[Siguse-l] CALL For BOOK CHAPTER Proposals: Innovations in IR: Perspectives for Theory and Practice

[Allen Edward Foster [aef]]

*** Apologies for Cross Postings ***


CALL For BOOK CHAPTER Proposals

TITLE: Innovations in IR: Perspectives for Theory and Practice

Editors:

Dr Allen Foster and Dr Pauline Rafferty of the

Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University

Email either aef at aber.ac.uk<mailto:aef at aber.ac.uk> or pmr at aber.ac.uk<mailto:pmr at aber.ac.uk>


Proposal Submission Deadline:           March 15th 2010
Author Notification:                    April 15th 2010
Full Chapters Due:                      September 30th 2010
Publication expected for 2011.



INTRODUCTION

This is to be an edited book in which academics and practitioners in information retrieval (IR) are invited to write about the issues and topics that they think are of current interest in IR. The readership is intended to be Masters level students and the book is intended to complement the IR text books already in the market.

The focus of this book is to introduce students to the broader IR debates, theories and issues. To this end, contributors will be asked to include in their chapters a couple of "hot" research ideas in their specialist area that the MSc student readers might use as starting points for dissertation topics, or for PhD topics.


MARKET AND TIMELINE

In Information Retrieval there are already some substantial texts, some of which can be viewed as in need of an update, some as being quite technical, they are however solidly describing the key themes of the subject area.  The description that they present falls short of stimulating ideas, innovations, and further research amongst our Master's and PhD students.

The proposed book aims to complement the existing body of literature written by authors such as Chowdury, Ellis, Belew, and Ingwersen by raising the interesting questions, and starting points for higher study in this area of Information Science.  The following are examples of key texts in the field that are complemented by the approach taken in this proposal:
Belew, S. 2000.   Finding out about: a cognitive perspective on search engine technology. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
Chowdhury, G.G. 2004. Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. Second edition. London: Facet Publishing.
Ellis, D. 1996. Progress and Problems in IR. London: Library  Association
Ingwersen, P. and Järvelin, K. 2005.The turn: integration of information seeking and retrieval in context. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

The questions and discussions raised are of significance to the international library and information science community, and raise the questions that Master's and PhD students need to be asking if they are to qualify, and participate in the discipline.


CHAPTERS AND TOPICS

Some topics that are to appear in the book, and around which chapters might be based, include:

Philosophical issues relating to subject analysis, the nature of meaning, the relationships between "objective" documents and "subjective" readers.

Cultural documentation and terminological problems: issues about meaning, interpretation, indexing and tagging

Innovations in IR in relation to organisational contexts: managing innovations

Innovations in IR in relation to cultural contexts

IR in relation to media types: including music, image, film

IR in relation to discursive types: IR and scientific discourse, IR and fiction

Social tagging, collaborative IR and folksonomies

Museums and tagging

Semantic web and ontologies

Classification in the digital age

Affective dimension indexing




SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Potential contributors are invited to submit a 2-5 page chapter proposal to the Editors by March 15th 2010. Authors will be notified by April 15th 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters should be 5000-7000 words in length and are due by September 30th 2010.



INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS

For Inquiries contact the editors at: aef at aber.ac.uk<mailto:aef at aber.ac.uk> or pmr at aber.ac.uk<mailto:pmr at aber.ac.uk>

Please email submissions to either of the editors.






Dr Allen Foster and Dr Pauline Rafferty
Department of Information Studies Aberystwyth


Information Studies at Aberystwyth:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/postgrad/postgraduate-courses/distancelearning/infostudies/

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/postgrad/postgraduate-courses/taughtcourses/infostudies/



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