Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services – serie
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Analysis and Visualization of Citation Networks
Av Dangzhi Zhao, Andreas Strotmann
Häftad, 2015
513 kr
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Citation analysis—the exploration of reference patterns in the scholarly and scientific literature—has long been applied in a number of social sciences to study research impact, knowledge flows, and knowledge networks. It has important information science applications as well, particularly in …
Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems
Häftad, 2009
231 kr
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Improvements in network bandwidth along with dramatic drops in digital storage and processing costs have resulted in the explosive growth of multimedia (combinations of text, image, audio, and video) resources on the Internet and in digital repositories. A suite of computer technologies delivering …
New Concepts in Digital Reference
Häftad, 2009
231 kr
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Let us start with a simple scenario: a man asks a woman "how high is Mount Everest?" The woman replies "29,029 feet." Nothing could be simpler. Now let us suppose that rather than standing in a room, or sitting on a bus, the man is at his desk and the woman is 300 miles away with the conversation …
Exploratory Search
Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm
Av Ryen White, Resa Roth
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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As information becomes more ubiquitous and the demands that searchers have on search systems grow, there is a need to support search behaviors beyond simple lookup. Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in both human and technological contexts. …
Introduction to Webometrics
Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engine results. The importance of the web itself as a communication medium and for hosting an increasingly wide array of documents, from journal articles …
Faceted Search
Häftad, 2009
231 kr
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We live in an information age that requires us, more than ever, to represent, access, and use information. Over the last several decades, we have developed a modern science and technology for information retrieval, relentlessly pursuing the vision of a "memex" that Vannevar Bush proposed in his …
XML Retrieval
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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Documents usually have a content and a structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark-up language. Nowadays, the most widely used …
Understanding User-Web Interactions via Web Analytics
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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This lecture presents an overview of the Web analytics process, with a focus on providing insight and actionable outcomes from collecting and analyzing Internet data. The lecture first provides an overview of Web analytics, providing in essence, a condensed version of the entire lecture. The …
Hypermedia Genes
An Evolutionary Perspective on Concepts, Models, and Architectures
Av Nuno Guimaraes, Luis Carrico
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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The design space of information services evolved from seminal works through a set of prototypical hypermedia systems and matured in open and widely accessible web-based systems. The original concepts of hypermedia systems are now expressed in different forms and shapes. The first works on hypertext …
Reading and Writing the Electronic Book
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with a gloss over the history of electronic books, including the social and technical forces that have shaped their development. The focus then shifts to …
Online Multiplayer Games
Häftad, 2009
287 kr
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This lecture introduces fundamental principles of online multiplayer games, primarily massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), suitable for students and faculty interested both in designing games and in doing research on them. The general focus is human-centered computing, which …
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Häftad, 2009
322 kr
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At its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and finding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines. The intriguing bit here is that the query itself can be a multimedia …
Collaborative Web Search
Who, What, Where, When, and Why
Av Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan
Häftad, 2009
322 kr
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Today, Web search is treated as a solitary experience. Web browsers and search engines are typically designed to support a single user, working alone. However, collaboration on information-seeking tasks is actually commonplace. Students work together to complete homework assignments, friends seek …
iRODS Primer
Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
Av Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
322 kr
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Policy-based data management enables the creation of community-specific collections. Every collection is created for a purpose. The purpose defines the set of properties that will be associated with the collection. The properties are enforced by management policies that control the execution of …
Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
Häftad, 2010
322 kr
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Many information retrieval (IR) systems suffer from a radical variance in performance when responding to users' queries. Even for systems that succeed very well on average, the quality of results returned for some of the queries is poor. Thus, it is desirable that IR systems will be able to …
Information Concepts
From Books to Cyberspace Identities
Häftad, 2010
322 kr
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Information is essential to all human activity, and information in electronic form both amplifies and augments human information interactions. This lecture surveys some of the different classical meanings of information, focuses on the ways that electronic technologies are affecting how we think …
Search-Based Applications
At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies
Av Gregory Grefenstette, Laura Wilber
Häftad, 2010
322 kr
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We are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing, communications, and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information, and generating enormous volumes of electronic data along the …
Knowledge Management (KM) Processes in Organizations
Theoretical Foundations and Practice
Av Claire McInerney, Michael E.D. Koenig
Häftad, 2011
322 kr
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Knowledge Management (KM) is an effort to increase useful knowledge in the organization. It is a natural outgrowth of late twentieth century movements to make organizational management and operations more effective, of higher quality, and more responsive to constituents in a rapidly changing global …
Information Retrieval Evaluation
Av Donna Harman
Häftad, 2011
322 kr
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Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for most of the evaluation methodologies in use today. The retrieval community has been extremely fortunate to have such a well-grounded …
Search-User Interface Design
Av Max Wilson
Häftad, 2011
322 kr
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Search User Interfaces (SUIs) represent the gateway between people who have a task to complete, and the repositories of information and data stored around the world. Not surprisingly, therefore, there are many communities who have a vested interest in the way SUIs are designed. There are people who …
Future of Personal Information Management, Part I
Our Information, Always and Forever
Häftad, 2012
322 kr
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We are well into a second age of digital information. Our information is moving from the desktop to the laptop to the "palmtop" and up into an amorphous cloud on the Web. How can one manage both the challenges and opportunities of this new world of digital information? What does the future hold? …
Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries
the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) Approach
Av Edward Fox, Marcos André Gonçalves m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
377 kr
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In 1991, a group of researchers chose the term digital libraries to describe an emerging field of research, development, and practice. Since then, Virginia Tech has had funded research in this area, largely through its Digital Library Research Laboratory. This book is the first in a four book …
Answer Machine
Häftad, 2012
377 kr
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The Answer Machine is a practical, non-technical guide to the technologies behind information seeking and analysis. It introduces search and content analytics to software buyers, knowledge managers, and searchers who want to understand and design effective online environments. The book describes …
Visual Information Retrieval Using Java and LIRE
Häftad, 2013
366 kr
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Visual information retrieval (VIR) is an active and vibrant research area, which attempts at providing means for organizing, indexing, annotating, and retrieving visual information (images and videos) from large, unstructured repositories.The goal of VIR is to retrieve matches ranked by their …
Key Issues Regarding Digital Libraries
Evaluation and Integration
Av Rao Shen, Marcos André Gonçalves m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
377 kr
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This is the second book based on the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) approach to digital libraries (DLs). Leveraging the first volume, on Theoretical Foundations, we focus on the key issues of evaluation and integration. These cross-cutting issues serve as a bridge for those …
Digital Libraries Applications
Av Edward A. Fox, Jonathan P. Leidig
Häftad, 2014
377 kr
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Digital libraries (DLs) have evolved since their launch in 1991 into an important type of information system, with widespread application. This volume advances that trend further by describing new research and development in the DL field that builds upon the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, …
Digital Library Technologies
Av Edward A. Fox, Ricardo da Silva Torres
Häftad, 2014
377 kr
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Digital libraries (DLs) have introduced new technologies, as well as leveraging, enhancing, and integrating related technologies, since the early 1990s. These efforts have been enriched through a formal approach, e.g., the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) framework, which is …
Children’s Internet Search
Using Roles to Understand Children’s Search Behavior
Av Elizabeth Foss, Allison Druin
Häftad, 2014
377 kr
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Searching the Internet and the ability to competently use search engines are increasingly becoming an important part of children’s daily lives. Whether mobile or at home, children use search interfaces to explore personal interests, complete academic assignments, and have social interaction. …
Taxobook
History, Theories, and Concepts of Knowledge Organization, Part 1 of a 3-Part Series
Häftad, 2014
399 kr
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This is the first volume in a series about creating and maintaining taxonomies and their practical applications, especially in search functions. In Book 1 (The Taxobook: History, Theories, and Concepts of Knowledge Organization), the author introduces the very foundations of classification, …
Taxobook
Principles and Practices of Building Taxonomies, Part 2 of a 3-Part Series
Häftad, 2014
569 kr
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This book outlines the basic principles of creation and maintenance of taxonomies and thesauri. It also provides step by step instructions for building a taxonomy or thesaurus and discusses the various ways to get started on a taxonomy construction project. Often, the first step is to get …
