MORE 'INFORMATION-RETRIEVALSEARCH' POSTS
Conference Paper: "Working Without Words – Image Based Retrieval as a Model to Overcome Language Hurdles"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|The paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in San Juan on August 14, 2011. Author: Jan Simane (Head Librarian, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Italy) Abstract: In art history images are the primary medium of interest. In a scientific context, multi media […]
Post-Ranking Query Suggestion by Diversifying Search Results Query suggestion refers to the process of suggesting related queries to search engine users. Most existing researches have focused on improving the relevance of suggested queries. In this paper, we introduce the concept of diversifying the content of the search results from suggested queries while keep the suggestion […]
A presentation by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research Title: “Changing Information Behaviours: Making Library Content Appeal to Digital Information Seekers” 22 PowerPoint slides Presented at: 100. Deutscher Bibliothekartag, 8 June 2011, Berlin (Germany) See Also: “‘If It is Too Inconvenient, I’m Not Going After It:’ Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-Seeking […]
Presentation by Rafal Kasprowski, Rice University NASIG Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO June 2 – 5, 2011 Direct to Slides (39 Slides via SlidesShare) Note: Slides 3-7 provides some very useful background about OpenURL (Why OpenURL?, Breaking Down an OpenURL, etc.) See Also: OpenURL: The Rough Guide (by Tony Hammond, Nature Publishing Group) Posted in […]
The May/June 2011 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|Direct to Complete Table of Contents Along with the Featured Collection, Clips and Pointers and other material in News and Events section, here are the new articles and an editorial in in D-Lib (May/June 2011; Volume 17, Number 5/6) Now and Into the Future By Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Institutional Repositories and […]
From the NISO Web Site: The National Information Standards Organization announces the availability of RFID in U.S. Libraries (NISO RP-6-201x) for a thirty day public comment period, beginning immediately and ending on June 9, 2011. This revision of the 2008 Recommended Practice recommends a set of practices and procedures to ensure interoperability among U.S. RFID […]
Webinar (slides) — Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Transportation Data for a Nation on the Move
|Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Transportation Data for a Nation on the Move History and Overview Programs and Activities Data Collection Airline Economics Freight Passenger Safety Publications and Data Analysis Special Studies Web Tools to Access Data
Digital Agenda: more than half EU Internet surfers use foreign language when online While 90% of Internet surfers in the EU prefer to access websites in their own language, 55% at least occasionally use a language other than their own when online according to a pan-EU Eurobarometer survey released today. However, 44% of European Internet […]
by Mohammad Raza, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Direct to Full Text Report (6 pages; PDF) From the Abstract: The construction of semantically structured, accurate, and comprehensive knowledge bases remains an important but difficult problem. Acquiring the wealth of human knowledge in a machine-readable format would have invaluable benefits for semantic web services […]
A couple of weeks ago we posted about a new mobile app (for iOS) that lets users take a cameraphone picture of a food item and then, in a few seconds, receive nutritional info about that item. We also talked about a free app from LTU Technology allowing users to take a picture and then […]