information retrieval:
Category: finding information
So there I was, try all kinds of librarian ninja tricks on the fanciest, most expensive research databases money can buy (SciFinder, Reaxys, Inspec...) and no joy. Couldn't find what I needed. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I don't...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:44 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information retrieval
in Geneva. This is the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. Besides the academic types, this huge conference pulls a lot from the search engine industry and there’s a lot of interesting stuff. The twitter tag is #sigir2010 and...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 6:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information retrieval
I was happy to see that the authors published this article in PlosOne. I was following their work a while ago, but had lost track (plus, when asked, the last author implied that they had moved on to new projects)....
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:31 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information retrieval
I'm still on this kick on recommender systems. I'm further encouraged by happening on a report on "discoverability" by the Minnesota librarians when looking for something else on JR's blog. The report agrees that recommender systems are a more important...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:52 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information retrieval
I'm on a sub-sub committee to evaluate evaluation of consideration of adding a new recommender system to our discovery tools across my parent institution's libraries. The system costs money and programmer time (which we're very short on), but more importantly,...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:43 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bibliometrics
I ran across this piece again just now after having read it when it first came out in 20056: Foster, I. (2005). Service-Oriented Science. Science, 308(5723), 814-817. doi:10.1126/science.1110411 It's a good piece and quite helpful. Google Scholar says it's been...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:28 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: information policy
A brief note. Remember when I told you about free to you research databases? Remember when some other librarians told you about a certain company negotiating for exclusive access to certain popular magazines, choking out other aggregators? Well, now these...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: finding information
Cross-language information retrieval is an important research area with lots of activity. There are all kinds of elaborate algorithms and ways of doing it. There's a lot of domain specificity and connotation kind of things that have been really improved...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Posts I would like to write
Is it possible or even desirable to have one search interface that serves every need? I have about 10 minutes to write this placeholder of a post. Hopefully, I'll get the opportunity to revisit this topic near and dear to...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 7:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: comps
Now that I'm not scared to look at my responses... This one doesn't look so bad, so I'm sharing. Please do keep in mind that this was written in 2 hours, by a tired person, with tired fingers! --- Christina...
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Posted by Christina Pikas at 1:28 PM • • 0 TrackBacks