Proximity and Epidata

Attributes and Meaning Modification

Laurie J. Bonnici, Brian C. O'Connor (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 100 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-17093-5 (ISBN)

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This book provides a new model to explore discoverability and enhance the meaning of information. The authors have coined the term epidata, which includes items and circumstances that impact the expression of the data in a document, but are not part of the ordinary process of retrieval systems. Epidata affords pathways and points to details that cast light on proximities that might otherwise go unknown. In addition, epidata are clues to mis-and dis-information discernment. There are many ways to find needed information; however, finding the most useable information is not an easy task. The book explores the uses of proximity and the concept of epidata that increases the probability of finding functional information. The authors sketch a constellation of proximities, present examples of attempts to accomplish proximity, and provoke a discussion of the role of proximity in the field. In addition, the authors suggest that proximity is a thread between retrieval constructs based on known topics, predictable relations, and types of information seeking that lie outside constructs such as browsing, stumbling, encountering, detective work, art making, and translation.

Laurie Bonnici, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. She holds degrees in Spanish and Linguistics and Library Science and earned her Ph.D. in theory of attribution in information science at Florida State University. Her research interests include information seeking in second-hand knowledge contexts for people in crisis conditions. She has also written on information retrieval in the context of rewilded information that examines information exchange in everyday human interactions. Brian C. O’Connor, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas where he founded the Visual Thinking Laboratory in The College of Information. He holds degrees in Greek and Latin Literature, Film Production (Fine Art), and earned his Ph.D. in theory of organization of information at the University of California, Berkeley. He has produced documentaries and art films, written on photography, and chaired several doctoral dissertations on various aspects of information science. He has also written on the philosophy of information retrieval, the nature of questions, and idiosyncratic searching.

Proximity and Clues.- More than Meets the Eye.- Epidata, Clues, Threads, and Webs.- Provocations and Invitations.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 100 p. 62 illus., 38 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 240 mm
Gewicht	365 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
Schlagworte	Clues to Discovery • Epidata • Functional Accessibility • Information Matters • Information Retrieval • information seeking • Meaning making • Proximity and Conversation
ISBN-10	3-031-17093-8 / 3031170938
ISBN-13	978-3-031-17093-5 / 9783031170935
Zustand	Neuware