INLS 180 Day 7 Notes

Oct. 12, 2005

 

Note, fall break next week, no class---Projects!!!

 

  1. One minute papers

Points

Relevance is in the mind of the perceiver/receiver

Popularity as surrogate for quality ??????

There is an endless dance between search engines and exploiters

We need experts!

Challenges of permanence of personal information

 

Questions

How do balance authority and ‘collective consciousness” ?

Do egalitarianism and elitism mutually exclusive?

If number of pages or images are indicators of quality, won’t webmasters game the system (yes, spam the search engines)

When will bottom-up, community driven info services merge with top-down expert services?

Any work on user-tuned search engines (e.g., children portals that use different kinds of ranking algorithms)?

How can we even imagine that experts will go away?

Other quantitative measures of retrieval than relevance-based?

What has changed over time wrt ‘relevance’especially in last 10-15 years?

How do we judge expertise and implications for IR?

How close do we aim to satisfy psychological relevance and how close can we come?

 

 

  1. Some notes on the readings and our discussions
    1. Getting ready for a second round of discussion leading.  Read the blog!!!  Some of you are quite thoughtful and some are perfunctory
    2. EPIC and Fogg a follow up to our discussions about relevance and the value of information and info services

                                                               i.      EPIC a provocation, time and $ pressures lead to customization/efficiency but deter creativity/spontaneity and challenge privacy

                                                             ii.      Fogg a follow up to Media Equation and the mammalian brain vs the technology augmented mind

    1. Rosenfeld a stimulus for IA discussion.  Definitions evolve with practice; an emerging field with metadata/ontology/vocabulary as important as layout
    2. McInerney an introduction to KM---beyond the hype to consider context and culture as part of organizational information resources---toward knowledge

 

 

 

  1. Discuss Readings

Fogg: Group 9

                McInerney: Group 10

                Rosenfeld: Group 1

                Lippincott: Group 2

 

  1. Readings for next week

Janes, J. (2002). Digital Reference: Reference librarians experiences and attitudes.  JASIST, 53(7), 549-566. (online)

Dewdney & Sheldrick Ross (1994).  Flying a light aircraft: Reference service evaluation from a users viewpoint.  RQ 34(2), 217-30. (SILS reserve)

 

4. One-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?