Nicholas Belkin

Nicholas J. Belkin je americký profesor, který se narodil v roce 1942 ve Spojených státech, 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.

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.

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.

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