1. Vertical integration of science: an approach to including information, knowledge and its organization / Emilia Currás -- 2. What is information?: an enquiry beyond information science from a systemic point of view / Francisco-Javier García-Marco -- 3. Information: a multidimensional reality / José María Díaz Nafría -- 4. Informationism, information and its neuronal theories / Emilia Currás -- 5. The complexity of finding information in collaborative information systems: cognitive needs / Aida Varela and Marilene Lobo -- 6. Understanding user attitudes toward information systems: a grounded theory approach / David A. Jank -- 7. Review and brief history of collaborative systems: taxonomy, services and classification / Nuria Lloret Romero -- 8. Adaptive information retrieval based on task context / Bich-Liên Doan and Jean-Paul Sansonnet -- 9. Metadata for information retrieval in archives / Vicent Giménez Chornet -- 10. Management systems of user interfaces functionalities in Latin: American Web OPACs / Elsa Barber [and others] -- 11. Academic libraries as complex systems / Álvaro Quijano-Solís and Guadalupe Vega-Díaz -- 12. Cultural Management 2.0 / Margarita Cabrera Méndez -- 13. Coagmento: a case study in designing a user-centric collaborative information seeking system / Chirag Shah
Summary
"This book examines the impact of new information services on day-to-day activities from a range of contemporary technical and socio-cultural perspectives"--Provided by publisher
Analysis
Information as a science
Metasearching
Open access
Open source software
Collaborative information services
Personal search software
Semantic Web
Collaborative information systems
Vertical integration
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
Title screen (IGI Global, viewed November 19, 2011)
