Suzana Sukovic: Electronic texts in scholarly research: roles in projects in the humanities
BA (Hons)(Belgrade), MA Information (UTS) ALIA
Doctoral Candidate
E-mail: Suzana.Sukovic@uts.edu.au
Electronic texts in scholarly research: roles in projects in the humanities
The study investigates how academics in literary and historical studies work with electronic textual resources and how interaction with electronic texts affects their research processes. This study uses qualitative methodology to investigate a particular research project as a context in which academic scholars interact with the texts and the way they integrate the results of the interaction in their research process. The focus is on the interplay between electronic texts and the researcher situated in his or her own research context. The study aims to explore a variety of interactions and how these interactions contribute to the development of ideas. It also considers obstacles and aids in engagement with electronic texts.
The research project contributes to our understanding of the initial stages of the envisaged scholarly change. It adds to our knowledge of the information behaviour of the humanities researcher and has potential practical implications for the development of digital collections, software applications, approaches to textual encoding and design of training programs.
Principal Supervisor: Prof. Joyce Kirk, RMIT University, Melbourne
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Information and Knowledge Management Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS
Journal articles
Sukovic, Suzana. 2008. Convergent flows: humanities scholars and their interactions with electronic texts. Library Quarterly.
(Peer-reviewed).
Sukovic, Suzana. Forthcoming. Information discovery in ambiguous zones of research. Library Trends.
(Invited publication).
Sukovic, Suzana. Forthcoming. To see what turns up: uncertainty in the research process. Information Processing & Management (Special issue 'Designing for Uncertainty in Information Seeking')
(Peer-reviewed).
Sukovic, Suzana. 2002. Beyond the scriptorium: the role of the library in text encoding. D-Lib Magazine 8 (1). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/01contents.html
Sukovic, Suzana. 2001. Evaluation of electronic texts. Lasie 32 (2-3):31-38.
Sukovic, Suzana. 2000. Humanities researchers and electronic texts. Lasie 31 (3):5-29.
(The winning entry in the 2000 Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship)
Selected conference papers
Sukovic, Suzana. 2007. Scholarly (r)evolution: roles of e-texts in the research process in the humanities. Paper presented at Digital Humanities 2007: The joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 4-8 June, 2007.
(Peer-reviewed).
Sukovic, Suzana. 2006. Electronic texts in the humanities: converging media, formats, practices and ideas. Paper presented at IR 7.0: Internet Convergences, presented by the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), at Brisbane, 27–30 September.
(Peer-reviewed).
Sukovic, Suzana. 2006. Electronic texts in research enquiry in the humanities. Paper read at ISIC 2006: the 6th Information Seeking in Context Conference: Doctoral Workshop Presentation and Poster, at Sydney, 19-21 July.
Sukovic, Suzana, and Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson. 2006. Learning in intertidal zones: blending creative and analytical skills in Social Informatics. Paper presented at UTS Teaching and Learning Forum, at University of Technology, Sydney, 14 November.
Sukovic, Suzana. 2005. Collaboration and sharing ideas in research in the humanities. Paper presented at ATN Research on Research Conference, at University of South Australia, Adelaide, 7 February.
See also:
Who’s Who: LIS’ New Generation. Suzana Sukovic. 2006. SET Bulletin: IFLA Section on Education & Training 7 (1): 22. http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/bulletin/SET_Bulletin-Jan2006.pdf
IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions)