Forthcoming Events Edited By Andy MacFarlane Conferences/Workshops iConference 2014: annual iSchools Conference. A general information conference with of relevant to the IR community. 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ SAC 2014: Information Access and Retrieval at the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. A general computing conference with a track on IR. 24 – 28… Continue reading Events Winter 2014
Editorial
… and ECIR 2015 will be held in …hold on, let’s first look at past events before we look ahead. This summer was packed with IR-related events. It all started with SIGIR 2013 in Dublin. Dublin seems to be one of THE places for organising conferences right now with ECIR and SIGIR now over and… Continue reading Editorial
Celebrating Stephen Robertson’s Retirement
Stephen Robertson retired from the Microsoft Research Lab. in Cambridge during the summer of 2013 after a long career as one of the most influential, well liked and eminent researchers in Information Retrieval throughout the world. Stephen began his research career in the late 1960’s when he took an M.Sc. in Information Science at City… Continue reading Celebrating Stephen Robertson’s Retirement
Musing on the theory of it all — ICTIR 2013
The 4th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2013) took place from September 29, 2013 to October 2, 2013, in the beautiful Danish capital of Copenhagen hosted by the University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. As the name suggests this conference is primarily concerned with theoretical aspects of IR, however there… Continue reading Musing on the theory of it all — ICTIR 2013
Tabs, facets and views: getting the interaction right
As the dominant interaction paradigm used throughout the world of eCommerce, faceted search provides a framework that supports the exploration and selection among thousands – if not millions – of diverse items. But sometimes faceted search needs to be combined with other types of UI control to provide alternative ways to view and organise content.… Continue reading Tabs, facets and views: getting the interaction right
Conference Review: SIGIR 2013
SIGIR 2013 was hosted by CNGL (Centre for Next Generation Localisation) which is based in Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin. The main conference was held at Trinity College Dublin with plenary sessions held at the mansion house just 100 yards away. The busy five day schedule consisted of three days of main conference… Continue reading Conference Review: SIGIR 2013
Events Autumn 2013
One day events Search solutions 2013. The group’s annual practitioner focused event on search. We also have tutorial day associated with the event. BCS offices Covent Garden. https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2013/sse2013.php Conferences/Workshops 76th Annual Meeting of ASIST. A general LIS conference with many themes on information retrieval. 1-6 November 2013, Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://asis.org/asist2013/AM2013CFP.pdf ISMIR 2013… Continue reading Events Autumn 2013
Editorial
Melting motorways and buckled rails? The summer has arrived in England. Welcome to a new edition of Informer. This is a Special Summer Edition in that we kept this issue (and the editorial) as short as possible so that we do not distract you too much from your summer reading. First some updates on what the… Continue reading Editorial
13th Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Information Retrieval
The DIR workshop traditionally represents one of the annual highlights for information retrieval researchers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Hosted alternatingly in between the Netherlands and Belgium it serves as a venue for networking, sharing and discussing late-breaking research results as well as promoting recent publications in international key conferences and journals. A special emphasis… Continue reading 13th Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Information Retrieval
Information Wayfinding, Pt 2: Elements of the Information Environment
In Part 1 of this series, I argued that vestiges of the pre-Web, print era still haunt digital experiences. To create information environments that are truly coherent, we must view them not as books full of pages, but as spaces to navigate and explore—much like finding our way through a city or a museum. This is… Continue reading Information Wayfinding, Pt 2: Elements of the Information Environment