In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power
In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power
Distributed artificial intelligence: vol. 2
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
The flora of North American digital library: a case study in biodiversity database publishing
Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Special issue on digital libraries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on current research in human-computer interaction
Computers in context—but in which context?
Computers and design in context
Articulating collaborative activity
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems - Special issue on information technology in human activity
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Managing Cognitive Overload in the Flora of North America Project
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 2
Computational workspace coordination: design-in-use of collaborative publishing services for computer-mediated collaborative publishing
The concept of activity as a basic unit of analysis for CSCW research
ECSCW'91 Proceedings of the second conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Activity Theory and Distributed Cognition: Or What Does CSCW Need to DO with Theories?
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Discussion: 57 Varieties of Activity Theory
Interacting with Computers
Developing national digital library of Albania for pre-university schools: a case study
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
Information Resources Management Journal
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A critical yet largely unexamined facet of digital library design anduse is how library content is assembled and vetted, which in turn hasprofound implications for ongoing digital library usefulness and usability.This article presents a social realist evaluation framework for anactivity theoretic case study of the Flora of North America digitallibrary. Social realist evaluation is a relatively new evaluationparadigm, positing that outcomes follow from mechanisms acting incontingently configured contexts. Because this study focuses on thedigital library content vetting process, a significant part of thepresent analysis concerns the publication subsystem of the Flora ofNorth America digital library – Collaborative Publishing Services –and how problems related to its design and use facilitates our abilityto explain the Flora of North America not only as a functioning digitallibrary project, but as a contradiction-driven organizational form inexpansive development. Activity theory is a philosophical and cross-disciplinaryframework for studying different forms of human practices in a multi-level,stratified manner, developmentally in time and through space. This intensivecase study of the Flora of North America digital library illustrates thatwhile social realism, itself content-neutral mechanics of explanation,provides a ireal foundation for activity theoretic analyses of workand technology, activity theory supplies a conceptually and substantivelyrich vocabulary for explanatory reasoning about technologically mediatedsocial practices, such as digital library assemblage and use.