School of Information Management & Systems
 (Previously School of Library & Information Studies)
 Michael Buckland,  Professor.   buckland@sims.berkeley.edu

 OASIS: Studies in Information Selection:
 Retrieval, Filtering, & Adaptive Searching
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OASIS,  Otlet's Adaptive Search Information Service, honors Paul Otlet, a pioneer of Information Management. A program of exploration of information selection: searching, filtering, retrieval, and especially adaptive searching using multiple computers and multiple sources in a networked environment.   Overview.   List of selected OASIS-related publications.   Funding.
Topics include:
*** New *** Union records and dossiers: Extended bibliographic information objects (Buckland, Butler, Norgard & Plaunt 1994).
*** New *** Information Retrieval of more than text (JASIS 42 (1991):586-588.
- Expertise, task complexity, and the role of intelligent information systems (Buckland & Florian 1990).
- Going Places in the Catalog: Improved Geographic Access.
- Translingual Information Management Using Domain Ontologies. DARPA grant.
- Searches in a Collection. Taxonomy of searches.
- Seamless searching of Numeric and Textual Resources. IMLS grant.
- Forme, Signification, et Structure des Systèmes de Sélection du Savoir
- A functional model of retrieval systems
- Search Support for Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies. DARPA contract.
- Filing filtering and the first few found: Ordering. Summary. Text.
- Trade-off between Precision and Recall and the slope of the retrieval curve.
- Searching multiple networked digital libraries:   A Design analysis.
- Selecting Libraries, Selecting Documents, Selecting Data
- Vocabulary as a central concept in Library & Information Science.
Go to OASIS-related publications,   to Design of Library Services or to Buckland's home-page.