Open government information systems offer great potential for advancing civic life and
democracy, but they also reflect and reinforce the biases and systematic inequalities faced …

This special issue of the “Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology”
examines conceptual models as products of, and tools for, critical inquiry in Information …

While the focus of information science and technology research is in information, sometimes
the lack of information, information gaps and non‐information can make an equally great or …

This paper examines a conceptual model of the book advanced in the mid-20th century by
the eminent Indian librarian and classification theorist SR Ranganathan (1892-1972), who …

As a key element of digital infrastructures that shapes the use and reuse of digital
information objects, metadata is a rich source for critique. This paper argues for metadata as …

This systematic literature review synthesizes published sources from the ASIS&T Digital
Library and the ACM Digital Library to develop a definition of the carceral state and to show …

Abstract Information-analytical systems (IAS) are essential for conducting scientific research
in the digital era. They enable researchers to access, analyze, and process information …

This short paper presents early results from a data quality analysis of an open arrest record
dataset from the Los Angeles Police Department. We use data quality metrics from a …

Use of archival collections is accelerated by the presence of finding aids, which
communicate the arrangement and description of collection contents. To arrive at the optimal …

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