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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.

Digital Humanities and Information Science: Making A Difference? (2023)
Journal Article
de Fremery, W., Mostafa, J., Pennington, D. M. R., Terra, A. L., Cha, J., & Oh, S. (2023). Digital Humanities and Information Science: Making A Difference?. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 762-765. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.856

In a 2012 ASIS&T panel titled “Humanistic Information Science,” Melanie Feinberg, Jens-Erik Mai, Jonathan Furner, and Joseph Tennis argued that information science as a field “could be richer” if it were to embrace “humanistic approaches to informati... Read More about Digital Humanities and Information Science: Making A Difference?.

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.

Automation of university library operations: An analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Adetunla, G., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Chowdhury, G. (2023). Automation of university library operations: An analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. In Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Virtual Event, March 13–17, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (217-225). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_19

This study examined how automation systems enhanced the operations of university libraries in Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviewed literature on the extent of automation, effectiveness of the use of automation... Read More about Automation of university library operations: An analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria.

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'. [Survey results]

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.

The impact of test elements on students' performance in EFL (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Alrzini, J., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Dunlop, M. D. (2022). The impact of test elements on students' performance in EFL. In 16th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2022)

Students applying to study at a university in a country that does not use their native language typically have to sit a formal language assessment exam; This exam is now most commonly done electronically. This can be challenging for students if they... Read More about The impact of test elements on students' performance in EFL.

Twitter users' sentiments toward mask wearing (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Chang, M., & Pennington, D. (2022, July). Twitter users' sentiments toward mask wearing. Paper presented at 2022 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety), Online

The World Health Organization advises people to wear a face mask in public to protect themselves from COVID-19. It provides materials and cites supporting studies demonstrating that a medical face mask is an effective way to protect people from COVID... Read More about Twitter users' sentiments toward mask wearing.

Essential e-book metadata for everyone (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Lagace, N., Booth, E., La Spada, C., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022, May). Essential e-book metadata for everyone. Paper presented at UKSG 2022, Telford

High quality and accurate bibliographic metadata is an essential part of the supply chain for books and e-books as it enables titles to be easily and reliably identified, selected, and accessed. Yet libraries and content providers have worked for yea... Read More about Essential e-book metadata for everyone.

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.

YouTube as a helpful and dangerous information source for deliberate self-harming behaviours (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2022). YouTube as a helpful and dangerous information source for deliberate self-harming behaviours. In Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future: iConference 2022 (347-362). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96960-8_23

Online social media platforms remain an excellent source of data for information scientists. Existing studies have found that people who self-harm find it easier to disclose information regarding their behaviour on social media as compared to in-pers... Read More about YouTube as a helpful and dangerous information source for deliberate self-harming behaviours.

“She Seems More Human”: Understanding Twitter Users’ Credibility Assessments of Dementia-Related Information (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D. R., & Ruthven, I. (2022). “She Seems More Human”: Understanding Twitter Users’ Credibility Assessments of Dementia-Related Information. In Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future: iConference 2022 (292-313). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96960-8_20

The presence of incorrect, medically uncorroborated information on social media may be harmful if people believe it. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify how Twitter users evaluate the credibility of dementia-related information sour... Read More about “She Seems More Human”: Understanding Twitter Users’ Credibility Assessments of Dementia-Related Information.

The 'nested triangle' of metadata supply for OA books (2022)
Presentation / Conference
O'Leary, B., Snijder, R., Booth, E., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022, February). The 'nested triangle' of metadata supply for OA books. Paper presented at NISO Plus Forum 2022: Global Conversations, Global Connections, Online

Academic librarians want to make research outputs, including Open Access books, fully discoverable to their users and communities in order to develop open and responsible research environments. The key to enabling this is high quality metadata that c... Read More about The 'nested triangle' of metadata supply for OA books.

Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Chan, M., Snow, K., Shoemaker, E., Daniels, J., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Furger, S. (2021, August). Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work. Paper presented at ALA Webinar, Online

Tailored to administrators and managers, this webinar provides an overview of the recently released "Cataloguing Code of Ethics" and highlights particular areas of the Code in which library leadership can meaningfully support the Code in equity, dive... Read More about Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work.

Self-harm: Detection and support on Twitter (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Alhassan, M. A., Inuwa-Dutse, I., Shehu Bello, B., & Pennington, D. (2021, July). Self-harm: Detection and support on Twitter. Paper presented at European Conference on Social Media, Cyprus

Since the advent of online social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, useful health-related studies have been conducted using the information posted by online participants. Personal health-related issues such as mental health, self-harm and... Read More about Self-harm: Detection and support on Twitter.

Stroke recovery: What are people talking about on Twitter? (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Gallacher, K., Petrie, D., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Quinn, T. (2021, June). Stroke recovery: What are people talking about on Twitter?. Paper presented at Society for Primary Care’s 49th Annual Scientific Meeting (SAPC ASM), Online

Problem: Stroke survivors and their carers have benefited from advances in treatments and improved support with recovery because of an expanding evidence base, yet certain areas of stroke care require further attention from researchers and funding bo... Read More about Stroke recovery: What are people talking about on Twitter?.

Classifying the 'right' answers: Research approaches for addressing COVID information challenges (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D., Alhayan, F., Alhassan, M. A., Chang, M., Innes, R., & Mavroeidi, A. (2021, June). Classifying the 'right' answers: Research approaches for addressing COVID information challenges. Paper presented at ASIS&T European Chapter’s Information Science Trends 2021: Information Science Research During COVID-19 & Post-Pandemic Opportunities, Online

[Abstract not available]

Investigating non-suicidal self-injury discussions on Twitter (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2021, June). Investigating non-suicidal self-injury discussions on Twitter. Paper presented at International Conference on Social Media and Data Mining (ICSMDM 2021), Online

Social networking sites have become a space for people to discuss public health issues such as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). There are thousands of tweets containing self-harm and self-injury hashtags on Twitter. It is difficult to distinguish bet... Read More about Investigating non-suicidal self-injury discussions on Twitter.

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.

Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Alhayan, F., & Pennington, D. (2020). Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets. In SMSociety'20 - International Conference on Social Media and Society (277-290). https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400838

Unlike other media, research on the credibility of information present on social media is limited. This limitation is even more pronounced in the case of healthcare, including dementia-related information. The purpose of this study was to identify us... Read More about Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets.

Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2020). Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube. In CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (383-386). https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3378002

YouTube is one of the leading social media platforms and online spaces for people who self-harm to search and view deliberate self-harm videos, share their experience and seek help via comments. These comments may contain information that signals a c... Read More about Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube.

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.

An authentic self: Big Data and passive digital footprints (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Williams, L., & Pennington, D. (2018). An authentic self: Big Data and passive digital footprints. In Twelfth International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, HAISA 2018, Dundee, Scotland, UK, August 29-31, 2018, Proceedings (49-56)

The ability to allow users to create online communities of interest and to share a variety of personal information, collectively referred to as social media, is gradually being built into an expanding range of applications. Some of these applications... Read More about An authentic self: Big Data and passive digital footprints.

Measuring passive engagement with health information on social media (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D., & Ayouni, S. (2018). Measuring passive engagement with health information on social media. In 2018 21st Saudi Computer Society National Computer Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/NCG.2018.8593032

Little to no consensus exists on the definition of “engagement” on social media platforms. A myriad of management tools are available to measure behavioral interactions with social media. However, the majority of social media users engage with the co... Read More about Measuring passive engagement with health information on social media.

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
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

"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.

Student wellbeing: Managing your PhD journey (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, July). Student wellbeing: Managing your PhD journey. Paper presented at 10th Annual Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance PhD Conference (SICSA Conference 2018), Aberdeen

[Abstract unavailable]

Relationship status: Libraries and linked data in Europe (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Cagnazzo, L. (2018, July). Relationship status: Libraries and linked data in Europe. Paper presented at 15th International ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) Conference, Porto, Portugal

Libraries shared metadata long before the advent of the Internet by utilising standards such as MARC and AACR to enable interoperability (Tallerås, 2013). A difficulty with their use in the networked environment has been the inability to exchange dat... Read More about Relationship status: Libraries and linked data in Europe.

What is research evidence? (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D. M. (2018, July). What is research evidence?. Paper presented at CILIP Conference 2018, Brighton

It is time to dispel the myth that only ‘researchers’ or ‘academics’ in the information profession can and should do research. All information professionals have a place in collecting and examining data to improve their services, resources, and space... Read More about What is research evidence?.

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.

Social media for learning and teaching: Examining the landscape (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D. M. (2018, June). Social media for learning and teaching: Examining the landscape. Presented at University of Strathclyde's 4th Annual Learning and Teaching in an International Technological University Conference, Glasgow

[Abstract unavailable]

"Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, June). "Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision. Paper presented at The U2 Conference 2018 - POPVision, Belfast

Semantic ambiguity complicates finding desired information. Additionally, the same music elicits different emotions in different people, which makes it difficult to find music online that meets our emotional desires. I operationalise this as “musical... Read More about "Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision.

Youth mental health and information engagement (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, May). Youth mental health and information engagement. Paper presented at Engage 2018: Digital Health Citizen Engagement Network: Changing Care Together, Glasgow

[Abstract unavailable]

Searching for the right feelings: Emotional metadata in music (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2018, April). Searching for the right feelings: Emotional metadata in music. Presented at Information Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (UK & Ireland Branch) Annual Study Weekend, Edinburgh

This paper will move beyond the bounds of bibliographic description and to discuss research about emotions shared by music fans online and how they might be used as metadata for new approaches to search and retrieval.

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.

New formats, new information environments, new methodologies (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pennington, S. (2017, July). New formats, new information environments, new methodologies. Paper presented at Roundtable facilitated at information: interactions and impact (i3), Aberdeen

The ubiquitous availability of virtual information has changed how people seek and use it. The increasing existence of smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices has made virtual information environments available almost everywhere. Initial Internet... Read More about New formats, new information environments, new methodologies.

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.

Coding of non-text data (2017)
Book Chapter
Pennington, D. (2017). Coding of non-text data. In L. Sloan, & A. Quan-Haase (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE Publications

This chapter overviews the domain of “non-text” data that can be found on social media, such as videos and photographs. It then outlines research methods that can be applied to analysing and coding these non-text documents and their associated texts.... Read More about Coding of non-text data.

Faculty perceptions on publishing research (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Pennington, D. R., Swanson, A., Akwaowo, E., & Zobisch, P. (2017). Faculty perceptions on publishing research. In Interactive Collaborative Learning: Proceedings of the 19th ICL Conference - Volume 1 (75-87). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50337-0_7

Today’s researchers have not only the traditional publications, but the open access publishing method whereby research papers can be published via the Internet as well as print publications. Researchers must carefully scrutinize the open access publi... Read More about Faculty perceptions on publishing research.

Supporting workplace information needs of people with dementia (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Pennington, D. (2016, October). Supporting workplace information needs of people with dementia. Presented at ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dementia, a broad term for a range of brain diseases that are generally characterised by memory loss, aphasia, decreased social inhibition, and other symptoms, has no cure and is not a normal part of ageing. It is, however, an international epidemic.... Read More about Supporting workplace information needs of people with dementia.

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?.

Analysing found non-text social media data (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2016, July). Analysing found non-text social media data. Paper presented at International Conference on Social Media & Society, London

This paper is based on a chapter entitled "Coding of non-text data" (Rasmussen Pennington, in press) that has been accepted for publication in The SAGE handbook of social media research methods. The chapter outlines the special concerns associated wi... Read More about Analysing found non-text social media data.

Small data and big data controversies and alternatives (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bonneau, C., Gruzd, A., Hand, M., Latzo-Toth, G., Millette, M., Quan-Haase, A., …Zeller, F. (2016, July). Small data and big data controversies and alternatives. Presented at International Conference on Social Media & Society (SMSociety), London, UK

The workshop will provide an overview of critical themes to be covered in the Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods to be published in 2016. The Handbook is the first book to cover not only the entire research process in social media researc... Read More about Small data and big data controversies and alternatives.

'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.

Youth e-mental health in Scotland (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Pennington, D. (2015, October). Youth e-mental health in Scotland. Paper presented at BCS Health Informatics Scotland Conference, Edinburgh

One in ten UK youth have mental health issues (Watson & Douglas, 2012), and girls may be at higher risk than boys (Levin, Currie, & Muldoon, 2009). Predictors of mental health issues and emotional distress have been identified in area youth, such as... Read More about Youth e-mental health in Scotland.

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/10.2522/ptj.20130432

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.

Understanding student behaviors in online classroom (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Byun, J., Pennington, D., Cardenas, J., Dutta, S., & Kirwan, J. (2014). Understanding student behaviors in online classroom. In 2014 IEEE International Congress on Big Data. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData.Congress.2014.129

Students drop classes for many reasons. Some are personal such as medical conditions, family issues, or financial difficulties. Others are course specific such as course contents, instructor, or classmates. In either way, class drop is a serious prob... Read More about Understanding student behaviors in online classroom.

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 Science and Technology, 50(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14505001014

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.

Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN) (2013)
Journal Article
Forchuk, C., Edwards, B., Rudnick, A., Osuch, E., Hoch, J., Norman, R., …McKillop, M. (2013). Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN). International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, 5(1&2), 1-10

This research study introduces, delivers, and evaluates the benefits of using web and mobile technology to provide consistent supportive health care to individuals living within London, Ontario and the surrounding area who have been diagnosed with a... Read More about Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN).

"I could be on Facebook by now": Insights from Canadian Youth on Online Mental Health Information Resources (2013)
Journal Article
Rasmussen-Pennington, D. M., Richardson, G., Garinger, C., & Contursi, M. L. (2013). "I could be on Facebook by now": Insights from Canadian Youth on Online Mental Health Information Resources. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 37(3), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1353/ils.2013.0015

The goal of this research was to learn from Canadian youth how they look for online information about mental health and to explore how they would prefer to receive information. Saturation was reached within four focus groups with a total of 21 youth... Read More about "I could be on Facebook by now": Insights from Canadian Youth on Online Mental Health Information Resources.

Increasing libraries' content findability on the web with search engine optimization (2013)
Journal Article
Onaifo, D., & Rasmussen, D. (2013). Increasing libraries' content findability on the web with search engine optimization. Library Hi Tech, 31(1), 87-108. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378831311303958

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of search engine optimization (SEO) as a mechanism for improving libraries' digital content findability on the web. Design/methodology/approach – The study applies web analytical tools, suc... Read More about Increasing libraries' content findability on the web with search engine optimization.

Incorporating web-based engagement and participatory interaction into your courses (2012)
Book Chapter
Henninger, M., & Neal, D. R. (2012). Incorporating web-based engagement and participatory interaction into your courses. In D. Rasmussen Neal (Ed.), Social Media for Academics: A Practical Guide (141-159). Chandos Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-84334-681-4.50008-6

This chapter presents ideas for delivering online course content and communication in ways that will increase student participation and engagement. Diane Rasmussen Neal discusses options for using social media such as discussion forums, synchronous c... Read More about Incorporating web-based engagement and participatory interaction into your courses.

Indexing and retrieval of non-text information (2012)
Book
Rasmussen Neal, D. (Ed.). (2012). Indexing and retrieval of non-text information. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110260588

The scope of this volume will encompass a collection of research papers related to indexing and retrieval of online non-text information. In recent years, the Internet has seen an exponential increase in the number of documents placed online that are... Read More about Indexing and retrieval of non-text information.

The digital aggregated self (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Williams, L. Y., & Neal, D. M. (2012). The digital aggregated self. In Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2012 (170-177). https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberC.2012.36

As the Internet rapidly establishes itself as a major communications conduit, growing concern exists about personal privacy issues and the related ownership of personal data. Privacy and personal data may be vulnerable to exposure by unauthorized ind... Read More about The digital aggregated self.

A new wave of government information management: The implementation of a function-based classification structure in a Canadian government organization (2012)
Journal Article
Park, S., & Neal, D. R. (2012). A new wave of government information management: The implementation of a function-based classification structure in a Canadian government organization. Journal of Library Metadata, 12(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2012.652569

In an effort to improve government information management, people in Canadian government organizations have implemented a number of information management initiatives that are designed to meet the needs of their organizations. Industry Canada is deve... Read More about A new wave of government information management: The implementation of a function-based classification structure in a Canadian government organization.

Representation of information (2011)
Book Chapter
Myburgh, S., Davis, C., Neal, D., & Hjørland, B. (2011). Representation of information. In C. H. Davis, & D. Shaw (Eds.), Introduction to information science and technology (43-62). Information Today

Is what you see what you get? Medical subject headings and their organizing work in the violence against women research literature (2011)
Journal Article
McTavish, J. R., Neal, D. R., & Wathen, C. N. (2011). Is what you see what you get? Medical subject headings and their organizing work in the violence against women research literature. Knowledge Organization, 38(5), 381-397

In this paper we argue that the broader definition of classification offered by sociologists and by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star addresses pertinent knowledge organization processes that we can use to investigate the moral, scientific, and ae... Read More about Is what you see what you get? Medical subject headings and their organizing work in the violence against women research literature.

Organization of information (2011)
Book Chapter
Hjørland, B., Neal, D., Šauperl, A., & Bawden, D. (2011). Organization of information. In C. H. Davis, & D. Shaw (Eds.), Introduction to information science and technology (43-62). Information Today

Putting the pieces together: endometriosis blogs, cognitive authority, and collaborative information behavior (2011)
Journal Article
Neal, D. M., & McKenzie, P. J. (2011). Putting the pieces together: endometriosis blogs, cognitive authority, and collaborative information behavior. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 99(2), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.99.2.004

Objective: A discourse analysis was conducted of peer-written blogs about the chronic illness endometriosis to understand how bloggers present information sources and make cases for and against the authority of those sources.Methods: Eleven blogs tha... Read More about Putting the pieces together: endometriosis blogs, cognitive authority, and collaborative information behavior.

Finding emotional-laden resources on the World Wide Web (2011)
Journal Article
Knautz, K., Neal, D. R., Schmidt, S., Siebenlist, T., & Stock, W. G. (2011). Finding emotional-laden resources on the World Wide Web. Information, 2(1), 217-246. https://doi.org/10.3390/info2010217

Some content in multimedia resources can depict or evoke certain emotions in users. The aim of Emotional Information Retrieval (EmIR) and of our research is to identify knowledge about emotional-laden documents and to use these findings in a new kind... Read More about Finding emotional-laden resources on the World Wide Web.

"I did not realize so many options are available": Cognitive authority, search engines, emerging adults, and mental health (2010)
Journal Article
Neal, D. M., Campbell, A. J., Williams, L. Y., Liu, Y., & Nussbaumer, D. (2011). "I did not realize so many options are available": Cognitive authority, search engines, emerging adults, and mental health. Library and Information Science Research, 33(1), 25-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2010.07.015

Approximately one in five people in developed countries such as Canada and Australia will experience mental illness during their lifespan, and this statistic may be even higher for people between the ages of 18 and 25. Due to widespread stigma and ot... Read More about "I did not realize so many options are available": Cognitive authority, search engines, emerging adults, and mental health.

Emotion-based tags in photographic documents: The interplay of text, image, and social influence (2010)
Journal Article
Neal, D. M. (2010). Emotion-based tags in photographic documents: The interplay of text, image, and social influence. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 34(3), 329-353. https://doi.org/10.1353/ils.2010.0000

This study investigated the communicative roles played by the text, image, and social interaction in high- and low-relevance ranked Flickr photographic documents with an emotion-based tag. Using discourse analysis, textual and visual themes regarding... Read More about Emotion-based tags in photographic documents: The interplay of text, image, and social influence.

A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors (2010)
Journal Article
Lee, H., & Neal, D. (2010). A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors. Journal of Information Science, 36(5), 547-565. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510374930

Few studies have been conducted to identify users’ desired semantic levels of image access when describing, searching, and retrieving photographs online. The basic level, or the level of abstraction most commonly used to describe an item, is a cognit... Read More about A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors.

News photographers, librarians, tags, and controlled vocabularies: Balancing the forces (2008)
Journal Article
Neal, D. (2008). News photographers, librarians, tags, and controlled vocabularies: Balancing the forces. Journal of Library Metadata, 8(3), 199-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386380802373936

This article discusses a survey distributed to photojournalism professionals in order to determine their metadata preferences for photograph retrieval in an online archival system. Their top preferences included: named objects, specific events occurr... Read More about News photographers, librarians, tags, and controlled vocabularies: Balancing the forces.

CREST+ model: writing effective online discussion questions (2007)
Journal Article
Akin, L., & Neal, D. (2007). CREST+ model: writing effective online discussion questions. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 3(2), 191-202

Research on online classes strongly identifies participation as a positive variable. Research on online teaching also reveals the time intensive practices involved with providing individualized attention and feedback. An online instructor must negoti... Read More about CREST+ model: writing effective online discussion questions.

News photography image retrieval practices: Locus of control in two contexts (2006)
Thesis
Pennington, D. (2006). News photography image retrieval practices: Locus of control in two contexts. (Thesis). University of North Texas

This is the first known study to explore the image retrieval preferences of news photographers and news photo editors in work contexts. Survey participants (n=102) provided opinions regarding 11 photograph searching methods. The quantitative survey d... Read More about News photography image retrieval practices: Locus of control in two contexts.

Why were Twitter users obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?
Working Paper
Mavroeidi, A., Innes, R., Miyake, E., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022). Why were Twitter users obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?

The aim of this study was to explore how the relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19 has been represented on the social media site Twitter. NCapture was used to collect textual Tweets on a weekly basis for three months during the pandemic. In tot... Read More about Why were Twitter users obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?.