Overview
Aimed at students and professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the power and potential of ontologies to enhance the electronic search process. The book will compare search strategies and results in the current search environment and demonstrate how these could be transformed using ontologies and concept searching. Simple descriptions, visual representations, and examples of ontologies will bring a full understanding of how these concept maps are constructed to enhance retrieval through natural language queries. Readers will gain a sense of how ontologies are currently being used and how they could be applied in the future, encouraging them to think about how their own work and their users' search experiences could be enhanced by the creation of a customized ontology.
Full Product Details
Author: Brandy King (Children's Hospital Boston) ,
Kathy Reinold (Tessella, Inc., USA)
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9781843343196
ISBN 10: 1843343193
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 August 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
. ..within its pages are some extremely important ideas. -Library Review . ..an excellent, well written summation of the concepts and the technology involved. ...an extensive list of additional resources. -The Electronic Library
...within its pages are some extremely important ideas., Library Review...an excellent, well written summation of the concepts and the technology involved. ...an extensive list of additional resources., The Electronic Library...highly recommended to all information managers., The Electronic Library
Author Information
Brandy King is the Information Specialist at the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston. She is a graduate of Smith College (B.A.) and Simmons College (M.L.I.S.). She is an active member of the Special Libraries Association, and was the recipient of the 2005 SLA Innovation in Technology Award for the creation of a customized media effects ontology used for semantic searching. Ms Reinold is a software consultant for Tessella, Inc. She is a graduate of Emmanuel College (B.A. Mathematics) and Boston Unviersity (M.S. Computer Science). She is also a Springboard Enterprises alumna, a member of Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology, and a member of the Association of Computing Machinery. Ms Reinold has extensive experience in software development and methodologies including work on ontologies and semantic search.
