INLS 235
Day 6
1. One minute papers
Big point
Importance of including the human in IR
Usage of doc south well beyond expectations and audiences
Questions
How long before NLP works in practice?
Link analysis works for citations in scholarship, but the broader web???
How to overcome copyright constraints?
What are the best IR systems overall? {business, intelligence}
Can we map concepts to generic images?
Can we make search systems too good so that nobody needs to remember anything? (Socrates)
Can we do cross collection searching from within a collection?
Which retrieval model/system is best?
Can we help users to do better searching as well as improve the search algorithms?
Can we combine resource evaluation with retrieval [recommender systems]
2. Interactive Interfaces to
support retrieval: The Library of
Congress case (1995-97): http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ndl/
dynamic query prelude to
relation browser
previews and overviews
results alternatives
‘treasures to the surface’
animated gifs, shockwave
3. Reference in DLs? (note VRD conference, http://www.vrd2003.org/proceedings/index.cfm
) Note Feb 2003 dLib
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february03/02contents.html
special issue on virtual reference
Discussion:
Have you ever used/worked in
remote reference?
What forms? Snail mail? Phone? Email? Forum/list? Chat? IM?
Remote reference models
Search engines (synchronous, 1-self]
Email questions (asynchronous, user-intermediary [1-1]
Forums/listservs/newsgroups [async, 1-M]
FAQs, AnswerGardens
[sync, 1-self]
Referral services [async,
1-1-M}
Internet Public Library (intermediary [filterer]
forwards out of scope to other services, in scope to list who self select)
ASKAs
Q&A
services Klavans paper as reference???? (see http://persival.cs.columbia.edu/)
Different approaches:
Search services ala http://www.askjeeves.com/
Library reference services
http://www.ask-a-librarian.org.uk/ (note ‘factual questions, 2 working day turnaround, tips and before submitting)
http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/ (IPL reference desk—note, suggestions for asking, FAQs, pathfinders, privacy statement)
http://www.lib.unc.edu/ask_menu.html
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http://www.agnic.org/ (note links to other libraries, some with ask a question)
FAQs
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ (usenet lists)
Askas
http://www.askeric.org/ (no longer funded)
http://www.madsci.org/submit.html
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/
http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html
4.
Paepcke, A. et al., (1998). Interoperability for digital libraries worldwide. CACM,
41(4), 33-42. (ACM DL)
Lagoze, C.
& Van de Sompel, H. (2001). The Open
Archives Initiative: Building a low-barrier interoperability framework. Proceedings of JCDL 2001. p. 54-66. (ACM DL)
Weibel, Stuart L., Traugott Koch. "The
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/weibel/12weibel.html
5. One-minute paper
What was the main point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?