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Information and society / Michael Buckland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckland, Michael, author.
- Series:
- MIT Press essential knowledge series
- The MIT Press essential knowledge series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information science--Sociological aspects.
- Information science.
- Communication--Social aspects.
- Communication.
- Documentation--Social aspects.
- Documentation.
- Information society.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- A concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related, and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- Information
- My passport
- The division of labor and the need to know
- Agendas of others
- Information society
- Truth, trust, and belief
- The structure of this book
- 2 Document and Evidence 21
- Information as thing
- Documents and document anatomy
- The history of information technology
- The rise of data sets
- Some practical initiatives
- Problems of later use
- Bibliography reconsidered
- World brain and other imagery
- Summary
- 3 Individual and Community 51
- What individuals do
- What communities know
- Culture
- Documents as the activity of others
- The social and the individual
- Physical, mental, and social dimensions of information
- 4 Organizing: Arrangement and Description 71
- Collections
- Arrangement and lists
- Description
- Not so easy!
- Generating descriptions
- The basic mechanism
- 5 Naming 89
- Topic descriptions
- Documentary languages for naming topics
- Time and naming
- Mention and meaning
- Naming is cultural
- 6 Metadata 111
- The first purpose of metadata: Description
- Creating indexes
- Index terms
- The second use of metadata: Search
- What, who, where, and when
- Relationships among index terms
- Facets and context
- 7 Discovery and Selection 135
- Retrieval and selection
- The anatomy of selection machinery
- Searching text
- A library catalog
- Searching the web
- Other examples
- 8 Evaluation of Selection Methods 153
- Relevance, recall, and precision
- Recall with random, perfect, and realistic retrieval
- Precision with random, perfect, and realistic retrieval
- Trade-off between recall and precision
- Some problems with relevance
- Why relevance is difficult
- 9 Summary and Reflections 167
- The past and the future
- Coping: Orality, literacy, and documentality
- What kind of a field?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262533383
- 9780262533386
- OCLC:
- 958098988
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