https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IS/issue/feed Information Studies 2019-08-02T05:34:09+00:00 Kavi Mahesh librarian@pes.edu Open Journal Systems <p>INFORMATION STUDIES, published four times a year in January, April, July and October, is sponsored by the Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies (RCIS), Bengaluru, PES University, Bengaluru (PESU) and Board for IT Education Standards, Bengaluru (BITES). INFORMATION STUDIES publishes original articles in all areas of information science, information technology, information architecture, informatics, and knowledge and information management, covering theoretical, technical, practical, economic, social, political and professional aspects of the creation, processing, management and consumption of information resources as well as education for the information management profession. In addition to full articles and short papers, the periodical carries news about RCIS as well as international news from the field of information apart from book reviews and relevant notices.</p> https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IS/article/view/185112 Citation Analysis of Ph.D. Theses in Agronomy and Plant Breeding Submitted at CCHAU, Hisar During 2010-2014:A Comparative Study 2019-08-02T05:34:09+00:00 Saroj Bala saroj24dhillon@gmail.com Joginder Singh jsburman69@gmail.com A total 2723 citations appended to 17 doctoral theses in the subject of Agronomy and Plant Breeding awarded during the year 2010-2014 by CCSHAU, Hisar were analyzed and carried out to identify the bibliographic forms of the cited documents, authorship pattern, country-wise distribution, ranking of the highly cited journals, etc. The findings reveals that more than 70% of the citations in both the subject were from joumals and majority of the articles contributed by two authors in agronomy as compared to plant breeding where both two and three authors were dominated with a slightly difference. In agronomy, majority of articles with 40% were contributed fi-om India whereas maximum with 20% of the articles in plant breeding were from USA. Indian Journal of Weed Science and Theoretical and Applied Genetics occupies the first rank in both agronomy and plant breeding, respectively. More than 50% of the cited joumals in both subjects are 12-14 years old and Bradford's law does not fit well in the field of agronomy and plant breeding. 2015-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IS/article/view/185114 Developing SKOS--Compliant Multilingual Thesaurus:An ISO 25964 Based Approach 2019-08-02T05:34:09+00:00 Suharna Bandyopadhyay tupsub@gmail.com Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay psmukhopadhyay@gmail.com Standards are being used for construction of thesauri from their inceptions. Previously thesauri were designed and maintained manually. But the advancement of ICT gives us the opportunity to execute the same through machine-readable environment. To incorporate thesaurus database electronically, the thesaurus standards also changed accordingly over the time. Concept of data model has emerged for efficient utili2ation of knowledge organization systems like classification schemes, subject taxonomies and thesauri. New standards are enable to guide in designing and maintaining thesaurus in digital environment and also make them interoperable among various platforms by using SKOS as domain model and XML as lingua fianca. The SKOS-compatible thesaurus standard also supports multilinguality in Unicode based data processing environment. ISO-25964 standards are designed in two parts for constructing and maintaining a SKOS complaint multilingual thesaurus 2015-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IS/article/view/185113 India's Contribution to Rabies Research:A Scientometric Asessment of its Publications Output During 1999-2014 2019-08-02T05:34:09+00:00 Ritu Gupta ritu7648@gmail.com Satyendra Sharma sharmasatyendra@gmail.com B. M. Gupta bmguptal@gmail.com This paper analyzes 510India' publications on rabies research during ten years 1999 to 2014, as indexed in Scopus International multidisciplinary database. The study focuses on various aspects of performance of Indian rabies research, such as the publication grov\th,citation impact, international collaboration, subject-wise distribution of publications, contribution and citation impact of Indian organizations and authors, medium of communication and characteristics of its high cited papers.Reveals that India's research output on rabies research witnessed an aimual average growth rate of 17.51%, registered an average citation impact per paper of 6.75 and a share of 14.51% of international collaborative publications. India's global publication and citation share in world rabies research was 6.52% and 3.08% and a relative citation index of 0.47 during 1999-2014. Medicine contributed the largest publication share (63.73%) to India's rcibies research, followed by immunology &amp; microbiology (24.51%), veterinary science (20.20%), biochemistry, genetics &amp; molecular biology (17.65%)), pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics (12.75%), agricultural &amp; biological sciences (8.63%,) and neurosciences (4.21%)) during 1999-2014. 159 Indian organizations and 226 authors participated in India's research on rabies, of which the top most productive 15 organizations and 14 authors contributed 55.49% and 46,67% share to its total output during 1999-2014. Suggest the need for taking several measures to control rabies effectively in India. 2015-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/IS/article/view/185115 From Data to Knowledge Analytics:Capabilities and Limitations 2019-08-02T05:34:09+00:00 Pallavi Karanth karanthpallavi@gmail.com Kavi Mahesh drkavimahesh@gmail.com Data analytics is playing a central role in deriving useful information from large amounts of data available online in a variety of domains and applications. Analytics enploys a wide array of methods ranging from classical statistical techniques to those exploiting the visual and cognitive capabiUties of human users. In spite of all its capabilities, analytics at present seems to suffer from significant limitations in deahng with unstructured data and knowledge. This article explores the Umitations and defines key requirements to be met by fiiture developments in analytics. The article concludes with a sketch of tme <em>knowledge analytics</em> which is capable of delivering insights from knowledge structures, not just tabular data. 2015-10-01T00:00:00+00:00