Overview of content related to 'information retrieval'
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Information retrieval (IR) is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web. There is overlap in the usage of the terms data retrieval, document retrieval, information retrieval, and text retrieval, but each also has its own body of literature, theory, praxis, and technologies. IR is interdisciplinary, based on computer science, mathematics, library science, information science, information architecture, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and statistics. Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called "information overload". Many universities and public libraries use IR systems to provide access to books, journals and other documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Information retrieval)
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Article summary | Date |
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2007, issue52, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2004, issue39, news and events |
Net Gains for Digital Researchers |
Amy Friedlander, the editor of D-Lib, looks at, and towards, some of the benefits of the Web and digital technology towards how we do and present research. |
September 1996, issue5, feature article |
Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued) |
Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Metadata: Image Retrieval |
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Metadata Corner |
Michael Day reports from Tomar, Portugal, on the DELOS6 Workshop. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A Realistic Guide |
Stephen Harper analyses in detail a familiar disease. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
Lessons Learned from Developing and Delivering the BORGES Information Filtering Tool |
Alan Smeaton discusses the development and implementation of BORGES, an information filtering service for WWW pages and USENET news. |
November 1996, issue6, project update |
Knowledge Management in the Perseus Digital Library |
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox on the Perseus Project's new knowledge management and digital delivery tools. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
IT for Me: Getting Personal in South Yorkshire Public Libraries |
Liz Pearce and Neil Smith introduce the IT for Me Project which aims to provide personalised access to online resources in South Yorkshire's public libraries. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
ISBN-13: New Number on the Block |
Ann Chapman outlines the planned changes to the ISBN standard and its impact on the information community and the book trade. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012 |
Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Interface Miriam Drake: A Rainy Night in Georgia? |
The Library is still busy, as Miriam Drake explains to Alison Kilgour. |
November 1996, issue6, regular column |
Instructional Management Systems |
John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project. |
March 1999, issue19, feature article |
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors |
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Information Skills and the DNER: The INHALE Project |
Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team. |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
IMPACT Final Conference 2011 |
Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues: Resource Discovery for the 21st Century |
John Gilby reports on a one-day conference about resource discovery, held at the British Library Conference Centre, London in November. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Hybrid Libraries |
Stephen Pinfield describes the role of Hybrid Libraries and Clumps |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Googlepository and the University Library |
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
Functionality in Digital Annotation: Imitating and Supporting Real-world Annotation |
Richard Waller looks at both pre-digital and digital concepts of annotation, with a view to how annotation tools might be used in the subject-gateway environment. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation |
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. |
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Exposing Information Resources for E-learning |
Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Evidence, Value and Impact: The LIS Research Landscape in 2010 |
Stephanie Kenna reports on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, held at the British Library on 28 June 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
ERIMS |
Catherine Hanratty issues a call to ERIMS. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
Enabling Knowledge Communities |
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides further information about enabling knowledge communities. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries) |
Sarah Rayner and Olivia Walsby report on a three-day conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, hosted by NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway over 1 - 3 October 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
ELVIRA |
Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University. |
May 1996, issue3, event report |
EEVL News: EEVL, VLEs, Institutional and Library Portals |
Malcolm Moffat discusses the use of EEVL functionality in VLEs and Portals. |
April 2004, issue39, regular column |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding |
John MacColl, Lorcan Dempsey and John Kirriemuir reflect in turn on the rationale and history of the founding of Ariadne. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 34: Cultivating Interoperability and Resource-Sharing |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 34. |
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ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004 |
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
ECDL 2007 |
Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
ECDL 2004: A Digital Librarian's Report |
Jessie Hey reports on the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held at the University of Bath in September 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
E-books and E-content 2010: Data As Content |
Brian Whalley reports on a meeting dealing with academic data management and some JISC projects concerned with institutional responses to the need to manage research data more effectively. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Down Your Way: University of Ulster, Coleraine |
Isobel Stark investigates University of Ulster, Coleraine. |
January 1998, issue13, regular column |
Down Your Way: Queen's University Library |
Isobel Stark visits the Victorian and 20th-century splendours of the Queen's Univerity, Belfast. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Down Your Way: Edge Hill University |
Alison Kilgour checks out the network facilities at Edge Hill College. |
September 1996, issue5, regular column |
Discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day |
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor reports on discussions from KIDMM Mash-up Day. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
