In this thesis, the improvement to relevance in computerized search results is studied. Information search tools return ranked lists of documents ordered by the relevance of the documents to the user supplied search. Using a small number of words and phrases to represent complex ideas and concepts causes user search queries to be information sparse. This sparsity challenges search tools to locate relevant documents for users. A review of the challenges to information searches helps to identify the problems and offer suggestions in improving current information search tools. Using the suggestions put forth by the Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL), a composite scoring approach (Composite Scorer) is developed. The Composite Scorer considers various aspects of information needs to improve the ranked results of search by returning records relevant to the user’s information need. The Florida Fusion Center (FFC), a local law enforcement agency has a need for a more effective information search tool. Daily, the agency processes large amounts of police reports typically written as text documents. Current information search methods require inordinate amounts of time and skill to identify relevant police reports from their large collection of police reports. An experiment conducted by FFC investigators contrasted the composite scoring approach against a common search scoring approach (TF/IDF). In the experiment, police investigators used a custom-built software interface to conduct several use case scenarios for searching for related documents to various criminal investigations. Those expert users then evaluated the results of the top ten ranked documents returned from both search scorers to measure the relevance to the user of the returned documents. The evaluations were collected and measurements used to evaluate the performance of the two scorers. A search with many irrelevant documents has a cost to the users in both time and potentially in unsolved crimes. A cost function contrasted the difference in cost between the two scoring methods for the use cases. Mean Average Precision (MAP) is a common method used to evaluate the performance of ranked list search results. MAP was computed for both scoring methods to provide a numeric value representing the accuracy of each scorer at returning relevant documents in the top-ten documents of a ranked list of search results. The purpose of this study is to determine if a composite scoring approach to ranked lists, that considers multiple aspects of a user’s search, can improve the quality of search, returning greater numbers of relevant documents during an information search. This research contributes to the understanding of composite scoring methods to improve search results. Understanding the value of composite scoring methods allows researchers to evaluate, explore and possibly extend the approach, incorporating other information aspects such as word and document meaning.

Ce mémoire adopte une perspective archivistique afin d'examiner l'art de Robert Rauschenberg, un artiste américain ayant fait ses débuts sur la scène artistique new-yorkaise des années soixante. Il est pertinent de voir les stratégies d’appropriation des artistes des années soixante, dont faisait partie Rauschenberg, comme ayant « mis la table » pour le mouvement des artistes allant puiser dans les archives pour leur pratique artistique, mouvement qui s'est développé depuis la fin des années quatre-vingt et le début des années quatre-vingt-dix. L'ensemble des rapports de l'artiste avec les archives est d'abord étudié. Ensuite, une lecture archivistique d'un corpus d'oeuvres est réalisée afin de mieux comprendre les particularités de l'utilisation des archives par Rauschenberg. Les conditions d'utilisation des archives sont relevées ainsi que la conception des archives comme mémoire, pour se terminer avec les rapports entre les archives et la photographie. / This thesis takes an archival perspective in order to examine the work of Robert Rauschenberg, an American artist who gained notoriety in the New-York art scene of the sixties. It is relevant to see appropriation art strategies by artists like Rauschenberg as a way of having « set up the table » for the archival art movement that would follow, starting in the late eighties and early nineties. The artist's connexions with the archives are first studied. Then, an archival reading of a corpus of his artworks is conducted in order to learn about his particular use of the archives. The conditions of use are raised, along with the conception of archives as memory and, at last, the relationship between archives and photography.

Imaginando proyecto, creado por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid proporciona unacomprensión de los términos de la asociación de las imágenes y el contenido del mensaje. Este trabajopresenta los conceptos del campo de la informática, se centra en la terminología archivística, dondelos conceptos de la colección de archivos, el contexto, el contenido, el título original, organicidad eestandarización son representados por imágenes producidas durante el curso del Programa de la fotografía de Colecciones Licenciado en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad de Brasilia (UNB), con el apoyo de la enseñanza desarrollada en España. El ejercicio proporcionó una discusiónen profundidad de los conceptos asociados con el tratamiento de los documentos fotográficos dearchivo diferente y la asimilación de estos conceptos por los estudiantes que participan en el proyecto. / O projeto Imaginando, criado na Universidad Complutense de Madrid proporciona acompreensão de termos através da associação de conteúdo e mensagem imagética. O presentetrabalho apresenta conceitos da área da Ciência da Informação, com foco nas terminologias arquivísticas, onde os conceitos de arquivo, coleção, contexto, conteúdo, original, titularidade,organicidade e normatização são representados por imagens produzidas durante o curso de AcervosFotográficos do Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ciência da Informação da Universidade de Brasília(UnB), com apoio da didática desenvolvida na Espanha. O exercício proporcionou a discussãoaprofundada dos conceitos associados ao tratamento de documentos fotográficos de arquivo e aassimilação diferenciada desses conceitos por parte dos alunos participantes do projeto. / Imagining Project, created at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid provides anunderstanding of terms by associating imagery content and message. This work presents conceptsfrom the field of information science, focusing on the archival terminology, where the concepts of file collection, context, content, original title, organicity and standardization are represented by imagesproduced during the course of Photograph Collections Program Graduate in Information Science fromthe University of Brasilia (UNB), with the support of developed teaching in Spain. The exerciseprovided an in‐depth discussion of the concepts associated with the treatment of photographicdocuments of different file and assimilation of these concepts by students participating in the project.

Orientador: Edberto Ferneda / Banca: Telma Campanha de Carvalho Mádio / Banca: Maria Elisabete Catarino / Resumo: O presente trabalho desenvolve um diálogo entre a Ciência da Informação, Arquivologia e Tecnologia da Informação visando apresentar os benefícios que as linguagens de marcação podem trazer à gestão de documentos arquivísticos por meio da representação de ferramentas de classificação e a preservação de documentos digitais. A arquivologia visa ao tratamento da informação orgânica por meio do tratamento dado aos documentos de arquivo, que são produzidos por um indivíduo ou instituição no exercício de suas atribuições. Tais documentos são submetidos a dois grupos de usuário, cujo comportamento informacional está ligado ao uso do valor primário, de caráter administrativo, na fase corrente e intermediária e, posteriormente, ao valor secundário, de caráter informativo, na fase da guarda permanente. Este trabalho busca trazer um delineamento no conjunto de metadados necessários à representação do conteúdo, contexto e estrutura documentais voltadas às necessidades dos usuários. São apresentadas, na sequência, as linguagens de marcação e as modelagens da web semântica como estruturas para a representação de metadados. Uma vez delineadas estas questões, o estudo direciona-se ao comportamento informacional dos usuários da fase corrente e sua forma de interação com a informação orgânica. Apresenta o programa de gestão documental e todo o processo metodológico envolto em sua consolidação, seguido de uma explanação em torno da produção de ferramentas de classificação documental que promovem o controle de vocabulário na gestão de documentos, a saber, Plano de Classificação e Tesauro de Função Australiano. Estas ferramentas se complementam e permitem confiabilidade e precisão na recuperação da informação orgânica em todas as fases da gestão de documentos. Elas possibilitam, ainda, a representação do contexto de produção... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This Project develops a dialogue among the Information Science, Archival Science and Information of Technology to show the benefits that markup language can bring to the management of archival documents trough the representation of classification tools and the preservation of digital records. The main objective of Archival science is the treatment of business information, through the treatment given to the records, which are produced by an individual or institution in the performance of their duties. Such documents are submitted to two user groups, whose behavior is linked to the informational use of the primary value of an administrative nature, in the current phase and intermediate and then the secondary value of its information, at the stage of permanent custody. This Project seeks to bring in a design set of metadata required for the representation of content, context and structure documentary directed to the needs of users. They will be presented in sequence, markup languages and the modeling of the semantic web as structures for the representation of metadata. After that the study will move into the users' information behavior on the current phase and its interaction with the form of organic information. It displays the document management program and all the methodological process on its consolidation, followed by an explanation surrounding the production of documentary classification tools that promote vocabulary control in the management of documents, namely, Classification Plan and Australian Function's Thesaurus. These tools are complementary and provide reliability and accuracy in information retrieval organic in all stages of document management. They also allow the representation of the context of document production to be analyzed by users of the phase of the standing guard. Then we will present the XML markup languages and modeling in RDF, RDFS and... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-09-06Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:10:42Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gama_fa_me_mar.pdf: 1326804 bytes, checksum: 9af366feed4f50662439b928d3548f83 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente trabalho desenvolve um diálogo entre a Ciência da Informação, Arquivologia e Tecnologia da Informação visando apresentar os benefícios que as linguagens de marcação podem trazer à gestão de documentos arquivísticos por meio da representação de ferramentas de classificação e a preservação de documentos digitais. A arquivologia visa ao tratamento da informação orgânica por meio do tratamento dado aos documentos de arquivo, que são produzidos por um indivíduo ou instituição no exercício de suas atribuições. Tais documentos são submetidos a dois grupos de usuário, cujo comportamento informacional está ligado ao uso do valor primário, de caráter administrativo, na fase corrente e intermediária e, posteriormente, ao valor secundário, de caráter informativo, na fase da guarda permanente. Este trabalho busca trazer um delineamento no conjunto de metadados necessários à representação do conteúdo, contexto e estrutura documentais voltadas às necessidades dos usuários. São apresentadas, na sequência, as linguagens de marcação e as modelagens da web semântica como estruturas para a representação de metadados. Uma vez delineadas estas questões, o estudo direciona-se ao comportamento informacional dos usuários da fase corrente e sua forma de interação com a informação orgânica. Apresenta o programa de gestão documental e todo o processo metodológico envolto em sua consolidação, seguido de uma explanação em torno da produção de ferramentas de classificação documental que promovem o controle de vocabulário na gestão de documentos, a saber, Plano de Classificação e Tesauro de Função Australiano. Estas ferramentas se complementam e permitem confiabilidade e precisão na recuperação da informação orgânica em todas as fases da gestão de documentos. Elas possibilitam, ainda, a representação do contexto de produção... / This Project develops a dialogue among the Information Science, Archival Science and Information of Technology to show the benefits that markup language can bring to the management of archival documents trough the representation of classification tools and the preservation of digital records. The main objective of Archival science is the treatment of business information, through the treatment given to the records, which are produced by an individual or institution in the performance of their duties. Such documents are submitted to two user groups, whose behavior is linked to the informational use of the primary value of an administrative nature, in the current phase and intermediate and then the secondary value of its information, at the stage of permanent custody. This Project seeks to bring in a design set of metadata required for the representation of content, context and structure documentary directed to the needs of users. They will be presented in sequence, markup languages and the modeling of the semantic web as structures for the representation of metadata. After that the study will move into the users’ information behavior on the current phase and its interaction with the form of organic information. It displays the document management program and all the methodological process on its consolidation, followed by an explanation surrounding the production of documentary classification tools that promote vocabulary control in the management of documents, namely, Classification Plan and Australian Function’s Thesaurus. These tools are complementary and provide reliability and accuracy in information retrieval organic in all stages of document management. They also allow the representation of the context of document production to be analyzed by users of the phase of the standing guard. Then we will present the XML markup languages and modeling in RDF, RDFS and... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Este trabalho apresenta um catálogo da produção coreográfica do Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, de 1968 até 2007, indicando quais fontes documentais podem ser encontradas no arquivo da companhia. Baseado na abordagem funcional para a classificação dos documentos, o catálogo, ainda que não exaustivo, oferece uma visão da instituição como um todo e indica quais atividades foram, ou não, documentadas no processo de encenação de espetáculos. Além de constituir um instrumento para a pesquisa, este trabalho oferece uma proposta de como preservar a memória coreográfica. / The archives of the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo offer a panoramic vision of its institutional life, since 1968 till 2007. In spite of the lacks we observe in several series of records, it is possible to describe them and elaborate a finding aid where the essential characteristics of the whole are indicated, under a functional approach. Besides its role as a guide to researchers, this work also intends to offer an example of how to preserve our choreographic memory.

This study examines uses of the records continuum model and related continuum concepts and ideas within the broader field of archival research. By analysing the different ways researchers understand and use the model and related concepts the study aims to contribute new knowledge regarding the records continuum model and its roles in contemporary archival science. The study is a literature review within a qualitative, interpretative paradigm. The review method shares some traits with a systematic literature review through systematicity in the search process and the procedure of selecting articles for the study. These were delimited to English written, peer reviewed, archival science articles published 2005-2018 which use the records continuum model (RCM) in their own studies. Systematicity is also present in analysis through a set of questions that seek to link the research goals within the studies with the purposes of using the RCM and the perceived value of its application. This combination of questions offers a method to get hold of some of the functions and roles of the RCM in archival science. An analysis of the research goals within the articles revealed societal as well as theoretical/methodological goals. Different uses of the RCM were further explored – by analysing motives for including the RCM and related concepts as well as the authors descriptions of their application. The identified goals and an interpretation of the ways the RCM and related ideas were used were then connected, and further interpreted with the help of a theoretical framework consisting of (1) the abilities of theoretical frameworks (according to Anfara 2008), (2) a typology of theories in Information Systems studies (according to Gregor 2006) and (3) the purposes of modelling in science (according to Hofman 2017). The results enabled a discussion on the roles of the RCM in archival research. The study is of value since it identifies the goals within some RCM research and connects these goals with the purposes of using the RCM and related ideas, which might support a continuing discussion on the roles of the RCM in archival science. The study further has a merit in providing a survey of the RCM in contemporary research through a perspective “from without”. This perspective is arrived at partly by including studies from both continuum researchers in the know, as well as from individual researchers of different proximity to continuum thinking and the RCM as a theoretical model; partly by the fact that the author is not a researcher within a community of continuum thinkers or researchers. This is a two years master’s thesis in Archival Science.

This study is about information and materiality, more specifically how the different material manifestations of information affects the archivists in the Swedish Court archives. The primary focus is on how materiality affects archivists work with physical and digital information and how materiality affects the archivists themselves. This study uses interviews with archivists within the Swedish court archives as its primary source for analysis. By using primarily Actor-Network Theory and Discourse-theory alongside other scientific texts this study has shown in what ways materiality affects the daily work of archivists and their self-image. This study is relevant in many ways but primarily because there is little to none research of this kind that focuses on the court archives and as a result of that this study is relevant in the way it illustrates the importance and possibilities court archives for a dedicated scholar within archival science and other areas of information science. The results are as follows: materiality have many different ways of affecting the archivists and it does so on many different levels. With the focus on digital and physical information this study has come to the conclusion that materiality is an important aspect that cannot be overlooked. It affects how archivists work, how they think and how they practically handle physical and digital information.

This thesis is the result of two years of study in archival science at the Department of ABM (archive, library, museum) at Uppsala University, Sweden. The purpose of the thesis is to highlight community archives, specifically how the community archive "Archive for the Unexplained" in Norrköping operates as a community archive and handles received documents and records of ufo-reports from UFO-Sweden. Our focus has been to study record- keeping and how the documents are made available to promote the possibility of transparency, research, and ar- chival retrieval. The analysis is divided into two parts: the archive and its internal archival structure, as well as the records. The analysis of the archival structure is focused on how the archive operates as a community archive based on the theory of Terry Cook's four paradigms, which aims to show how archives have gone from closed archives to open places for knowledge. The results of this thesis show how the Archive for the Unexplained as a community archive in contrasts to archives that operate in the official authority and fulfill a vital role in the paranormal field and how its material is primarily used for investigating Unexplained phenomena while it is providing a creative space for a narrative of a fictional and folkloristic nature. This is a two years master's thesis in Archival science.

I vårt gemensamma samhälle anses volontärarbete ofta vara något speciellt, något som man kan ha eller inte ha. Denna missuppfattning beror delvis på bristande kunskap och intresse för denna typ av aktivitet. Men trots detta har volontärarbete alltid varit och kommer att förbli en central del av samhällets utveckling och funktion. I praktiken ser vi att den vanligaste formen av ideellt arbete är förmågan hos människor att organisera sig på lokal nivå (vanligtvis i en förening) för att lösa specifika lokala problem. Det civila samhället har alltid olika ideella organisationer. Ett sådant samarbete kan göra vad ingen annan kan. Ideella styrkor kan göra vad regeringen eller företagen inte kan (inte vill). Medborgarna kan spela en viktig roll för att hjälpa offren i olika krissituationer och kan också vara ovärderliga för myndigheterna.  Men volontärernas arbete är inte alltid väl dokumenterat. För att få en fullständig bild av alla deltagare och deras engagemang i nödsituationer måste registerhantering ta hänsyn till dess mångfald. ISO 15489–1:2016, en internationell standard för dokumenthantering, beskriver att systematisk dokumenthantering är viktig för både organisationer och samhälle för att skydda och upprätthålla tillförlitliga register, främst som bevis för att åtgärder har genomförts och för det andra som stöd för framtida åtgärder och lösningar.  Denna studie undersöker frågor relaterade till ett så ganska problematisk fråga i ideella organisationers lösning av en krissituation som att dokumentera deras medlemmars/deltagares arbete. Med hjälp av två ideella organisationer (Missing People Sweden och Svenska Röda Korset) granskas och analyseras de åtgärder som vidtas av organisationer för att lösa detta problem - hur man ska dokumentera volontärernas arbete, hur denna dokumentation kommer att sparas/ arkiveras för användning i framtiden. Intervjuer genomfördes med de studerande organisationerna, som låg till grund för slutsatser om den aktuella situationen. Dokumentteori och Records continuum modell togs som en teoretisk grund för uppsatsen. Som forskningsmetod används en instrumental fallstudie, baserad på studier av tillgänglig litteratur och vetenskaplig forskning och genomförande av kvalitativa intervjuer. Den diskuteras också hur organisationer som helhet hanterar frågan om information- och dokumenthantering i sina organisationer.  Studien visar att båda undersökta organisationerna dokumenterar medlemmarnas/deltagarnas arbete som återspeglar denna aktivitet i slutrapporterna om det utförda arbetet. All denna dokumentation förvaras vanligtvis endast i elektronisk form och bevaras/arkiveras på servrar. När det gäller frågan om dokumenthantering i allmänhet har organisationer helt olika tillvägagångssätt för denna fråga. / In our society, volunteering is often considered something special, something that one simply does or does not. This misconception is partly due to a lack of knowledge and interest in this type of activity. Nevertheless, volunteering has always been and will remain a central part of the development and functioning of society. In practice, we see that the most common form of non-profit work is the ability of people to organize at the local level (usually in an association) to solve specific local problems. Civil society always has different non-profit organizations. Nonprofit forces can do what the government or corporations cannot (do not want). Citizens can play an important role in helping victims in various crisis situations and can also be of great help to the authorities.  But the volunteers work is not always well documented. To get a complete picture of all participants and their involvement in emergencies, registry management must consider its diversity. ISO 15489-1:2016, an international standard for document management, describes that systematic document management is important for both organizations and society in protecting and maintaining reliable records, primarily as evidence that actions have been implemented and, secondly, to support future actions and solutions.  This study examines issues related to such a rather problematic moment in nonprofits resolution of a crisis as documenting the work of their members/participants. With the help of two non-profit organizations (Missing People Sweden and Swedish Red Cross), the measures taken by organizations to solve this problem are considered and analyzed - how to document the work of volunteers, how this documentation will be saved/ archived for future use. Interviews were conducted with the organizations, which formed the basis for conclusions on the current situation. Document theory and the Records continuum model were taken as a theoretical basis for the thesis. An instrumental case study is used as a research method, based on studies of available literature and scientific research, and conducting qualitative interviews. It also discusses how organizations as a whole handle the issue of information and document management in their organizations.  As the study shows, both organizations document the work of the members/participants that reflects this activity in the final reports on the work performed. All this documentation is usually stored only in electronic form and stored/archived on servers. On the issue of document management in general, organizations have completely different approaches to this issue.