[Corpora-List] New Informer - Summer 2013

[Kruschwitz, Udo]

Informer: Summer 2013 Issue Out Now!

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/
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Editorial
By Udo Kruschwitz

Melting motorways and buckled rails? The summer has arrived in England. Welcome to a new edition of Informer. This is a Special Summer Edition in that we kept this issue (and the editorial) as short as possible so that we do not distract you too much from your summer reading.

::: Read more at: http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/07/editorial-7/
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Conference Review: 13th Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Information Retrieval
By Carsten Eickhoff  

The DIR workshop traditionally represents one of the annual highlights for information retrieval researchers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Hosted alternatingly in between the Netherlands and Belgium it serves as a venue for networking, sharing and discussing late-breaking research results as well as promoting recent publications in international key conferences and journals. A special emphasis has always been put on contributions from doctoral students, giving them a forum to communicate their results and gather experience presenting their work. Like other workshops, DIR invites original research papers and demonstrators for presentation. 

::: Read more at: http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/07/13th-dutch-belgian-workshop-on-information-retrieval/
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Feature Article: Information Wayfinding, Pt 2: Elements of the Information Environment
By Tyler Tate 

In Part 1 of this series, I argued that vestiges of the pre-Web, print era still haunt digital experiences. To create information environments that are truly coherent, we must view them not as books full of pages, but as spaces to navigate and explore—much like finding our way through a city or a museum. This is what I call information wayfinding.

In this article, I’ll scrutinize the nature of information environments by investigating their most fundamental elements. In doing so, my ambition is nothing less than to subtly reframe the way we think about interacting with information on Web sites, in mobile applications, and in other digital experiences.

::: Read more at: http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/07/information-wayfinding-part-2-elements-of-the-information-environment/
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Book Review : Recommender Systems for Social Tagging Systems
By Epaminondas Kapetanios 

The book, published by Springer in 2012, discusses the role of recommender systems in order to serve social tagging systems. With the emergence of Web 2.0 application, or the participatory Web, social tagging systems, such as Bibsonomy and CiteULike, gained momentum as a response to the problem and challenges posed by the creation of adequate descriptions of Web resources, be them documents, articles, Web pages, URL’s, images, etc., in order to foster sharing, effecting search, reusability of resources on the Web.  Though social tagging systems are promising, the book is also an attempt to respond to the challenge imposed by crowd sourced descriptions with its many facets such as variety in users’ conceptions, disagreements, innate difficulty to converge towards common agreed upon vocabularies, lack of gold standards, just to name a few.

::: Read more at: http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/07/book-review-recommender-systems-for-social-tagging-systems-a-review/
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Call for Book Reviews
By Cathal Gurrin

This issue we include another Call for Reviews in which we seek reviewers for a number of recently published books that may be of interest to the IR community. Books will be allocated for review on a first-come-first-served basis and you would have about one month to carry out the review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please let Cathal know (cgurrin at computing.dcu.ie) which book you are interested in reviewing and we will arrange for a copy (paper or online format) to be sent to you along with review guidelines. For examples of previous book reviews, see the most recent issues of Informer. The currently available books (courtesy of our good friends at Springer) are:

::: Read more at: http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/07/call-for-book-reviews-summer-2013/
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Events Diary
By Andy Macfarlane 

::: Read more at: http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2013/07/events-summer-2013/
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::: Opportunities for Authors :::

If you are an expert in information retrieval or any aspect of search who has strong writing skills, we invite you to contribute to Informer. Please send an article proposal to us at: irsg at bcs.org.uk.

For more information about the BCS IRSG, please go to:

::: http://irsg.bcs.org/about.php
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::: About Informer :::

Informer is the quarterly newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG). Its aim is to provide insights and inspiration to researchers and professionals working in all aspects of search and information retrieval. Our articles provide accessible and timely coverage of important topics, ranging from focused, practical advice, to concise overviews of broader topics, and to deeper, research-oriented articles and opinion pieces.

The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources.

BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.
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