Conflicts of jurisdiction: An exploratory study of academic, professional, and epistemological norms in library and information science (2009)
Journal Article
Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2009). Conflicts of jurisdiction: An exploratory study of academic, professional, and epistemological norms in library and information science. Libri, 46, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.1996.46.1.1

Library and information science (LIS) faculty, like their peers in other professional schools, are subject to the demands of at times conflicting jurisdictions: research productivity may clash with professional service, theory building with the devel... Read More about Conflicts of jurisdiction: An exploratory study of academic, professional, and epistemological norms in library and information science.

Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2008)
Book
Davenport, E., Turner, P., & Turner, S. (Eds.). (2008). Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-020-2

The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology disciplines, this field is now grabbing the attention of many, including... Read More about Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Managing social capital. (2006)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Snyder, H. (2006). Managing social capital. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 39, 515-550. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440390119

The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006, September). The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. Presented at Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC7), IFIP TC 9, Maribor, Slovenia

The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municipality. The case is analysed by means of an analytic construct, the technolo... Read More about The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry..

Shifting presence in the classroom. (2005)
Book Chapter
Davenport, E., & Buckner, K. (2005). Shifting presence in the classroom. In P. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Spaces, Spatiality and Technology (31-44). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3273-0_4

Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues. (2005)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Taylor, K. (2005). Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40, 101-108. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.1450400113

‘Classic’ accounts of social capital have emerged
in accounts of stable networks or institutional
environments. These conditions do not apply in
the case of many firms – a case in point being
small firm networks that rely on rapid turnover of
pr... Read More about Managing social capital as knowledge management – some specification and representation issues..

Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horton, K., & Davenport, E. (2004, June). Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice. Presented at Twelfth European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Turku, Finland, Turku, Finland

This paper explores the non-adoption of an innovation via the concept of hybrid genres, that is digital genres that emerge from a non-digital material precedent. As instances of innovation these are often resisted because they disturb the order of ac... Read More about Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice..

Mundane knowledge management and microlevel organizational learning: an ethological approach. (2002)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2002). Mundane knowledge management and microlevel organizational learning: an ethological approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53, 1038-1046. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.10110

Knowledge management is discussed in the context of articulation work, that is routine interactions in groups of local practice. In such situations, knowledge is largely acquired and maintained by learning from the appropriate behavior of others by m... Read More about Mundane knowledge management and microlevel organizational learning: an ethological approach..

Organizational knowledge and communities of practice (2002)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2002). Organizational knowledge and communities of practice. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36(1), 170-227. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440360105

No abstract available for this article.

Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship (2001)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2001). Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(9), 770-773. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.1123

Multiple authorship is a topic of growing concern in a number of scientific domains. When, as is increasingly common, scholarly articles and clinical reports have scores or even hundreds of authors - what Cronin (in press) has termed hyperauthorship... Read More about Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship.

Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework (2001)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2001). Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework. Journal of Documentation, 57(1), 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007077

Communities of practice have been identified as sites where knowledge is created in organisations. The author reviews studies of situated learning and situated action and suggests that these two activities may characterise the learning process in com... Read More about Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework.

E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy (2001)
Journal Article
Davenport, B. C. E., Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2001). E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy. Information Society, 17(1), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/019722401750067414

Electronic commerce offers immense opportunities to the producers of pornographic products and services. Although this sector generates significant revenues, it is almost invisible in academic literature on the information society and the digital eco... Read More about E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy.

Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (2000, November). Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS)

Discussion of the effect of globalization on SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in Europe focuses on a case study of a current European Commission (EC) project, Net Quality, which is based on the virtual enterprise as an intervention model that may... Read More about Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’..

The citation network as a prototype for representing trust. (2000)
Book Chapter
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2000). The citation network as a prototype for representing trust. In B. Cronin, & H. B. Atkins (Eds.), The Web of knowledge: a Festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield (517-534). Information Today Inc

Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000). Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice. Journal of Documentation, 56(5), 505-519. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007125

The difficulties of basing healthcare on literary warrant have been explained in different ways: busy practitioners have no time to read extensively, physical access is difficult, and adequate surrogates for texts like indexes, abstracts, systematic... Read More about Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice.

Costs and prices in the digital age (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (2000, February). Costs and prices in the digital age. Paper presented at the Electronic Library

No abstract available.

Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts. (1999)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (1999). Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Research, 24, 1-16

The paper describes an emerging research agenda, and some of the preliminary conceptualisations for social browsers than can assist group members who may wish to accomplish tasks together, but are unaware of each other. It is likely that the problem... Read More about Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts..

Translating texts into care: classification issues raised by evidence-based practice in the UK Health Service. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1998, October). Translating texts into care: classification issues raised by evidence-based practice in the UK Health Service. Presented at 9th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop

Texts at work: some thoughts on "Just for You" service in the context of domain expertise. (1998)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (1998). Texts at work: some thoughts on "Just for You" service in the context of domain expertise. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 39, 1-12

The authors review a number of approaches to "just for you" service. They suggest that this concept offers opportunities for library and information science (LIS) programs to extend their reach by engaging domain experts who will develop services and... Read More about Texts at work: some thoughts on "Just for You" service in the context of domain expertise..

Genres in support of collaborative information retrieval in the virtual library (1998)
Journal Article
Procter, R., Goldenberg, A., Davenport, E., & McKinlay, A. (1998). Genres in support of collaborative information retrieval in the virtual library. Interacting with Computers, 10(2), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0953-5438%2897%2900021-0

The advent of the virtual library is usually presented as a positive development for library users. However, much of the research and development work being carried out in this field tends to reinforce the perception of the use of information resourc... Read More about Genres in support of collaborative information retrieval in the virtual library.