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An authentic self: Big Data and passive digital footprints (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 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 H

"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 Contribution
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

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Relationship status: Libraries and linked data in Europe (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 Contribution
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 Contribution
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

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"Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world": Resolving musical emotional ambiguity in U2's POPVision (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 Contribution
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

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Searching for the right feelings: Emotional metadata in music (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.