Context: Nature, Impact, and Role

Chapter 1 Wittgenstein, Language and Information: “Back to the Rough Ground!”

Chapter 2 Text, Co-text, Context and the Documentary Continuum

Chapter 3 The Sense of Information: Understanding the Cognitive Conditional Information Concept in Relation to Information Acquisition

Chapter 4 Practical Implications of Handling Multiple Contexts in the Principle of Polyrepresentation

Chapter 5 Information Sharing and Timing: Findings from Two Finnish Organizations

Chapter 6 Contexts of Relevance for Information Retrieval System Design

Chapter 7 Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search

Chapter 8 Information Searching Behavior: Between Two Principles

Chapter 9 Bradford’s Law of Scattering: Ambiguities in the Concept of “Subject”

Chapter 10 The Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance

Chapter 11 Lifeworld and Meaning – Information in Relation to Context

Chapter 12 Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R&D Projects

Chapter 13 Annotations as Context for Searching Documents

Chapter 14 Conceptual Indexing Based on Document Content Representation

Chapter 15 What’s the Deal with the Web/Blogs/the Next Big Technology: A Key Role for Information Science in e-Social Science Research?

Chapter 16 Assessing the Roles That a Small Specialist Library Plays to Guide the Development of a Hybrid Digital Library

Chapter 17 Power Is Information: South Africa’s Promotion of Access to Information Act in Context

Chapter 18 A Bibliometric-Based Semi-automatic Approach to Identification of Candidate Thesaurus Terms: Parsing and Filtering of Noun Phrases from Citation Contexts

Chapter 19 Context Matters: An Analysis of Assessments of XML Documents

Chapter 20 Developing a Metadata Lifecycle Model

Chapter 21 Context: Nature, Impact, and Role