UNIMARC Format Relevance: Maintenance or Replacement?

This article presents an empirical study focused on a qualitative analysis of the UNIMARC format. An analysis of the structural quality of the data provided by the format is evaluated to determine its current suitability for meeting the requirements and trends in data architecture for the information network and the Semantic Web. Driven by a set of quality characteristics that identify weaknesses in the data schema that cannot be bridged by simply converting data to MARC XML or RDF/XML, we conclude that the UNIMARC format is not compliant with the current metadata schema desiderata and must be replaced.     

Assessing the Benefits of Content Notes Enhancements for Digital Audio Resources

Our library has previously investigated the potential impact the addition of contents notes on circulation. In a subsequent study, we found contents notes were the second metadata element most heavily linked to circulation (title was first). Since there has been a marked decline in the use of print resources at our library and a corresponding increase in digital resources, we wanted to know if the addition of contents notes to records for online streaming audio files would result in a similar increase in usage. After enhancing the records, we tracked usage for a period of three months.     

The Formation of Swedish Media Studies, 1960–1980

Around 1960, the politics of the emerging media society in Sweden tended to fixate the formative functions of mass communication. The monopoly of public service broadcast media, press subsidies and new tendencies in film policy were some of the issues around which uncertainty prevailed. New methods to provide reliable data were sought by politicians, since empirical facts were required as arguments for an updated media policy. This article examines the different ways that the field of media studies was introduced in Sweden between 1960 and 1980. We argue that Swedish academic media studies departed from, and emerged within, a rather diffuse borderland between industry, politics and academia. The formation of national media research in Sweden can partly be seen as an effect of politicians and the media industry wanting to be better informed on issues such as media influence, media ownership and the habits and composition of the media audience.     

Nurturing Authority

When considering the role of local journalism in a networked media environment, it is crucial to examine how audiences attribute news with the power to define social knowledge. In particular, television news programs need to appeal to audiences by reinforcing a sense of local journalistic authority to assert the parameters of who and what is worthy of coverage. This article presents the findings from interviews with a range of commercial television news viewers in Sydney, Australia. It positions viewership in the context of people’s wider engagement with news, and in relation to their interpersonal and digital social interactions. The paper argues that local audiences have conflicting attitudes to the role of television news, both contesting and re-inscribing the programs with the power to demarcate social, political, and cultural knowledge. It traces how local audiences challenge the ability of news to convey boundaries within the community through processes of exclusion, connecting the contestations to the lived experiences of the individuals. It identifies that television news programs nurture journalistic authority in terms of their local relevance, and it contributes insights on the significance of local news by engaging with the means by which audiences themselves attach social power to journalism.     

欠发达地区农村公共产品供给问题探讨

农村公共产品的供给作为一种生产要素决定着农村私人生产成本的高低,作为一种生活要素已成为提高农民生活质量的关键,它对欠发达地区新农村建设的推进尤其重要。但由于政府职能不明确、供给主体单一、效率低下、城乡之间供给的不公平性等原因,欠发达地区农村公共产品供给问题还十分突出,为此要建立城乡统一的公共产品供给制度,把农民的现实需求作为农村公共产品供给决策函数的内生变量,让公共财政的阳光更多地照耀在欠发达地区的农村大地上,从而形成政府投资与农民建设良性互动的循环机制。     

国外基于本体的信息系统概念建模研究

信息系统概念建模是在信息系统开发的需求分析阶段,为促进相关人员之间的理解和沟通,对某些领域的静态现象和动态现象进行形式化地表示和建立文档的活动,属于需求工程和软件工程的子学科。基于本体的信息系统概念建模是指用本体理论或模型支持信息系统概念建模的方法。本文根据目前国外学者对基于本体的信息系统概念建模的研究情况,将其分为两个主要的学派:一是BWW本体学派;另一个是REA学派。在此基础上介绍和比较了两大学派的研究成果,并对其未来的研究方向进行了展望。     

四川地震灾区救援及重建现场纪实

本文是北京城市学院志愿者李金恒老师根据自己2008年5月间在地震灾区现场所见所闻整理而成,是救援和重建初期现场纪实和感想,并结合作者所从事的专业研究领域介绍了物流管理在这次救援中的突出作用。     

如何构建民族地区高校教育质量评价指标体系

根据我国民族地区及各少数民族历史文化背景的特殊性,结合实际,提出民族地区高校教育质量评价体系,以期建构一个能够适合民族地区高校教育本身特征和引领提高民族地区高校教育质量的发展性评价系统.丰富和发展教育评价理论.     

《李景鹏文集》:对近30年中国制度变迁与社会转型的独特解读

《李景鹏文集》对中国近30年经济政治制度变迁和社会转型的解读可以说是独一无二的,文集作者提倡并身体力行：把政治生活看成“力的作用场所”加以考察,使政治学研究能与经济学、社会学、伦理学 等相关的学科打通,把“应然”的研究和“实然”的研究、思辨的研究和实证的研究、静态的研究和动态的研究有机地结合起来,吸收市场经济新观念以优化我国政治学研究工作,等等,很值得年轻的政治学研究者学习借鉴。     

开诚宏道 立教育人——钱基博先生在国师的学与行

从原始的史料出发考察钱基博先生在国立师范学院的学与行,从襄助革创学院、合谋院务推进、忠于教学职守、慨兼学生导师以及瘁力学术研究等方面阐述其开诚宏道、立教育人的学行志旨.