Anyone interested in search and discovery is spoilt for choice at present. First, the excellent Haystack conference on open-source search, and now the wonderful BCS Information Retrieval …
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A new article by Johan Chu and James Evans (Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science” suggests some major problems in the current state of scientific research. The authors, from a business school …
A special issue of UKSG Insights on discovery (Discovery is the Researcher’s Dream) sounded promising, but it turned out simply to …
This is a book that packs a punch – although it’s not quite the punch the reader might expect. Published in the MIT “Essential Knowledge” series, Michael Schrage’s Recommendation Engines moves from ancient Greece to the recommender systems we are familiar with today – and …
I set out to discover just what makes Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google tick, but I abandoned the book once I had discovered what made the author tick.
Finesse is not Scott Galloway’s strong point. The Four (2017) claims to explain what we can learn …
Should you add functionality just because you can? Here is an example of why perhaps you should not. Todd Carpenter has written an excellent post on Scholarly Kitchen about …
They say that the English Lake poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, only celebrated the natural beauty of the landscape because that landscape was under threat and rapidly disappearing. Perhaps the same is true of the book index. Dennis Duncan’s book (Index, A History of the…
Figure 1: Search on Google for “academic resources searching”
Sometimes an academic article delivers results that are so much at odds with your common sense that you immediately try to see holes in the argument.
Take, for example, an article in the Journal of Academic …
Note: I found Duncan’s book so fascinating that I subsequently wrote a much longer post about the book and the issues it raises.
That question is not exactly what Dennis Duncan has answered in his new book (Index, a history of the: A Bookish …
I have a lovely mental image of the Enlightenment in full swing. Inside a coffee house in Edinburgh, or Paris, a group of like-minded …