Introduction. Critical appraisal is a crucial aspect of evidence-based practice. In order to determine whether research is valid, reliable and applicable, the evidence-based practice process advocates that published research be critically appraised. Between 2006 and 2008, the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice published 101 evidence summaries, critically appraising research...

At its core, evidence-based medicine is a systemic approach to utilizing the best scientific information to make decisions regarding diagnosis and treatment for individual patients. It involves learning a set of skills to access and evaluate the medical literature and select the most accurate information for use in clinical decision-making. The term " evidence-based medicine " (EBM) originated ...

Crowdsourcing is an emerging collaborative approach that can be used for the acquisition of annotated corpora and a wide range of other linguistic resources. Although the use of this approach is intensifying in all its key genres (paid-for crowdsourcing, games with a purpose, volunteering-based approaches), the community still lacks a set of best-practice guidelines similar to the annotation be...

This paper describes work undertaken within the context of the P3 (Project and Process Prompter) Project which aims to develop the Prompter tool, a ‘decision-support tool to assist in the planning and managing of a software development project’. Prompter will have the ability to help software project managers to assimilate best practice and ‘know how’ in the field of software project management...

This paper presents an architecture based on web services for learning object repositories (LOR). This architecture enables to facilitate the indexation process by integration of a LOR into applications where learning objects are either produced or consumed. Also, it is designed to provide interoperability with other LORs.

Purpose – How companies can become better at knowing what they know, and share what they know have in recent years become dominant fields of research within knowledge management. The literature focuses on why people share knowledge, or why they fail to share knowledge, whilst the discussion of what they actually share has been pinned down to the concept of best practices. In this paper it is ar...

Service-oriented computing has emerged as the new area to address software as a service. This paper proposes a model for component based development for service-oriented systems and have created best practice guidelines on software component design.