Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berlin School of Library and Information Science

Qualitative and quantitative Analysis

Guidelines and Assessment Criteria

Please note:

    • Develop a research question and explain, why this this topic is relevant. (E.g.: If you study colours, this can be interesting with regard to cultural preferences or difficulties in their visibility.)
  • Name and describe the research method you used; which steps did you take and why did you choose your approach?
  • Present your results and the problems that occured to you and describe difficulties during the data-collection-process.
  • Write an analisis about the significance of your results.
     

For the assessment of your thesis a high value is set on the following criteria: 

  • Justification of your question. 
  • Effectiveness of your method. 
  • Quality of your analysis. 

 

Topics

Contact Person: Elke Greifeneder or Michael Heinz

Library statistics

  • What do we know about the german library system?
    Illustrate, which information is gained and provided by the BIX (Library Index) and compare it e.g. with the Library Statistic of IMLS (http://harvester.census.gov/imls/index.asp).

Contact Person: Michael Heinz

Developing blibliometric and informetric methods of measurement. 

  • Comparison of library statistics in Germany and USA. 
  • Compare definitions of ratios in german and foreign library statistics. 

Analising scientific networks (citation networks, cooperational networks etc.)

  • Development of scientific cooperations in Information Science during the last 20 years - analysis based on Google Scholar. 
  • Development of scientific cooperations in Information Science during the last 20 years - analysis based on Web of Science.
  • Online visibility of scientific Networks in Library Science.

Contact Person: Michael Heinz

Automatical indexing-methods for information massives.

  • Methods of Data Minings

Analysis and evaluation of different aspects (Content, user interface,  retrieval options) of specialised databases, portals and other digital information massives.

  • Development of effective research strategies for the science portal called "b2i". 
  • Comparison of the user interfaces used by "Clio Online", by "EVIFAV" and "b2i". 

Description and evaluation of modern Digital Library-services

  • Recommendation system of Karlsruhe University Library
  • Google's similarity search
  • Possibilities and limits of the "Aquabrowser"'s grafic research support. 
  • COinS
  • Use of Linkresolvers 
  • Amazon Webservice
     

These Topics are assigned already

Contact person: Elke Greifeneder

Colours/pictures on library's Web pages

  • Investigate the use of colours on libary Web pages - is there any specific colour for libraries? 
  • Check how far pictures on library Web pages are dominated by specific motives (Books, for example).