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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 1:28 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
