Opening the icebox of relevance
Still pondering the many facets of relevance, and came across this notion from the SEO Theory blog that, regardless of whatever the future of the so-called “semantic web” may be, it’s likely that what we might well consider “next-generation relevance” will involve household appliances. Love the implications for defining relevance criteria. Perhaps Cuadra’s and Katter’s “black box of relevance” should be renamed the “icebox of relevance”?
(It’s also quite interesting that so-called “SEO theory” defines itself without any reference to much previous relevance-related IR research: talk about Swanson’s concept of “undiscovered public knowledge”!)
Advertisement
Categories: theorywatch
relevance
