Nicholas Belkin

Nicholas J. Belkin je americký profesor, který vyučuje na Rudgers univerzity, na School of Communication and Information. Zabývá se tématy jako jsou digitální knihovny, systémy na vyhledávání na informací, interakcí mezi člověkem a informacemi. Je členem řídící komise Committee for the European Conferences on Digital Libraries, která se zabývá digitálními knihovnami. ¹

Studium

V roce 1968 absolvoval University of Washington, kde studoval B.A., Ruský jazyk a literaturu. Následně v roce 1970 absolvoval M.L.S., Informační vědy a roku 1977 úspěšně dokončil postgraduální studium, kde získal PhD v oboru Informační studia. ²

Kariéra

V letech 1970 – 1972 pracoval na pozici knihovníka na Univerzity of Washington v Seattle. Dále v roce 1973 na pozici knihovníka na The Nature Convervansy v Londýně.

Publikační činnost

Knihy

Belkin, N.J. & Vickery, A. (1985). Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. London: The British Library Board. 250 pp.

Kapitoly v knihách

Cool, C. & Belkin, N.J. (2011) Interactive information retrieval: history and background. In: I. Ruthven & D. Kelly (Eds.) Interactive information seeking, behaviour and retrieval (pp. 1-14). London: Facet Publishing. Belkin, N.J. (2010) On the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems. In: B. Larsen, J.W. Schneider & F. Åström (Eds.) The Janus Faced Scholar. A Festschrift in Honour of Peter Ingwersen (pp. 13-21). Copenhagen: Royal School of Library and Information Science. Retrieved on 7 January 2014 at http://www.issi-society.org/peteringwersen/ Dumais, S.T. & Belkin, N.J. (2005) The TREC interactive tracks: Putting the user into search. In E.M. Voorhees & D.K. Harman (Eds.) TREC. Experiment and evaluation in information retrieval (pp. 123-152). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Belkin, N.J. (2005) Anomalous state of knowledge. In K.E. Fisher, S. Erdelez & E.F. McKechnie (Eds.) Theories of information behavior (pp.44-48). Medford, NJ: American Society for Information Science and Technology. Belkin, N.J. (1998) An overview of results from Rutgers’ investigations of interactive information retrieval. In: Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources, edited by P.A. Cochrane and E.H. Johnson. Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 45-62. Belkin, N.J., Oddy, R.N. & Brooks, H.M. (1997) ASK for information retrieval. Part I: Background and theory. In: Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997: 299-304. A reprint of: Belkin, N.J., Oddy, R.N. & Brooks, H.M. (1982) ASK for information retrieval. Part I: Background and theory. Journal of Documentation, vol. 38, nos. 2: 61-71. Daniels, P.J., Brooks, H.M. & Belkin, N.J. (1997) Using problem structures for driving humancomputer dialogues. In: Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997: 135-142. A reprint of: Daniels, P.J., Brooks, H.M. & Belkin, N.J. (1985) Using problem structures for driving human-computer dialogues. In: RIAO '85, Actes of the Conference: Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur, Grenoble, 1985. Grenoble, I.M.A.G.: 645-660 (refereed conference proceeding). Belkin, N.J. (1994) Design principles for electronic textual resources: investigating users and uses of scholarly information. In: Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honor of Don Walker, edited by Antonio Zampolli, Nicoletta Calzolari, Martha Palmer (Linguistica Computazionale, v. IX-X). Pisa, Giardini, 1994: 479-488. Belkin, N.J. (1993) Understanding and supporting human information seeking. In: Intelligent information retrieval: the case of astronomy and related space sciences, A. Heck & F. Murtaugh, eds. Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1993: 9-20. Belkin, N.J., Brooks, H.M. & Daniels, P.J. (1988) Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis. In: Knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, edited by B.R. Gaines & J.H. Boose (Knowledge-Based Systems, volume 1). London, Academic Press, 1988: 107-124. A reprint of: Belkin, N.J., Brooks, H.M. & Daniels, P.J. (1987) Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, vol. 27: 127-144 Belkin, N.J. & Croft, W.B. (1987) Retrieval techniques. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 22: 109-146 . N.J. Belkin 7 Curriculum vitae Belkin, N.J. (1987) User/intermediary interaction analysis: a foundation for designing intelligent information systems. In J. Varlejs, ed. Information seeking: basing services on users' behaviors. North Carolina, McFarland, 1987: 327-330. Belkin, N.J. (1981) Ineffable concepts in information retrieval. In: Information retrieval experiment, K. Sparck Jones, ed. London, Butterworths: 44-58. Yates, B, revised by N.J. Belkin (1979) Some less conventional means of obtaining information. In: The use of the chemical literature, 3rd edition, R.T. Bottle, ed. London, Butterworths, 1979: 236-250. Belkin, N.J. (1975) The concept of information in informatics. In: Problems of Information Science (FID 530). Moscow, VINITI, 1975: 74-89.

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