For some time now I have maintained a list of books on the Intranet Focus web site that I think would be of interest to search researchers and search managers. I am in the process of rebuilding the web site and so many of the internal links to reviews of the books will no longer exist. I have now revised the list so that the links are to the web sites of the publishers and so should stand the test of time.<\/p>\n
If there are any books that you feel should be included, please email me with your suggestions.<\/p>\n
The list is in reverse chronological order of publication, going back to 2010. There are of course many earlier books, notably Introduction to Information Retrieval<\/a> by Manning, Raghavan and Schutze but I had to stop somewhere. The earliest book on my bookshelf is An Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval by none other than Gerard Salton and Michael McGill, published in 1986.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n History of enterprise search 1938-2022 <\/a>Martin White Taxonomies \u2013 Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information<\/a> Helen Lippell (Editor) Understanding and evaluating search experience <\/a> Maria Stone Making Knowledge Management Clickable<\/a> Zach Wahl and Joseph Hilger David Hawking \u2013 an autobiography<\/a> Information \u2013 A Historical Introduction<\/a>. <\/strong> Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton (Editors) Search Interface Design and Evaluation<\/a> Chang Liu, Ying-Hsang Liu, Jingjing Liu and Ralf Bierig Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments <\/a> Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang and Ya Xu Task intelligence for search and recommendation<\/a> Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White Understanding and Improving Information Search \u2013 a Cognitive Approach<\/a> Wai Tat Fu and Herre van Oostendorp An introduction to neural information retrieval<\/a> Bhaskar Mitra and Nick Craswell Systematic Searching \u2013 Practical Ideas for Improving Results<\/a> Paul Levy and Jenny Craven (Editors) Searching the Enterprise<\/a> Udo Kruschwitz and Charlie Hull Interactions with Search Systems<\/a> Ryen W. White Looking for Information<\/a> Donald O. Case and Lisa M. Given Text Data Management and Analysis<\/a> Cheng Xiang Zhai and Sean Massung Enterprise Search<\/a> Martin White Relevant Search<\/a> Doug Turnbull and John Berryman The Inquiring Organisation<\/a> Chun Wei Choo Introduction to Information Behaviour<\/a> Nigel Ford Designing the Search Experience<\/a> Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate Multilingual Information Retrieval<\/a> Carol Peters, Martin Braschler and Paul Clough Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval<\/a> Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly (editors) Search Analytics for Your Site<\/a> Louis Rosenfeld Innovations in Information Retrieval – Perspectives for Theory and Practice<\/a> Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty (editors) Search Patterns<\/a> Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender Morgan & Claypool<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Now Publishers<\/a>\u00a0both offer a wide range of books and monographs on specialist aspects of information retrieval and search, though usually with an academic rather than a practitioner focus.<\/p>\n Martin White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some time now I have maintained a list of books on the Intranet Focus web site that I think would be of interest to search researchers and search managers. I am in the process of rebuilding the web site and so many of the internal links to reviews of the books will no longer… Continue reading Books for search researchers and search managers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn-2022","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA history of the development of enterprise search from punched cards to artificial intelligence (2022)<\/p>\n
\nA valuable introduction to taxonomy management from a wide range of authors, including some specific contributions on enterprise search (2022)<\/p>\n
\nAlthough the focus is on web search (the author works for Spotify) the book has relevance to all search implementations. (2022)<\/p>\n
\nThis book spans what is so often a crevasse between knowledge management and IT systems management (2022)<\/p>\n
\nDavid Hawking was a pioneer in the development of commercial enterprise search applications. (2022)<\/p>\n
\nA 900 page collection of 13 chapters and over 100 essays on the development of information management over the last six centuries.(2021)<\/p>\n
\nA comprehensive review of the research literature on the design and evaluation of search user interfaces. (2021)<\/p>\n
\nA\/B testing is a core element in the development of effective search applications.\u00a0 The authors have extensive experience from working at Microsoft, Google and LinkedIn (2021)<\/p>\n
\nThe focus of this book is on the ways in which the intent of a search user can be determined by the search application in order to improve recall and relevance. (2021)<\/p>\n
\nA collection of 13 essays on the benefits of adopting a cognitive approach to information search, many with direct relevance to optimising enterprise search. (2020)<\/p>\n
\nThis is a good introduction to the principles of neutral information retrieval with a particular emphasis on the role and challenges of machine learning (2018)<\/p>\n
\nSystematic searching is undertaken largely in the clinical and pharmaceutical sectors where high levels of retrieval are essential.(2017)<\/p>\n
\nThe authors provide an important bridge between information retrieval research and the practical implementation of search applications. (2017)<\/p>\n
\nAlthough the focus of this book is on web search, the principles also apply to e-commerce and enterprise search. (2016)<\/p>\n
\nA survey of research on information seeking, needs and behaviour, which places search into the wider context of why people seek information and how they interact with search systems. (2016)<\/p>\n
\nA very comprehensive handbook on the technology of information retrieval and content analytics based on a highly regarded MOOC.(2016)<\/p>\n
\nMy objective was to write a book for search managers without a technical background that supported the entire process from building a business case through to evaluating performance. (2015)<\/p>\n
\nThe objective of all search applications is to deliver the most relevant results as early as possible in the list of results. Although based around the management of Lucene and Solr this book is applicable to any search application. (2015)<\/p>\n
\nThe importance of this book is that it provides a context for search within an overall integration of the value of information and knowledge to the organisation. (2015)<\/p>\n
\nInformation seeking models are a special case of information behaviours. They form the basis of use cases for search, and the design of user interfaces. (2015)<\/p>\n
\nThis book takes a deep look into information seeking models, using them to consider how best to design user interfaces. (2012)<\/p>\n
\nA good introduction to the basic principles of multilingual and cross-lingual search. (2012)<\/p>\n
\nA collection of 13 essays on a range of topics (2011)<\/p>\n
\nThis introduction to search analytics is primarily about websites and intranets but the principles apply to enterprise search. (2011)<\/p>\n
\nA collection of seven essays on a range of information retrieval topics (2011)<\/p>\n
\nAn innovative approach to understanding the design principles of effective search user interfaces (2010)<\/p>\n