Searching the Museum Studies Journal Literature

Abstract This article surveys the coverage of major museological journals in three standard databases. It evaluates the quality and timeliness of the indexing in those databases. It concludes that bibliographic control of the journal literature in museum studies is inadequate and argues that this is a hindrance to the development of the profession.     

Carrying Forward the Uses and Grats 2.0 Agenda: An Affordance-Driven Measure of Social Media Uses and Gratifications

The notion of social media affordances has not been fully integrated into the uses and gratifications literature. Building on the MAIN (modality, agency, interactivity, and navigability) model, this study develops and tests a social media uses and gratifications scale with a sample of 393 college students. Results of the study support the MAIN model, as conceptualizing social media uses and gratifications as a second-order factor structure with 4 different types of affordances displays similar goodness-of-fit to a single-order factor structure. A confirmatory factor analysis with a second sample of 313 adults further confirms the applicability of the scale among the general population.     

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Information Needs and Uses Literature

This investigation used content analysis to examine the information needs and uses literature published 1984–1989, and 1995–1998. Comparisons are made with similar analyses previously published for the period 1990–1994. Analyses measured degree of interdisciplinarity evident in references cited and identified subject areas cited, determined whether this literature was concerned with users' cognitive processes and with system design and use, and identified research methods used. Secondary analyses included journal type, author type, article type, whether the literature was grounded in theory, and user groups considered. This study extends results published previously, and demonstrates longitudinal development of research in this subfield of library and information science.     

The Natural History Museum: Taking on a Learning Agenda

Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the University of Pittsburgh are engaged in a research and practice partnership to bring new learning sciences findings and theories into contact with the design and deployment of innovative natural history learning experiences. In this article, we describe four strands of work: 1) connecting people to nature; 2) engaging people of all ages in complex and current scientific debates of regional consequence; 3) partnerships to build a strong regional learning ecology for nature and science; and 4) iterative professional development to support staff as they work with new definitions of learning and engagement in the museum.     

开放政府数据的价值:研究进展与展望

[目的/意义]对开放政府数据价值的相关研究成果进行总结和梳理,形成较为完整的文献综述,为国内该领域的未来研究提供参考。[方法/过程]通过文献计量与内容分析描绘开放政府数据价值研究领域的文献分布状况,对现有研究成果进行全面梳理与评价,并提出未来研究方向。[结果/结论]学界目前对开放政府数据价值的研究主要集中于价值类型、价值生成机制以及价值测量3个方面。多数研究停留于探讨开放政府数据的预期价值,缺乏对预期价值的实证验证;缺乏对利用和效果之间的因果关系的检验;对价值生成机制和价值测量的研究不足。建议未来研究更多关注本土实践,从多学科视角出发,加强开放政府数据价值相关理论与实证研究。     

Developing a Research Agenda Aimed at Understanding the Teaching and Learning of Science at a Natural History Museum

Over the past two decades, cultural institutions such as museums are beginning to develop their capacity for engaging in long‐term research on teaching and learning (Rennie et al. 2003; see also Crowley 2014). In this article, we describe one museum's efforts to develop an educational research agenda in relationship to these broader efforts. We explain how we got started; share steps taken; describe the agenda itself; and give examples of some of our current research studies. We end with insights into some of the challenges we've faced in developing this work and how we've addressed them and our next steps.     

IoT and AI for Smart Government: A Research Agenda

The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of objects/things that contain electronics, software, sensors, and actuators, which allows these things to connect, interact, and exchange data. The users, sensors, and networks generate huge amounts of data from which governments can develop applications and gain knowledge using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Thus, IoT and AI can enable the development of valuable services for citizens, businesses, and public agencies, in multiple domains, such as transportation, energy, healthcare, education, and public safety. This guest editorial for the special issue on IoT and AI for Smart Government, identifies the challenges involved in implementing and adopting these technologies in the public sector, and proposes a comprehensive research framework, which includes both IoT and AI elements for smart government transformation. Subsequently, the editorial provides a brief introduction of the six papers in this special issue. Finally, an agenda for future research on IoT and AI for smart government is presented, based on the proposed framework and gaps in existing literature, supported by the papers that were submitted to this special issue. The agenda comprises four directions i.e., conducting domain-specific studies, going beyond adoption studies to examine implementation and evaluation of these technologies, focusing on specific challenges and thus quick wins, and expanding the existing set of research methods and theoretical foundations used.     

博物馆的当代性问题

关于博物馆,有过一种习惯的甚至流行的说法——某种东西不用了或者过时了,就说,早该进博物馆了。由于历史的原因,在人们的意识深处,博物馆似乎与当代的时下的生活活动有一道天然的界线,人们只是为着寻找历史与记忆的时候,才会跨过去。     

论博物馆的行业优势与博物馆的发展

所谓行业优势，说到底就是行业的特质、特色。抓住本行业的特质、特色善加发挥，你无我有，你有我优，你优我巧，这就是竞争。从行业竞争的角度上看，博物馆至少有以下七大优势。     

论文献老化研究的预测性

用灰色一阶线性微分方程对历时测定的文献被引数据进行预测,从而测定文献老化历时半衰期的方法自１９９３年产生以来,人们已用其对我国和国外自然科学期刊文献的老化进行了测定,以期探索文献老化真实规律的各种特征,澄清文献老化研究中理论和方法的混乱,并为实际的文...     

A Research Agenda for Cataloging: The CCQ Editorial Board Responds to the Year of Cataloging Research

The cataloging and classification community was called to highlight 2010 as “The Year of Cataloging Research,” and specifically was challenged to generate research ideas, conduct research, and generally promote the development of new research in cataloging. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly has become the most influential journal of research in cataloging and classification since its inception in 1981. The idea behind the research reported here was to give the CCQ editorial board an opportunity to present its point of view about research for cataloging. A Delphi study was conducted in three stages during the 2009–2010 academic year. Members were asked to define the key terms “cataloging,” “evidence,” and “research,” and to develop a research agenda in cataloging. The results reveal a basic core definition of cataloging perceived as a dynamic, active process at the core of information retrieval. An eight point research agenda emerges that is forward-looking and embraces change, along with top-ranked calls for new empirical evidence about catalogs, cataloging, and catalog users.     

政府大数据治理规则体系构建研究构想

[目的/意义] 弥补大数据发展应用背景下政府大数据治理规则体系缺失及其研究的不足。[方法/过程] 从大数据认知多维视角出发,分析大数据治理主体、治理客体、治理活动和治理风险4个方面所面临的挑战及其大数据规则制定需求;诊断政府大数据治理规则体系构建研究的阻碍问题及原因。以公共价值理论、数字连续性理论和多元价值理论为主要理论支持,提出政府大数据治理规则体系构建研究的基本框架。[结果/结论] 明晰了政府大数据治理规则体系构建的关键性要素及其关系,对构建政府大数据治理的长效规则体系提供了一种多维视角的研究思路和一个综合集成的研究方案。     

关于晶体学文献分类的研究

研究晶体学文献分类的三个问题：(1)晶体学文献的分类标准；(2)晶体学文献的分类体系；(3)晶体学文献的分类方法。     

美国图书馆界关于文献传递的研究与实践评析

文献传递服务(Document Delivery Service)是美国图书馆界近年来的研究热点.本文介绍了有关的研究与应用状况,分析了对图书馆管理与服务的影响.