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Tefko Saracevic
I am saddened to hear of the recent death of Tefko Saracevic, one of the giants in information retrieval and relevance. A distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers, his was a name known throughout the international LIS community. Although I frequently cited his work on relevance (as did almost all researchers in the area), I only Continue reading
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La Bella Vita (Homage to Bella Hass Weinberg!)
One of the reasons that I chose to create this “post-book” blog is to have a place in which I can add important findings of which I was not aware while I was writing Keywords In and Out of Context. This allows me to live la bella vita as a professor emerita, by which I Continue reading
About THIS SITE
This site is intended to provide additional information related to my book Keywords In and Out of Context, published in Springer’s Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services series.
I am Betsy Van der Veer Martens, professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Library & Information Studies, and my most recent article is “On Thresholds: Signs, Symbols, and Significance” in the Journal of Documentation.
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