I am an associate professor at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran. I am also a member of Iranian Library and Information Science Association (ILISA). He received his BA, MA and Ph.D. in Knowledge and Information Science and pursues his research in Digital library and Interoperability domain. I have published more than 40 articles in reputable journals such as The Electronic Library, Inter-lending and document supply, International Journal of Information Management, Information Research and Process, International Journal of Information Science and Management, Journal of Digital Information Management, Etc. My colleagues and I are now working on implementing electronic lending system entitled TAKTAB for academic society. Phone: +(98)9122473121 Address: Dehkade Olymic, Tehran, Iran
Quarterly Journal of Research and Planning in Higher Education
The main goal of this research is to identify the expectations of the higher education system of ... more The main goal of this research is to identify the expectations of the higher education system of Iran from universities and research institutes. In line with the main goal research, an attempt has been made to analyze the upstream documents of Iran's higher education system and extract the expectations from the higher education system in order to provide suggestions for the governing institutions as well as universities and institutions of higher education. The present study was conducted qualitatively and with the method of document study using thematic analysis method. Two filtering stages were performed by two experts simultaneously and the results were compared in the next step, and finally 391 axes were extracted from these documents and clustered into eight categories. The study group of the current research was formed in the study section of upstream documents of the Iran's higher education system. The findings of research showed that the main axes of the concepts mentioned in the upstream documents can be clustered in the eight main axes of infrastructure, research, education, policy, scientific participation, communication with industry and commercialization. Meanwhile, the axis of education, which is the main function of most universities and institutions of higher education, ranks fourth in terms of the attention of upstream documents. Also, the fields related to the activities of the universities in the third and fourth generations, placed in the least amount of attention. On the other hand, the upstream documents, whose main focus should be universities and higher education institutions, include less than 20% of statements extracted from upstream documents. The results obtained from the study of upstream documents in the current research showed that the documents emphasize the axes of infrastructure, research, cultural and social, education, policy, scientific participation, connection with industry and commercialization, and in the meantime, infrastructure criteria, Cultural and social, research and education, respectively, have the most focus in the upstream documents of the higher education system. Upstream documents have diverse expectations from Higher Education systems. In some cases they are in far distance from Higher education systems’ role in international scale.
The Geospatial Business Intelligence (Geo-BI) is a collection of technologies that combines Geogr... more The Geospatial Business Intelligence (Geo-BI) is a collection of technologies that combines Geographic Information System (GIS) and Business Intelligence (BI). Geo-BI provides an efficient tool for browsing and storing very large spatio-temporal databases. However, the process for evaluation and selection of the optimal decision in Geo-BI is very complex. Hence, the MultiCriteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are used as a tool to facilitate the decision making process. In this paper, we present a methodology called Multi-Criteria Geospatial Business Intelligence (MC-GeoBI) which aims to enhance Geo-BI applications by applying MCDM. The latter obviously offers several advantages in terms of decision making when one must take into account the multiple and contradictory aspects of the criteria. To illustrate this, an application model has been developed to select the most appropriate site for landfill of industrial wastes.
Introduction: Portal assessment is one of major issues in developing services to users. This arti... more Introduction: Portal assessment is one of major issues in developing services to users. This article is going to suggest a checklist in order to evaluate hospital portals. Methods: In this study library research method is used to study literature and evaluation checklists. In fact specialist viewpoints are used to get reliability of the assessment tool. Afterwards AHP method is used to valuation criteria and components. Results: In this study 14 criteria and 77 components were identified and proposed. The criteria and their score were gained as follow: contact information (with 5 score); features of portal pages (with 5 score); pages design (with 4 score); updating pages (with 5 score); Information, access roads (with 5 score); Public services (with 20 score); Services to Patients (with 3 score); Patient data (with 7 score); Research and education (with 3 score); Public relationship (with 7 score); Technical features of screens (with 4 score); Telemedicine (with 15 score); Pharmaceu...
مقدمه. دستيابي مستقيم و سريع به اطلاعات از جمله نيازمنديهاي اصلي کاربران اطلاعات در دنياي فنآورا... more مقدمه. دستيابي مستقيم و سريع به اطلاعات از جمله نيازمنديهاي اصلي کاربران اطلاعات در دنياي فنآورانه جديد است. امروزه، ديگر کاربران اطلاعات، بهويژه اطلاعات روز پزشکي و سلامت که روزآمدي و دسترسي سريع به محتواي آن جزو ضروريات است، فرصت کافي براي جستجو و دستيابي به اطلاعات ندارند. از اين رو، پژوهش حاضر اقدام به تعیین راهکارهايي به منظور دستیابی به اطلاعات دقيق و مناسب در سريعترين زمان نمود. روش شناسی پژوهش. پژوهش حاضر با استفاده از مطالعه کتابخانهای و تحلیل محتوا اقدام به ارائه راهکاری برای یکپارچه سازی محتوا و خدمات در نرمافزارهای کتابخانههای مرکزی دانشگاههای علوم پزشکی ایران نمود. با توجه به وجود حداقل یک کتابخانه مرکزی در هر یک از دانشگاها، تمامی کتابخانههای مرکزی دانشگاههای علوم پزشکی ایران زیر نظر وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشکی[1]، که بر اساس فهرست ارائه شده در وبگاه وزارت مذکور 46 دانشگاه میباشد، جامعه پژوهش حاضر را تشکیل میدهند. برای بررسی، توصیف و تحلیل یافتهها از آمار توصیفی استفاده شد. برای این منظور از نرمافزار اکسل ماکروسافت استفاده شد. یافته ها: یافتههای ...
The emergence of knowledge economy has increased diversity of intellectual services and prepared ... more The emergence of knowledge economy has increased diversity of intellectual services and prepared new opportunities in business for scientific research centers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the pricing criteria for information goods by Iranian scientific research centers. The research method was descriptive and statistical population included all experts of these centers in Tehran. Cluster Sampling Method was used in order to select research sample and in addition to reviewing books, journals and websites, a researcher-made questionnaire was provided. Structural equation analysis and Friedman's analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. Findings of factor analysis showed that information producers in Iran scientific and research centers mostly use the components of market structure, competition, cost, cultural and time factors as criteria for information pricing. Information producers also pay more attention to cost-oriented, competitive-oriented, marketing an...
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2016
The main purpose of this study is presenting a conceptual model to integrate Iranian digital libr... more The main purpose of this study is presenting a conceptual model to integrate Iranian digital libraries. This research had been done in three steps. Documentary research method is used in the first step. All the related documents were made research population and content analysis techniques is used to analyze documents. Analytical survey research method is used in the second step of the research. All the active Iranian digital libraries were made the research population in this step. In fact there are 32 active digital libraries that just 26 of them participated in this study. Researcher-made questionnaire is used to collect data in this step. Finally system analyzing research method is used in the third step. Findings of the study demonstrated that elements such as technological infrastructure, Coding and identifier systems, Metadata standards, Legal and organizational issues, Semantic knowledge-based databases, and Knowledge Organizing Systems are needed in semantic integration. Al...
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2020
The compatibility of classification codes and indexing terms done from a codified thesaurus with ... more The compatibility of classification codes and indexing terms done from a codified thesaurus with words and phrases that are automatically extracted using machine indexing. In designing an outo-indexing system, the computer completely replaces humans. The purpose of this research was to identify and extracting keywords and the subject trends of articles in the field of information retrieval and the subject's specificity of the author of each article by using the text mining and categorizing (classifying) with the help of concurrence vocabularies.The method of this research is applied and based on the CRISP model of data mining and text mining algorithms are used. The research community has 313 articles has in the field of information retrieval indexed at Noormags database. After normalizing the text of with the Virastyar software, during the text mining of the articles with the 7.1 version of the RapidMiner software, the keywords are extracted by their weight and the data are cat...
Purpose: Regarding the design of an applicable electronic book reading system for children and ad... more Purpose: Regarding the design of an applicable electronic book reading system for children and adolescents, this study struggles to prepare a conceptual model in this case.Method: So we used the quantitative approach and the Delphi method to analyze data. In this regard, criterion-based sampling is used to identify the research population. Therefore, 15 experts were identified who had criteria such as having subjective publications, teaching experience, and so on. We factually supposed that these experts could present much more information than we expected to collect. Moreover, 8 electronic book systems were selected to be reviewed, because of their many active audiences, and their international and also standard presence. In fact, we firstly identified practical criteria in designing electronic books by extracting them from related resources and also checking active systems. The data helped us to prepare the checklist draft and it was completed after passing the validity control st...
In recent years, with the development of digital environment, one of the concepts that have been ... more In recent years, with the development of digital environment, one of the concepts that have been particularly important is digital identification of objects in this environment by digital identifier systems. The main objective of this study is to answer this important and basic question: How and on what framework can distinguish a digital object identifier system from other identifier systems? To achieve this goal, a comparative framework which consisted of 7 main characteristics of digital identifiers in three major domains (namely identifier features, digital coverage and comprehensiveness of scope) was proposed. Then, an illustrative comparison of 23 well-known worldwide identifiers was carried out. Results of this study revealed that six identifier systems of DOI, Handle, UCI, ARK, URN and PURL can be regarded as the best choices of digital identifiers in public areas identified in the digital space and four identifier systems of ORCID, MIRIAM, ISNI and NBN are the best options ...
International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2020
The aim of the study is to offer integrated access to information and data sources in the librari... more The aim of the study is to offer integrated access to information and data sources in the libraries of Iranian universities of medical sciences (UMS) as an important feature enhancing the quality and quantity of research. Thus, it is essential to study the status of Iranian libraries of UMS in terms of integration features. Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was the identification of integration in libraries of Iranian UMS in terms of metadata, digital contents, software, hardware, and human force. The quantitative study was conducted with an analytic survey method. The statistical population consists of 66 Iranian UMS, of this, 59 libraries completed the researcher-made questionnaire. To ensure the accuracy of data, interviews and, in some cases, observations were also performed. Statistical estimates of frequency, percentage, cumulative frequency, and diagrams were utilized for data analysis. The results demonstrated that the library software programs of UMS do n...
National Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs have been recognized as one of the m... more National Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs have been recognized as one of the most effective channels through which Theses and Dissertations (TDs) can be made available to academic communities. However, to establish a national ETDs developers need to be aware of the Critical Success Factors (CSFs). CSFs are the few key areas where " things must go right " for the program to flourish and without them the organization's efforts for the period will be less than desired. This paper aims to identify CSFs deemed crucial for the implementation of national ETDs through review the existing body of knowledge related to this topic. Based on categorizing and thematizing data, this paper conceptualizes a generic framework comprised of five broad dimensions (managementand organization, involvement, service, content, and technicalities) in order to make a national ETDs program successful. With knowledge about CSFs, stakeholders and managers would be more able to ach...
Quarterly Journal of Research and Planning in Higher Education
The main goal of this research is to identify the expectations of the higher education system of ... more The main goal of this research is to identify the expectations of the higher education system of Iran from universities and research institutes. In line with the main goal research, an attempt has been made to analyze the upstream documents of Iran's higher education system and extract the expectations from the higher education system in order to provide suggestions for the governing institutions as well as universities and institutions of higher education. The present study was conducted qualitatively and with the method of document study using thematic analysis method. Two filtering stages were performed by two experts simultaneously and the results were compared in the next step, and finally 391 axes were extracted from these documents and clustered into eight categories. The study group of the current research was formed in the study section of upstream documents of the Iran's higher education system. The findings of research showed that the main axes of the concepts mentioned in the upstream documents can be clustered in the eight main axes of infrastructure, research, education, policy, scientific participation, communication with industry and commercialization. Meanwhile, the axis of education, which is the main function of most universities and institutions of higher education, ranks fourth in terms of the attention of upstream documents. Also, the fields related to the activities of the universities in the third and fourth generations, placed in the least amount of attention. On the other hand, the upstream documents, whose main focus should be universities and higher education institutions, include less than 20% of statements extracted from upstream documents. The results obtained from the study of upstream documents in the current research showed that the documents emphasize the axes of infrastructure, research, cultural and social, education, policy, scientific participation, connection with industry and commercialization, and in the meantime, infrastructure criteria, Cultural and social, research and education, respectively, have the most focus in the upstream documents of the higher education system. Upstream documents have diverse expectations from Higher Education systems. In some cases they are in far distance from Higher education systems’ role in international scale.
The Geospatial Business Intelligence (Geo-BI) is a collection of technologies that combines Geogr... more The Geospatial Business Intelligence (Geo-BI) is a collection of technologies that combines Geographic Information System (GIS) and Business Intelligence (BI). Geo-BI provides an efficient tool for browsing and storing very large spatio-temporal databases. However, the process for evaluation and selection of the optimal decision in Geo-BI is very complex. Hence, the MultiCriteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are used as a tool to facilitate the decision making process. In this paper, we present a methodology called Multi-Criteria Geospatial Business Intelligence (MC-GeoBI) which aims to enhance Geo-BI applications by applying MCDM. The latter obviously offers several advantages in terms of decision making when one must take into account the multiple and contradictory aspects of the criteria. To illustrate this, an application model has been developed to select the most appropriate site for landfill of industrial wastes.
Introduction: Portal assessment is one of major issues in developing services to users. This arti... more Introduction: Portal assessment is one of major issues in developing services to users. This article is going to suggest a checklist in order to evaluate hospital portals. Methods: In this study library research method is used to study literature and evaluation checklists. In fact specialist viewpoints are used to get reliability of the assessment tool. Afterwards AHP method is used to valuation criteria and components. Results: In this study 14 criteria and 77 components were identified and proposed. The criteria and their score were gained as follow: contact information (with 5 score); features of portal pages (with 5 score); pages design (with 4 score); updating pages (with 5 score); Information, access roads (with 5 score); Public services (with 20 score); Services to Patients (with 3 score); Patient data (with 7 score); Research and education (with 3 score); Public relationship (with 7 score); Technical features of screens (with 4 score); Telemedicine (with 15 score); Pharmaceu...
مقدمه. دستيابي مستقيم و سريع به اطلاعات از جمله نيازمنديهاي اصلي کاربران اطلاعات در دنياي فنآورا... more مقدمه. دستيابي مستقيم و سريع به اطلاعات از جمله نيازمنديهاي اصلي کاربران اطلاعات در دنياي فنآورانه جديد است. امروزه، ديگر کاربران اطلاعات، بهويژه اطلاعات روز پزشکي و سلامت که روزآمدي و دسترسي سريع به محتواي آن جزو ضروريات است، فرصت کافي براي جستجو و دستيابي به اطلاعات ندارند. از اين رو، پژوهش حاضر اقدام به تعیین راهکارهايي به منظور دستیابی به اطلاعات دقيق و مناسب در سريعترين زمان نمود. روش شناسی پژوهش. پژوهش حاضر با استفاده از مطالعه کتابخانهای و تحلیل محتوا اقدام به ارائه راهکاری برای یکپارچه سازی محتوا و خدمات در نرمافزارهای کتابخانههای مرکزی دانشگاههای علوم پزشکی ایران نمود. با توجه به وجود حداقل یک کتابخانه مرکزی در هر یک از دانشگاها، تمامی کتابخانههای مرکزی دانشگاههای علوم پزشکی ایران زیر نظر وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشکی[1]، که بر اساس فهرست ارائه شده در وبگاه وزارت مذکور 46 دانشگاه میباشد، جامعه پژوهش حاضر را تشکیل میدهند. برای بررسی، توصیف و تحلیل یافتهها از آمار توصیفی استفاده شد. برای این منظور از نرمافزار اکسل ماکروسافت استفاده شد. یافته ها: یافتههای ...
The emergence of knowledge economy has increased diversity of intellectual services and prepared ... more The emergence of knowledge economy has increased diversity of intellectual services and prepared new opportunities in business for scientific research centers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the pricing criteria for information goods by Iranian scientific research centers. The research method was descriptive and statistical population included all experts of these centers in Tehran. Cluster Sampling Method was used in order to select research sample and in addition to reviewing books, journals and websites, a researcher-made questionnaire was provided. Structural equation analysis and Friedman's analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. Findings of factor analysis showed that information producers in Iran scientific and research centers mostly use the components of market structure, competition, cost, cultural and time factors as criteria for information pricing. Information producers also pay more attention to cost-oriented, competitive-oriented, marketing an...
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2016
The main purpose of this study is presenting a conceptual model to integrate Iranian digital libr... more The main purpose of this study is presenting a conceptual model to integrate Iranian digital libraries. This research had been done in three steps. Documentary research method is used in the first step. All the related documents were made research population and content analysis techniques is used to analyze documents. Analytical survey research method is used in the second step of the research. All the active Iranian digital libraries were made the research population in this step. In fact there are 32 active digital libraries that just 26 of them participated in this study. Researcher-made questionnaire is used to collect data in this step. Finally system analyzing research method is used in the third step. Findings of the study demonstrated that elements such as technological infrastructure, Coding and identifier systems, Metadata standards, Legal and organizational issues, Semantic knowledge-based databases, and Knowledge Organizing Systems are needed in semantic integration. Al...
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2020
The compatibility of classification codes and indexing terms done from a codified thesaurus with ... more The compatibility of classification codes and indexing terms done from a codified thesaurus with words and phrases that are automatically extracted using machine indexing. In designing an outo-indexing system, the computer completely replaces humans. The purpose of this research was to identify and extracting keywords and the subject trends of articles in the field of information retrieval and the subject's specificity of the author of each article by using the text mining and categorizing (classifying) with the help of concurrence vocabularies.The method of this research is applied and based on the CRISP model of data mining and text mining algorithms are used. The research community has 313 articles has in the field of information retrieval indexed at Noormags database. After normalizing the text of with the Virastyar software, during the text mining of the articles with the 7.1 version of the RapidMiner software, the keywords are extracted by their weight and the data are cat...
Purpose: Regarding the design of an applicable electronic book reading system for children and ad... more Purpose: Regarding the design of an applicable electronic book reading system for children and adolescents, this study struggles to prepare a conceptual model in this case.Method: So we used the quantitative approach and the Delphi method to analyze data. In this regard, criterion-based sampling is used to identify the research population. Therefore, 15 experts were identified who had criteria such as having subjective publications, teaching experience, and so on. We factually supposed that these experts could present much more information than we expected to collect. Moreover, 8 electronic book systems were selected to be reviewed, because of their many active audiences, and their international and also standard presence. In fact, we firstly identified practical criteria in designing electronic books by extracting them from related resources and also checking active systems. The data helped us to prepare the checklist draft and it was completed after passing the validity control st...
In recent years, with the development of digital environment, one of the concepts that have been ... more In recent years, with the development of digital environment, one of the concepts that have been particularly important is digital identification of objects in this environment by digital identifier systems. The main objective of this study is to answer this important and basic question: How and on what framework can distinguish a digital object identifier system from other identifier systems? To achieve this goal, a comparative framework which consisted of 7 main characteristics of digital identifiers in three major domains (namely identifier features, digital coverage and comprehensiveness of scope) was proposed. Then, an illustrative comparison of 23 well-known worldwide identifiers was carried out. Results of this study revealed that six identifier systems of DOI, Handle, UCI, ARK, URN and PURL can be regarded as the best choices of digital identifiers in public areas identified in the digital space and four identifier systems of ORCID, MIRIAM, ISNI and NBN are the best options ...
International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2020
The aim of the study is to offer integrated access to information and data sources in the librari... more The aim of the study is to offer integrated access to information and data sources in the libraries of Iranian universities of medical sciences (UMS) as an important feature enhancing the quality and quantity of research. Thus, it is essential to study the status of Iranian libraries of UMS in terms of integration features. Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was the identification of integration in libraries of Iranian UMS in terms of metadata, digital contents, software, hardware, and human force. The quantitative study was conducted with an analytic survey method. The statistical population consists of 66 Iranian UMS, of this, 59 libraries completed the researcher-made questionnaire. To ensure the accuracy of data, interviews and, in some cases, observations were also performed. Statistical estimates of frequency, percentage, cumulative frequency, and diagrams were utilized for data analysis. The results demonstrated that the library software programs of UMS do n...
National Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs have been recognized as one of the m... more National Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs have been recognized as one of the most effective channels through which Theses and Dissertations (TDs) can be made available to academic communities. However, to establish a national ETDs developers need to be aware of the Critical Success Factors (CSFs). CSFs are the few key areas where " things must go right " for the program to flourish and without them the organization's efforts for the period will be less than desired. This paper aims to identify CSFs deemed crucial for the implementation of national ETDs through review the existing body of knowledge related to this topic. Based on categorizing and thematizing data, this paper conceptualizes a generic framework comprised of five broad dimensions (managementand organization, involvement, service, content, and technicalities) in order to make a national ETDs program successful. With knowledge about CSFs, stakeholders and managers would be more able to ach...
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