Nicholas J. Belkin

Nicholas J. Belkin (*1942) je americký informační vědec. Oblastí jeho působnosti na poli vědy jsou digitální knihovny, interakce mezi člověkem a systémy na vyhledávání informací. V současné době působí jako profesor na Rudgers University, USA. Vyučuje na School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.

Život

Vzdělání

Své vysokoškolské studium započal na University of Washington (Seattle), kde získal v roce 1968 titul BA v oboru Ruský jazyk a literatura a v roce 1970 titul MLS v oboru Knihovnictví. Následně se věnoval Informačním studiím na University College, University of London, kde v roce 1977 obhájil titul Ph.D.

Další aktivity

Ediční rada

V současné době je N.B. členem redakční rady časopisů Information Retrieval, kde působí od roku 1996, a Information Processing and Management, kde působí od roku 1998. V minulosti působil i několika dalších redašních radách. V letech 1990-1994 byl členem redakční rady časopisu The Library Quarterly.

Ocenění

• 2003 - Award of Merit (cenu uděluje American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) osobnostem, které významně přispívají k rozvoji informační vědy)
• 2003 - Fulbright Senior Specialist Award
• 2001 - Excellence in Research Award
• 1997 - Lucille Kelling Henderson Memorial Lecturer
• 1997 - Award for Excellence in Research in Information Science
• 1997, 1992, 1989 - Recognition of Service Award
• 1997 - Certificate of Recognition
• 1996 - Fulbright Research and Lecturing Fellowship
• 1996 - Distinguished Alumnus Award
• 1996 - SCILS Excellence in Research Award
• 1991 - ASIS Certificate of Appreciation
• 1990 - Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award
• 1988 - Distinguished Research Seminar Speaker
• 1985 - Information Science Book of the Year Award (with A. Vickery)
• 1984 - Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Information Science (with T. Seeger and G. Wersig)

Publikace

Monografie

• Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. London, The British Library Board, 1985, 250 pp. Nicholas J. Belkin and Alina Vickery.

Kapitoly knih

• 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 human-computer 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.
• BELKIN, N.J. & CROFT, W.B. (1987) Retrieval techniques. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 22: 109-146.
• 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, přepracoval 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.

Články

Editované knihy

• SIGIR 2000. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM,

2000, 397pp. Edited by Nicholas J. Belkin, Peter Ingwersen and Mun-Kew Leong.

• SIGIR ‘97. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research andDevelopment in Information Retrieval. New York, ACM,

1997, 348 pp. Edited by Nicholas J. Belkin, A. Desai Narasimhalu and Peter Willett.

• SIGIR ‘92. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York,

ACM, 1992, 353 pp. Edited by Nicholas J. Belkin, Peter Ingwersen, and Annelise Mark Pejtersen.

• SIGIR ‘89. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York,

ACM, 1989, 257pp. Edited by N.J. Belkin and C.J. van Rijsbergen.

Další publikace

• BELKIN, N.J. (1979) Review of Natural Language in Information Science, edited by D.E. Walker,H. Karlgren and M. Kay. Journal of Information Science, vol. 35, no. 3: 257-260 (review).
• BELKIN, N.J. (1977) Review of SIRE, 2nd International Research Forum in Information Science.Journal of Informatics, vol. 1, no. 2: 89-90 (review).
• BELKIN, N.J. (1977) The representation of knowledge: report on the International Workshop on the Cognitive Viewpoint. AISB Quarterly, no. 28: 6-7 (review).
• BELKIN, N.J. (1977) Information and society: review of J. McHale, The Changing Information Environment. The Information Scientist, vol. 11, no.4: 149-152 (review).
• BELKIN, N.J. (1974) Informatics I: conference report. International Classification, vol. 1, no. 2:95-96 (review).

Doporučená četba

Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin?

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