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Then and now: Contrasts in the scope of information retrieval
Get PDFIt’s an honour to feature Stella Dextre Clarke in this issue. She is a past winner of UKeiG’s prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award, Vice Chair of the UK branch of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and presented at last year’s Tony Kent Strix Memorial Lecture at the Geological Society in London. For those of you who couldn’t attend the event, she has written an extensive feature that traces the history of the award winners going back to 1998, articulating how their research and achievements reflect the scope and evolution of information retrieval through the years.
Keywords: Information Retrieval, Search, Awards, Tony Kent Strix, Knowledge Organisatio
A view from Oxford Road: Reflections on CILIP’s 2019 conference at University of Manchester
Get PDFIn 2019 UKeiG was delighted to announce that the winners of two UKeiG bursary places for the CILIP Conference 2019 were Natasha Chowdory and Stephen Furlong (Information and Engagement Officer, Careers Service, University of York). Stephen’s reflections on the event are included in this issue, with Natasha’s to follow in the next. It’s interesting to read about Stephen’s observations as a higher education professional on the periphery of the LIS sector. His report embraces digital innovation, the need for “good data behaviour and good knowledge management”.
Keywords: CILIP, Professional Development, CP
Ultra Information Management – an enigma
Get PDFMartin White\u27s article, “Ultra Information Management” pays homage to sophisticated, meticulous wartime codebreaking projects which were, in essence, the precursor to information management as we know it today.
#Information Management, Enigm
Online Resource Update
Get PDFA round up of new electronic resources, digital services and news from the online industry
Advanced Knowledge Management: Strategy & Digital Implementation
Get PDFUKeiG’s professional development programme continues to be a huge success attracting delegates from all sectors and disciplines of the library and information profession. Dion Lindsay (Managing Director of Real Knowledge Management) explores advanced KM strategy and digital implementation in depth.
Keywords: Knowledge Management, K
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Open Access, Open Monographs, Open Data, Open Peer Review
Get PDFLast year’s UKeiG professional development programme was a huge success attracting delegates from all sectors and disciplines of the library and information profession. UKeiG Chair David Ball’s workshop – “Open Access, Open Monographs, Open Data, Open Peer Review” – provided food for thought and a state-of-the-art overview of the complex issues around the open access, open science agenda. The preamble for the day stated: “The concept of Open Access to research outputs has been common currency for many years. The rapid growth of the Internet has made different publication models easily available. More recent thinking has expanded the concept of openness even further, to Open Science, which aims to transform science by making research more open, global, collaborative, creative and closer to society. This approach is being embraced by all academic disciplines. The shift is extremely important for the development and exploitation of research, and hence for the professionals who support it.” One of the delegates, Ruth Wells, New Product Development Manager for CABI, but then representing the academic journals and publishing service Veruscript, was inspired to blog about the day and we have included her observations in this issue.
Keywords: Open Access, Open Science, Open Data, Peer Revie
Rethinking Advanced Search
Get PDFTony Russell-Rose, founder of UXLabs, explores a fascinating data visualisation approach to advanced search strategy formulation “in which concepts are expressed as objects on a two-dimensional canvas and relationships are articulated using direct manipulation. This eliminates many sources of syntactic error, makes the query semantics more transparent, and offers new ways to validate, share and reproduce search strategies.” He invites eLucidate readers to test drive and evaluate it for him.
Keywords: Data Visualisation, Search, Information Retrieval, Semantic Searc
Mindful Technology: Banishing Digital Distractions - An overview of #MindfulTech19
Get PDFClaire Carter, Academic Library Liaison at the University of Bedfordshire, reports back on a recent Multimedia Information and Technology Group event addressing the issues around mindfulness and technology - #MindfulTech19. Are you at the beck and call of mobile? How many times a day do you check for updates and alerts? MMiT’s event was a rally cry to information professionals to take back control of technology and develop handling strategies to ensure that it doesn’t rule your life and diminish your impact and productivity in the workplace. Claire Carter’s report explores the interface between technology and wellbeing. Can mindfulness be utilised to ensure that we are in control of our digital destinies?
Keywords: Mindfulness, Wellbein
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence: brave new world
Get PDFThe UKeiG Members’ Day, held at CILIP HQ on Friday 7th June 2019, showcased three experts: Michael Upshall (UNSILO), David Haynes (City, University of London) and Dr. Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs, 2dSearch.) The event explored the impact of artificial intelligence on the knowledge, information management and library profession. Upshall kicked off the event by throwing down a gauntlet. Were taxonomies still relevant in an age when AI was transforming search by enabling concept clustering and semantic enrichment? Manual classification schemes, vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies have always played an essential role in information retrieval but Upshall argues that they are expensive and fundamentally flawed; reactive not proactive. “They will never be complete. They will never be large enough.” Haynes went on to explore the potential impact of AI on the information resource management cycle, leaving Russell Rose to deliver an illuminating crash course on the linguistic phenomena that make natural language processing (NLP) such a complex and multi-faceted field of research. “Language is ambiguous,” he said, “and the key tenet of NLP is resolving that ambiguity.” There was a consensus amongst the delegates that there are huge challenges and opportunities ahead for the LIS profession; that information science is fundamental to AI.
Keywords: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Alogorithms, Information Retrieval, Search, Machine Learning, Taxonomies, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Information Science