CoLIS 2005: Glasgow, UK

Fabio Crestani, Ian Ruthven (Eds.): Context: Nature, Impact, and Role - 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, CoLIS 2005, Glasgow, UK, June 4-8, 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3507 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-26178-8

Invited Papers

David C. Blair:
Wittgenstein, Language and Information: "Back to the Rough Ground!". 1-4
Elisabeth Davenport:
Text, Co-text, Context and the Documentary Continuum. 5-6

Representing Context

Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin:
The Sense of Information: Understanding the Cognitive Conditional Information Concept in Relation to Information Acquisition. 7-19
Birger Larsen:
Practical Implications of Handling Multiple Contexts in the Principle of Polyrepresentation. 20-31
Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Elisabeth Davenport:
Information Sharing and Timing: Findings from Two Finnish Organizations. 32-46

Context and Relevance in Information Seeking

Erica Cosijn, Theo Bothma:
Contexts of Relevance for Information Retrieval System Design. 47-58
Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien, Richard W. Kopak, Luanne Freund:
Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search. 59-78
Nikolai Buzikashvili:
Information Searching Behavior: Between Two Principles. 79-95

Context and Information

Birger Hjørland, Jeppe Nicolaisen:
Bradford's Law of Scattering: Ambiguities in the Concept of "Subject". 96-106
Olof Sundin, Jenny Johannisson:
The Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance. 107-118
Janne Backlund:
Lifeworld and Meaning - Information in Relation to Context. 119-140

Contextualised Information Seeking

Morten Skovvang, Mikael K. Elbæk, Morten Hertzum:
Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R&D Projects. 141-154
Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro:
Annotations as Context for Searching Documents. 155-170
Mustapha Baziz, Mohand Boughanem, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles:
Conceptual Indexing Based on Document Content Representation. 171-186

Agendas for Context

Mike Thelwall, Paul Wouters:
What's the Deal with the Web/Blogs/the Next Big Technology: A Key Role for Information Science in e-Social Science Research? 187-199
Richard Butterworth, Veronica Davis Perkins:
Assessing the Roles That a Small Specialist Library Plays to Guide the Development of a Hybrid Digital Library. 200-211
Archie L. Dick:
Power Is Information: South Africa's Promotion of Access to Information Act in Context. 212-225

Context and Documents

Jesper W. Schneider, Pia Borlund:
A Bibliometric-Based Semi-automatic Approach to Identification of Candidate Thesaurus Terms: Parsing and Filtering of Noun Phrases from Citation Contexts. 226-237
Nils Pharo, Ragnar Nordlie:
Context Matters: An Analysis of Assessments of XML Documents. 238-248

Workshops

Jane Barton, R. John Robertson:
Developing a Metadata Lifecycle Model. 249-250
Alex Bailey, Ian Ruthven, Leif Azzopardi:
Evaluating User Studies in Information Access. 251-251