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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Z665 Library Science. Information Science"”.
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Understanding and conceptualising the document triage process through information seekers' visual and navigational attention
Information, is a valuable commodity and its effective use is a vital part of everyday life. With the advancements of the internet and the increasing accessibility to it, the location of information is no longer the primary concern of information seekers. Digitisation techniques have made a wide …
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Investigating users’ mental models of traditional and digital libraries
… organisation of items in both types of library and the availability of documents in paper and electronic mediums. These models contain deeper similarities and differences based on the information-seeking goals that can be fulfilled by each type of library, issues concerning the contents …
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Analysis of spatio-social relations in a photographic archive (Flickr)
… beneficial to researchers in social and e-social sciences, those who are interested in developing and maintaining social networking sites, geographers who work on disambiguation of fuzzy vernacular geographic terms, visualization and spatial data analysts in general and those who are looking for …
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Investigating ontology based query expansion using a probabilistic retrieval model
… briefly outlines the problems of traditional information retrieval systems and discusses the different approaches to inferring context in document retrieval. By context we mean word disambiguation which is achieved by exploring the generalisation-specialisation hierarchies within a given …
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Modelling music: a theoretical approach to the classification of notated Western art music
… classification of Western art music across the library and information science (LIS) and music domains. The research is conducted using a number of analytical techniques, including examining music knowledge organization discourse, analysing examples of LIS classification schemes, unpicking …
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Theory and practice in the analysis of information policy in the digital age: a casestudy on the formulation of the European Directive on the legal protection of databases.
… thesis is concerned with the academic study of information policy and aims to improve theoretical and methodological approaches for the analysis of complex information policy environments. In conducting a casestudy on the formulation of the European directive on the legal protection of …
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Health Sciences Libraries: Information Services and ICTs
… significantly to move towards the concept of an Information Society, particularly for the benefit of the healthcare community. There have been some individual efforts, in this direction but they do not address the problem and related root issues. The problem is that the body and soul are not …
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Football Fans, Their Information, The Web And The Personal Home Page
… has developed into one of the world's largest information resources. One of the first genres of web pages, which was also one of the first information resources, was the Personal Home Page (PHP). Over this same period of time, professional football in England has created the world's richest …
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A meta-information structure for representing arguments in science text
… semantic elements in English natural language science text which can be called metainformation. Meta-information is described as being the organisational-, rather than the conceptual properties of an author's 'message' in text. Conceptual information is that subject-related output from a …
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Open Access and Closed Discourses: Constructing Open Access as a 'Development' Issue
… the following questions: - .Which notions of science, of development and progress, of knowledge as well as of information and technology are capitalised on in the open access debates and in which way are they shaped as a consequence? - \Vhich discursive effects can be established, what are the …
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A Model of Scientists’ Information Seeking and a User-Interface Design
Information systems that are available today do not optimally address the information-seeking behaviour of scholars, particularly those who belong to scientific communities; as a result, scholarly discovery is often cumbersome and incomplete. The hypothesis of this study is that an …
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User-based evaluation of academic digital libraries : case studies, Social Science Information Gateway, Art, Design Architecture & Media Gateway and the Electronic Journals Service of the University of Patras, Greece
… The study was focused on Subject Based Information Gateways (SBIGs) and Electronic Journals Services. Specifically, two gateways were examined: the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) and the Art, Design, Architecture and Media (ADAM) gateway, and an electronic journals service: …
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The information needs of contemporary academic researchers
This thesis looks at the information component of the research endeavour at a particularly interesting point in time, when strikingly new developments in both the scholarly world and its information environs cast doubt on the validity of anything and everything we have traditionally been holding …
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Information in nineteenth century England : exploring contemporary socio-cultural perceptions and understandings
Historical interest in the information society and the tools and techniques of information processing and management has been the subject of much recent scholarship. In contrast, this research examines understandings of information from a social and cultural perspective and offers new insights into …
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Access to legal information in Korea
… aim of this project is to establish a desirable information environment adjusting to need and behaviour of legal professional in Korea. For this purpose, present situation of information sources in printed form and computerised systems were examined. Printed sources were evaluated based on …
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An Evaluation of Structured Navigation for Subject Searching in Online Catalogues
… and improving subject searching in online library catalogues is the focus of this study. Against the backdrop of current research and developments in online catalogues an analysis of the problems and prospects for subject access in the expanding online catalogue is presented. Developments …
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Scientific communication, information flows in industry - exemplified by pharmaceutical information in China & the UK
This study compare information flows in China and the UK with the example of pharmaceutical information. The general objective is to explore the relationship between information situation and the status of science and industry in a country. In China scientific information has long dominated …
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Interactive query expansion and relevance feedback for document retrieval systems
… parts. Part I of the thesis covers background information and appropriate literature reviews with special emphasis on the relevance weighting theory (Binary Independence Model), the approaches to automatic and semi-automatic query expansion, the ZOOM facility of ESA/IRS and the CIRT front-end. …
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Subject searching behaviour at the library catalogue and at the shelves: evaluating the impact of an online public access catalogue
Searching behaviour in a university library is studied using a holistic approach encompassing the use of bibliographic tools and browsing at the shelves. The project was designed as a `before and after' study to evaluate the impact of an online catalogue on subject searching behaviour. A combined …
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