Information science in transition / / edited by Alan Gilchrist.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Facet Publishing,, 2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.