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The reuse of public sector information is an increasingly key element in the Open data and Open government strategies. The European authorities are promoting public information [...]

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Corporate identity manuals used by Spanish public administrations at the state, regional or local level set the standards for the respective corporate image that is displayed [...]

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For local e-government to become a reality, all the elements of the ecosystem must be in place. We search for the elements which constitute the ecosystem, both from the citizen [...]

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The notion of “information subsidy” was introduced by US media researchers to refer to informational materials that an organization’s press officers place at the disposal [...]

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Open government is a form of permanent open communication between the administration and citizens, based on transparency from the administration, working with civil society [...]

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We present the need to evaluate and compare the development of e-government, and review benchmarking tools and practices. First we discuss the stages of e-government models [...]

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After a general introduction to concepts such as eGovernment, eDemocracy and eGovernance, a brief reflection on the situation of the Spanish public administration in relation [...]

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Using internet research to study the current market of programs related to image management, we searched for the best software solutions for the description, dissemination [...]

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Groupware tools have been standard in the coordination of work in organizations. The development of social networks, has popularized the pattern of collaborative work. This [...]

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The general idea behind the concept of extended opac or expanded library is to improve the opac to give it a few features that make him an internet portal like any other, [...]

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Based on experiencies in document and knowledge management, the article explains ten aspects that must be considered in order to carry out successfully a project on document [...]

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The Documentation and Information Center (CDI) of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance (Argentina) develops information products and services related to economic, technical [...]

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In the Third Sector photography is doubly important: because of the documentary character of photography and because of the social responsibility of NGOs when it comes to [...]

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The advent of the internet, the impact of digital photography and the ability to scan large volumes of images has revolutionized the stock photography agencies. The transformation [...]

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In last years, many archives, libraries and museums are exploring, participating in, or simply using resources that social networks offer on the internet. The so-called web [...]

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This paper presents the characteristics and functionalities of the Wikimedia Commons image databank shared by all Wikipedia projects. The process of finding images and ilustrating [...]

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Characterization of the stock photography sector in the context of the information ecosystem. Its main features are described in relation to three key axes of dichotomy: contracted [...]

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Based on our assertion that current record preservation systems are not feasible in the long term for reasons of scale and cost, we explore the current technological environment [...]

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We present the results of research that has revealed informative-persuasive strategies of current Spanish commercial and institutional display advertising. The study selected [...]

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The role of photography in printed and digital newspapers is presented. Secondly, the documentary treatment of the photographs by newspaper libraries are described and analyzed, [...]

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Agencies and image banks offer millions of photographs for use in advertising and publishing. During the last decade the sector has undergone a radical change due to the digital [...]

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The photographic heritage of Catalonia is analysed, first specifying which photographs to include in this study and then describing the problems of quantifying this heritage. [...]

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Spanish public institutions have carried out an extraordinary task over the last two decades to recover, manage and promote their photographic patrimony. These actions have [...]

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Personal impressions of working in photographic archives are presented here from the viewpoint of the researcher in photography, specifically one who has used these stores [...]

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The evolution of the MIAR project (Matriu d’Informació per l’Avaluació de Revistes ) –Journal evaluation information matrix– is described. Originally MIAR  was [...]

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Documentary collections held by the communications media have become a source of essential information for research. Scholars of contemporary history have found in them both [...]

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The Inspec database contains more than 12 million bibliographic records on physics, electronics, computer science and engineering. Combining tradition, quality and thoroughness [...]

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Information overload, and more specifically the overload and associated activity due to the large amount of email received and issued in our organizations, affects business [...]

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The library models emerging in a framework of digital information and communication technologies are analyzed, taking into account the changes that leaded to the current library [...]

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Since the (re)appearance of ontologies in the late nineties, there is a debate about the relationship between thesauri and ontologies. This article presents a synthesis of [...]

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This methodology offers an approach to studying the information available within Web 2.0 Media and User-Generated Content (MUGC). The large-scale generation of online information [...]

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The Umap project is a practical attempt to obtain collective intelligence from the flow of social networks: links that users share are analyzed, filtered and rated, making [...]

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The Technology watch sector studies published by the Agency for Innovation and Development of Andalusia in coopera tion with SCImago research group are aimed to provide the [...]

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We present the theoretical and methodological basis of a model that offers the managers information about their own social networks. We analyzed the nursing directors social [...]

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The implementation of a model of human capital management in a research group in Colombia is presented, with the intention of addressing some existing shortcomings associated [...]

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Mobilised opinion and social media have become a valuable source of information for organisations and individuals in operational and strategic decision making processes, such [...]

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Different authors have pointed out the importance of applying competitive intelligence (CI) to non-business sectors (public administration, universities, non-governmental [...]

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The complexity of the economic and technological environment requires companies to improve their competitiveness through innovation. In this context technology watch (TW), [...]

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Description of some of the critical issues that a competitive intelligence and surveillance technology professional has to take into account when implementing such functions [...]

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The update of the ISI rankings of Spanish universities according to fields and scientific disciplines (2nd ed. 2011)  is presented. Specifically, in this second edition we [...]

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After seven years of intense work, the final version of Resource description & access: RDA was published in the summer of 2010. This set of guidelines and instructions was [...]

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The measures taken to adapt the ContentDm  application to users’ validation requirements are introduced, along with the collections in the Instituto Cervantes  image bank [...]

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Dolceta (Development of online consumer education tool for adults) is an ongoing project involving 28 countries of the European Union, with support from the  European Commission. [...]

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BiblogTecarios (“blogging librarians”) was created with a clear objective: to offer its members the possibility of having a platform to publish their knowledge, concerns [...]

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Bibarnabloc (Bloc de les Biblioteques de Barcelona) is a blog maintained as a collaborative project of Barcelona Public Libraries professionals, with the goal of promoting [...]

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Online social networks are one of the technological tools most used by university students at present. Likewise, some enterprises are beginning to use them to support their [...]

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Digitization and the rapid development of Internet capabilities are encouraging audiovisual archives to add parts of their collections to the web, both for commercial and [...]

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Patients are turning increasingly to blogs to learn about health and to share experiences related to this area. These blogs are written by patients or health professionals [...]

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In a Web dominated by social media for information, relationships and communication, the established dynamics between content, people and technology change radically. Given [...]

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Although new information retrieval systems (search engines, metasearch engines, databases, etc.) continually appear, the daily work of information professionals leaves little [...]

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This research aims to explore the media relations in museums, through the interaction between the press office and the specialized journalists. It attempts to quantify the [...]

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Traditional purchasing processes have become more complex and sophisticated with the appearance of the internet. The increasing number of internet users and the ease of access [...]

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The rapid progress that ICTs have introduced to our field is not always accompanied by updates of the theoretical bases that sometimes are in danger of becoming obsolete and [...]

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The aim of the present study is to examine the use of social media by 27 news outlets from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Venezuela. To determine how [...]

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The rapid pace at which trends, news, tools, technologies, devices, services, etc. come and go in our information society requires of every citizen a certain capacity to internalize [...]

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The first two products of the series of ISO 30300 Management system for records standards are going to be published soon. Their principal characteristics are described, as [...]

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Research impacts of national higher education systems are compared using their normalized impacts (ratio of institution’s average impact to the world’s average). Fifty [...]

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This paper advocates the advantages of centralized repositories against the spread of institutional projects. The continuing emergence of new resources, open archives and [...]

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Desde la creación de su página en Facebook, la Biblioteca Nacional de España ha ido creando un entorno 2.0 caracterizado por la apertura de canales institucionales en diversas [...]

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The main features of ICA-AtoM, a free software developed by the Canadian company Artefactual Systems, under the patronage of ICA (International Council of Archives) and Unesco, [...]

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Smartphones have implemented augmented reality applications, with virtual layers overlapping real images. One of the uses of augmented reality is to display information related [...]

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In late 2009 the W3C stopped developing xhtml2 and focused on defining html5 instead. Since then, there has been some confusion and heated debates about the proper markup [...]

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Since the Apple Store opened in 2008, apps have become an interesting business model for developers and a fun way to spread the features of handheld devices (mobile phones, [...]

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The emergence of electronic ink, reading devices with legibility levels comparable to paper books, with capacity to store several thousand books, the increase of digital publishing [...]

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In 2010 technology trends became popular that were as diverse and innovative as net neutrality, internet television, video on demand, mobile commerce (due to the increase [...]

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Bibliometrics on a research subject needs a careful selection of bibliographic records to be retrieved and downloaded. Whenever national production is evaluated or international [...]

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Since the first decade of the 21st Century, an explosion has occurred in the publication of university rankings. Due to the quantity and variety of initiatives, some authors [...]

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After a short historical perspective of bibliographic databases with citations, which allow bibliometric studies, the features of Google Scholar as a possible database for [...]

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Effects of the evaluation criteria used by assessment agencies on Spanish productivity in communication research. On the one hand, the number of academic journals has increased [...]

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The new bibliometric product announced by Thomson Reuters, Book citation index, is described. The authors discuss how this powerful company can carry out this big project [...]

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Introduction to the web analytics concept and its application to library portals. It is proposed to establish the goals the library wants to reach and then to define indicators [...]

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This paper analyzes the situation of Spanish journals in the master journal list of ISI Thomson Reuters’ citation indexes. The changes since 2007 will influence future results [...]

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Review of the scientific publication situation in Europe and especially in Spain. Among other issues, infometrics, indicators, university rankings, databases, WoS and Scopus, [...]

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The changes that Google have introduced in the search results for “guessing” user’s preferences, and trying to give results closer to their intended search targets (and [...]

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Some examples of search terms and phrases used by Google users, which are available free of charge on the Google Adwords service, are discussed. The analysis of why and how [...]

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Having observed the progress of museums in the computerization of collections, the author warns about the need to ensure that the cataloguing efforts adopt appropriate technological [...]

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The main features of the resource description and access (RDA) standard, published in 2010, are analyzed. Designed to facilitate the capture, storage, retrieval and visualization [...]

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The report of the Spanish Network of University Libraries (Rebiun) “Science 2.0: implementation of the social web to research” is discussed, and the main websites that [...]

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Short summary of the Web situation in 2010, analysing the situation of 2.0 technologies and their evolution to adapt to the new conditions of creation of, access to and dissemination [...]

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Ebooks have undergone a spectacular development in the past two years, extending their success beyond the forecasts of specialists. Attest to this digital reading statistics, [...]

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The structure and characteristics of the main products for accessing scientific information are described. The different types of content, the technology used (assignment [...]

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The editorial function has been characterized by a strong systems component, in the sense that all chain elements are closely interrelated in a necessary concatenation. The [...]

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The development of online information services that make intensive use of data and information of all kinds, such as social networks, raises questions about their custody [...]

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The organization Wikileaks delivered to five international media 250,000 cablegrams that had been sent by U.S. ambassadors in countries around the world to their government. [...]

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Media have quickly integrated audience participation on their websites, and comments on the news have become very popular. But this participation has produced many problems [...]

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This radiography of the state of digital media in 2010 pays special attention to the situation in Spain, with references to the international one. The main points are: the [...]

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Review of the status of scientific information market in 2010. Presentation of the most relevant multidisciplinary products and services. All major platforms, journal aggregators, [...]

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The aim of this paper is to explain some ways of innovation that are being extended to Spanish public libraries, and to consider that these changes require a more flexible [...]

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This paper justifies participation by public libraries in designing and publishing in “localpedias” as a way to promote collaboration in the creation of local content. [...]

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Although information professionals are working with the newer technologies, sometimes little innovation is seen in their services. The innovation skills of professionals and [...]

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Reflection on the role of public libraries in the digital information environment. The appropriate digital content niche that concerns libraries working in a collaborative [...]

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With the advent of digital books it is recommended that librarians take an active role, defending the rights of citizens to be able to continue enjoying free reading, and [...]

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Given the backwardness of public administrations to implement e-government tools in practice and in everyday life to make life easier for citizens, public libraries prove [...]

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This review of major developments in the library world in 2010 analyzes the impact of the global economic crisis through budget cuts to library services, with some examples [...]

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The professional commitment of those who work in the information sector goes beyond the exercise of their technical activities. We live in a time when problems are universal. [...]

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With desktop availability of electronic publications, researchers have reduced significantly their visits to libraries. A new role for librarians is described: their integration [...]

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Librarians and information scientists must seek collaboration with other professionals, not only –as until now– with the computer scientists, but also with teaching experts. [...]

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The new definition of the professional profile of information managers in the digital era cannot be uniformly considered, but will be determined by particular variations in [...]

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For years, librarians, record managers and information scientists have seen themselves as outside of the labor market associated with new technologies. It seems that the profession [...]