Online Social Networks usually provide no or limited way to access scholarly
information provided by Digital Libraries (DLs) in order to share and discuss
scholarly content with other online community members. The paper addresses the
potentials of Social Networking sites (SNSs) for science and proposes initial
use cases as well as a basic bi-directional model called ScholarLib for linking
SNSs to scholarly DLs.
The paper introduces scholarly Information Retrieval (IR) as a further
dimension that should be considered in the science modeling debate. The IR use
case is seen as a validation model of the adequacy of science models in
representing and predicting structure and dynamics in science.
This paper is about a better understanding on the structure and dynamics of
science and the usage of these insights for compensating the typical problems
that arises in metadata-driven Digital Libraries. Three science model driven
retrieval services are presented: co-word analysis based query expansion,
re-ranking via Bradfordizing and author centrality.
This paper is about an information retrieval evaluation on three different
retrieval-supporting services. All three services were designed to compensate
typical problems that arise in metadata-driven Digital Libraries, which are not
adequately handled by a simple tf-idf based retrieval. The services are: (1) a
co-word analysis based query expansion mechanism and re-ranking via (2)
Bradfordizing and (3) author centrality. The services are evaluated with
relevance assessments conducted by 73 information science students.
This paper is a short description of an information retrieval system enhanced
by three model driven retrieval services: (1) co-word analysis based query
expansion, re-ranking via (2) Bradfordizing and (3) author centrality. The
different services each favor quite other - but still relevant - documents than
pure term-frequency based rankings. Each service can be interactively combined
with each other to allow an iterative retrieval refinement.