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Adopting the Utility Criterion in IR System Design

Abstract

This paper is in response to Susan Feldman’s plea for an IR design strategy which compensates for many of the present obstacles to search optimization; these obstacles include the effects of too much information, too little coherence between repositories, and too little pedagogical support for new or novice searchers. An effective and useful IR [...]

Hierarchical Catalog Records (Article Review)

[this is the first in what I expect to be a long line of papers from my time in Information Studies]

The article I have chosen is entitled “Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog” (Mimno 2005). As the title would suggest, this article discusses the various pros and cons of implementing a FRBR catalog, the [...]