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Vol. 30 No. iConf (2025): iConference 2025

Published: 2025-03-11

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Editorial

Preface, Organisation, Reviewers, and Table of content

Isaac Sserwanga, Madelyn Sanfilippo, Charles Inskip, Annika Hinze, Rhea Rowena Ubana-Apolinario, France Bouthillier, Sara Martínez Cardama, Josep Cobarsí Morales, Alan César Belo Angeluci, Julián D. Cortés

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Peer-reviewed papers

The promoting effect of internet use on the physical health of Chinese older adults: an empirical study based on the difference-in-differences model

Haoyuan Sun, Zhenkang Fu, Zhengtong Pu, Qinghua Zhu

1-10
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Navigating end-of-life decision making: a thematic analysis of Uchinanchu American older adult’s information behaviour

Kristina Shiroma

11-22
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“You can’t imagine how hard it is”: hardship streamers in live crowdfunding

Yueru Yan, Pnina Fichman

23-37
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Motivational duality and fake news reporting behavior: a polynomial regression with response surface analysis

Xiao-Liang Shen, Lin-Yao Liu, Yang-Jun Li

38-53
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Drivers of metaverse adoption among children and youths: a UTATU2 perspective

Liuyu Huang, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Stella Xin Yin

54-62
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Ética, política e informação: uma reflexão conceitual sobre sociedade e comportamento (Ethics, politics, and information: a conceptual reflection on society and behaviour)

Vitor Serejo Ferreira Batista

63-73
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Evaluating techniques of artificial intelligence for social robots

Jessica K. Barfield

74-80
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Taking disagreements into consideration: human annotation variability in privacy policy analysis

Tian Wang, Yuanye Ma, Catherine Blake, Masooda Bashir, Ryan Wang

81-92
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A more advanced group polarization measurement approach based on LLM-based agents and graphs

Zixin Liu, Ji Zhang, Yiran Ding

93-107
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The role of ontologies in machine learning: a case study of gene ontology

Qiaoyi Liu, Jian Qin

108-122
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Finding Pareto trade-offs in fair and accurate detection of toxic speech

Soumyajit Gupta, Venelin Kovatchev, Anubrata Das, Maria De-Arteaga, Matthew Lease

123-141
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Safety anchors and deflected desires: generative AI and the production of sexualities

Daniel Carter

142-149
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Empowering customer service with generative AI: enhancing agent performance while navigating challenges

Charles Costa, Souvick Ghosh

150-158
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AI lifecycle from a data-driven perspective: a systematic review

Di Wang, Ruiyang Chen, Chuanni Li, Shanshan Gu

159-170
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Gallery walk as research method in information science

Rebecca Frank, Stephanie Krueger

171-179
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Discourses of fear around AI and their implications for library and information science

Sarah Appedu, Yigang Qin

180-188
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Transforming bridges into smart infrastructure: a data-driven approach to monitoring bats and promoting sustainable coexistence

Jacob Koch, Jess Kropczynski, Janette Perez-Jimenez, Joseph S. Johnson

189-202
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Improving scholarship accessibility with reinforcement learning

Haining Wang, Jason Clark, Hannah McKelvey, Leila Sterman, Gao Zheng, Zuoyu Tian, Xiaozhong Liu

203-218
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How do data authors perform in data-intensive research activities? Evidence from author contribution statement in data papers

Heng Yang, Yonglin Yu, Fenghong Liu

219-239
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A benchmark for evaluating crisis information generation capabilities in LLMs

Ruilian Han, Lu An, Wei Zhou, Gang Li

240-248
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Design of audio ads to prebunk misinformation and promote civil discourse

Diana Daly, Kainan Jarrette

249-259
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Beyond the hype: longitudinal trends in virtual reality perceptions beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Christopher Ball, Kuo-Ting Huang, Jess Francis-Levin

260-279
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Engaging with information beyond vision: hands-on approaches to computational thinking for blind and visually impaired learners

Kyungwon Koh, JooYoung Seo, Si Chen, Eugene Malcolm Cox

280-286
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Does Google dream of electric memes? From human to computational culture

Alexander O. Smith, Una Joh, Jeff Hemsley

287-300
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Teaching computational archival science: context, pedagogy, and future directions

Victoria L. Lemieux, Richard Marciano

301-318
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Gendered recordkeeping practices in marginalised communities in Bangladesh

Viviane Frings-Hessami

319-329
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The affective dimension of archival work: understanding the thoughts and feelings of archivists who documented the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Allan A. Martell, Travis L. Wagner, Shannon Oltmann

330-337
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An ensemble framework for sentiment-embedded event evolution in diaspora oral archives

Jing Zhou

338-348
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Innovative practice of archival data development workflow in the AGI era: a case study of scientist archives project

Yaming Fu, Jie Song, Xinran Zhang, Jingyun Bi

349-360
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Data feminism in museum collections: mapping principles to practices

Alexandria Rayburn

361-372
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A semantic framework for digital archives of ancient Chinese villages aimed at humanistic discovery: a case study of four villages in Henan

Tianjiao Qi, Yiduo Wang, Meiman Wong, Tsamchu Basang, Linglu Li

373-397
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A cultural heritage data curation framework for knowledge discovery

Ruijie He, Xiaoguang Wang

398-412
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Ideological presentations in official promotion of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) on short-form video platforms: a multimodal content analysis

Ruoxi Liu, Haoran Qiu

413-424
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Professional identity scale for information professionals: an instrument development

Fatih Oguz

425-434
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Stewardship of digital language archives: training development and testing through collaboration of information scientists, linguists, and communities

Oksana L. Zavalina, Alexandra O'Neil, Shobhana L. Chelliah

435-442
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The inevitability of AI: a study of undergraduate students’ perceptions of AI tools in their future careers

Mónica Colón-Aguirre, Kawanna Bright

443-449
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The smart archive management practicing pipeline: a virtual online learning platform for AI literacy development in archival science

Lanxi Dong, Shuning Tang, Yuan Cheng, Ping Wang

450-466
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‘Just because we can, does it mean we should?’ The integrated data infrastructure in Aotearoa, and its implications for Māori

Daphne Boey, Jennifer Campbell-Meier, Spencer Lilley, Janet Toland

467-475
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The impact of privacy authorization framing in mobile apps on privacy disclosure: a regulatory focus approach

Zhuo Sun, Dandan Zhang, Xiaoning Gao, Yan Jin

476-485
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Does artificial intelligence harm labour? Investigating the limitations of incident trackers as evidence for policymaking

Theodore Dreyfus Ledford

486-499
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Cultivating university data culture in the age of artificial intelligence: a conceptual framework and critical reflections

Yunjie Tang

500-507
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‘Sora is incredible and scary’: public perceptions and governance challenges of text-to-video generative AI models

Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Abhinav Choudhry, Ece Gumusel, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

508-522
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Investigating privacy risks in open government data: an exploratory case study

Daniel Carter, Caroline Stratton

523-532
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Using the information inequity framework to study GenAI equity: analysis of educational perspectives

Sarah Zipf, Chuhao Wu, Tiffany Petricini

533-547
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Governing knowledge commons in information science

Ebubechukwu E. Uba, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

548-555
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Steering the AI world: an exploratory comparison of AI Acts in the EU and Canada

Ruiyi Zhu, Tien-I Tsai

556-564
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Open access: Māori perspectives on publishing

Spencer Lilley

565-572
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BSLISE directory: innovating global mapping and organization of LIS schools

Tiago Emmanuel Nunes Braga, Josir Cardoso Gomes, Nathaly Cristine Leite Rocha, Fatih Oguz, Chris Cunningham

573-581
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Towards nuanced and critical data analysis: an exploratory investigation into complexities of Goodreads reviews for children's books

Yuerong Hu, Chen Ling

582-595
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Conceptual approaches to information-as-potentiality

Alexandra Chassanoff, Annie T. Chen

596-609
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An analysis of poet demographic and thematic diversity in a poetry collection for inclusive AI

Kahyun Choi, Gyuri Kang

610-617
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Towards memetic legitimation of knowledge: memes and cultural heritage

Alexander O. Smith, Calvin Cousin, Una Joh, Christy Khoury, Yiran Duan, Jeff Hemsley

618-626
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Innovation hesitancy: exploring reluctance to digital innovation in the Swedish cultural sector

Hanna Carlsson, Ahmad Kamal, Charlie Järpvall

627-634
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How does digital humanities research talk about AI? A bibliometric analysis

Wenyi Shang, Rongqian Ma, Heather Moulaison-Sandy

635-645
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The dual impact of digital humanities: evaluating the role of DH approaches in historical and cultural resource development

Sijia Lu, Jiaqing Long, Yongjun Xu

646-653
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Systematically modeling and extracting bibliographic metadata of power grid standard documents with LLMs

Guowei Chen, Wei Xie, Yanan Liu, Xiaoqun Yuan, Liang Zhao

654-665
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Demystifying perception and decision-making in peer review: a semantic perspective

Yujie Zhang, Weikang Yuan, Zhuoren Jiang

666-678
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How is AIGC shaping the world: an analysis of bibliometrics

Ying Guo, Fengchang Yu, Jianfei Lai, Xiaoqun Yuan

679-689
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Review articles as windows into Knowledge accumulation: the case of AI research

Siyuan Peng, Lei Hu, Jingrui Hou, Youqing Xia, Ping Wang

690-698
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Exploring the patterns and influencing factors of emerging technology impact: a case study of digital medical technology

Man Jiang, Siluo Yang, Shuang Tao

699-711
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Leveraging scientific knowledge for technological inventions: insights from knowledge recombination theory

Guiyan Ou, Haodong Chen, Kaili Wang, Jiang Wu

712-731
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Are we there yet? Evaluation of AI-generated metadata for online information resources

Vyacheslav Zavalin, Oksana L. Zavalina

732-740
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Scientists, but deny science? Climate change sceptics networks on YouTube led by scientists

Qiaoyi Liu, Yuheun Kim, Jeff Hemsley

741-751
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Uncovering strategies for identifying deepfakes

Celene Neo, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Rachel Wan Ying Chun, Chei Sian Lee

752-760
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Decoding how the older adults identify misinformation: an analysis of internal mechanisms

Zhaotong Wu, Yepei Wang, Hui Yan

761-769
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Examining privacy concerns and conversations before, during, and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of r/privacy

Erica Shusas, Shruti Sannon, Katie Teitelbaum, Patrick Skeba, Eric P. S. Baumer, Andrea Forte

770-788
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‘Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep’: a thematic analysis of data hoarding as digital curation practice

Emily Maemura, Travis L. Wagner

789-797
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Graphicon evolution on Bilibili: a historically informed socio-technical approach

Yiqiong Zhang, Susan C. Herring, Yanmin Wu, Rongle Tan

798-814
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Analyzing the language of rejection: a study of user flagging responses to hate speech on Reddit

Sharon Lisseth Perez, Xiaoying Song, Lingzi Hong

815-823
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Comunicação científica e mediação da informação em mídia social: relato de experiência dos eventos organizados pela Comissão Diálogos de Pesquisa do PPGCI/UFF

Camilla Castro de Almeida, Juliana Maia Mendes, Vinicius Ribeiro Soares dos Santos, Elizabete Gonçalves de Souza, Lucia Maria Velloso de Oliveira

824-835
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Mapping GLAMs: creating a national dataset of GLAMs to develop a categorical climate-change risk assessment scale

Edward Benoit, III, Jill Trepanier, Jennifer Vanos, Emily Fisher, Kaitlyn Bailey, Annie Waddell, Haley Moore, Mandy Hatman, Mary Sidwell, Symonne Russell, Virginia Seger, Paige Boutte, Amanda Latta, Zoe Mohammad, Kyriel Felton, Erin Deliman, Breanna Benson-Pearce, Wendy Johnson, Allyson Russell, Baillie Pretzer, Christopher Reeder, Melissa McConnell, Lisa Dahlke, Kaitlynn Melear, Lillian Bodi, Savannah T. Lyle, Zach Lannes, Gwen L. Wells, Benjamin A. Teincuff, Jason M. Straight, Tiffany Rockwell, Shane T. Manthei, Jennifer L. Benner, Jane Fiegel, Amanda Lima, Elizabeth Rininger, Caroline Melinger, Deborah Metz-Andrews, Meryl Roepke, Karen Isaac, Mallory Collins

836-846
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Promoting AI literacy through U.S. academic libraries: an analysis of LibGuides from ARL and Oberlin group libraries using the EDUCAUSE AI literacy framework

Ko Chun Ru, Rong Tang

847-865
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Readers’ advisory guide development for webtoon

Hyerim Cho, Denice Adkins, Hillary Gould, Katy Bond, Ky Flood

866-874
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Exploring the psychological mechanisms of library anxiety considering achievement motivation and goal orientation

Masaki Takeda, Satoru Suto

875-883
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Towards a sustainable automated library operation; the imperatives of digital skills and related factors of digital skills development of university library professionals in Nigeria

Gbenga Adetunla, Gobinda Chowdhury

884-896
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Digital skills development of university library professionals in Nigeria: testing the UTAUT model

Gbenga Adetunla, Gobinda Chowdhury

897-909
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Aprendizaje-Servicio como instrumento para la accesibilidad y la inclusión: resultado de una propuesta colaborativa entre universidades y bibliotecas (Service-learning as a tool for accessibility and inclusion: results of a collaborative approach between

Elena Loreto Olmedo-Pagés, Rosario Arquero-Avilés

910-918
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Leveraging social circles and algorithmic processes in digital mental health tools for college students' stress management

Farhanuddin Fazaluddin Kazi, Jomara Sandbulte

919-940
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The role of paralinguistic digital affordances (PDAs) in online mental health communities (OMHCs) in Saudi Arabia

Sara Alrashed, Peter A. Bath, Kushwanth Koya

941-959
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Enhancing vaccine communication in social Q&A: identifying readily applicable factors for answer acceptance on medical sciences stack exchange

Hengyi Fu

960-969
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Barriers and facilitators to documenting social needs in electronic health records: a pilot survey

Kuo-Ting Huang, Ravi Patel, Sharon Connor, Elaine Kong, Xuan Nie, Jocelyn Schmersal

970-981
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The challenges of cross-organizational patient data sharing in medical consortium: a study within the context of two-way referral systems

Lihong Zhou, Hanyu Miao, Ruiyang Tu, Jiangfeng Hu

982-991
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Collaborative human-AI risk annotation: co-annotating online incivility with CHAIRA

Jinkyung Katie Park, Rahul Dev Ellezhuthil, Pamela Wisniewski, Vivek Singh

992-1008
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Deskilling and upskilling with AI systems

Kevin Crowston, Francesco Bolici

1009-1023
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Inconsistency-driven approach for human-in-the-loop entity matching

Hiroyoshi Ito, Takahiro Koizumi, Ryuji Yoshimoto, Yukihiro Fukushima, Takashi Harada, Atsuyuki Morishima

1024-1038
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The effects of anthropomorphic framing on senior news consumers’ attitudes towards health AI systems: a mediation of psychological distance

Yanrun Xu, Tingting Jiang

1039-1048
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Understanding entangled human-technology-world relations: use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults

Alisha Pradhan, Shaan Chopra, Pooja Upadhyay, Robin Brewer, Amanda Lazar

1049-1063
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Research on the influencing mechanism of blind or visually impaired persons’ evaluation on generative AI in visual tasks

Huitong Chen, Yuting Pan, Hui Yan

1064-1072
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Will potential threats persist? Attitudes and behavioral responses of creative professionals toward GenAI

Mingxia Jia, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Xiaoyu Zhang

1073-1083
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Taming TikTok: how BIPOC individuals perceive and interact with algorithmically generated content

Jiarun Dai, Naila Hajiyeva, Sehba Wani, Kayla Booth

1084-1094
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Examining generation Z's use of generative AI from an affordance-based approach

Chei Sian Lee, Li En Tan, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

1095-1102
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On the robustness of cover version identification models: a study using cover versions from YouTube

Simon Hachmeier, Robert Jäschke

1103-1122
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Exploring the role of large language model in collaborative travel planning task

Hikaru Kumamoto, Hideo Joho

1123-1130
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Information places: myth, affect, and gaps in information retrieval modelling

Nathan R. Johnson

1131-1141
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Detecting text-level intellectual influence with Knowledge graph embeddings

Lucian Li, Eryclis Silva

1142-1152
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Information access via voice commands on YouTube: empirical evidence on the consequences for a marginalised community in Bangladesh

Joy Bhowmik, Viviane Frings-Hessami, Gillian Oliver, Md. Khalid Hossain

1153-1168
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Beyond language archives: proposing the archival community informatics framework as an interdisciplinary link to revitalization lexicography

Merrion Frederick, Ana Roeschley, Oksana L. Zavalina

1169-1179
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From pixels to perspectives: exploring perceptions of representation in character design

Nani Le Tang, Erin Eungyo Moon, Jose De Jesus Garrido Iniguez, Daniel Raul Mena Ramirez, Daniel L. Gardner

1180-1201
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State literacy: lessons from social struggle in the Colombian Amazon

Claudia Grisales Bohórquez

1202-1208
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Analysis of the integration of e-commerce and rural lives in China

Guangchun Zheng, Sharifa Sultana, Kate Williams

1209-1216
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Narratives for healing: an exploration of interactions within an online community on navigating bullying trauma

Subhasree Sengupta, Yin Yang

1217-1224
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Are data papers cited as research data? Preliminary analysis on interdisciplinary data paper citations

Kai Li, Pao-Pei Huang, Wei Jeng

1225-1233
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‘A Mulligan’s stew’: educational preparation for today’s academic library liaisons in the humanities and social sciences

Rachel Fleming-May, Wade Bishop, Caroline Villarreal

1234-1243
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AI literature review systems: an analysis of performance, affordances, and outputs for a complex topic in the social sciences

Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Wilson Castaño-Muñoz, Laura Ridenour, Denice Adkins

1244-1252
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Get the root of research misconduct: a systematic review of its cultural factors

Wei Feng, Lihong Zhou, Junmin Xiao

1253-1275
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Researchers’ reflections on values, mechanisms, and dynamics of knowledge and information sharing in international academic projects

Dorota Rak, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Livhuwani Muthelo, Bhaskar Mukherjee

1276-1289
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