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Information Context: Nature, Impact, and Role

5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, CoLIS 2005, Glasgow, UK, June 4-8, 2005 Proceedings

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Context and Relevance in Information Seeking

    1. Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search

      • Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O’Brien, Rick Kopak, Luanne Freund
      Pages 59-78
  3. Context and Information

    1. Bradford’s Law of Scattering: Ambiguities in the Concept of “Subject”

      • Birger Hjørland, Jeppe Nicolaisen
      Pages 96-106
    2. The Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance

      • Olof Sundin, Jenny Johannisson
      Pages 107-118
  4. Contextualised Information Seeking

    1. Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R&D Projects

      • Morten Skovvang, Mikael K. Elbæk, Morten Hertzum
      Pages 141-154
    2. Annotations as Context for Searching Documents

      • Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro
      Pages 155-170
    3. Conceptual Indexing Based on Document Content Representation

      • Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
      Pages 171-186

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About this book

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

  • Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

    Fabio Crestani

  • Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Ian Ruthven

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