초록

학술적 웹 공간을 대상으로 하는 연구는 페이지와 링크의 역동성 때문에 정량적인 방법과 함께 내용 분석 등의 정성적인 방법을 사용하는 것이 필요하다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 내용 분석의 한 방법으로 한국 학술적 웹 공간 내에서 외부 링크로 연결된 페이지 및 링크의 유형을 분류한 후 이를 네트워크 구조 분석에 반영하여 한국 학술적 웹 공간의 특성을 자세히 살펴보았다. 분석 결과 데이터의 수집 시점을 나타내는 기본 네트워크와 내용 분석 시점을 나타내는 활성 네트워크 사이에 구조적으로 큰 차이가 없었으나, 기관 유형별로 다른 기관들을 링크하는 목적이 다르게 나타났다. 그리고 한국 학술적 웹 공간은 여러 중앙성 지수들과 결속계수 간의 설명력이 유사하게 나타나는 형태의 네트워크임을 확인하였다.

Abstract

Since the Web is dynamic, it is necessary to analyze scholarly Web space with both quantitative and qualitative methods for better understanding of communication characteristics. In this study, we analyzed contents of pages and links to ascertain the characteristics of Korean scholarly Web space in terms of network structure and communication behavior. The result shows that the structure of the original network with all the external links remained is not much different from that of the network with activated external links only. However, the purposes of linking vary among scholarly institutions. The centrality measures correlate more strongly with the clustering coefficient than with the constraint index implying the similar explanatory power of the two types of structural indices.

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Abstract

Even though the overall scholarly community has recognized a dramatic growth and changes in the Information Science research in Korea over the last few decades, there are still only few studies that have identified the changes in terms of long-term and dynamic point of view. We have analyzed 1,007 IS-research articles from leading Korean journals in KCI (Korea Citation Index), published between 2000 and 2011. To discern the trendline of changes in research interests over time, we conducted a time-series analysis by developing grounded subject scheme from the article set and checking the growth rate of the number of published articles and title keywords. A comparative analysis was also conducted by constructing and comparing co-word maps over time to discover visible changes in research topics over this 12-year period of the IS-research in Korea. As a result, we identified some developments and transformations in major subject areas and knowledge structure of the IS-research in Korea over time. The major trend we discovered is that IS-studies over the 12-year period evolved from system-oriented research to library-application research. The changes are especially observed in knowledge management, Web-based system evaluation, and information retrieval areas. When compared to the results of other studies, the result of our study may serve as an evidence of the localization of Korean IS-studies in the first decade of the 21st century.