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

ISBN-13: 9783540261780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 253 str.

Fabio Crestani;Ian Ruthven

Opis

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, CoLIS 2005, held in Glasgow, UK in June 2005. The papers are organized in topical sections on representing context, context relevance and information seeking, context and information, and more.

Spis treści

Invited Papers.- Wittgenstein, Language and Information: “Back to the Rough Ground!”.- Text, Co-text, Context and the Documentary Continuum.- Representing Context.- The Sense of Information: Understanding the Cognitive Conditional Information Concept in Relation to Information Acquisition.- Practical Implications of Handling Multiple Contexts in the Principle of Polyrepresentation.- Information Sharing and Timing: Findings from Two Finnish Organizations.- Context and Relevance in Information Seeking.- Contexts of Relevance for Information Retrieval System Design.- Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search.- Information Searching Behavior: Between Two Principles.- Context and Information.- Bradford’s Law of Scattering: Ambiguities in the Concept of “Subject”.- The Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance.- Lifeworld and Meaning – Information in Relation to Context.- Contextualised Information Seeking.- Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R&D Projects.- Annotations as Context for Searching Documents.- Conceptual Indexing Based on Document Content Representation.- Agendas for Context.- What’s the Deal with the Web/Blogs/the Next Big Technology: A Key Role for Information Science in e-Social Science Research?.- Assessing the Roles That a Small Specialist Library Plays to Guide the Development of a Hybrid Digital Library.- Power Is Information: South Africa’s Promotion of Access to Information Act in Context.- Context and Documents.- A Bibliometric-Based Semi-automatic Approach to Identification of Candidate Thesaurus Terms: Parsing and Filtering of Noun Phrases from Citation Contexts.- Context Matters: An Analysis of Assessments of XML Documents.- Workshops.- Developing a Metadata Lifecycle Model.- Evaluating User Studies in Information Access.