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Stroke recovery—what are people talking about on Twitter? A content analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Gallacher, K. I., Petrie, D., McAdie, D. R., McGuire, P., & Quinn, T. J. (online). Stroke recovery—what are people talking about on Twitter? A content analysis. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2403722

Purpose
Prioritisation exercises seek out what matters to key stakeholders to inform the planning of research. Social media platforms are potentially useful data sources. The aim was to examine the content of tweets, short messages containing text a... Read More about Stroke recovery—what are people talking about on Twitter? A content analysis.

Researchers and Social Networking Sites usage: the application of UTAUT theory (2024)
Journal Article
Al Badi, A., & Rasmussen McAdie, D. (in press). Researchers and Social Networking Sites usage: the application of UTAUT theory. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, https://doi.org/10.1108/gkmc-10-2023-0394

Purpose (limit 100 words) This study aims to investigate the use of SNS by researchers and their behaviours when conducting research-related activities by applying the UTAUT theory Design/methodology/approach (limit 100 words) An online survey was di... Read More about Researchers and Social Networking Sites usage: the application of UTAUT theory.

Toward evidence-based cataloging ethics: Research, practice, and training in knowledge organization (2023)
Journal Article
Rasmussen Pennington, D., Lee, D., Snow, K., Fox, V., & Shoemaker, E. (2023). Toward evidence-based cataloging ethics: Research, practice, and training in knowledge organization. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 808-812. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.866

This panel considers the bridge between research and practice in cataloging ethics. Cataloging ethics – including indexing and classification – is an important part of practice, yet cataloging ethics research and practice are not always clearly conne... Read More about Toward evidence-based cataloging ethics: Research, practice, and training in knowledge organization.

The Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021: Conception, Community and Continuation (2023)
Journal Article
Daniels, J., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2023). The Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021: Conception, Community and Continuation. Art Libraries Journal, 48(2), 33-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2023.3

Cataloguing has existed for millennia but until January 2021 there was no formal code of ethics for this branch of the information profession. But what is the Code? Who created it and why? How was it produced? Is the Code immutable and what relevance... Read More about The Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021: Conception, Community and Continuation.

Measuring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of PIDs in support of open scholarly infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article
Macgregor, G., Lancho-Barrantes, B. S., & Pennington, D. R. (2023). Measuring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of PIDs in support of open scholarly infrastructure . Open Information Science, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2022-0142

The increasing centrality of persistent identifiers (PIDs) to scholarly ecosystems and the contribution they can make to the burgeoning 'PID graph' has the potential to transform scholarship. Despite their importance as originators of PID data, littl... Read More about Measuring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of PIDs in support of open scholarly infrastructure .

Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure' (2022)
Other
Macgregor, G., Lancho-Barrantes, B. S., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022). Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure'

The research instrument and accompanying data for the paper, "Exploring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure". Deposit includes: 1) The research instrume... Read More about Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure'.

The development and future of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics (2022)
Journal Article
Chan, M., Daniels, J., Furger, S., Rasmussen, D., Shoemaker, E., & Snow, K. (2022). The development and future of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 60(8), 786-806. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2022.2134247

The Cataloguing Code of Ethics, released in January 2021, was the product of a multi-national, multi-year endeavor by the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee to create a useful framework for the discussion of cataloging ethics. The six Cataloging Et... Read More about The development and future of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics.

Information overload: a concept analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Belabbes, M. A., Ruthven, I., Moshfeghi, Y., & Pennington, D. (2023). Information overload: a concept analysis. Journal of Documentation, 79(1), 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2021-0118

Purpose: With the shift to an information-based society and to the de-centralisation of information, information overload has attracted a growing interest in the computer and information science research communities. However, there is no clear unders... Read More about Information overload: a concept analysis.

Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D., & Ayouni, S. (2023). Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis. Online Information Review, 47(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2021-0208

Purpose
The study aimed to examine how different communities concerned with dementia engage and interact on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach
A dataset was sampled from 8,400 user profile descriptions, which was labelled into five categories a... Read More about Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis.

A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques (2020)
Journal Article
Alrzini, J. R. S., & Pennington, D. (2020). A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques. International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology, 11(12), 1238-1247. https://doi.org/10.34218/IJARET.11.12.2020.119

Despite the continuous updating of anti-detection systems for malicious programs (malware), malware has moved to an abnormal threat level; it is being generated and spread faster than before. One of the most serious challenges faced by anti-detection... Read More about A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques.

"Maybe we can work together": Researchers’ outcome expectations for sharing knowledge on social media (2020)
Journal Article
Alshahrani, H., & Pennington, D. (2021). "Maybe we can work together": Researchers’ outcome expectations for sharing knowledge on social media. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 70(4/5), 377-398. https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-07-2020-0093

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the outcomes that researchers expect from using social media for knowledge sharing and to explore how these outcomes impact their use. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted 30 semi-structured inter... Read More about "Maybe we can work together": Researchers’ outcome expectations for sharing knowledge on social media.

RDA education: The who, what, when, where, why, and how (2019)
Other
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2019). RDA education: The who, what, when, where, why, and how. [Trade publication]

I have fond memories of teaching cataloguing and classification to postgraduate students a decade ago. We had multiple print copies of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), and the Dewe... Read More about RDA education: The who, what, when, where, why, and how.

"How to use it more?" Self-efficacy and its sources in the use of social media for knowledge sharing (2019)
Journal Article
Alshahrani, H., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2020). "How to use it more?" Self-efficacy and its sources in the use of social media for knowledge sharing. Journal of Documentation, 76(1), 231-257. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2019-0026

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate sources of self-efficacy for researchers and the sources’ impact on the researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing. It is a continuation of a larger study (Alshahrani and Rasmussen Penn... Read More about "How to use it more?" Self-efficacy and its sources in the use of social media for knowledge sharing.

Information attributes (2019)
Book Chapter
Pennington, D., & Ruthven, I. (2019). Information attributes. In K. Byström, J. Heinström, & I. Ruthven (Eds.), Information at Work: Information management in the workplace. London: Facet Publishing

In this chapter, we focus on the concept of information attributes. Information attributes are the properties of information and information objects that can be used to describe and differentiate information. Being able to differentiate information o... Read More about Information attributes.

Connecting the silos: Implementations and perceptions of linked data across European libraries (2019)
Journal Article
Pennington, D., & Cagnazzo, L. (2019). Connecting the silos: Implementations and perceptions of linked data across European libraries. Journal of Documentation, 75(3), 643-666. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2018-0117

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine how information professionals in Scotland and in European national libraries perceive linked data (LD) as well as if and how they are implementing it. Design/methodology/approach: The authors applied... Read More about Connecting the silos: Implementations and perceptions of linked data across European libraries.

Keys to their own voices: Social tags for a dementia ontology as a human right (2018)
Book Chapter
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018). Keys to their own voices: Social tags for a dementia ontology as a human right. In L. Spiteri, & D. Rasmussen Pennington (Eds.), Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment. London: Facet Publishing

Dementia encompasses a range of incurable brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, which affected 47 million people worldwide in 2015, a figure that is expected to triple by 2050. It is therefore a worldwide public health priority (World Health... Read More about Keys to their own voices: Social tags for a dementia ontology as a human right.

Addressing self-harm via digital innovation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nicol, E., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, November). Addressing self-harm via digital innovation. Poster presented at ‘Tomorrow’s World: The Next 10 Years of Mental Health Research’, Annual Scientific Meeting of NHS Research Scotland’s Mental Health Network, Edinburgh