Social Aspects of Search: A History
From PublicWiki
Presented by Prof. Terry Brooks (i-School) - [homepage].
Slides that Terry will speak against
Search, considered either as "websearch" or the Semantic Web, inherits both techniques and methodologies of librarianship and information management of the 20th century. For example, cultural assumptions latent in descriptive cataloging, classification and indexing express themselves in Web recommendations for structuring presentations. Cultural assumptions about citation linkages and citer motivations underlie Web link analysis. Identical linguistic problems and the necessity of making assumptions about rhetoric and document structure, unresolved in paper search systems, challenged the architects of digital search systems.
Before class:
- Please peruse Terry's slides and follow the links on the pages. Check out the articles that are linked and browse through the other sites. Try to come to class with questions for him.