Doing things with information: beyond indexing and abstracting
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2008
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| Item Description: | Updated ed. of: Explorations in indexing and abstracting. 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIX, 241 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781591585770 |
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CONTENTS
Preface to Doing Things with Information: Beyond Indexing and
Abstracting
ix
Freight Trains Have No Steering Wheels: A Metaphor
xi
Templates of Understanding: On Information Interpretation and
Meaning
xiii
What Would Wilson Say? Wilsonian Vision of Interpreting and
Understanding Information
xvi
Acknowledgments
xxi
1.
Background Concepts and Models
1
Basic Models
1
Search Time and Search Space
4
Context
4
Definition of Terms
7
Question: Where Entropy, Function, and Meaning Converge
15
2.
Considerations of Representation
21
Fundamental Concept
21
Representation History of a Familiar Entity
33
Sign and Meaning and Function
37
Where Do We Stand?
43
3.
Representation, Function, and Utility
45
Context for Representation of Documents and Questions
45
Object/Event Space
45
Conventions of Observation and Action
48
Conventions for Representation
52
Form of Representation in Information Retrieval
58
4.
Failures of Representation: Indeterminacy and Depth
63
Document Structure, Indeterminacy, and Depth
63
Exercises in Subject Representation
65
Discussion
69
Depth of Indexing
82
A Note on Structure
88
CONTENTS
5. Aboutness
and User-Generated Descriptors
91
Introductory Comment
91
Difficulties of the Literary Metaphor
91
Aboutness
99
More on Words and Photographs
103
Subsequent Considerations
105
6.
Responses to Indeterminacy
107
Learning From Failures
107
"Partners" and "Intermediaries" in the "Search Process"
108
Browsing
110
Discussion
121
Responses to Indeterminacy
122
A Note on Structure
122
Dust Jackets and Their Digital Kin
123
Conversation Representation
130
7.
Doing Things with Word-Based Documents
133
Structural Analysis
133
Thoughts on Indexing and Abstracting Systems
134
An Elementary Word Extraction Program
141
Machine Representation Results
151
Appendix A
160
Appendix
В
162
8.
Functional Applications of Information Measurement
165
Thoughts on Measurement of Information
165
Information Anatomy and Physiology
169
Dancing with Entropy: Form Attributes, Children, and
Representation
170
Clownpants
in the Classroom: Measurement of Structural
Distraction in PowerPoint Documents
174
Expert Verbal Behavior and Document Structure: Modeling a
Binary System of Structure and Meaning
185
Functional Analysis of Bellour's "System of a Fragment"
191
Structural Analysis of the Bodega Bay Sequence
194
Method
197
Closing Thoughts
203
A Fruitful Revival
206
9.
Functional Ontology Construction
207
A Turn to the Functional
207
Functional Ontology Construction: Components and Ancestors
210
Ontology as Environment
217
CONTENTS
VII
10.
Creek Pebbles: A Summary Metaphor and Touchstone for
Exploration
221
Reflections
222
Documents in the World/Reality
223
Information Environment
224
There Are Still Too Many Documents
225
References
227
Index
235 |
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