The Notion of Relevance in Information Science
Everybody knows what relevance is. But, what is it really?
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Introduction
Everybody searches. Everybody googles. In doing so, everybody is looking for something that is relevant to whatever current question, state, problem. And everybody knows what relevance is. It is a “y’know” not...
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Understanding, Manifestations, and Attributes
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Theories of Relevance
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Conclusions
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A Bit of History
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Models of Relevance
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Experimental Studies on Behavior of Relevance
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Effects of Inconsistent Relevance Judgments on Information Retrieval Test Results
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Experimental Studies on Effects of Relevance
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Information Literacy in the United States: Contemporary Transformations and Controversies
While acknowledging that efforts in information literacy are a global, the paper concentrates on information literacy efforts in the USA. The American Library Association (ALA) issued in year 2000 a set of sta...
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DL Education in the EU and in the US: Where Are We?, Where Are We Going?
The EU i2010 policy framework to build the European Information Society has positioned digital libraries as a critical component for its realization. The i2010 Digital Libraries initiative sets out to make all...
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Users and Intermediaries in Information Retrieval: What Are They Talking About?
Discourse between users and intermediaries (human agents), as they interact when searching large databases, serves the function of user modeling. Selected data from a real-life study are presented, categorizin...
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An Approach to Information as a Utility
Why should we attempt to consider information, or to be more precise, information systems, as a utility-type of enterprise? Generally, for two reasons: first, the nature of information problems existing at pre...
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