiert und veranschaulicht. Gleichzeitig werden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen für Bibliotheken und Bibliotheksmitarbeitende im Kontext Makerspaces diskutiert.

Abstract: Schon heute bieten die E-Books-Formate EPUB2 und EPUB3 neue Funktionen, wie z.B. die Integration multimedialer oder interaktiver Elemente. Apple verfolgt mit seinen iBooks einen eigenen Weg, der sich nicht an die offenen Standards hält. Welche Möglichkeiten haben Autorinnen und Autoren oder allenfalls auch Bibliotheken, um hochwertige E-Books zu produzieren? Wie unterscheidet sich das prinzipiell Mögliche von dem aktuellen Angebot der Verlage? Wie könnte ein multimediales, interaktives E-Book aussehen, das nach offenen Standards im Eigenverlag produziert wird? Die Referenten berichten auf der Grundlage eines an der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Chur durchgeführten Projekts und Projektkurses zum Thema E-Books. Bruno Wenk ist als Professor für Multimedia-Kommunikationssysteme für die technischen Aspekte, Rudolf Mumenthaler als Professsor für Bibliothekswissenschaft für die Fragen der Nutzung von E-Books zuständig.

Abstract: Due to recent advances in supercomputing, more and more scientific questions - especially from the so-called emerging sciences such as medicine, sociology, biology, virology, chemistry, climate or geo-sciences - can be answered today using high-performance computing (HPC). Such questions could cover the structural analysis of buildings and constructions in a global context (e.g. earth quakes), the prediction of floods and flooding damages due to heavy rainfall, the thread of tsunamis on coastal regions, the risk analysis of pollutant diffusion in populated regions, the simulation of evacuation scenarios on the facility, urban quarter, and city scale, or the optimisation of traffic flow within entire cities during rush hour; just to name a few. On the other side, “high-performance computing must now assume a broader meaning, encompassing not only flops, but also the ability, for example, to efficiently manipulate vast and rapidly increasing quantities of both numerical and non-numerical data” (Kalil, Miller: Advancing U.S. Leadership in High-Performance Computing. The White House, 2015.). In this minisymposium, different aspects of multi-scale, multi-level, multi-physics applications from science and engineering should be addressed, dealing with topics “but not limited to” such as parallelisation strategies, advanced numerical algorithms, coupling interfaces, data orchestration, interaction concepts, (big) data exploration, or visual data analytics.