How a Personal Document's Intended Use or Purpose Affects its Classification in an Office.

Barbara H. Kwasnik: How a Personal Document's Intended Use or Purpose Affects its Classification in an Office. SIGIR 1989: 207-210

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/Kwasnik89,
  author    = {Barbara H. Kwasnik},
  editor    = {Nicholas J. Belkin and
               C. J. van Rijsbergen},
  title     = {How a Personal Document's Intended Use or Purpose Affects its
               Classification in an Office},
  booktitle = {SIGIR'89, 12th International Conference on Research and Development
               in Information Retrieval, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June
               25-28, 1989, Proceedings},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1989},
  isbn      = {0-89791-321-3},
  pages     = {207-210},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/Kwasnik89.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/89},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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This paper reports on one of the findings of a larger case study that attempts to describe how people organize documents in their own offices. In that study, several dimensions along which people make classificatory decisions were identified. Of these, the use to which a document is put emerged as a strong determiner of that document's classification. The method of analysis is reviewed, and examples of different kinds of uses are presented, demonstrating that it is possible to describe a wide variety of specific instances using a closed set of descriptors. The suggestion is made that, in designing systems for organizing materials, it might be advantageous to incorporate information about contextual variables, such as use, since these seem to be particularly important in classification decisions made within personal environments.

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Nicholas J. Belkin, C. J. van Rijsbergen (Eds.): SIGIR'89, 12th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 25-28, 1989, Proceedings. ACM 1989, ISBN 0-89791-321-3
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