Information Science in Theory and Practice. Ed. Brian C. Vickery and Alina
Vickery. 3rd ed. Munich: K. G. Saur, 2004. p300-342.
Information in this article was identified as "the study of the communication of information in society" It looked into the technicalities of providing information such as evaluation, quantitative studies of information processes and systems and retrieval practice.
Retrieval practice with the use of the internet, mainly focuses on "textual symbols" even though information can also be in image format or sound. The internet also holds a vast amount of information available. The information vary in subject, terminology and natural language.
To answer the need to filter information, the author presented two approaches to indexing the internet, one is to assign one or more index terms in a web wage or two, to scan the text and extract important keywords and use an appropriate index term.
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The three things I learned from this reading are, first, that to understand the basic retrieval process we must understand how it is done. Second, the basic retrieval process starts with understanding the information contained in an article. And third, that by indexing, one must inspect and condense the article into a word or phrase that best characterizes the article.
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