Social Vulnerability to Covid-19

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book provides an overview of the impact of the pandemic in China and the USA and presents a research agenda for use, access, and adoption of info... Lees meer

Compatibility Modeling

Xuemeng Song

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Nowadays, fashion has become an essential aspect of people's daily life. As each outfit usually comprises several complementary items, such as a top, ... Lees meer

Information Retrieval Evaluation

Donna Harman

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the found... Lees meer

Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries

Edward Fox, Marcos André Gonçalves, Rao Shen

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• In 1991, a group of researchers chose the term digital libraries to describe an emerging field of research, development, and practice. Since then, Vir... Lees meer

Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling

Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, Jun Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Big data and human-computer information retrieval (HCIR) are changing IR. They capture the dynamic changes in the data and dynamic interactions of use... Lees meer

Information Retrieval Models

Thomas Roelleke

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Information Retrieval (IR) models are a core component of IR research and IR systems. The past decade brought a consolidation of the family of IR mode... Lees meer

Framing Privacy in Digital Collections with Ethical Decision Making

Virginia Dressler

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• As digital collections continue to grow, the underlying technologies to serve up content also continue to expand and develop. As such, new challenges ... Lees meer

Social Monitoring for Public Health

Michael J Paul, Mark Dredze

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a population remains a central challenge of public health research an... Lees meer

Keywords in and Out of Context

Betsy Van Der Veer Martens

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cata... Lees meer

Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information

William Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six es... Lees meer

Information Architecture

Wei Ding, Xia Lin, Michael Zarro

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Information Architecture is about organizing and simplifying information, designing and integrating information spaces/systems, and creating ways for ... Lees meer

Social Informatics Evolving

Pnina Fichman, Madelyn R Sanfilippo, Howard Rosenbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• The study of people, information, and communication technologies and the contexts in which these technologies are designed, implemented, and used has ... Lees meer

Reading and Writing the Electronic Book

Catherine Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with... Lees meer

The Notion of Relevance in Information Science

Tefko Saracevic

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Everybody knows what relevance is. It is a "ya'know" notion, concept, idea-no need to explain whatsoever. Searching for relevant information using inf... Lees meer

Key Issues Regarding Digital Libraries

Rao Shen

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This is the second book based on the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) approach to digital libraries (DLs). Leveraging the first ... Lees meer

Reading and Writing the Electronic Book

Catherine C Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Developments over the last 20 years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with a g... Lees meer

Hypermedia Genes

Nuno Guimaraes, Luis Carrico

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• The design space of information services evolved from seminal works through a set of prototypical hypermedia systems and matured in open and widely ac... Lees meer

The Taxobook

Marjorie M K Hlava

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book is the third of a three-part series on taxonomies, and covers putting your taxonomy into use in as many ways as possible to maximize retriev... Lees meer

Social Monitoring for Public Health

Michael J Paul

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a population remains a central challenge of public health research an... Lees meer

Simulating Information Retrieval Test Collections

David Hawking, Bodo Billerbeck, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Simulated test collections may find application in situations where real datasets cannot easily be accessed due to confidentiality concerns or practic... Lees meer

Social Media and Library Services

Lorri Mon

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• The rise of social media technologies has created new ways to seek and share information for millions of users worldwide, but also has presented new c... Lees meer

Question Answering for the Curated Web

Rishiraj Saha Roy, Avishek Anand

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Question answering (QA) systems on the Web try to provide crisp answers to information needs posed in natural language, replacing the traditional rank... Lees meer

Scaling Up: How Data Curation Can Help Address Key Issues in Qualitative Data Reuse and Big Social Research

Sara Mannheimer

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book explores the connections between qualitative data reuse, big social research, and data curation. A review of existing literature identifies ... Lees meer

New Concepts in Digital Reference

R David Lankes

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Let us start with a simple scenario: a man asks a woman "how high is Mount Everest?" The woman replies "29,029 feet." Nothing could be simpler. Now le... Lees meer