Information Literacy ESS

Fall 2015

Ellen Fest & Hugo Besemer

Finding Information

House keeping

Information needs

Orientation

In depth

Data

Illustration © Loet van Moll 2009

Finding Information

House keeping

Information needs

Orientation

In depth

Data

Illustration © Loet van Moll 2009

Assignment & -no- test

● Assignment

● Submit as a group

● Find information on your subject

● Instructions in BB >> assignment

● No_familyname1_familyname2_familyname3.docx

● Upload in report format via Turnitin in Blackboard at

the latest Saturday 6 December 00 00

● 5.5 is compulsory to get a grade

● Test

● No separate test for Information literacy

But there will be a question

about IL in the general test

Finding Information

House keeping

Information needs

Orientation

In depth

Data

Illustration © Loet van Moll 2009

Information needs

Orientation

● Scientific

● Societal

In depth

● Comprehensive or not

● For example if you are working at a model

● Find existing models

● Model parametrization

● Model validation

● Context (who else is working on this)

Syntax and operator: Module 2

Choice where to search: module 2

Material and how to get 1: module 1

Finding Information

House keeping

Information needs

Orientation

In depth

Data

Illustration © Loet van Moll 2009

The issue

Central question: What happens to the temperature of the atmosphere after the yellowstone volcano explodes?

Hypothesis: The temperature drops, leading to a new ice age.

As we said, we do an in-depth search to help

• Find existing models• Model parametrization• Model validation• Context (who else is working on

this?)

Quick and dirty to get ideas

Quick and dirty to get the

snowball running

• Not much about

Yellowstone

• We are

interested in

“supervolcanoes”

• A (relatively)

recent explosion

is “Toba”

• We found a

number of

models !

We got more than

we deserve…..

Toba is a good example

(so we change volcano)

Comprehensive search ……

Context: Source

Context: author

Context: Affiliation

Context: More about the most proficient

author

VolcanoesToba Yellowstone Atmosphere

TemperatureOther?

AerosolsAsh?

takes some thinking Questions o.a.

Set A:

• Other volcanoes?

• Only supervolcanoes

or will any volcano do?

Set B

• Other atmospheric

factors (radiation?)

Set C

• Do we need it, or is A

AND B good enough

Managing your information

Information about citing and plagiarism

● http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-

Services/Facilities/Library/Expertise/Write-cite/citing.htm

Managing references: Endnote and Mendeley

● http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-

Services/Facilities/Library/Expertise/Write-cite/citing/EndNote-and-

Mendeley.htm

Working what you have found: Module 3

Finding Information

House keeping

Information needs

Orientation

In depth

Data

Illustration © Loet van Moll 2009

Findig data: the bad news first

There is no “Google” or “Scopus” for data

Parametrization for “Yellowstone”

looking for the right repository

But do we

believe data?

Not

necessarily,

if we look at

this example

=>

Example: Data on Europe’s population

(according to Eurostat)

Example: Data on Europe’s population (according to

Eurostat) 2: What happened?

To be complete: Asia’s population

according to Eurostat

So: data is meaningless without proper documentation at different levels (project, file, parameters)

Questions?