Continuing on the subject of context ….. [...] the major different cognitive structures of individual users [...] may be represented to intermediary mechanisms and IR systems, e.g. the actual work task or interest leading to a current cognitive state which may end up in a problem or uncertainty state for the actual user. These mental … Continue reading Quote of the month: Cognition vs context
Author: iinek
Doctoral Candidate in Law & Informatics at Stockholm University, Sweden
Quote of the month: users and procedural knowledge
Reading a lot of material on the user perspective of information retrieval, I came across the following quote: [...] despite experience with using general-purpose search engines, users may never discover strategies such as those known by the expert reference librarians. The knowledge to use such strategies needs to be explicitly taught. Furthermore, the decomposition and … Continue reading Quote of the month: users and procedural knowledge
Law as an app
This post was originally written in preparation for a conference by the Trust for Legal Information (Stiftelsen för rättsinformation) on ‘Law as a Service’. Being inspired by last year’s VQ Forum, and an blog post titled ‘I Am Now an App™ by Jason Wilson, I would like to share some ideas and thoughts. When we … Continue reading Law as an app
Quote of the month: Keywords and context
Visiting the Annual Nordic Conference in Legal Informatics in Rovaniemi, Finland, I started thinking about the progress that information retrieval technology has made the last 30 years, and remembered the following statement from 1985: The user’s task is simply to find the right combination of search terms to retrieve all and only the relevant documents. … Continue reading Quote of the month: Keywords and context
Quote of the month: Context and association
A growing amount of legal information is in itself not a bad thing. Though quantity is not to be confused with quality, more data increases the chances of finding information that is applicable to one's question. The challenge is, however, how to access this information. Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a … Continue reading Quote of the month: Context and association
Blogging, Markdown and new technologies
Being a geek, besides being a lawyers and researcher, I am always trying to use new tools and apps for writing and publishing. The last post on this blog was, however, proof that I should be more aware of bugs and challenges when doing this. I had tried Markdown for the first time in combination … Continue reading Blogging, Markdown and new technologies
VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum 2011
This week the VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum took place at Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. As last year the conference featured inspiring and innovative speakers and the possibility to meet knowledge managers, lawyers, information specialists, visionaries and all other professionals working within the legal services sector. A summary of the tweets during the conference is available … Continue reading VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum 2011
Quote of the month: The chaos in law
In the course of writing my doctoral thesis, I come across various quotes from various decades that I find interesting and of great value to the research community. Due to the vast amount of research articles, some of them might have been forgotten or at least not remembered. In an attempt to revisit some of these … Continue reading Quote of the month: The chaos in law
VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum Legal – 11-12 November 2010
11 November 2010 Annette Magnusson, Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, opened the conference in her role as the chair for the day. She described that there is an unprecedented level of interconnection and interdependency (referring to a survey by IBM on capitalising on complexity). According to a recent … Continue reading VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum Legal – 11-12 November 2010
Sweden now represented in Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law
Christine Kirchberger, Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute, has recently authored the Swedish monograph for Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law. The series discusses legal issues that information and communication technology has given rise to. Each monograph in the Cyber Law Encyclopaedia covers the regulation of the ICT market, the protection of intellectual property, ICT … Continue reading Sweden now represented in Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law
