Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
Editor
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services publishes short books on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. Potential topics include: data models, indexing theory and algorithms, classification, information architecture, information economics, privacy and identity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management, human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, information retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.
Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments
Lori McCay-Peet and Elaine G. Toms
Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage: Development, Outcomes, and Challenges from European Perspectives
Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić
iRODS Primer 2: Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
Hao Xu, Terrell Russell, Jason Coposky, Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Antoine de Torcy, Michael Wan, Wayne Shroeder, and Sheau-Yen Chen
Information Architecture: The Design and Integration of Information Spaces, Second Edition
Wei Ding, Xia Lin, and Michael Zarro
Fuzzy Information Retrieval
Donald H. Kraft and Erin Colvin
Quantifying Research Integrity
Michael Seadle
Incidental Exposure to Online News
Borchuluun Yadamsuren and Sanda Erdelez
Web Indicators for Research Evaluation: A Practical Guide
Michael Thelwall
Trustworthy Policies for Distributed Repositories
Reagan W. Moore, Hao Xu, Mike Conway, Arcot Rajasekar, Jon Crabtree, and Helen Tibbo
The Notion of Relevance in Information Science: Everybody knows what relevance is. But, what is it really?
Tefko Saracevic
Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling
Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, and Jun Wang
Learning from Multiple Social Networks
Liqiang Nie, Xuemeng Song, and Tat-Seng Chua
Scholarly Collaboration on the Academic Social Web
Daqing He and Wei Jeng
Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines
B. Barla Cambazoglu and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Social Informatics Evolving
Pnina Fichman, Madelyn R. Sanfilippo, and Howard Rosenbaum
On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors: Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close Is Close Enough, Second Edition
Mark S. Manasse
Building a Better World with Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 3
William Jones
Click Models for Web Search
Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke
Information Communication
Feicheng Ma
Social Media and Library Services
Lorraine Mon
Analysis and Visualization of Citation Networks
Dangzhi Zhao and Andreas Strotmann
The Taxobook: Applications, Implementation, and Integration in Search, Part 3
Marjorie M. K. Hlava
The Taxobook: Principles and Practices of Building Taxonomies, Part 2
Marjorie M. K. Hlava
Measuring User Engagement
Mounia Lalmas, Heather O’Brien, and Elad Yom-Tov
The Taxobook: History, Theories, and Concepts of Knowledge Organization, Part 1
Marjorie M. K. Hlava
Children’s Internet Search: Using Roles to Understand Children’s Search Behavior
Elizabeth Foss and Allison Druin
Digital Library Technologies: Complex Objects, Annotation, Ontologies, Classification, Extraction, and Security
Edward A. Fox and Ricardo da Silva Torres
Digital Libraries Applications: CBIR, Education, Social Networks, eScience/Simulation, and GIS
Edward A. Fox and Jonathan P. Leidig
Information and Human Values
Kenneth R. Fleischmann
Multiculturalism and Information and Communication Technology
Pnina Fichman and Madelyn R. Sanfilippo
Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part II
William Jones
Designing for Digital Reading
Jennifer Pearson, George Buchanan, and Harold Thimbleby
Information Retrieval Models: Foundations and Relationships
Thomas Roelleke
Key Issues Regarding Digital Libraries: Evaluation and Integration
Rao Shen, Marcos Andre Goncalves, and Edward A. Fox
Visual Information Retrieval Using Java and LIRE
Mathias Lux and Oge Marques
On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors: Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close is Close Enough
Mark S. Manasse
The Answer Machine
Susan E. Feldman
Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries: The 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) Approach
Edward A. Fox, Marcos André Gonçalves, and Rao Shen
The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever
William Jones
Search User Interface Design
Max L. Wilson
Information Retrieval Evaluation
Donna Harman
Knowledge Management (KM) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice
Claire R. McInerney and Michael E. D. Koenig
Search-Based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies
Gregory Grefenstette and Laura Wilber
Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities
Gary Marchionini
Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
David Carmel