Name
Abstract | ||
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The paper is concerned with ways in which we understand context. In mainstream LIS, context is construed as environment or situation, a place where work gets done, supported more or less by information objects that are retrieved from a different space. The resulting separation of object and agent underlies two significant lines of work in the LIS domain: the search for optimal access to objects and the description of human information behaviour. Performance measurement dominates the former; the latter has led to elaborate and universalist models that have little discriminatory power and whose validity is difficult to establish. Both groups are pre-occupied, in their own way, with matching agent and object, or with relevance, though the question of 'relevant to what?' has many different answers – tasks, life mastery, leisure interests and so on. A recent 'call to order' here suggests that 'tasks and technology' should be the focus of LIS efforts, as these can at least support the validation of empirical work. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1007/11495222_2 | CoLIS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
lis domain,different answer,human information behaviour,empirical work,documentary continuum,leisure interest,discriminatory power,lis effort,information object,different space,mainstream lis | Information system,Hypertext,Social choice theory,Information retrieval,Information behaviour,Computer science,Citation analysis,Performance measurement,Artificial intelligence,Epistemology,Mainstream | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
3507 | 0302-9743 | 3-540-26178-8 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 1 |
Authors | ||
1 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Elisabeth Davenport | 1 | 57 | 9.68 |