INLS 235
Day 7
confirm DL review sheet (pass around)
1. One minute papers
Points
Links can be basis for
retrieval, word occurrence too
IR models
Questions
How are multi-word queries
handled?
How to evaluate/measure IR+browsing systems (beyond recall & precision)?
How can user modeling be used
to parse out questions before applying IR?
what IR models and techniques are used in DLs?
Exact match vs ranked results?
How are synonyms
handled? Typos?
Many queries get to DLs from generic search engines (e.g., googleàibiblio), how will meta-level and collection-level searching
interact?
How to handle multiple media
and multiple levels of granularity?
2. Natural progression of services: indexing/storageàsearch/browseàreference/QA
Search and Browse are interface (client side) issues that are strongly dependent on indexing/storage/markup
3. Guest Lecture: French DLs (Agnes Colnot)
4. Reference in DLs? (note VRD conference, Pomeranz
visit) Note Feb 2003 dLib
http://www.dlib.org/
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.sciam.com/askexpert/
http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html
5.
1. Paepcke,
A. et al., (1998). Interoperability for digital libraries
worldwide. CACM, 41(4), 33-42.
(ACM DL)
2. 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)
3. Weibel,
Stuart L., Traugott Koch. "The
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/weibel/12weibel.html
6. One-minute
paper
What was the main point you learned in
class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class
with today?