• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.23-58
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• 2024

Despite the important roles of institutions and their collaboration in producing knowledge for innovation, the lack of accurate methods for identifying such knowledge-producing institutions has restricted empirical research on the role of institutions in innovation. This study explores methods to enhance the accuracy of identifying institutions involved in innovation process. To this end, we propose ways to improve accuracy in both aspects of information - data and algorithms - using bibliographic information in the digital health field. Specifically, in the data processing stage before applying algorithms, we address contextual inaccuracies of bibliographic information; in the algorithm application stage, we propose methods to improve the ambiguity of institution names (IND). When compared with the PKG dataset, which is publicly available datasets based on the same bibliographic information, our methods doubled the number of cases available for subsequent analysis. We also discovered that the contribution of Korean institutions in the digital health field is either underestimated or overestimated. The method presented in this study is expected to contribute to empirically researching the role of knowledge-producing institutions in innovation process and ecosystem.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.221-239
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to review the current status of disseminating knowledge on Korean people by analyzing biographies for juvenile and general audiences with the subject term 'Korea' in WorldCat. Languages and topics of 15,007 bibliographic records and topic facets, biographees, and holding libraries in the U.S. of 487 biographies for juvenile audiences were analyzed. Major findings are as follows: 1) 30 English biographies are held by may libraries in the U.S. and the most popular subjects are Kim Il-song and Kim Jong-il, 2) 457 Korean biographies are not held by many libraries, and King Sejong and the General Yi Sun-sin are the most popular subjects, 3) many Korean biographies are picture books for the very young readers with the focus on Korean folklores and anecdotal biographies, and 4) there are some errors in topic facets, dispersion of biographees, and inaccurate holding lists of bibliographic records. Therefore, there seems to be little to read with an interest and promote the diffusion of knowledge on Korean people through libraries.