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Information science in transition /

Are we at a turning point in digital information? The expansion of the internet was unprecedented; search engines dealt with it in the only way possible - scan as much as they could and throw it all into an inverted index. But now search engines are beginning to experiment with deep web searching an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain)
Otros Autores: Gilchrist, Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Facet Pub., 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Fifty years of UK research in information science.
  • 2. Smoother pebbles and the shoulder of giants: the developing foundations of information science.
  • 3. The last 50 years of knowledge organizations: a journey through my personal archives.
  • 4. On the history of evaluation in IR.
  • 5. The information user: past, present and future.
  • 6. The sociological turn in information science.
  • 7. From chemical documentation to chemoinformatics: 50 years of chemical information science.
  • 8. Health informatics: current issues and challenges.
  • 9. Social informatics and sociotechnical research: a view from the UK.
  • 10. The evolution of visual information retrieval.
  • 11. Information policies: yesterday, today, tomorrow.
  • 12. The disparity in professional qualifications and progress in information handling: a European perspective.
  • 13. Electronic scholarly publishing and Open Access.
  • 14. Social software: fun and games, or business tools?
  • 15. Bibliometrics to webometrics.
  • 16. How I learned to love the Brits.