Archive for July, 2007
Two weeks ago I received an email describing an upcoming workshop about Social Information Retrieval (SRI) – Workshop on Social Information Retrieval in Technology-Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL’07). Accessing the workshop’s web site, I found some topics of interest that are direct related to the comments I wrote in my previous post. According to SIRTEL’s web site: "Social [ READ MORE ]
I have been asking myself about how information retrieval (IR) models/applications can take advantage of Web 2.0. One of the principles of Web 2.0, according to Tim O’Reilly, describes Web as a platform – users can use more interactive applications entirely through a browser. This changed completely the role of users from passive and consumers [ READ MORE ]