Information need: Introduction to the special issue

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Time and information retrieval: Introduction to the special issue

With the rapid growth of digitised document resources, both on and off the web, and increased variety in types of document collections, future information systems will face growing difficulties in providing reliable, useful, and timely results. Time is a ubiquitous factor at many stages in the information-seeking process, with users having temporally-relevant information needs, and collections ...

Innovation in Information Infrastructures: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Geographies of Information Society

In 1997 the National Science Foundation launched the Varenius Project with the aim of advancing geographic information science (Goodchild et al., 1999). Varenius incorporated three components: computational, cognitive, and societal. In a review paper titled “Geographies of Information Society,” Sheppard et al. (1999) explored the third (societal) component with the aim of introducing the key re...

Introduction to the special issue on information-theoretic imaging