Information as thing
- M. Buckland
- Computer ScienceJournal of the American Society for Information…
- 1 June 1991
Three meanings of “information” are distinguished: “Information‐as‐process”; “information‐as‐knowledge”; and “information‐as‐thing,” the attributive use of “information” to denote things regarded as…
The Relationship between Recall and Precision
- M. Buckland, F. Gey
- PsychologyJournal of the American Society for Information…
- 1994
Examination of the mathematical relationship between Precision and Recall shows that a quadratic Recall curve can resemble empirical Recall-Precision behavior if transformed into a tangent parabola.
Information and information systems
- M. Buckland
- Computer Science
- 1991
Buckland interprets the nature of retrieval-based information systems such as archives, libraries, databases, and museums, and their relationships to their social context in an approach that is comparative rather than narrowly technical in approach.
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
- M. Buckland
- EducationJ. Documentation
- 2006
This paper will concern you to try reading annual review of information science and technology as one of the reading material to finish quickly.
What kind of science can information science be?
- M. Buckland
- EducationJ. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
- 2012
If information science is concerned with what people know, then it is a form of cultural engagement, and at most, a science of the artificial.
What Is a "Document"?
- M. Buckland
- ArtJournal of the American Society for Information…
- 1 September 1997
Ordinarily the word “document” denotes a textual record. Increasingly sophisticated attempts to provide access to the rapidly growing quantity of available documents raised questions about what…
Documentation, Information Science, and Library Science in the USA
- M. Buckland
- EducationInformation Processing & Management
- 1996
What is a digital document
- M. Buckland
- Art
- 1998
La question « Qu'est-ce qu 'un document numerique? » est vue comme un cas particulier de la question « Qu'est-ce qu'un document?». Habituellement le mot « document » fait reference a un…
Emanuel Goldberg, electronic document retrieval, and Vannevar Bush's Memex
- M. Buckland
- Environmental Science
- 1 May 1992
Vannevar Bush's famous article, “As We May Think” (1945), described an imaginary information retrieval machine, the Memex. The Memex is usually viewed, unhistorically, in relation to subsequent…
Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto
- M. Buckland
- Computer Science
- 1992
This blueprint provides a new framework within which to attempt to understand and to plan library services in the future and outlines the way to understand the likely demands of the library user of thefuture and how to increase the service that librarians can deliver.
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