Aslib Proceedings: Volume 49 Issue 8
Table of contents
Information and the law
Tamara EisenschitzInformation laws are looked at as they operate with analogue media, and then with digital services. The changes in law are related to use patterns and a solution proposed to…
Metadata, recall, and abstracts: can abstracts ever be reliable indicators of document value?
A. Wheatley, C.J. ArmstrongAbstracts from seven Internet subject trees (Euroferret, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos Top 5%, Magellan, WebCrawler, Yahoo!), five Internet subject gateways (ADAM, EEVL, NetFirst, OMNI…
The Internet: it's early days, but there are some surprises
David Nicholas, Peter Williams, Helen Martin, Peter ColeThe Internet looks set to have a major influence on information seeking behavior, although there is very little hard data around as to what these changes will be or where they…
Lyotard and postmodern knowledge
Stuart HannabussLyotard's work on postmodern knowledge has been influential on our thinking of paradigms, meta‐narratives, legitimation, and contemporary trends in the information economy. These…