Knowledge
can be expressed in different styles, which has an impact on how information is
used and shared. It is important to look to the underlying processes of
creation as well as the final product to critically evaluate the usefulness of
the information. In other words, what
makes a book a book and a newspaper article a newspaper article has nothing to
do with how one accesses it, but with the process that went into creating it.
Understanding this principle helps students navigate the information they find
online and evaluate it according to the process underlying its creation, rather
than by a set of memorized, constantly changing, inconsistent characteristics.
Blog
Homework
Identify
the format of the sources you find for your research topic and articulate why
the chosen formats are appropriate for the information need.
My topic
is about an investigation
into the use of institutional repositories (IRs) South African Universities.
Journal
Articles:
A comparative overview of the development of the institutional
repositories at the University of Cape Town and at the University of Pretoria.
First International Conference on African Digital Libraries and
Archives (ICADLA-1) Moahi -1 Institutional Repositories: towards harnessing knowledge
for African development.
News Paper
Articles:
What stops academics from sharing?
South Africa: Open Access Is a
Development Issue - the Status Quo Needs to Be Challenged
Video:
Capacity Building for Repositories: Helena Asamoah-Hassan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czqp9z5GqEkBook:Katsirikou, Anthi, Open Access to STM Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries Volume 153 of IFLA publications, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2011,207 pages.
Website:
Institutional Repository Unisahttp://uir.unisa.ac.za/
UWC Repositoryhttp://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/
Reference Material:
Selected Institutional Repository http://www.anu.ac.ke/library/e-resources/selected-institutional-repository/
http://www.slideshare.net/GraceVanNiekerk/a-comparative-overview-of-the-development-of-the-institutional-repositories-at-the-university-of-cape-town-and-at-the-university-of-pretoria
My second
activity will be to find a blog on my research topic because a blog is a
personal account posted online without any kind of review. It is easy to create
and can be published immediately and the person posted the blog can edit at any
time. Blogs is not so long and not so must research is necessary to find information.
I will therefore transform this blog into a newspaper article. A newspaper article describes a recent event
and is written by a journalist, reviewed by their editor, and posted online.
Information in any format is produced to convey a message and is shared via a selected delivery method. The reason why this concept is so helpful is that it does not rely on appearance or location and it is responsive to different information seeking contexts.
Grace I think you have done very well. You used a variety of formats and the explanations are satisfactory. I can see that the topic is well researched.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your slideshare presentation - Although I cannot say that the procedure used to transform the article into a slideshare is incorrectly followed, I can question the content that was used in the slideshare. What is the purpose of and motivation behind the use of a slideshare presentation? If you know the answer to this, you will see my point.
Secondly, how do you propose to transform the blog into a newspaper article? Perhaps write an article about the blog and approach the editor of a newspaper to have your article included in a newspaper column?
Overall good work.