Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services

SERIES EDITOR: Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This series publishes short books on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. Potential topics include: data models, indexing theory and algorithms, classification, information architecture, information economics, privacy and identity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management, human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, information retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.

Series ISSN: 1947-945X (print) 1947-9468 (electronic)

Editor Bios

	Predicting Information Retrieval Performance Robert M. Losee Information Retrieval performance measures are usually retrospective in nature, representing the effectiveness of an experimental process. However, in the sciences, phenomena may be predicted, given parameter values of the system. After developing a … Publication Date: December, 2018 Read More
	Framing Privacy in Digital Collections with Ethical Decision Making Virginia Dressler As digital collections continue to grow, the underlying technologies to serve up content also continue to expand and develop. As such, new challenges are presented which continue to test ethical ideologies in everyday environs of the practitioner. Th… Publication Date: August, 2018 Read More
	Mobile Search Behaviors Dan Wu, Shaobo Liang With the rapid development of mobile Internet and smart personal devices in recent years, mobile search has gradually emerged as a key method with which users seek online information. In addition, cross-device search also has been regarded recently a… Publication Date: March, 2018 Read More
	Images in Social Media Susanne Ornager, Haakon Lund This book focuses on the methodologies, organization, and communication of digital image collection research that utilizes social media content. (“Image” is here understood as a cultural, conventional, and commercial – stock photo – representation.) … Publication Date: February, 2018 Read More
	Exploring Context in Information Behavior Naresh Agarwal The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in understanding, to the search for information from one or more sources to fill that gap, to the use of that information to complete a task at … Publication Date: December, 2017 Read More
	Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments Lori McCay-Peet, Elaine G. Toms Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in engineering and science in modern history such as penicillin, Teflon, and Post-it notes… Publication Date: September, 2017 Read More
	Social Monitoring for Public Health Michael J. Paul, Mark Dredze Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social monitoring, the analysis of social media and other user-generated web data, has b… Publication Date: September, 2017 Read More
	Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic European digital libraries have existed in diverse forms and with quite different functions, priorities, and aims. However, there are some common features of European-based initiatives that are relevant to non-European communities. There are now many… Publication Date: July, 2017 Read More
	iRODS Primer 2 Hao Xu, Terrell Russell, Jason Coposky, Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Antoine de Torcy, Michael Wan, Wayne Shroeder, Sheau-Yen Chen Policy-based data management enables the creation of community-specific collections. Every collection is created for a purpose. The purpose defines the set of properties that will be associated with the collection. The properties are enforced by mana… Publication Date: March, 2017 Read More
	Information Architecture, Second Edition Wei Ding, Xia Lin, Michael Zarro This book is a balanced view of Information Architecture, applying theories, design principles and guidelines to information architecture and user experience practices. It also covers advanced topics such as enterprise information architecture, globa… Publication Date: March, 2017 Read More
	Fuzzy Information Retrieval Donald H. Kraft, Erin Colvin Information retrieval used to mean looking through thousands of strings of texts to find words or symbols that matched a user’s query. Today, there are many models that help index and search more effectively so retrieval takes a lot less time. Inform… Publication Date: January, 2017 Read More
	Quantifying Research Integrity Michael Seadle Institutions typically treat research integrity violations as black and white, right or wrong. The result is that the wide range of grayscale nuances that separate accident, carelessness, and bad practice from deliberate fraud and malpractice often g… Publication Date: December, 2016 Read More
	Incidental Exposure to Online News Borchuluun Yadamsuren, Sanda Erdelez Rapid technological changes and availability of news anywhere and at any moment have changed how people seek out news. Increasingly, consumers no longer take deliberate actions to read the news, instead stumbling upon news online. While the emergence… Publication Date: December, 2016 Read More
	Web Indicators for Research Evaluation Michael Thelwall This book describes and evaluates a range of web indicators (altmetrics, webometrics, web metrics) for aspects of societal or scholarly impact. The recent increasing demand for research evaluation within universities and other research organizations… Publication Date: October, 2016 Read More
	Trustworthy Policies for Distributed Repositories Reagan W. Moore, Hao Xu, Mike Conway, Arcot Rajasekar, Jonathan Crabtree and Helen R. Tibbo A trustworthy repository provides assurance in the form of management documents, event logs, and audit trails that digital objects are being managed correctly. The assurance includes plans for the sustainability of the repository, the accession of di… Publication Date: September, 2016 Read More
	The Notion of Relevance in Information Science Tefko Saracevic Everybody knows what relevance is. It is a “ya’know” notion, concept, idea – no need to explain whatsoever. Searching for relevant information using information technology (IT) became a ubiquitous activity in contemporary information society. Relevan… Publication Date: September, 2016 Read More
	Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling Grace Hui Yang, Marc Sloan, Jun Wang This is a comprehensive and current introduction to Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling, the statistical modeling of information retrieval (IR) systems that can adapt to change. It covers techniques ranging from classical relevance feedback to th… Publication Date: June, 2016 Read More
	Learning from Multiple Social Networks Liqiang Nie, Xuemeng Song, Tat-Seng Chua With the proliferation of social network services, more and more social users, such as individuals and organizations, are simultaneously involved in multiple social networks for various purposes. In fact, multiple social networks characterize the sam… Publication Date: April, 2016 Read More
	Scholarly Collaboration on the Academic Social Web Daqing He, Wei Jeng Collaboration among scholars has always been recognized as a fundamental feature of scientific discovery. The ever-increasing diversity among disciplines and complexity of research problems makes it even more compelling to collaborate in order to kee… Publication Date: February, 2016 Read More
	Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines B. Barla Cambazoglu, Ricardo Baeza-Yates In this book, we aim to provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the scalability and efficiency challenges in large-scale web search engines. More specifically, we cover the issues involved in the design of three separate systems that are commonly … Publication Date: December 29, 2015 Read More