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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)

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

"Why not use it more?" Sources of self-efficacy in researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing (2018)
Journal Article
Alshahrani, H., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018). "Why not use it more?" Sources of self-efficacy in researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing. Journal of Documentation, 74(6), 1274-1292. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2018-0051

Purpose: To investigate the sources of self-efficacy that researchers rely on when using social media for knowledge sharing and to explore how these sources impact their use. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed 30 semi-structured intervie... Read More about "Why not use it more?" Sources of self-efficacy in researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing.

Book review: David Haynes, Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding Metadata and Its Use (2018)
Journal Article
Pennington, D. R. (2021). Book review: David Haynes, Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding Metadata and Its Use. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 53(4), 699-700. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618783103

David Haynes published the first edition of this book in 2004. It outlined the basics of metadata, including description, standards, purposes and management. In its final chapter, he questioned whether metadata as we knew it at the time would remain,... Read More about Book review: David Haynes, Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding Metadata and Its Use.

Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public (2018)
Journal Article
Kerr, A., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018). Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public. Library Hi Tech, 36(2), 237-251. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-05-2017-0091

Purpose – The purpose of this research was to examine current public library apps in Scotland and assess Scottish public library users’ opinions of those apps. Design/methodology/approach – Two qualitative and quantitative surveys were conducted. One... Read More about Public library mobile apps in Scotland: Views from the local authorities and the public.

Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions (2017)
Journal Article
Ducheva, D. P., & Pennington, D. R. (2019). Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(2), 387-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000617709060

This research explored the implementations and perceptions of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloguing standard in Europe. It refers to the development and implementation of the standard among Anglo-American libraries and draws compariso... Read More about Resource Description and Access in Europe: Implementations and perceptions.

Demystifying linked data: Are you ready for what's next? (2016)
Journal Article
Pennington, D. (2016). Demystifying linked data: Are you ready for what's next?. CILIP Update, 2016(Jul/Aug), 34-36

It seems as though everyone is talking about Linked Data and the related Semantic Web these days. Information professionals must keep up with many technological changes, and Linked Data may seem like just one more thing that threatens to overwhelm.... Read More about Demystifying linked data: Are you ready for what's next?.

'The most passionate cover I've seen': Emotional information in fan-created U2 music videos (2016)
Journal Article
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2016). 'The most passionate cover I've seen': Emotional information in fan-created U2 music videos. Journal of Documentation, 72(3), 569-590. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2015-0086

This article explores how both producers and consumers of user-created music videos on YouTube communicate emotional information. 150 filmic documents containing fan-generated versions of U2’s “Song for Someone” were purposively collected. The author... Read More about 'The most passionate cover I've seen': Emotional information in fan-created U2 music videos.

Physical therapy 2.0: Leveraging social media to engage patients in rehabilitation and health promotion (2015)
Journal Article
Knight, E., Werstine, R. J., Rasmussen-Pennington, D. M., Fitzsimmons, D., & Petrella, R. J. (2015). Physical therapy 2.0: Leveraging social media to engage patients in rehabilitation and health promotion. Physical Therapy, 95(3), 389-396. https://doi.org

Care for chronic conditions and noncommunicable diseases is dominating health systems around the globe. For physical therapists, this strain presents a substantial opportunity for engaging patients in health promotion and disease management in the ye... Read More about Physical therapy 2.0: Leveraging social media to engage patients in rehabilitation and health promotion.

Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging (2013)
Journal Article
Desrochers, N., Quan-Haase, A., Pennington, D. R., Laplante, A., Martin, K., & Spiteri, L. (2013). Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging. Proceedings of the American Society for Information

Social tagging has become a common practice across a variety of platforms on the Web. In this panel, we propose to start with one title, Casino Royale, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and the other cultural products that emanated from it (e.g., tw... Read More about Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging.