Referate des Schweizerischen Instituts für Informationswissenschaft - FH Graubünden

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: 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: 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: There is a wide ranch of research data available in Germany. Within the last decade a great number of new Research Data Centre (RDC) originated, offering a variety of different information for scientific research. Currently 25 RDCs are accredited under the umbrella of the German Data Council (RatSWD). Having does data available is a good thing for researchers; at the same time finding the best data for a given project is not easy at all. Currently they have to look at data documentations in different formats and spread over 25 homepages. Researchers need a single point of access and a structured way to search the available data. Information about datasets, research potential of variables and about how to access data are important in that regard. A reliable and machine-readable standard used by all RDCs would enable the use of software tools that allow researchers to effectively discover the richness of research data available in Germany. The case Germany is only an example for the need for a standard like DDI and it shows that goal of having an effective way to explore the landscape for research data is not yet reached. DDI still must be used by more data providers.

Abstract: Developing software to support the DDI-L standard provides a challenge to agencies. The DDI-L standard is in most cases much too vast for most individual tool requirements. DDI-L 3.1 contains more than 900 main nodes in its schema while a survey software most likely only needs 50-60 of them. The idea is therefore to use DDI Profiles to specify a sub-set of requirements for the individual purpose. A software solution for surveys could therefore use two different DDI Profiles to express its compatibility to other similar software, e.g. the profiles "Survey Design" and "Data Collection". For other parts of the lifecycle which are relevant to other agencies similar DDI Profiles can be specified (e.g. "Administrative Data", "Processed Data" and "Transaction Data"). During the design of software tools like Rogatus (DIPF, TBA21, OPIT and IAB) and DDI on Rails (SOEP) these issues encountered as the software is supposed to be compatible with other tools like Colectica and Questasy. Therefore the process to create DDI Profiles for this harmonization has begun. Furthermore discussions with ABS to support their GSIM-based DDI Profiles are on the way as well.

Abstract: The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) prepares and gives access to research data. Beside survey data the IAB provides data deriving from the administrative processes of the BA. This data is very complex and not easy to understand and use. Good data documentation is crucial for the users. DDI provides a data documentation standard that makes documentation and data sharing easier. The latter is especially important for providers of administrative data because more and more other data types are merged with administrative data. Nevertheless there are also some drawbacks when using the DDI standard. Data collection for administrative data differs from data collection for survey data but DDI was established for survey data. At the same time the description of complex administrative data should be simple as possible. IAB and TBA21 are currently carrying out a project to build a Metadata Management System for IAB. The presentation will highlight the documentation needs for administrative data and show how they are covered in the Management System. In addition the need for DDI profiles, comprehensive software tools and future proofed data documentation for multiple data sources will be depicted.

Abstract: Armut, beziehungsweise die Soziale Schicht, gilt als ein Hauptkriterium des Digital Divide. Sowohl die Frage, wer (materiell) Zugang zu welchen elektronischen Geräte hat als auch die mit der Sozialen Schichtung verbundenen Bildungskarrieren und -möglichkeiten scheinen einen wichtigen Beitrag dazu zu leisten, wie Menschen die Möglichkeiten der Digitalen Medien und Kommunikationswege tatsächlich nutzen. Nicht nur Bibliotheken selber, sondern auch die Öffentlichkeit und vor allem die Politik sehen in der Ausstattung von Öffentlichen Bibliotheken mit Computerarbeitsplätzen, WLAN-Zugängen, Kursen und der Gestaltung der Einrichtungen als "Safe-Haven" eine Möglichkeit, diesem Umstand abzuhelfen. Mit einer solchen Ausstattung sollten Bibliotheken – so die verbreitete Vorstellung – Personen, die bislang die Bibliothek nicht nutzen, weil sie darin keinen Sinn sehen, ansprechen und zur Nutzung von digitalen (und darüber hinaus auch anderen) Medien ermächtigen. Der Vortrag soll diese Vorstellung problematisieren. (a) Dargestellt wird, wie Armut tatsächlich auf den Digital Divide wirkt, (b) welche Möglichkeiten tatsächlich bestehen, dem Digital Divide entgegenzuwirken und (c) ob Bibliotheken mit ihren Angeboten wirklich die positiven Beiträge leisten können, die ihnen zugeschrieben werden. Abschliessend soll (d) gefragt werden, ob Bibliotheken ihre Tätigkeiten auf dem Gebiet des Digital Divide wirksamer gestalten müssen und können.

Abstract: Das Staatsarchiv Wallis und Docuteam haben gemeinsam das Matterhorn METS-Profil erarbeitet und bei der Library of Congress registriert. Über diesen ersten Meilenstein und über die Herangehensweise des StAVS an die digitale Archivierung berichteten sie im Rahmen des KOST.Forums no4 am 18.04.2013 in Bern.

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: Geo-tagging is the process of annotating a document with its geographic focus by extracting a unique locality that describes the geographic context of the document as a whole. Accurate geographic annotations are crucial for geospatial applications such as Google Maps or the IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change, but many obstacles complicate the evaluation of such tags. This paper introduces an approach for optimizing geo-tagging by applying the concept of utility from economic theory to tagging results. Computing utility scores for geo-tags allows a fine grained evaluation of the tagger's performance in regard to multiple dimensions specified in use case specific domain ontologies and provides means for addressing problems such as different scope and coverage of evaluation corpora. The integration of external data sources and evaluation ontologies with user profiles ensures that the framework considers use case specific requirements. The presented model is instrumental in comparing different geo-tagging settings, evaluating the effect of design decisions, and customizing geo-tagging to a particular use cases.