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Browsing Research Articles (Information Science) by Author "Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)"
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De Boer, Ann-Louise; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2015-11)
The interconnectedness of the constructs ‘whole brain® thinking’ and ‘multiple
intelligence’ forms the epicentre of this article. We depart from the premise that when
whole brain® thinking is activated multiple intelligence ...
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De Beer, K.J.W. (Koos); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(Emerald, 2016)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to present the gathering, integration and analysis of digital information sources for the creation of a conceptual framework for alternate reality games (ARGs). ARGs hold potential ...
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Verbeek, Thomas; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2019-03)
In this paper, it is shown how knowledge theories and knowledge acquisition techniques are integrated by contextualisation to lead to the drawing of concept maps that can be used in civil engineering design, and to analyse ...
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Chikonzo, Agnes Chitsidzo; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Kusekwa, Lovemore; Mushowani, Aston
(Archlib Information Service, 2014)
The study was an assessment of changing needs
of information professionals in Zimbabwe.
Results from this study were aimed at informing
library and information science curricula of
professional development initiatives ...
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Britz, Johannes J.; Lor, Peter Johan; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(Elsevier, 2007-06)
This article deals with a proposed initiative to train library managers on the African continent. It is argued that such an education initiative will contribute to the socio-economic development of Africa. Issues addressed ...
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Ball, L.H. (Liezl Hilde); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(University of Borås, 2020-12)
INTRODUCTION: With the increase in the availability of digital text collections for humanities
researchers, tools to enable enhanced retrieval are required. If words with very specific
properties could be retrieved from ...
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De Boer, Ann-Louise; Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Scheepers, M.D. (Maria Detken)
(Walter de Gruyter, 2012-06)
The Department of Information Science in the Faculty
of Engineering, Built Environment and Information
Technology at the University of Pretoria is responsible
for offering a semester module on Information
Literacy to ...
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Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Matthee, Machdel C.
(Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2010-07)
A language-oriented, multi-dimensional database of the linguistic characteristics of the
Hebrew text of the Old Testament can enable researchers to do ad hoc queries. XML is a
suitable technology to transform free text ...
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Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Fourie, Ina
(Emerald, 2024)
PURPOSE : Needs for information literacy, disparities in society, bridging digital divides, richness of information sources in electronic (e-)environments and the value of dictionaries have often been propagated. To improve ...
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Bosman, Isak de Villiers; De Beer, Koos; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2021-07-12)
Virtual reality has the potential to enhance a variety of real-world training and entertainment applications by creating the illusion that a user of virtual reality is physically present inside the digitally created ...
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Bothma, P.; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Cronje, Johannes Christoffel
(Unisa Press, 2008)
This article reports on a pilot project which was developed to meet the needs of specific research groups for a collaborative workspace. Such a system was deemed necessary because of today’s global network of researchers ...
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Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Matthee, Machdel C.; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-12)
When a new discipline emerges, it usually takes some time and a great deal of academic discussion before concepts and terms become standardized. Text mining is one such new discipline. In a groundbreaking article, Untangling ...
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Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Heid, Ulrich
(Buro van die WAT, 2017)
This article introduces a prototype of a writing (and learning) assistant for verbal relative clauses of the African language Sepedi, accessible from within a dictionary or from a word processor. It is an example of how a ...
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Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Gouws, Rufus H.
(Buro van die WAT, 2020)
Traditional dictionaries offer curated data to users. Users should therefore be able to find the correct data to solve their information need. However, users don't necessarily know the exact scope of lexicographic information. ...
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De Boer, Ann-Louise; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Du Toit, Pieter Hertzog
(Walter de Gruyter, 2011-03)
This article reports a research project in which the thinking preferences of a group of
students enrolled for a module on information literacy at the University of Pretoria were
determined. Annually about 7 000 first-year ...
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Ball, L.H. (Liezl Hilde); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(Emerald, 2018)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to identify criteria according to which e-dictionaries can be evaluated. Information technology can be used to enhance e-dictionaries, but if not done carefully, information tools ...
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Silvis, Isabel Mariann; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); De Beer, K.J.W. (Koos)
(Emerald, 2019-09)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated list of heuristics and an information architecture (IA) framework for the heuristic evaluation of the IA of academic library websites as well as an evaluation ...
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Jerrett, Adam; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); De Beer, K.J.W. (Koos)
(Emerald, 2017)
PURPOSE : Teaching students/library patrons twenty-first century literacies (such as information and library literacies) is important within a library setting. As such, finding an appropriate manner to teach these skills ...
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Patterton, Louise; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Van Deventer, Martha Johanna
(Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2018-12)
Research data management (RDM) and its accompanying services and infrastructures are predominantly still in a state of infancy in many African countries and little is known about the RDM habits of the researchers from these ...
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Ball, L.H. (Liezl Hilde); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel)
(Emerald, 2018)
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to discuss the heuristic evaluations of five e-dictionaries according to the criteria developed by Ball and Bothma (2018). E-dictionaries are increasingly making use of modern information ...