
Handbook of Information Science
De Gruyter Saur (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2013
Book
Mixed media product
X, 901 pages
978-3-11-214676-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Dealing with information is one of the vital skills in the 21st century. It takes a fair degree of information savvy to create, represent and supply information as well as to search for and retrieve relevant knowledge. How does information (documents, pieces of knowledge) have to be organized in order to be retrievable? What role does metadata play? What are search engines on the Web, or in corporate intranets, and how do they work? How must one deal with natural language processing and tools of knowledge organization, such as thesauri, classification systems, and ontologies? How useful is social tagging? How valuable are intellectually created abstracts and automatically prepared extracts? Which empirical methods allow for user research and which for the evaluation of information systems? This Handbook is a basic work of information science, providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of information retrieval and knowledge representation. It addresses readers from all professions and scientific disciplines, but particularly scholars, practitioners and students of Information Science, Library Science, Computer Science, Information Management, and Knowledge Management. This Handbook is a suitable reference work for Public and Academic Libraries.
Reviews / Votes
Wolfgang and Mechtild Stock's Handbook of Information Science [...] weighs 3lbs 4 oz (1.47 kg) and has 901 pages, the end result of sustained elucubration and Stakhanovite resolve on part of the authors.(Blaise Cronin, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology 64 (11): 2189, 2013). Inhaltlich bietet das Buch das, was man von einem Handbuch erwarten darf [...] Den Autoren ist es gelungen, eine interessante Mischung von Beitragen zu den jeweiligen Themenbereichen zu verfassen [...] Die Anschaffung lohnt sich fur alle Dozierenden, die das Fach "Einfuhrung in die Informationswissenschaft" unterrichten, denn das Buch regt zur Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Vorlesungskonzeption an.(Stephan Hollander, Password 10/2013, Seite 13)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-11-214676-7 (9783112146767)
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Persons
Wolfgang G. Stock, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, und Mechtild Stock, Kerpen.