Tutorial Presentation
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"Information Discovery on the Internet: a tutorial"
By Professor Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
2B114, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
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Bio
Paul Nieuwenhuysen is a full-time member of
the academic staff at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, since 1983,
nowadays as professor.
These days his functions include: member of the management board of
the University Library, science and technology librarian, as well
as teaching courses on online information retrieval and
presentation.
At the University of Antwerp inter-university postgraduate 2-year
program in Information and library science, he was guest
professor responsible for courses on information technology and on
the information market until the end of the program in 2009.
At the University of Antwerp he received the degrees of Licentiaat
in Physics in 1974, Doctor in Science in 1979, the Belgian
post-doctoral degree (named Geaggregeerde voor het Hoger Onderwijs)
in 1983, and the inter-university postgraduate degree
in Documentation and library science in 1986.
He has organized 15 international training courses on management of
information in science and technology and has been project leader of
a co-operation with the National Agricultural Library of Tanzania
1998-2008.
He is author or co-author of more than 30 refereed publications in
international scientific/technical journals, he is a member of
several
societies and of the editorial board of journals in the area of
information science, and he has been a consultant for various
international agencies.
Abstract
Context:
Access to information is quite important. These
days our e-society is more and more dependent on digital information
accessible through the Internet and the WWW.
Problem statement:
We
consider two target groups of persons and organizations involved in
information creation, discovery and access:
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developers/creators of information sources,
2.
developers and managers of information services including hybrid and
digital libraries, which support discovery and retrieval of sources,
and the end-users of these information services and sources,
Of
course in reality these groups overlap and borders are not sharp. In
fact all of us are users as well as creators of information.
How
can we improve discovery of relevant information, working within a
limited time budget and financial budget?
Methodology:
This tutorial is mainly based on professional experience, published
literature and empirical research in the context of academic and
scientific information services.
Findings, suggestions and recommendations:
Several topics are presented that deserve attention in order to
improve discovery of information:
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From print to digital,
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Disintermediation,
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Online catalogs,
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Enhancing retrieval with metadata,
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Digitization of physical documents,
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Digital search,
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Federated search,
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Merging of databases,
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Link generators,
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Advanced commercial discovery services,
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The importance of free discovery services,
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Open access to information,
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Finding information through image searching,
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Web and Search Engine Optimization,
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The social web, and
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Information literacy of users.
For each of these topics, we can sketch the
context and state of the art in general; this forms the basis for the
formulation of aspects that deserve attention and of recommendations.
In practical reality, the time available for this tutorial is limited.
Therefore we start with a short introduction and interaction with the
audience; then the tutorial will be condensed and adapted to the
profile and interest of the participants.
Keywords:
Information retrieval, access to information,
disintermediation, federated search, meta-search, aggregation,
Internet, WWW, management, e-publishing, digital libraries, open access.
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