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"Webology" ISSN
1735-188X
Lavora
da diversi anni come bibliotecaria presso la Sapienza
Università
di Roma, attualmente è responsabile della biblioteca del Dipartimento
di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica. Irlandese di nascita, si
è laureata in Storia Moderna presso l'università di Dublino
e,
dopo aver viaggiato e lavorato in diversi Paesi, si è stabilita in
Italia dove ha conseguito la laurea in Lettere e Filosofia presso la
Sapienza e il diploma della Scuola di Biblioteconomia del Vaticano.
Segue con interesse le applicazioni delle nuove tecnologie in
biblioteca, e in particolare quelle relative al Web 2.0.Ha tenuto corsi
sulle risorse bibliografiche online per i
docenti e gli studenti della Facoltà di Filosofia e della Facoltà di
Ingegneria.
"Webology"
(ISSN 1735-188X)
is an international peer-reviewed open access journal in English
devoted to the field of the World Wide Web. A particular focus is given
to information dissemination and communicating processes as well as the
social and cultural implications of the web.
"Webology" was
founded in 2004, and is published quarterly. The place of publication
is Iran, the publisher is the University of Teheran, Department of
Library and Information Science, and the chief and associate editors
are also Iranian (Persian), namely Dr. Alireza
Noruzi and Dr. Hamid
R. Jamali.
Both editors, however, have a vast international curriculum that can be
read in their personal profiles, and the other members of the editorial
team are from countries spread around the world: Australia, Canada,
South-Africa, US, China, France, etc. The international connotation of
the journal is also manifest in its very nature, i.e., an online
journal documenting web related topics, but also it its content.
The
journal is widely indexed and abstracted and the copyright of articles
submitted to the journal are published under the terms of the Creative
Commons License.
Since
its inception "Webology" has spanned a wide variety of topics and
interests. There is a strong emphasis on new information technologies
and methodologies. The orientation is toward quantitative experimental
work, but significant qualitative and historical research is also
sought. Topics covered to date range from Digital libraries, Libraries
and the Web, Information transferring, Information seeking behavior,
Social and cultural simpacts of information, Information marketing,
Management information systems (MIS), Informetrics, Scientometrics,
Bibliometrics, Citation analysis to Semantic Web, Web ontology, Web
Thesaurus, Webometrics, Web Intelligence (WI), Web mining, Web users
and usage studies, Intellectual freedom on the Web, Web site filtering,
Open Access, Knowledge management and much more.
Special topic issues are also often seen. The latest issue
of "Webology" is guest edited by Louise
Spiteri
at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University,
Canada. This entire issue is devoted to Folksonomy. From the editorial:
«The
papers in this special issue reflect the diversity of approaches taken
to create Web resources that reflect better the needs of end users.
Particular emphasis is placed on the need to manage the increasing
volumes of tags and information available on the Web, particularly as
more people are becoming engaged with numerous social applications. As
is discussed in some of the papers in this special edition, there is
certainly scope to consider ways in which to combine the more
traditional controlled vocabularies with the free-flowing nature of
tagging».
Peters
and Weller, in their article, suggest introducing a tag garden that
matches synonyms together to provide some additional structure, other
than tag clouds or tags-user-document co-occurences, to improve
accessibility:
Some recent articles in previous issues have included the following:
- Application
of Web 2.0 Tools in Medical Librarianship to Support Medicine 2.0,
Vahideh Zarea Gavgani; V. Vishwa Mohan, Osmania University,
India. "Webology", 5(1);
- Deterring
Digital Plagiarism, how Effective is the Digital Detection Process?,
Jayati Chaudhuri, University of Northern Colorado Libraries, USA.
"Webology", 5(1);
- Cybercrime
and the Law: An Islamic View, Mansoor Al-A'ali,
University of Bahrain. "Webology", 4(3);
- Library
2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries,
Jack M. Maness, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, USA.
"Webology", 3(2);
- Search
Engines and Power: A Politics of Online (Mis-) Information,
Elad Segev, Keele University, UK. "Webology", 5(2);
- A
Personalized Word of Mouth Recommender Model,
Chihli Hung, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. "Webology", 5(3).
As
can be seen the range is vast, covering topical issues by authors from
all over the globe. "Webology"’s public is also worldwide as can be
seen from exit
statistics to the site, interestingly with most vistis from
Singapore, the US, the Russian Federation and Germany:
Book
reviews are another feature offered by the journal. Not only are these
a good source of information about recently published books, but are
also a way for today’s librarians to stay current in their particolar
areas of specialisation or learn about unfamiliar areas.
It is
possibile to sign up for e-mail alerts. However, given the large number
of e-mails we often receive and in order to reduce our e-carbon print,
perhaps an RSS would be more recommendable.
"Webology" lends
voice to many different perspectives and gives coverage to topics that
may be difficult if not imposible to find elsewhere and is without
doubt a welcome contribution to the world of library and information
science.
A call for papers for Volume 5, Number 4, "The World Wide
Web" and "Library and Information Science",
has
now been
issued and the deadline is December 15, 2008. E-mail address for paper
submission: nouruzi@gmail.com.
Alternative e-mail address for submission: webology@gmail.com
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