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Information retrieval

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AlltheWeb.com: Provides a variety of Internet search tools and features, and supports searching in over 30 languages.
Author: Overture Services, Inc
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 004.678
Resource type: productinfo
Bath Profile: International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery: Draft profile identifying a subset of specifications from the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol for use in Z39.50 client and server software. An explanation is given as to how this will improve search and retrieval among library catalogues, union catalogues, and other electronic resource discovery services worldwide, together with information about scope, functional requirements, and conformance issues.
Author: Bath Group
Subjects: information retrieval, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
Beyond Information Retrieval: Ways to Provide Content in Context: Article focusing on aspects of information retrieval including automatic extraction of key concepts or names, collaborative filtering, visualisation techniques, and classification and clustering. Topics are discussed in relation to information retrieval history and the development of the Web.
Author: Deborah, Lynne Wiley, Online
Subjects: information management in business, information retrieval, visualisation
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
BOPAC2: Bradford OPAC 2: A project aimed at dealing with the problems of large and complex retrieval sets, possible from multiple databases, obtained via the Z39.50 protocol. The trial service allows cross-searching of at least 12 university library catalogues, using Z39.50 from within a Web browser.
Author: University of Bradford Department of Computing
Subjects: information retrieval, library catalogues in england, online bibliographic searching, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.04
Resource type: opac
CAIRNS: Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland: Project aiming to integrate 25 Z39.50 compliant catalogues or information services of CAIRNS sites across Scotland into a functional and user-adaptive test-bed service.
Author: University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde
Subjects: information retrieval, library systems, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents, opac
CIQM: Centre for Information Quality Management: CIQM acts as a clearing house to which database users may report problems relating to the the quality of a database being used.
Author: Library Association
Subjects: database systems, information retrieval, management practice, quality assessment
DeweyClass: 020.6
Resource type: institution
Context-Dependent Information Filtering: Article discussing the notion that different people use different terms or phrases to access the same information. An approach is presented which recognises that one concept may be represented by several different terms, many concepts may be represented by a single term, and that concepts may overlap.
Author: Lee, Maria R.
Subjects: classification, indexing, information retrieval, linguistics
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: article
Cross-Searching Subject Gateways: The Query Routing and Forward Knowledge Approach: Collection of Welsh language resources catering for learners of all abilities. Information includes a bibliography, software packages, magazines, grammar guides, and spelling and vocabulary checkers.
Author: Kirriemuir, John et al
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Data Mine: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Collection of pointers to conferences, software, contacts and other resources in the field of artificial intelligence and knowledge discovery.
Author: Pryke, Andy
Subjects: artificial intelligence, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 006.3
Resource type: index
DESIRE: Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education: This project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between project partners working at ten institutions from four European countries - the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. It's focus was on enhancing existing European information networks for research users across Europe through research and development in three main areas of activity: Caching, Resource Discovery and Directory Services.
Author: SURFnet
Subjects: information retrieval, multimedia - general, quality assessment
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Discovering the Hidden Secrets in Your Data - the Data Mining Approach to Information: This article describes a number of empirical studies investigating the use of the data mining approach for the analysis of health information. The examples described highlight the factors perceived as influencing the success or otherwise of the data mining approach in each case, and illustrate the generic difficulties that may be encountered during the process, and how these difficulties may be overcome.
Author: Lloyd-Williams, Michael
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 006.3
Resource type: article
Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices: Provides guidelines for the content, organisation, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of parts of, and entire, documents. It deals with the principles of indexing, regardless of the type of material, the method used (intellectual analysis, machine algorithm, or both), the medium of the index, or the method of presentation for searching. It emphasises three processes essential for all indexes; comprehensive design, vocabulary management, and the provision of syntax. Definitions of indexes are included, together with recommendations regarding their design. Available in PDF only.
Author: Anderson, James D.
Subjects: bibliographic control, indexing, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: document
How Much Information?: Attempts to measure the annual production of information content by storage media type. Coverage includes print resources, film, optical and magnetic storage, the Internet, and broadcast media. Estimates total production at around 250 megabytes for every human on earth, and argues that digital information accounts for the vast majority, with print documents only making up 0.003 percent of the total quantity produced. Concludes that better understanding and tools are required to make use of the ever-increasing supply of information, and to avoid total information overload.
Author: University of California Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems
Subjects: information retrieval, information society
DeweyClass: 303.483
Resource type: documents
IFLA Information Technology Section: Group of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions which aims to stimulate, develop and promote concepts and tools for the improvement of quality of modern library services, involving advanced technologies for creation, storage, retrieval, manipulation and display of information.
Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Subjects: information retrieval, library systems
DeweyClass: 025.04
Resource type: documents
Indexing Resources on the WWW: Directory including detailed sections on print or back of the book indexing, archival material, databases, software, special formats, manual indexers, information retrieval, the World Wide Web, and professional associations.
Author: Stephenson, Mary Sue
Subjects: indexing, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: index
Information Retrieval: Full text book on information retrieval, related concepts, and system design. Chapters are offered in PDF and html formats.
Author: van Rijsbergen, Keith C. J.
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: non-fiction ebook
Information Retrieval Using Conceptual Index Term For Technical Paper on Digital Library: An article describing a semantic information retrieval system using concepts as opposed to keywords or phrases. Describes methods by which word and concept distribution is determined.
Author: Horii, Chinatsu; Imai, Masakazu & Chihara, Kunihiro
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: article
Internet Pilot to Terminology: Links to databases of terms covering science and technology, leisure and entertainment, law, administration, and commerce. Each glossary comprises terms of value for information retrieval in a particular subject field.
Author: University of Surrey
Subjects: information retrieval, reference
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: index
Internet, Interoperability and Standards Filling the Gaps: The main focus of standardisation in the library arena has moved from that of supporting efficiency to allowing library users to access external resources and facilitating remote access to library resources. The potential of full interoperability in the field is examined along with its likely impact. Some of the gaps in current standards are examined, with a focus on information retrieval.
Author: Gatenby, Janifer
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval, internet culture, library resource sharing, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.02
Resource type: article
KD Mine: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources Index: A free electronic newsletter on data mining and knowledge discovery research and applications, together with a guide to commercial and public-domain tools for data mining and knowledge discovery, links to companies providing software, consulting, and other data mining services solutions, a directory of data-mining-based solutions to industry-specific problems, web sites, research projects, reference materials, journals and meetings relevant to data mining and knowledge discovery
Author: Piatetsky-Shapiro, Gregory & Beddows, Michael
Subjects: information retrieval, internet resource discovery
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: magazine
Librarians' Resource Centre: A selective collection of resources compiled to facilitate information research and retrieval. It is organised along three major divisions. Section one is dedicated to public services and has pointers to search engines, topical guides, ready reference and databases. Section two is devoted to professional development, knowledge management and library literature on the web. Section three covers technical services and provides guides for cataloguing, Internet and intranet development tools and acquisitions sourcing.
Author: Special Libraries Association
Subjects: acquisitions, information retrieval, library and information science links
DeweyClass: 020
Resource type: index
Multimedia Document Retrieval Technique in Digital Libraries: Article describing Korean document retrieval techniques and assessing a novel approach for retrieving SGML / HyTime documents from large document databases.
Author: Jongpil Yoon; Sung-Hyuk Kim & Sang-Wan Han
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval, korean, sgml
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: article
RSLP Collection Description Schema: Provides the widely used collection description schema as proposed by the UK Office of Library and Information Networking and derived from Michael Heaney's related report, 'An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues'. Provides a definitive set of metadata attributes to ensure the effective description of library, archive and museum collections.
Author: UKOLN
Subjects: digital library management, information retrieval, library management, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.32
Resource type: document
Selecting Libraries, Selecting Documents, Selecting Data: Paper examining the selection of information within a digital library environment at three levels: selecting which library (repository) to look in, selecting which document(s) within a library to look at, and selecting fragments of data (text, numeric data, images) from within a document. Similarities and differences between these three levels are discussed.
Author: Buckland, Michael & Plaunt, Christian
Subjects: digital library use, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Serving Users in Many Languages: Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Digital Libraries: Discussion of technical approaches to cross-language information retrieval looking at user needs and highlighting some worldwide initiatives.
Author: Oard, Douglas W.
Subjects: digital library design, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
SIMILE: Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments: Research project aiming to enhance interoperability among digital assets, schemas, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections that must interoperate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores.
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Subjects: information retrieval, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Spire Project: A guide to Internet, library and commercial information resources. Describes how to find Web pages, books, articles, patents, statistics, theses and dissertations, from sources such as discussion groups, commercial databases, journals and government publications.
Author: Novak, David
Subjects: information retrieval, research methods
DeweyClass: 020
Resource type: guide
Tefko Saracevic: Selected Articles: Articles by Tefko Saracevic, Professor at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers. Articles cover a range of topics including education, evaluation, research, and practice in the area of digital libraries, as well as feedback, interactivity, modelling, and relevance in information retrieval. Articles are available in Word or PDF format.
Author: Saracevic, Tefko
Subjects: information management in education, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: articles
TILT: Texas Information Literacy Tutorial: An interactive tutorial comprising three modules designed to introduce the user to online research methods, with a view to improving their information retrieval skills. The first section focuses on selecting the most appropriate sources depending on the user's research interests, the second concentrates on the search process itself, and the final module considers how best to assess the credibility and usefulness of material retrieved.
Author: University of Texas System Digital Library
Subjects: information retrieval, internet resource discovery, research methods
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: interactive documents
TREC: Text REtrieval Conference: Web resource about the TREC conference series which aims to provide the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of information retrieval methodologies. Includes proceedings of each conference in PS or PDF formats and a comprehensive data section to enable organisations to evaluate their own retrieval systems at any time. Sections for active participants and past results require a password which can be obtained by emailing the program manager.
Author: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: documents
UKeiG: UK eInformation Group: A well-established forum for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. It promotes and advances the effective exploitation and management of electronic information and offers a wide range of resources including seminars and workshops. Members can access its e-journal eLucidate and its popular series of Factsheets. It is a special interest group of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
Author: UKeiG
Subjects: information retrieval, internet users, library organisations, online bibliographic searching
DeweyClass: 020.6
Resource type: institution
Visual User Interface for Document Retrieval Utilizing Spatial Relationships among Document Vectors: Details of a study into the relevancy of information retrieval using a visual user interface as opposed to the more common keyword interface. Spatial relationships between documents are plotted on a matrix, enabling the relevancy amongst papers to be assessed, using information based on the distance between points and the direction of connecting axes.
Author: Watanabe, Masahiro, and Yoshikawa, Masatoshi
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.524
Resource type: article
VTLS: VTLS develops, markets, and supports solutions for managing library collections and accessing information via computer networks.
Author: VTLS
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.04
Resource type: productinfo
WebCrawler: WebCrawler uses metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About, and Looksmart to return results from the combined pool of search engines, instead of results from only one.
Author: InfoSpace
Subjects: information retrieval
DeweyClass: 004.678
Resource type: productinfo
WWW Virtual Library: Information Quality: Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual and scholarly networked information systems.
Author: Ciolek, T. Matthew & Goltz, Irena M.
Subjects: information retrieval, quality assessment
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: index
Z39.50: A Primer on the Protocol: An overview of the Z39.50 standard explaining what it is and how it works. Identifies the benefits of using Z39.50 implementations, offers a brief history, describes some key technical features, provides examples of some Z39.50 applications, and forecasts the future direction of the standard. Available in PDF only.
Author: National Information Standards Organization
Subjects: information retrieval, library information networks, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document