Digital Libraries - Information Retrieval

The field of Information Storage and Retrieval deals with the study of all aspects of information, and so provides a foundation for building digital libraries, as well as key technologies for networked information. Various models allow developers to build information systems and users to have a conceptual framework for searching, browsing, and other operations.

• Functional and Topical Views
• Boolean Model
• PAT Model
  • PAT and PAT trees
  • Algorithms on PAT trees
• Vector Space Model
• Automatic Indexing
• Clustering

For more information see:

• ACM SIGIR Information Server
• Information Retrieval, 2nd ed., C.J. Van Rijsbergen, hypertext version