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Information as sign: semiotics and information science
Douglas Raber, John M. BuddFrom the perspective of semiotics, “information” is an ambiguous theoretical concept because the word is used to represent both signifier and signified, both text and content…
“Search disclosure”: Understanding digital information platform preference and location in a health environment
David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Peter Williams, Barrie GunterThe authors propose a concept of “search disclosure” to assist in the understanding of the willingness of a user to moderate their digital information seeking behaviour as a…
Information and redundancy in the legend of Theseus
Julian WarnerThis paper considers an instance of non‐verbal graphic communication from the legend of Theseus, in terms of information theory. The efficient cause of a failure in communication…
“Sitation” distributions and Bradford's law in a closed Web space
Cristina Faba‐Pérez, V.P. Guerrero‐Bote, Félix Moya‐AnegónThe study looks at how well the distribution of “sitations” (inlinks received by Web spaces) fits either a power law (of the Lotka type) or a bibliometric distribution for printed…
Abstracting/abstract adaptation to digital environments: research trends
Maria PintoThe technological revolution is affecting the structure, form and content of documents, reducing the effectiveness of traditional abstracts that, to some extent, are inadequate to…
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