...William D. Senn; Michael Keeble Buckland Purpose No document is ever relevant. The phrase works in practice because one component of a complex relation is made to stand for the whole. Theory cannot afford that compression. Relevance obtains only when some perceived feature of a document becomes...

...Wayne de Fremery; Michael Keeble Buckland Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a new and useful formulation of relevance. Design/methodology/approach This paper is formulated as a conceptual argument. It makes the case for the utility of considering relevance to be function of use...

... and functionalities of ICT available to them” (Díaz Andrade and Doolin, 2019 , p. 167). Search engines Information practices Relevance Recommender systems Information searching Everyday life Algorithmic recommendations This exploratory study deals with the technology-mediated everyday information...

... the typology of the modes of music information used in the present study; this section also describes diverse approaches to situational relevance and characterizes the main features of studies of relevance of music information objects and Kuhlthau’s ISP model. Then, the research questions and the empirical...

...Antti Mikael Rousi; Reijo Savolainen; Maaria Harviainen; Pertti Vakkari A set of situational relevance types related to each mode of music information were identified. As a whole, the differences between the perceived importance of the modes varied a little. Music is a domain where...

... is contrasted with the concept of relevance, a central factor within IR research. Findings BIR introduces the central concept of bridging information (BI) as the objective of IR systems. BI is the additional information a user requires to complete a task, beyond their innate knowledge. The relationship...

...Stefano De Sabbata; Stefano Mizzaro; Tumasch Reichenbacher Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the emerging geographic features of current concepts of relevance, and to improve, modify, and extend the framework proposed by Mizzaro (1998). The objective is to define a new framework...

...Arthur Taylor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand the dynamic nature of the relevance judgment process and the influence of work task on that process. Design/methodology/approach The empirical study reported here examined the information seeking behavior of a group...