Web Search Engine Research, edited by Dirk Lewandowski, provides an understanding of Web search engines from the unique perspective of Library and Information Science. The book explores a range of topics including retrieval effectiveness, user satisfaction, the evaluation of sea…
Handbook of metadata, semantics and ontologies
Emerged as a discipline cross-cutting many domains, focused on the provision of distributed descriptions (often called annotations) to Web resources or applications. Such associated descriptions are supposed to serve as a foundation for advanced services in many application area…
"The Birth of the Archive' traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and king…
Information retrieval: searching in the 21st century
Descubre lo que Google no quiere que sepas. Sergey Brin y Larry Page, dos ingenieros informáticos de la universidad de Stanford, pusieron en marcha el buscador Google en 1.998, una de las empresas más valoradas y poderosas de la actualidad. La historia de estos dos emprendedores…
We are living in a multilingual world and the diversity in languages which are used to interact with information access systems has generated a wide variety of challenges to be addressed by computer and information scientists. The growing amount of non-English information access…
"Contains numerous illustrations and sample searches to explain complex concepts, questions and answers to reinforce key ideas, a sample database to show how online searching works, a technical reading to quickly master new search systems and databases, and a glossary to facilit…