Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments. Lori McCay-Peet

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       Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments

       Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services

      Editor

      Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

      Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services publishes short books on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. Potential topics include: data models, indexing theory and algorithms, classification, information architecture, information economics, privacy and identity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management, human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, information retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.

      Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments

      Lori McCay-Peet and Elaine G. Toms

      Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage: Development, Outcomes, and Challenges from European Perspectives

      Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić

      iRODS Primer 2: Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System

      Hao Xu, Terrell Russell, Jason Coposky, Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Antoine de Torcy, Michael Wan, Wayne Shroeder, and Sheau-Yen Chen

      Information Architecture: The Design and Integration of Information Spaces, Second Edition

      Wei Ding, Xia Lin, and Michael Zarro

      Fuzzy Information Retrieval

      Donald H. Kraft and Erin Colvin

      Quantifying Research Integrity

      Michael Seadle

      Incidental Exposure to Online News

      Borchuluun Yadamsuren and Sanda Erdelez

      Web Indicators for Research Evaluation: A Practical Guide

      Michael Thelwall

      Trustworthy Policies for Distributed Repositories

      Reagan W. Moore, Hao Xu, Mike Conway, Arcot Rajasekar, Jon Crabtree, and Helen Tibbo

      The Notion of Relevance in Information Science: Everybody knows what relevance is. But, what is it really?

      Tefko Saracevic

      Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling

      Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, and Jun Wang

      Learning from Multiple Social Networks

      Liqiang Nie, Xuemeng Song, and Tat-Seng Chua

      Scholarly Collaboration on the Academic Social Web

      Daqing He and Wei Jeng

      Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines

      B. Barla Cambazoglu and Ricardo Baeza-Yates

      Social Informatics Evolving

      Pnina Fichman, Madelyn R. Sanfilippo, and Howard Rosenbaum

      On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors: Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close Is Close Enough, Second Edition

      Mark S. Manasse

      Building a Better World with Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 3

      William Jones

      Click Models for Web Search

      Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke

      Information Communication

      Feicheng Ma

      Social Media and Library Services

      Lorraine Mon

      Analysis and Visualization of Citation Networks

      Dangzhi Zhao and Andreas Strotmann

      The Taxobook: Applications, Implementation, and Integration in Search, Part 3

      Marjorie M. K. Hlava

      The Taxobook: Principles and Practices of Building Taxonomies, Part 2

      Marjorie M. K. Hlava

      Measuring User Engagement

      Mounia Lalmas, Heather O’Brien, and Elad Yom-Tov

      The Taxobook: History, Theories, and Concepts of Knowledge Organization, Part 1

      Marjorie M. K. Hlava

      Children’s Internet Search: Using Roles to Understand Children’s Search Behavior

      Elizabeth Foss and Allison Druin

      Digital Library Technologies: Complex Objects, Annotation, Ontologies, Classification, Extraction, and Security

      Edward A. Fox and Ricardo da Silva Torres

      Digital Libraries Applications: CBIR, Education, Social Networks, eScience/Simulation, and GIS

      Edward A. Fox and Jonathan P. Leidig

      Information and Human Values

      Kenneth R. Fleischmann

      Multiculturalism and Information and Communication Technology

      Pnina Fichman and Madelyn R. Sanfilippo

      Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part II

      William Jones

      Designing for Digital Reading

      Jennifer Pearson, George Buchanan, and Harold Thimbleby

      Information Retrieval Models: Foundations and Relationships

      Thomas Roelleke

      Key Issues Regarding Digital Libraries: Evaluation and Integration

      Rao Shen, Marcos Andre Goncalves, and Edward A. Fox

      Visual Information Retrieval Using Java and LIRE

      Mathias Lux and Oge Marques

      On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors: Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, Web Search and Other Situations When Close is Close Enough

      Mark S. Manasse

      The Answer Machine

      Susan E. Feldman

      Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries: The 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) Approach

      Edward A. Fox, Marcos André Gonçalves, and Rao Shen

      The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever

      William Jones

      Search User Interface Design

      Max L. Wilson

      Information Retrieval Evaluation

      Donna Harman

      Knowledge Management (KM) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice

      Claire R. McInerney and Michael E. D. Koenig

      Search-Based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies

      Gregory Grefenstette and Laura Wilber

      Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities

      Gary Marchionini

      Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

      David Carmel