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Cress, Ulrike; Held, Christoph; Kimmerle, Joachim – Computers & Education, 2013
Tag clouds generated in social tagging systems can capture the collective knowledge of communities. Using as a basis spreading activation theories, information foraging theory, and the co-evolution model of cognitive and social systems, we present here a model for an "extended information scent," which proposes that both collective and individual…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Strategies, Hypermedia, Social Networks
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Ford, Nigel – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Explores similarities between research approaches characterizing different paradigms in information science and different information-processing styles of individual researchers. Proposes a model of the way in which new knowledge is generated, based on these similarities. The model focuses on "research pathologies," and ways in which the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Information Processing, Information Science
Kraft, Donald H., Ed. – 2000
The 2000 ASIS (American Society for Information Science) conference explored knowledge innovation. The tracks in the conference program included knowledge discovery, capture, and creation; classification and representation; information retrieval; knowledge dissemination; and social, behavioral, ethical, and legal aspects. This proceedings is…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Information Management, Information Policy, Information Processing
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Ingwersen, Peter – Online Review, 1984
Discusses impact of three selected command language facilities (positional or free text operations, crossfile searching, term frequency analysis--ZOOM) on the man-system interface in relation to operational online information retrieval (IR). A cognitive IR model, searchers' knowledge structures, and searching with different types of command…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Information Processing
Morrison, James L.; Ptaszynski, James G. – 1990
An environmental scanning system was developed by the admissions office of a graduate school of management in a small southeastern university. The school's strategic planning committee felt that it would be beneficial to acquire information concerning issues, trends, and possible events that might impact upon the school in the future and to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classification, Data Collection, Educational Planning