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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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When Words Are Key
Well, here’s an empirical endeavor (studying the keyword choices of participants in a workshop at the 2018 iSchool conference and of iSchool directors) that I wouldn’t have thought of, using Raymond Williams’ cultural keyword analytics and applying Arthur Frank’s notion of “socio-narratology” to keywords as “stories.” Unsurprisingly, there was no consensus in the various participants’ Continue reading
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Keywords in the Emergency Room
I didn’t give many examples of keywords actually at work in the book, so I’m taking this opportunity to point to some recent examples of interest. The first is from the AEM Education and Training journal, which deals with emergency medicine, and is titled, “The Keyword Effect: A Grounded Theory Study Exploring the Role of 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.
Keywords In and Out of Context 