Scientific Literature Studies
Guidelines and Assessment Criteria
Refer to the following approach:
- Read and cite about twenty to twentyfive publications (mainly papers), inluding non-German articles, e.g. English or French ones
- All of the publications should be related to one topic and considered relevant for it.
- In your introduction, present your topic and justify your selection of publications.
- In your thesis you should explain why you consider those publications important.
- Write a review of half a page to one page about each of the publications.
- In your reviews you should reflect the main arguments of the articles and evaluate the given arguments and facts like data, citations etc.
- Would you consider those as convincing?
- In your conclusion, evaluate the current state of the literature concerning your topic.
- Are there any issues not being discussed satisfactorily? If yes : Which ones?
- Could you identify major trends for future research? If yes : Which ones?
- Your thesis should consist of at least thirty pages and should in no case exceed the number of forty pages.
For the assessment of your thesis a high value is set on the following criteria:
- A substantive justification for the selection of publications.
- The quality of the reviews written.
- To what extend were you able to describe the state of the topic persuasively.
Topics
Contact person: Prof. Michael Seadle, PhD
- Long Term Archving
(Long Term Archiving as subject of discussion in Germany; Long Term Archiving worldwide; Challenges of digital preservation...) - The Semantc Web
Contact Person: Prof.
Michael Seadle, PhD or Elke
Greifeneder
- Man-Machine-Interaction
- Open-Source-OPACs or "Next-Generation-Catalogues"
- Information literacy
- Current User-Studies
Please note: This is not about "How to create a survey", but about "What do we know about our users?"