Information Context: Nature, Impact, and Role : 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, CoLIS 2005, Glasgow, UK, June 4-8, 2005 Proceedings

CoLIS 5 was the ?fth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analyzing research inareassuchascomputerscience,informationscienceandlibraryscience.CoLIS examinesthehistorical,theoretical,empiricalandtechnicalissuesrelatingtoour understanding and use of information, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to research. CoLIS seeks to provide a broad platform for the examination of context as it relates to our theoretical, empirical and technical development of information-centered disciplines. The theme for CoLIS 5 was the nature, impact and role of context within information-centered research. Context is a complex, dynamic and multi- - mensional concept that in?uences both humans and machines: how they behave individually and how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we took an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of context to help us understand and the theoretical approaches to modelling and understanding context, incorporate contextual reasoning within technology, and develop a shared framework for promoting the exploration of context. Invited Papers -- Wittgenstein, Language And Information: Back To The Rought Ground! / David C. Blair -- Text, Co-text, Context And The Documentary Contiuum / Elisabeth Davenport -- Representing Context -- Sense Of Information: Understanding The Cognitive Conditional Information Concept In Relation To Information Acquisition / Peter Ingwesen, Kalervo Järvelin -- Practical Implications Of Handling Multiple Contexts In The Principle Of Polyrepresentation / Birger Larsen -- Information Sharing And Timing: Findings From Two Finnish Organizations / Gunilla Widén-wulff, Elisabeth Davenport -- Context And Relevance In Information Seeking -- Contexts Of Relevance For Information Retrieval System Design / Erica Cosijn, Theo Bothma -- Searching For Relevance In The Relevance Of Search / Elaine G. Toms [and Others] -- Information Searching Behaviour: Between Two Principles / Nick Buzikashvili -- Context And Information -- Bradford's Law Of Scattering: Ambiguities In The Concept Of Subject / Birger Hjørland, Jeppe Nicolaisen -- Instrumentality Of Information Needs And Relevance / Olof Sundin, Jenny Johannisson -- Lifeworld And Meaning -- Information In Relation To Context / Janne Backlund -- Contextualised Information Seeking -- Personometrics: Mapping And Visualizing Communication Patterns In R & D Projects / Morten Skovvang [and Others] -- Annotations As Context For Searching Documents / Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro -- Conceptual Indexing Based On Document Content Representation / Mustapha Baziz [and Others] -- Agendas For Context -- What's The Deal With The Web/blogs/the Next Big Technology: A Key Role For Information Science In E-social Science Research? / Mike Thelwall, Paul Wouters -- Assessing The Roles That A Small Specialist Library Plays To Guide The Development Of A Hybrid Digital Library / Richard Butterworth, Veronica Davis Perkins -- Power Is Information: South Africa's Promotion Of Access To Information Act In Context / Archie L. Dick -- Context And Documents -- Bibliometric-based Semi-automatic Approach To Identification Of Candidate Thesaurus Terms: Parsing And Filtering Of Noun Phrases From Citation Contexts / Jesper W. Schneider, Pia Borlund -- Context Matters: An Anlysis Of Assessments Of Xml Documents / Nils Pharo, Ragnar Nordlie -- Workshops -- Developing A Metadata Lifecycle Model / Jane Barton, R. John Robertson -- Evaluating User Studies In Information Access / Alex Bailey [and Others]. Fabio Crestani, Ian Ruthven (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages - Wittgenstein, Language and Information: “Back to the Rough Ground!”....Pages 1-4 Text, Co-text, Context and the Documentary Continuum....Pages 5-6 The Sense of Information: Understanding the Cognitive Conditional Information Concept in Relation to Information Acquisition....Pages 7-19 Practical Implications of Handling Multiple Contexts in the Principle of Polyrepresentation....Pages 20-31 Information Sharing and Timing: Findings from Two Finnish Organizations....Pages 32-46 Contexts of Relevance for Information Retrieval System Design....Pages 47-58 Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search....Pages 59-78 Information Searching Behavior: Between Two Principles....Pages 79-95 Bradford’s Law of Scattering: Ambiguities in the Concept of “Subject”....Pages 96-106 The Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance....Pages 107-118 Lifeworld and Meaning – Information in Relation to Context....Pages 119-140 Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R&D Projects....Pages 141-154 Annotations as Context for Searching Documents....Pages 155-170 Conceptual Indexing Based on Document Content Representation....Pages 171-186 What’s the Deal with the Web/Blogs/the Next Big Technology: A Key Role for Information Science in e-Social Science Research?....Pages 187-199 Assessing the Roles That a Small Specialist Library Plays to Guide the Development of a Hybrid Digital Library....Pages 200-211 Power Is Information: South Africa’s Promotion of Access to Information Act in Context....Pages 212-225 A Bibliometric-Based Semi-automatic Approach to Identification of Candidate Thesaurus Terms: Parsing and Filtering of Noun Phrases from Citation Contexts....Pages 226-237 Context Matters: An Analysis of Assessments of XML Documents....Pages 238-248 Developing a Metadata Lifecycle Model....Pages 249-250 Evaluating User Studies in Information Access....Pages 251-251 Back Matter....Pages - CoLIS 5 was the?fth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analyzing research inareassuchascomputerscience, informationscienceandlibraryscience. CoLIS examinesthehistorical, theoretical, empiricalandtechnicalissuesrelatingtoour understanding and use of information, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to research. CoLIS seeks to provide a broad platform for the examination of context as it relates to our theoretical, empirical and technical development of information-centered disciplines. The theme for CoLIS 5 was the nature, impact and role of context within information-centered research. Context is a complex, dynamic and multi- - mensional concept that in?uences both humans and machines: how they behave individually and how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we took an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of context to help us understand and the theoretical approaches to modelling and understanding context, incorporate contextual reasoning within technology, and develop a shared framework for promoting the exploration of context