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City: Edmonton Alberta, CN
Telephone:
  1-780-492-5315

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Database and Other Retrieval Systems
  • Digital / Virtual Libraries
  • Indexing and Abstracting
  • Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
  • Organization of Information
  • Users and Uses of Information Systems

Research Interests

  • Database and Other Retrieval Systems
  • Digital / Virtual Libraries
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
  • Information Visualization
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Organization of Information
  • Social Tagging

Dr. Ali Shiri

Lecturer

Ali Shiri is an Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Before Joining the University of Alberta, Ali worked as a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and a project officer for the development of the NHS Glasgow Health Information Gateway.

Ali's research publications have appeared in the Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (2006), Journal of Information Science (2002, 2003, 2008), Journal of Documentation (2005), and Online Information Review (2009). He has presented his research at the American Society for Information Science and Technology annual conferences (2006, 2009), European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (2007, 2008), and International Society for Knowledge Organization Biannual Conferences (2002, 2004, 2008).

Ali's research areas include: User search and interaction behavior, digital library user interfaces, user-centred search term selection and query expansion, social tagging and knowledge organization systems in digital libraries, institutional repositories, and open archives.

Courses Taught

Education

  • Ph.D. (Information Science) University of Strathclyde (2004)
  • MLS (Library and Information Science) Tehran University (1996)
  • BLS (Library and Information Science) Tehran University

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor: School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta (2008-)
  • Assistant Professor: School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta (2004-2008)
  • Senior Researcher: Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde (2002-2004)
  • Project Officer: Glasgow Health Information Gateway, Glasgow National Health Service (NHS) Board (2002)
  • Lecturer (Part time): Allameh Tabataei University (1999-2000)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • Shiri, A. (2011). Revealing interdisciplinarity in nanoscience and technology queries: A transaction log analysis approach. Knowledge Organization, 38(2), 135-153.
  • Shiri, A., Ruecker, S., Bouchard, M., Stafford, A., Mehta, P., Anvik, K., & Rossello, X. (2011). User evaluation of searchling: A visual interface for bilingual digital libraries. Electronic Library, 29(1), 71-89.
  • McDonnell, M., & Shiri, A. (2011). Social search: A taxonomy of, and a sser-centred approach to, social web search. Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 45(1), 6-28.
  • Shiri, A. (2010, July 5-8). Query reformulation strategies in an interdisciplinary digital library: The case of nanoscience and technology. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM). Thunder Bay, ON.
  • Shiri, A., Ruecker, S., Fiorentino, C., Stafford, A., Bouchard, M., & Bieber, M. (2010, June 15-18). Designing a semantically rich visual interface for cultural digital libraries using the UNESCO multilingual thesaurus. Proceedings of Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2010 Conference: Cultural Diversity in E-Learning and/or M-Learning. Vancouver, BC.
  • Shiri, A., Ruecker, S., Fiorentino, C., Stafford, A., & Bouchard, M. (2010, June 2-4). Exploratory interaction with information through visualization and semantics: Designing a visual user interface using the UNESCO multilingual thesaurus. Proceedings of the 38th Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference. Montreal, QC.
  • Alipour-Hafezi, M., Horri, A., Shiri, A., & Ghaebi, A. (2010). Interoperability models in digital libraries: An overview. The Electronic Library, 28(3), 438-452.
  • Keenan, A. & Shiri, A. (2009). Sociability and social interaction on social networking websites. Library Review, 58(6), 438-450. (Received the Library Review 2010 Highly Commended Award)
  • Shiri, A. (2009). Metadata and metaphors in visual interfaces to digital libraries. In Y. Theng, S. Foo, D. Goh & J. Na (Eds.), Handbook of research on digital libraries: Design, development and impact (pp. 270-277). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
  • Shiri, A. (2009). An examination of social tagging interface features and functionalities: An analytical comparison. Online Information Review, 33(5), 901 - 919. doi: 10.1108/14684520911001909
  • Shiri, A. (2009). Exploration of interdisciplinarity in nanotechnology queries: The use of transaction log analysis and thesauri. In Breitenstein, M. & Loschko, C.L. (Eds.), Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology SIG-Classification Research 20th Workshop. Vancouver, BC.
  • Shiri, A. (2008). Metadata-enhanced visual interfaces to digital libraries. Journal of Information Science, 34(6), 763-775. doi: 10.1177/0165551507087711
  • Saumure, K. & Shiri, A. (2008). Knowledge organization trends in library and information studies: A preliminary comparison of the pre- and post-web eras. Journal of Information Science, 34(5), 651-666. doi: 10.1177/0165551507084300
  • Shiri, A. & Chambers, T. (2008, August 5-8). Information retrieval from digital libraries: Assessing the potential utility of thesauri in supporting users' search behaviour in an interdisciplinary domain. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). Montreal, QC.
  • Shiri, A. (2007). The use of metadata in visual interfaces to digital libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4675, 489-494. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-74851-9_49
  • Shiri, A., Ruecker, S., Anvik, K. & Rossello, X. (2006, November 3-9). Thesaurus-enhanced visual interfaces for multilingual information retrieval. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Conference. Austin, Texas.
  • Shiri, A. & Revie, C. (2006). Query expansion behaviour within a thesaurus-enhanced search environment: A user-centred evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(4), 462-478.
  • Shiri, A. & Revie, C. (2005). Usability and user perceptions of a thesaurus-enhanced search interface. Journal of Documentation, 61(5), 640-656. (Received the Journal of Documentation 2006 Highly Commended Award)

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