Analysis of the urban/rural broadband divide in Canada: Using GIS in planning terrestrial wireless deployment   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

M. Sawada  Daniel Cossette  Barry Wellar  Tolga Kurt 《Government Information Quarterly》2006,23(3-4):454

Millions of Canadians residing in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote communities do not have broadband Internet access. This situation has led to a national “broadband divide.” That is, the deployment of wireline broadband is very limited in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote areas because of the significant expense of installation and maintenance of the wired infrastructure needed to reach dwellings in these locations.Terrestrial broadband wireless technology, on the other hand, does not entail the same kind of physical infrastructure. As a result, there are dramatic changes in how spatial considerations affect the provision of broadband Internet services (BIS) to areas beyond the urban zone. In particular, the spatial question is now focused on assessing the capacity for different technological solutions to reach profitable population bases, and brings to the forefront organizations that are developing non-line-of-sight (NLOS) technologies that would permit wireless Internet access over much greater distances than current solutions.We begin this paper by establishing the importance of broadband connectivity to Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote communities. This discussion comments on the role of the Government of Canada in the provision of broadband connectivity to residents of these communities, and outlines the current regulatory issues that govern wireless services and policy formulation.The second part of the paper illustrates the use of geographic information system (GIS) approaches in the study of wireless broadband planning and deployment. Case study findings suggest that GIS applications can make a significant contribution to the analysis of wireless deployment planning, to the understanding of the relationships between wireless signal sources and consumers, and to the spatial configuration of terrestrial wireless broadband networks. We conclude the paper by discussing how the GIS approach employed could be used to inform the public policy process with regard to increasing access to broadband Internet services in all regions of the country, and thereby providing the opportunity for all Canadians, regardless of location, to fully participate in the Information Society.  相似文献   

Anonymous personalization in collaborative web search   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Barry Smyth  Evelyn Balfe 《Information Retrieval》2006,9(2):165-190

We present an innovative approach to Web search, called collaborative search, that seeks to cope with the type of vague queries that are commonplace in Web search. We do this by leveraging the search behaviour of previous searchers to personalize future result-lists according to the implied preferences of a community of like-minded individuals. This technique is implemented in the I-SPY meta-search engine and we present the results of a live-user trial which indicates that I-SPY can offer improved search performance when compared to a benchmark search engine, across a variety of performance metrics. In addition, I-SPY achieves its level of personalization while preserving the anonymity of individual users, and we argue that this offers unique privacy benefits compared to alternative approaches to personalization.  相似文献   

决策支持技术在电子政务中的应用*——以大社保领域为例      总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

金莹  邓三鸿  李勇 《现代图书情报技术》2004,20(9):66-69

不同的电子政务系统需要特定的决策支持系统，本文以大社保领域为例，介绍了电子政务系统引入决策支持技术的必要性，详细讨论了社会保障决策支持系统的内容和目标，同时还阐述了决策支持技术在大社保领域的应用研究中需要解决的关键性问题。本文从实际应用的角度出发，给出了一个较为完整的社会保障的决策支持系统的解决方案。  相似文献   

对开展社会科学成果查新研究的探讨   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

许家梁刘彦庆  褚衍昌 《津图学刊》2004,(3):4-6,29

本文认为，国内现有的自然科学成果查新机构无法适应社会科学成果查新需要，建立全国性社科成果查新体系势在必行。为此，需要开展相关的社会科学成果查新研究。本文对开展社会科学成果查新研究的背景、意义、内容和方法进行了探讨。  相似文献   

“公共图书馆精神”的科学解读   总被引：27，自引：1，他引：27  

王宗义 《中国图书馆学报》2004,30(5)

“公共图书馆精神”是近代图书馆活动中提炼出来的职业道德基础之一。机械地移植外来的社会文化制度,仅从字面上理解公共图书馆精神,是导致我国公共图书馆活动缺少社会认同的主要原因。需要把公共图书馆活动和相应的社会文化制度放到相关的社会环境中去考察,认识这一社会文化活动的原始运作模式,进而科学地解读“公共图书馆精神”和社会文化制度,为图书馆活动和科学研究提供一个理性的基础。参考文献4。  相似文献   

Analysis of Academic Libraries' Facebook Posts: Text and Data Analytics     

Sultan M. Al-Daihani  Alan Abrahams 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2018,44(2):216-225

This research analyzed a dataset of academic libraries' posts on Facebook. It applied a text and data analytics approach to a dataset collected from the Facebook posts of academic libraries at the top 100 English-speaking universities, as listed by the 2014 Shanghai World University Rankings. The dataset is from a two-year posting history of 18,333 unique posts, 113,621 likes, and 3401 comments. Less than a quarter of the libraries had more than 2000 post-related likes, and only seven received more than 100 comments on their postings. Content analysis identified the most prevalent single word (unigrams), bigrams (two-word sequences), and trigrams (three-word sequences) in high and low engagement content. Semantic analysis identified the semantic categories for posts with high and low engagement. The findings can assist academic libraries in their social media strategies for engagement, marketing, and visibility.  相似文献   

Build It and They Will Come? Patron Engagement Via Twitter at Historically Black College and University Libraries     

Brenton Stewart  Jessie Walker 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2018,44(1):118-124

This study is a social media analysis on the use of Twitter at Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) libraries. While information science researchers have begun examining how libraries use social media, the vast majority of these studies are situated at large flagship research-intensive universities. Additionally, there currently exist deficiencies in research on social media deployment at HBCU libraries. We leverage, the IBM Watson's analytic engine, to systemically examine over 23,000, tweets over an eighteen-month period, around a set of objective measures including propagation of retweets and sentiment to assess follower engagement. The analysis found little evidence of follower engagement with library generated content. However, we observed a substantial volume of library tweets coalesced around institutional boosterism, rather than library related phenomena. This non-library related content represented the vast majority of retweets, but paradoxically was propagated by non-followers. Additionally, tweets relating to institutional boosterism produced the most positive sentiment within the data.  相似文献   

They’re good blogs,Brent: (Mostly) painless branding for information professionals     

Sarah E. McFadden 《Public Library Quarterly》2018,37(3):306-317

ABSTRACT

Social media is a powerful tool for building an online presence, but it asks a lot. While it affords plentiful opportunities for professional development and networking, building a professional brand in an online space is not without its drawbacks and risks. By working from a set of actionable principles and benchmarks, users can minimize frustrations and setbacks to build a useful professional presence, all while imbuing the web with the tenets of good information stewardship.  相似文献   

More Than Just a Student Voice: Facilitating Student Leadership Development Through the Library Student Liaison Program     

Suzanne Milton  Qing H. Meade 《图书馆管理杂志》2018,58(4):346-363

This article explores how the library-student liaison program at Eastern Washington University (EWU) Libraries has evolved into an opportunity for students to develop leadership skills. Originally designed to foster better communication between the EWU Libraries and students enrolled at the university, we recognized that the process of achieving established goals for the program provided a vehicle for students' leadership-skill development. To facilitate the leadership process, librarians employed the Social Change Model. Designed specifically for college students, this model engages the student to develop individual capacities to strengthen group activities that foster positive changes in the community and society.  相似文献   

The Effects of Facebook Relational Maintenance on Friendship Quality: An Investigation of the Facebook Relational Maintenance Measure     

Bree McEwan  Erin Sumner  Jennifer Eden  Jennifer Fletcher 《Communication Research Reports》2018,35(1):1-11

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