Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2001 (Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol 35)

Author: Martha E. Williams, Information Today List Price: $99.95 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 157387115X Publisher: Information Today Inc (December, 2001) Edition: Hardcover Sales Rank: 1,322,450 Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5

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Contents of Volume 35 include:
The Concept of Situation in Information Science, by Colleen Cool
Conceptual Frameworks in Information Behavior, by Karen E. Pettigrew, Raya Fidel, and Harry Bruce
Distributed Information Management, by William M. Pottenger, Miranda R. Callahan, and Michael A. Padgett
Digital Privacy: Toward a New Politics and Discursive Practice, by Philip Doty
Subject Access Points in Electronic Retrieval, by Birger Hjorland and Lykke Kyllesbech Nielsen
Methods of Generating and Evaluating Hypertext, by James Blustein and Mark S. Staveley
Digital Preservation, by Elizabeth Yakel
Knowledge Management, by Noreen Mac Morrow
Library and Information Science Education in the Nineties, by Elisabeth Logan and Ingrid Hseieh-Yee ---------------------------------
Hjørland, B. & Kyllesbech Nielsen, L. (2001). Subject Access Points in Electronic Retrieval. Annual Review of Information Science and technology, vol. 35, 3-51. [Vol. 35 vas delayed: should have been published in 2000]
Abstract: The first part of this article presents theoretical issues related to subjects and access data, including a discussion of aboutness, subject matter, topicality and related concepts. It includes a brief historical description of major technology driven stages in the development of subject access points (SAPs) and a presentation of taxonomic criteria for SAPs. The second part present research related to each specific kind of SAPs: document titles, abstracts, references or citations, full text elements, and value added SAPs like descriptors, identifiers, and classification codes.
The main focus in information science (IS) has been on quantitative issues, such as how length of SAPs (or document representations) influences recall and precision. In addition to this quantitative view, this review also focuses on qualitative aspects: the kinds of information that is important for retrieval and the relative strength and weaknesses for each kind of SAPs in providing this needed information.
The review is informed by a modern epistemological view, according to which observations are theory-dependent. Representations of documents are not (nor should they be) objective, neutral, or value-free, but are always biased in one direction or another. Ideally they should reflect the goals and values of the information system, of which they form a part. It also emphasis a rich description of many kinds of documents, subjects, cultures, and target groups etc., thus avoiding the dominating tendency to suppose that one ideal language or algorithm can manage all kind of demands.