Towards Social Information Seeking and Interaction on the Web

User generated content is one of the key concepts of the social web (a. k. a “Web 2.0”) and enables users to search and interact with information that has been created (e.g. blogs) or annotated by other users (e.g. in tagging systems). Consequently, information seeking and interaction have been extended by a social dimension. The interaction can be social in so far that user generated content is searched and retrieved or, in a more direct manner that social interactions are carried out before, during or after search by communicating through Web 2.0 features like (micro-)blog posts, comments, and ratings. This paper focuses on social interactions during the search process by combining a model introduced by Shneiderman (2002) which attempts to describe human motivation for collaboratively using computers with an explorative model for social search by Evans and Chi (2008)

COLLABORATIVE PORTAL MODEL FOR INTERCULTURAL TEAMS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

In the multinational organizations, more groups of individuals are being involved in the process of knowledge creation in a collaborative manner, of sharing knowledge and learning from it. These individuals can have heterogeneous cultures and they must use a common language. IT has created and is developing the infrastructure for cross-cultural communications and intercultural knowledge management. Nowadays, intercultural knowledge management can be realized with support of Collaborative Technologies and Knowledge Management Support Systems (KMSS). In this respect Collaborative Technologies and Intercultural Knowledge Management Support Systems (IKMSS) will be the appropriate way for supporting intercultural communication, learning and collaborative knowledge management in organizations. In this paper we present a conceptual model of a collaborative portal for Intercultural Team Knowledge Management as a powerful support for increasing team’s performance.: collaborative support, collaboration, knowledge management, intercultural teams, intercultural knowledge management, intercultural knowledge management portal

The end of all niches: the future position of the academic librarian in a modern service industry

A (University) Library is a modern service industry which has to follow the rules of effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. Even academic librarians have to be integrated into the production process of ‘the supply of information’ in such a way that they can deliver optimal results on the basis of their qualifications. In the process, the classic occupational image of the subject indexing lone fighter has dramatically changed into that of a productive performance bearer with great skills in management, social competence and performance. This paper gives an overview of the historical development of the classic academic librarian and the current requirements for a modern information manager. The strictly contrastive approach makes clear what a quantum leap there is between the image of a classic academic librarian, and the modern requirements for an efficient academic employee in the production process of supplying information

Information Retrieval is for Everybody – Beobachtungen und Thesen

In this paper, the idea of ubiquitous information retrieval is presented in a storytelling manner. Starting from a rough review of information retrieval system usage, some empirical hints on IR in everyday life are given. Ch. 4 explores the heterogeneity of interaction with IRS for one day in the life of a (common search engine) user. In ch. 5 summarizes these observations and suggests research approaches for modelling information retrieval as an essential component of interaction in the information society

Information Retrieval is for Everybody – Beobachtungen und Thesen

In this paper, the idea of ubiquitous information retrieval is presented in a storytelling manner. Starting from a rough review of information retrieval system usage, some empirical hints on IR in everyday life are given. Ch. 4 explores the heterogeneity of interaction with IRS for one day in the life of a (common search engine) user. In ch. 5 summarizes these observations and suggests research approaches for modelling information retrieval as an essential component of interaction in the information society

COBIS - Projektziele, Teilaufgaben und Ergebnisse im Überblick

COBIS - der Projektname steht für "COmputergestütztes BüroInformations-System" - verfolgte schwerpunktmäßig zwei Ziele. Einerseits war es ein Forschungsprojekt mit Blick auf das "Büro der Zukunft". Zweites Ziel von COBIS - und zugleich wesentliche Grundlage für die Förderung dieses Projekts - war es, das im Rahmen der Forschungsförderung des BMFT seit 1973 entwickelte und zum Zeitpunkt des Projekts noch in Entwicklung befindliche System CONDOR der Firma Siemens in der Bürosituation und für das Büro zu erproben

Users' reading habits in online news portals

The aim of this study is to survey reading habits of users of an online news portal. The assumption motivating this study is that insight into the reading habits of users can be helpful to design better news recommendation systems. We estimated the transition probabilities that users who read an article of one news category will move to read an article of another (not necessarily distinct) news category. For this, we analyzed the users' click behavior within plista data set. Key findings are the popularity of category local, loyalty of readers to the same category, observing similar results when addressing enforced click streams, and the case that click behavior is highly influenced by the news category

Automatische Textanalyse und Indexierung

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die LDV-Aktivitäten (LDV = linguistische Datenverarbeitung) an der Universität Regensburg und stellt die Projekte JUDO (computergestützte Indexierung am Beispiel der Verarbeitung juristischer Dokumente) und ENZY (Automatische Bearbeitung enzyklopädischer Lexika) vor