Overview
- Addresses the notions of proximity and epidata as a process of information discovery and meaning-making
- Introduces the concept of epidata, which is a term borrowed and adjusted from epigenetics
- Focuses on common human behaviors to seek and understand clues through human interactions
Part of the book series: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services (SLICRS)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Laurie Bonnici, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. She holds degrees in Spanish and Linguistics and Library Science and earned her Ph.D. in theory of attribution in information science at Florida State University. Her research interests include information seeking in second-hand knowledge contexts for people in crisis conditions. She has also written on information retrieval in the context of rewilded information that examines information exchange in everyday human interactions.
Brian C. O’Connor, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas where he founded the Visual Thinking Laboratory in The College of Information. He holds degrees in Greek and Latin Literature, Film Production (Fine Art), and earned his Ph.D. in theory of organization of information at the University of California, Berkeley. He has produced documentaries and art films, written on photography, and chaired several doctoral dissertations on various aspects of information science. He has also written on the philosophy of information retrieval, the nature of questions, and idiosyncratic searching.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Proximity and Epidata
Book Subtitle: Attributes and Meaning Modification
Authors: Laurie J. Bonnici, Brian C. O'Connor
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17094-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0), eBColl Synthesis Collection 11
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17093-5Published: 27 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17096-6Published: 28 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17094-2Published: 25 October 2022
Series ISSN: 1947-945X
Series E-ISSN: 1947-9468
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 100
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Information Storage and Retrieval, Library Science, Information Systems and Communication Service, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Computer Science, general