1. Jela Steinerová Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia steinerova@fphil.uniba.sk

2. Agenda Information interactions Information ecology Digital scholarship and information practices Selected studies of PhD. students and information managers, concept mapping Proposal of a model of information interactions Conclusions

3. Objectives and contexts Challenges of information science Information- intensive work in science New ways of interaction with digital environment Objectives Analysis of information interactions New models of digital scholarship, social science, humanities

4. Questions Which information activities are typical for digital scholarship? How to develop new models? Can we integrate information ecology with digital scholarship?

5. Information interactions Human information interactions: relationships between people and information (interactions of scholars in sociotechnical systems) Holistic approaches – need History in information science: Belkin, Saracevic, Spink, Fidel Our interest: academic information work Scientific information spaces, shared cognitive attributes

6. Information ecology Davenport, Prusak Making information meaningful Nardi, O´Day Places of information activities, tools, social relations Our approach Values, community, tools

7. Vision Integration of human information behavior with design Adaptations Ecological approach Satisficing, optimizing, personalization Re-use of information objects Cognitive information processing Information sharing, digital scholarship Simple organisms, social systems Transformation of scientific communication

8. Digital scholarship New kinds of research – large volumes of data Changing methods, tools Challenges for information practices: Innovations, information sharing, data mining Open science, knowledge discovery Digital repositories Scientific information records Collaboratories

9. Digital social sciences, humanities Humanistic scholarship: Information objects Interpretation, analyses, research story Social sciences: Understand human behavior Data – surveys : interpretation, cognition, Making knowledge explicit Interdisciplinary interconnections with technologies: Assistance in interpretations and collaboration Integration of cultural objects Data sharing

10. Selected studies Relevance: PhD. students Relevance 2.0 Information ecology: information managers Model of information ecology Information and research behavior of doctoral students

11. Doctoral students: example Young intellectual elites of universities Activities: research, teaching, creativity, communication, development of expertise Objectives of qualitative study: Identify information and research practices Model information interactions Semi-structured interviews (16) Information horizons

12. Initial results: selection of topic Interest Personal relations Environment Previous study Role of supervisor Department Topicality topic Curiosity New information Verification of information Problem solving Narrowing the topic, focus incentives

13. Information interactions: strategies Browsing: Internet, web Keywords, citation chaining Google Google Scholar Libraries Digital libraries Electronic databases of scientific documents Media, portals, wiki, blogs Consulting, discussions

14. Social media Passive use Reading Sharing Questionnaires Benefits: Discussion fora Blogs Wiki Personal, Private communication

15. Influence of academic community Supervisors Foreign experts Concept definitions Relationships Information literacy courses Academic webpages

16. Barriers Lack of time Lack of sources Disintegration of systems Information overload Lack of personal communication Outdated documents Compatibility of sources Terminology Citing Self-efficacy Sharing of sources collaboration

17. Proposals - help Writing theses Citations Information literacy Use of electronic sources Collaboration with colleagues Learning Sharing of sources, strategies, tools, methods E-learning Repositories Integration of systems

18. Implications Need: Cultivation of information environment Building academic communities: Digital environment: Community spaces Information- intensive process: Add value to information in information interactions

19. Model of information interactions in digital scholarship

20. Implications for digital scholarship Make implicit knowledge explicit From lower levels of context to the highest levels Discovery of knowledge Visualization Interpretation Ecology: Adding value Re-use

21. Concept mapping for digital scholarship Visualize knowledge Concept mapping Concepts and relationships Critical reflection Knowledge sharing Creativity collaboration 15 master and PhD theses in LIS Rules for space orientation Relations: definition, associations, hierarchy

22. Concept map - example

23. Benefits of concept mapping Discovery of context New interpretations Ontological models Collaboration Knowledge managment Knowledge discovery

24. Community portal: example Research: curiosity Project mgmt Concept infrastr. Interactions Experts, suprevisors Social networking Methodological tools Orientation in sources Information ethics Case studies Affective information management

25. Conclusions Community models Social networking, dialogue, reviewing Multiple scholarly interactions Conceptual infrastructures From data cleaning to interpretations Guidance for research work Integration of information behavior with design

26. Conclusions Value-added ecological information interactions for digital sciences availability convenience collaborations networking visibility creativity

27. References BORGMAN, Christine. (2007). Scholarship in the Digital Age. Information, Infrastructure and the internet. London: MIT Press. FIDEL, R. (2012). Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior. Cambridge, MIT Press. STEINEROVÁ, Jela a kol. 2012. Informačná ekológia akademického informačného prostredia. Záverečná správa z výskumu VEGA 1/0429/10. Editor Jela Steinerová. Autori: Jela Steinerová, Jana Ilavská, Lucia Lichnerová, Miriam Ondrišová, Helena Ondriašová, Linda Prágerová, Martina Haršányiová. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo UK, 2012. 96 s. ISBN 978-80-223-3178-4. Steinerová, J., Grešková, M., Šušol, J. (2007). Prieskum relevancie informácií. Výsledky analýz rozhovorov s doktorandmi FiFUK. Bratislava, CVTI SR 150s STEINEROVÁ, Jela, Grešková, Mirka, Ilavská, Jana. 2010. Informačné stratégie v elektronickom prostredí. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského 2010. 192s. ISBN 978-80-223-2848-7.