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“The noblest pleasure”?: on gaining understanding from qualitativeresearch in library/information science
David BawdenDepartment of Library and Information
ScienceCity University London
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To measure is to know.
If you can not measure ityou can not improve it
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
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Francis Cole and Nellie Eales
Statistical analysis of literature of comparative anatomy, Science Progress, 1917, 11, 578-596
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thick description .. In a particular context .. [to] allow for deeper understanding
Alison Pickard
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Theoretical explanations in [organic chemistry] are often produced after the fact to rationalise results, and it is often not possible to make numerical predictions about the behaviour of novel reactions. Those explanations that are produced are frequently qualitative.
William Goodwin
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Organic chemists have made a trade-off: they have de-emphasised quantitative prediction and unambiguous explanation for something much more useful, given their pragmatic goals: a theory that helps them make plausible, but often qualitative or relative, assessments of chemical behaviourWilliam Goodwin
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Chemical structure representation
• Alexander Crum-Brown(Edinburgh) 1865
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding
Leonardo da Vinci
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Understanding requires the grasping of explanatory and other coherence-making relationships in a large and comprehensive body of information.
Jonathan Kvanvig
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Information poverty TruthSlow information SubjectRelevance
Digital libraryDocument TaskInformation avoidance Digital literacyKnowledge
lnformation literacy
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• Qualitative evidence synthesis• Critical interpretive synthesis• Thematic synthesis• Meta-ethnography
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UK Research Excellence Framework 2014
Research: a process of investigation leading to new insights, effectively shared
Impact: an effect on, change or benefit
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A humble reverence for everything we shall never measure
Václav Havel