UID:
almafu_9960678735802883
Format:
1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:
9780323902991
,
0323902995
Series Statement:
Chandos Information Professional
Content:
"Web-Scale Discovery Services: Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses summarizes and presents the state-of-the-art in WSDS. The title promotes a middle-way between finding the best tool for each particular need and the search for the most reliable systems. The title identifies basic theoretical problems and offers practical solutions for librarians. The volume offers a summary of ideas from around the world, giving a new perspective that is backed up by strong theory. Offering a vision for libraries, this book also allows archivists, museum specialists, computer scientists, commercial operators and interested users to deepen their culture and information literacy."--
Note:
Front Cover -- WEB-SCALE DISCOVERY SERVICES -- WEB-SCALE DISCOVERY SERVICES: Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE -- 1 - Introduction: scope, tools, actors, and values of knowledge discovery -- 1.1 The space of information and knowledge -- 1.2 OPAC, discovery tools, and information literacy -- 1.3 Enduring values -- 2 - The evolution of the search systems -- 2.1 The renewal of the OPACs (Online Public Access Catalog) -- 2.2 Search, interaction, and discovery scenarios -- 2.3 The technologies of discovery systems -- 3 . Search and discovery tools -- 3.1 Definition of tools and resources -- 3.2 The main discovery systems -- 3.3 Problems of system implementation and data visualization -- TWO -- 4 - Principles and theories -- 4.1 The linked data methodology and the Semantic Web project -- 4.2 Possibilities and criticalities of the new methods -- 4.3 Toward a new definition of resource -- 5 - Information discovery and information literacy -- 5.1 Information retrieval and discovery -- 5.2 Discovery tools and information literacy -- 5.3 Information literacy and individual needs -- 6 - Conclusions: since we have Google and Sci-Hub, what need is there for libraries? -- Bibliography and further readings -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780323902984
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0323902987
Language:
English
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