Information Retrieval List Digest 132 (October 6, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-132 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:48:30 PST Reply-To: "Information Retrieval List" Sender: "Information Retrieval List" From: IRLIST Subject: IR-L Digest, Vol.IX,No.36, Issue 132 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 6, 1992 Volume IX, Number 36 Issue 132 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Second International Workshop on Multimedia Information 2. Social Science Perspectives on Information Systems (ACM TOIS) Systems, June 22-25, 1993, New York B. Publications Announcements II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Technical Information on Thesauri IV. PROJECT WORK C. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Dr. Forouzan Golshani Re: Call for Papers - MMIS'93 CALL FOR PAPERS MMIS'93 Second International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems June 22-25, 1993 Blue Mountain Lake, New York Sponsors: The New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications in Software Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University, Arizona State University and University of Kentucky This workshop will deal with the technical issues pertaining to theory, design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information systems. Now that multimedia systems have proven to be vital in many fields, such as medicine, finance and insurance, it is timely to study in more detail the issues created by large it is timely to study in more detail the issues created by large volumes of recurring multimedia data. MMIS'93 will consist of refereed paper presentations, panel sessions, and informal discussions. To maintain an environment suitable for exchange of ideas, participation will be limited to about 60 persons. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Multimedia Database Systems Sensor Data Management Multimedia Data Models Application Specific Systems Networking for Multimedia Data User Interface Multimedia Software Tools Spatial & Temporal Data Management Distributed Multimedia Systems Mixed Media Synchronization Future Applications Enabling technologies Please submit manuscripts of less than 25 double-spaced pages that have not been published previously and are not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should include affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail for each author, as well as the keywords that identify the central issues of the contents of the manuscript. Please send four copies of a full manuscript by December 4, 1992 to: Forouzan Golshani (MMIS'93 Program Chair) Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science & Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-5406, USA. Voice (602)965-2855 fax (602)965-2751 e-mail: golshani@asuvax.eas.asu.edu IMPORTANT DATES: Four copies of the full manuscript are due: December 4, 1992 Author notification: March 19, 1993 Camera ready copies due: April 23, 1993 Workshop dates: June 22-25, 1993 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: P. Bruce Berra, Syracuse University Program Chair: Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University Panels Chair: Rajiv Mehrotra, University of Kentucky Publicity : William I. Grosky, Wayne State University Treasurer: Antonio Pizzarello, Bull Worldwide Information Systems Local Arrangements: C. Y. Roger Chen, Syracuse University For completer information contact: P. Bruce Berra Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. Tel:(315)-443-1062. Email: Berra@cat.syr.edu. ********** I.B.1. Fr: Rob Kling Re: Social Science Perspectives on Information Systems Call for Papers Social Science Perspectives on Information Systems A Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) announces a Special Issue devoted to the applications of theories and methods of the social sciences to understand the development, social organization, role, and impacts of information systems in organizations. Possible topics include studies of the social processes of implementing large-scale information systems, the relationship of information systems developments to changes in organizational strategy, the role of information systems in changing the organization or work, the ways that information systems fit or help change organizational cutlures, and the social dynamics of groups that develop or use information systems. Empirical studies, whether using qualitative or quantitative data, are welcomed, as are theoretical studies, if they use empirical materials to support the theories presented. The TOIS editors define information systems broadly, including electronic mail, books, libraries, classrooms, museums, decision and meeting support systems, and entertainment systems, in addition to the more traditional transaction processing systems and networks of such systems. This special issue will be published July 1994. Submission deadline (please send 5 copies) is February 26, 1993. See the July 1990 issue of TOIS for format guidelines. High-quality papers which are submitted or revised late, or whose focus does not fit the special issue, may be accepted for publication in a subsequent issue. Please address all questions and submissions to Dr. Robert B. Allen Editor in Chief, TOIS Room 2A-367 Bell Communications Research, Inc. 445 South Street Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 201/829-4315 rba@bellcore.com Editor for the special issue is Professor Rob Kling Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine kling@ics.uci.edu ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Ronald van der Meer (Databasix Information Systems) Re: Looking for technical information on thesauri I am looking for the thesaurus specification document ISO2788. I have not been able to locate it on the internet. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Other technical thesauri stuff is also very welcome. Please respond to me directly at ronald@dcs.prime.com as I am no longer a subscriber of this list. Thanks in advance. Ronald van der Meer Senior Software Engineer Databasix Information Systems B.V. Voice: +31-340662455 Rijnzathe 8 Telefax: +31-340665033 3454 PV De Meern Internet: ronald@dcs.Prime.COM The Netherlands ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.C.1. Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using BRS Information Technologies, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, one or more Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject descriptors chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-268-6090. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI. An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-03740. AU SUTTON, STUART ALLEN. TI MANAGING LEGAL INFORMATION: A MODEL OF INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY BASED ON USER COGNITIVE MAPS. IN University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. 1991, 190 pages. SO DAI V52(08), SecA, pp2740. DE Information Science. Library Science. Law. AB This dissertation examines the legal information resources management of the law firm as the principal function in the development of legal expertise. A model representing a high level management facility is developed through the examination of both the heuristics of legal practice and jurisprudential principles. The model employs a lexicon of entities sufficient to the description of all objects and concepts in the attorney's problem domain ranging from legal concepts and evidentiary data to the research work product on which institutional memory depends. A related lexicon of linkages necessary to the establishment and maintenance of heuristic relationships among entities is also developed. While implementation independent, the high-level schema of entities and relationships developed in the study is illustratively mapped to the relational database data structures. The model developed provides the template for implementation of information systems which organize information in corporate institutional memory in a fashion which approximates the mental models legal practitioners have of legal information. In the course of exploring the nature of institutional memory, the study defines both the structure and developmental dynamics of attorney cognitive maps of the law, and the systemic analogues between those maps and citation networks embodied in the reported cases and in attorney research work product. The systemic analogues developed provide the framework for rendering institutional memory computational by means of similarity coefficients employing citation vectors and clustering algorithms. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-03122. AU BANDELIN, JANIS MARIE. TI AN ANALYSIS OF PUBLISHING RECORDS OF ONE-HUNDRED AND ONE PERCEIVED LIBRARY LEADERS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1960-1988 AS REFLECTED IN THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE LITERATURE. IN Texas Woman's University Ph.D. 1991, 154 pages. SO DAI V52(08), SecA, pp2742. DE Library Science. Information Science. AB The purpose of this study was to determine if those who are perceived as library leaders in the 1980s published in the library and information science journals from 1960-1988 and if so, to determine the nature of the literature produced by them. In a 1989 dissertation by Gertzog, a list of 101 perceived library leaders was generated from survey results. Using this list, Social Sciences Citation Index was search from 1960-1988 and data relating to the characteristics of each of the 2528 documents published by the perceived leaders were collected and recorded with the assistance of Microsoft Works. The data were entered into a computer data file and analyzed by SPSSx. Major findings were: (1) Ninety-four percent of the perceived leaders did have publications in library and information science journals during the years 1960-1988. (2) When the document formats were analyzed, articles ranked first followed by book reviews, editorials, letters, discussions and meeting abstract. (3) When the titles of the journals were examined, it was found that Library Journal a popular publication and one of the most widely circulated journals, contained 40% of the total publications. Sixty-four percent of the 101 perceived leaders published articles in Library Journal, while other journal titles had 44% or less of the leaders publish there; (4) Analysis of the subject content of the documents revealed that six subjects emerged as core subjects, appearing in all of the "top-ten" tables listing the most frequently written-about subjects. The list included library associations, education for librarianship, library automation, library management, online retrieval, and cooperation; (5) When the 16 to 18 most prolific of the perceived leaders in terms of the publication of documents and the publication of articles were listed, it was revealed that less than 50% of them appear on Gertzog's list of "field-wide" leaders, however a significant percentage (44%) are among the top eighteen in terms of significant percentage (44%) are among the top eighteen in terms of numbers of articles published. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADGNN-64256. AU CANO-REYNOSO, VIRGINIA PATRICIA. TI CITATION LIFE CYCLE: USE OF CITATIONS THROUGH TIME. IN The University of Western Ontario (Canada) Ph.D. 1990, 166 pages. SO DAI V52(09), SecA, pp3115. DE Library Science. Literature, General. IS ISBN: 0-315-64256-4. AB Citations form a part of any scientific paper. Their role as countable elements in the fields of sociology of science and library and information science has increased in importance since the availability of SCIENCE CITATION INDEX tapes; the availability of a large database of citation data on machine readable format has allowed research on citations, their use and their impact to proliferate. In spite of the widespread use of citations, there is little theory on the citation behaviour of scientists. The goal of this research was to study citations in the context of the writing processes of scientists by relating citations to a theoretical structure of scientific discourse. Five citation classics, defined as any highly cited paper selected and defined as "classic" by the Institute for Scientific Information and four non-classics were identified and their citation life studied over a period of twenty years. The locations in which the cited classic and non-classic occurred in the citing text were traced over time and related to a structure of scientific discourse. The age and type of the cited article were related to two variables of citing behaviour: citation location and citation type. It was expected that citations to the cited papers would travel through different sections of the structure of scientific discourse as the cited papers aged. The distributions of the citation location variable and the citation type variable for citation classics differed from the distributions for non-classics within the same variables. However, the variables of citation location and citation type did not change as a function of age. Most citations were of a methodological nature and remained static in the methodological sections of the citing text irrespective of the age of the cited paper. The growth pattern for citation classics differed from that of the non-classics. Non-classics seem to experience an early growth reaching their peak three years after publication. The pattern of growth of citation classics was slower, with some classics reaching their peak during the seventh and eighth year after publication; others were still growing with their peak to be determined by future research. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-05891. AU CROSBY, ELLEN. TI USER INTERACTION WITH AN ONLINE CATALOG: MEASURES OF SUCCESS. IN Indiana University Ph.D. 1991, 176 pages. SO DAI V52(09), SecA, pp3116. DE Library Science. Information Science. Education, Technology. AB The successful use of a library catalog has traditionally meant simply finding a citation. Finding the citation, however, may involve several contributing factors. This study developed a model to investigate the relationships among several variable using path analysis techniques. The model included catalog users' library experience and their computer experience as exogenous variables. Endogenous variables were the duration of the searches, search accuracy, search efficiency (number of commands), and users' perception of the search process. Sixty-nine undergraduate students searched the Indiana University Library NOTIS online catalog in a controlled setting for answers to six questions supplied by the researcher. A fifteen-minute training task preceded the experimental session. For this group, library experience was correlated with computer experience (r =.37, p $<$.01). Results of the path analysis indicated that greater computer experience predicts shorter elapsed time. Search efficiency is predicted by elapsed time (beta =.86, p $<$.01), but more computer experience leads to less efficiency (beta =.22, p $<$.01). Accuracy of results was not related to search efficiency. Efficiency was not related to perception of searching. Factor analysis was performed on scores on the perception instrument and four factors emerged. Two factors showed significant relationships to other variables. Participants who were accurate perceived the online catalog as a useful way of finding information (beta =.25, p $<$.05). Searches of short duration predicted perception of usefulness (beta = $-$.22, p $<$.05) and perception of self-sufficiency (beta = $-$.49, p $<$.05). Previous library experience did not contribute significantly to the model. The factors related to liking of the online catalog and liking of the search process did not contribute to the model. It is concluded that instruction in using online catalogs should concentrate more on computer skills than on skills involved in interpreting the catalog record. Relatively naive users are able to be successful in using an online catalog. 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