INLS 180 Day 7 Notes
Reminder: midterm projects
due next week
1. One minute papers
Main Points
Shades of relevance: from
user-centric to data-centric
Questions
Has format/medium changed
meaning of relevance?
How to measure/can we measure
relevance?
Recall and
precision?
Role of
indexers? (automatic
vs human)
If people have trouble
assessing quality, is it the info specialists role?
How do search engines rank
based on relevance?
How can we make controlled
vocabularies easier to use?
2. Toward
a science of human behavior?
Reeves & Nass use psychological and communication studies over 20+
years to posit that people treat media the same as other people. This work serves as a rationale for
intelligent agents (ala the Microsoft paperclip). Can we overcome our mammalian brain wiring
when working in information rather than real space?
Are not media designed to mimic h-h interactions?
Reeves & Nass discussion leader: Jennifer Shoaf
3. Knowledge management? Can
we manage it? What are the roles for
information professionals?
Do a google
search on KM to see the ‘solutions’.
McInerney discussion leader: Margaret Murray
David Snowden: rules of KM:
Knowledge can only be volunteered, it cannot be
conscripted
I only learn what I know when I need to know it
We always know more than what we can say; we always say
more than we can write down
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/cynefin/
Organizational and user
interfaces:
Gardeners (Nardi)
Organizational interfaces,
work arounds and goodness of fit of software (Barreau)
BLS case: http://ils.unc.edu/~march/jasist_BLS_submit.pdf
4. Read for next meeting:
Rosenfeld, L. Information
architecture: Looking ahead. JASIST,
53(10), 874-876.
5. One-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class
with today?