University Research Papers: Recent submissions

  • Inventory of Pacific Research at Victoria University of Wellington 1999-2005 
    Fairbairn-Dunlop, Peggy; Asmar, Christine; Teaiwa, Teresia; Davidson-Toumu'a, Ruth (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    This inventory seeks to document the range of research interests and activities taking place on Pacific topics at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). It has emerged out of a collaboration between the Office of Research ...
  • Institutional Repositories in New Zealand: Comparing Institutional Strategies for Digital Preservation and Discovery 
    Chawner, Brenda; Cullen, Rowena (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    This paper outlines an ongoing project to create of a knowledge base to support the development of institutional repositories in New Zealand. The knowledge base wiki includes a summary of key literature to date, highlighting ...
  • Ambient Findability and Structured Serendipity: Enhanced Resource Discovery for Full Text Collections 
    Stevenson, Alison; Tuohy, Conal; Norrish, Jamie (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    University Libraries manage increasingly large collections of full text digital resources. These might be repositories of born digital research outputs, e-reserves collections or online libraries of material digitised to ...
  • KAREN: Opportunities and Challenges for New Zealand Libraries 
    Searle, Sam (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    The Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) will transform New Zealand’s research and education sector, in which libraries play a key part; however many staff in research organisations, including librarians, ...
  • Digital Library Education: the Current Status 
    Clegg, Warwick; Ma, Yongqing; O'Brien, Ann (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    In this paper, we review and examine the current status of digital library education and compare the range of provision with that found in earlier studies [1, 2, 3]. It is found that the number of institutions offering ...
  • Digital Library Education: Some International Course Structure Comparisons 
    Ma, Yongqing; O'Brien, Ann; Clegg, Warwick (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Digital Library Education (DLE) is assuming increasing importance and it is clear there is a pressing need from social trends and technology for educational developments in this new and fast moving area [1, 3]. Our latest ...
  • Digital Library Education: Some International Course Structure Comparisons 
    Ma, Yongqing; O'Brien, Ann; Clegg, Warwick (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Following our recent review of progress in Digital Library (DL) education [1], we present here a brief overview of current work to investigate the commonality/diversity of course structure between ten institutions outside ...
  • Citizens’ Concerns About the Privacy of Personal Information Held by Government: a Comparative Study, Japan and New Zealand 
    Cullen, Rowena (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    The paper reports an investigation of the concepts of information privacy and trust in government in Japan, and compares the findings with an earlier study in New Zealand which used a similar instrument. Cultural and other ...
  • EATS Markup Language - an XML Vocabulary for Authority Control 
    Norrish, Jamie (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    EATS Markup Language is an XML markup language associated with the Entity Authority Tool Set (EATS). The markup language is used for import and export of authority data from the EATS database.
  • EATS: an Entity Authority Tool Set 
    Norrish, Jamie (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    Authority control has long been used in library catalogue systems to handle the problem of ambiguous identifiers for entities, especially authors. With electronic and networked collections the need for authority control ...
  • The Implications of Stress and the Effect it has on Māori Who Have Type 2 Diabetes in Aotearoa/New Zealand 
    Falleni, Patricia Mary (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    In this review I will show the connection between diabetes, stress and barriers to care and the impact these have on Māori who have type 2 diabetes. I have undertaken an extensive literature review, which focused mainly ...
  • Dying to Know: Advancing Palliative Care Nursing Competence with Education in Elderly Health Settings 
    McLoughlin, Noreen (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This paper explores the benefits of using education as one means to advance palliative care competence for nurses. Key groups and the influences they generate in relation to this topic will be identified. A literature ...
  • Dying to Know: Advancing Palliative Care Nursing Competence with Education in Elderly Health Settings 
    McLoughlin, Noreen (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This paper explores the benefits of using education as one means to advance palliative care competence for nurses. Key groups and the influences they generate in relation to this topic will be identified. A literature ...
  • Topic Maps and TEI - Using Topic Maps as a Tool for Presenting TEI Documents 
    Tuohy, Conal (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This paper describes a method used by the website of the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC), in which Topic Maps are used as a tool for presenting TEI-encoded texts in HTML form. Many electronic text archives ...
  • Going Beyond Google: Representation and Retrieval of Information Using Topic Maps 
    Stevenson, Alison; Darwin, Jason; Tuohy, Conal (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    Library collections include increasingly large amounts of digital material. Libraries are digitising parts of their collection to provide wider access to important resources, and born-digital material is being added to ...
  • Web-Based Composition: Removing Barriers to Increase Composition Opportunities in Upper Primary Classrooms 
    Bolton, Jan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    In recent years there has been a trend towards music curriculum documents giving emphasis to composition in upper primary school levels. This emphasis is consistent across current national documents of Australia, Canada, ...
  • Trouble Teaching 
    Stephenson, Alison (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    In our early childhood teacher education program the young child is positioned as a competent and resourceful participant in his/her own learning. Reflection on this image led me to recognise that some aspects of tertiary ...
  • Introduction to Polynomial Invariants of Screw Systems 
    Donelan, Peter; Selig, Jon (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    Screw systems describe the infinitesimal motion of multi–degree-of-freedom rigid bodies, such as end-effectors of robot manipulators. While there exists an exhaustive classification of screw systems, it is based largely ...
  • Courage, Commitment and Collaboration: Notions of leadership in the NZ ECE Centres of Innovation 
    Thornton, Kate (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    This paper is based on a research study that explored notions of leadership in the New Zealand early childhood education (ECE) Centres of Innovation (COI) programme. The paper will begin by outlining the context in which ...
  • Reflections on Knowing, Not Knowing and Being in Palliative Care Nursing 
    Cleaver, Helen (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)
    Responses to questions from dying people and their families are as individual as each nurse, patient, family member or situation. This is well recognised and an unspoken truth in palliative care practice This paper explores ...

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