This area encompasses perspectives that share a primary focus on technological problems of information organization, retrieval, measurement, and communication. Current research activities include:
- Webometrics and informetrics
- Information retrieval
- Computer-mediated LIS pedagogy
- Knowledge management
- Communication technologies
- Human-computer interface design
- Information design and architecture
- Information taxonomic systems
- Classification of information
- Computer assisted abstracting and indexing
- Web document descriptions and metadata
- Natural language processing
- Web data mining
- Multilingual classification transfer
Although research and teaching specializations may belong to both areas, the following faculty members work primarily in this area:
Ajiferuke, Burkell, Campbell, Neal, Rubin, Sedig, Vaughan, Xiao.
In considering potential chief supervisors, students should be careful to determine that the faculty member of choice has the appropriate supervisory status.
Updated 07/06/2009