About these proceedings
Introduction
CoLIS 5 was the ?fth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analyzing research inareassuchascomputerscience,informationscienceandlibraryscience.CoLIS examinesthehistorical,theoretical,empiricalandtechnicalissuesrelatingtoour understanding and use of information, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to research. CoLIS seeks to provide a broad platform for the examination of context as it relates to our theoretical, empirical and technical development of information-centered disciplines. The theme for CoLIS 5 was the nature, impact and role of context within information-centered research. Context is a complex, dynamic and multi- - mensional concept that in?uences both humans and machines: how they behave individually and how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we took an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of context to help us understand and the theoretical approaches to modelling and understanding context, incorporate contextual reasoning within technology, and develop a shared framework for promoting the exploration of context.
Keywords
Extensible Markup Language (XML) contextual information digital libraries information acquisition information engineering information extraction information retrieval information searching information sience library science metainformation organization
Editors and affiliations
- Fabio Crestani
- Ian Ruthven
- 1.Department of Computer and Information ScienceUniversity of StrathclydeScotland
- 2.Dept. of Computer and Information SciencesUniversity of StrathclydeGlasgowScotland, UK
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