‘This could be our reality in the next five to ten years’: a blogpost platform as an expectation generation device on the future of insurance markets     

Gert Meyers  Ine Van Hoyweghen 《Journal of Cultural Economy》2018,11(2):125-140

William James (1919) characterises hypotheses as either live or dead. A hypothesis is live when it is taken into account as a ‘real possibility’. We follow James’ suggestion to not attribute intrinsic properties to hypotheses, but rather investigate how they came into being and look at the effects they generate. Expectations of digital technologies are a topic of vivid debate in the insurance industry. Before these expectations can become ‘live’, they have, in the first place, to be generated by market devices. We investigate how the reinsurance blogpost platform Open Minds functions as an ‘expectation generation device’ on the future of insurance markets. Combining Beckert’s work on the role of fictional expectations with the pragmatist turn in sociology of markets, we propose to study ‘expectation generation devices’, provoking expectations on economic markets. In our empirical analysis, we demonstrate the explicit fictional character of the Open Minds contributions, and analyse how a contained space of openness is generated to provoke expectations. We demonstrate how Open Minds can become live through circulation to other expectation generation sites in the insurance industry and beyond. We conclude by reflecting on the importance of expectation generation devices as a particular type of market devices.  相似文献   

跨语言综合搜索引擎设计   总被引：14，自引：1，他引：13  

黄国才 《现代图书情报技术》2001,17(4):31-33

分析了当前网络上信息分布的特点, 对目前相关的技术进行评价。在此基础上, 设计了一个解决网络搜索过程中语言障碍的系统——跨语言综合搜索引擎。  相似文献   

目录及其在分布式主题网关中的应用   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

张智雄 《现代图书情报技术》2003,(5):41-44,88

介绍了目录的基本概念，分析了LDAP、WHOIS 、CIP目录协议的主要特点，研究了国外主要的主题网关项目(ISAAC、ROADS、DESIRE、Imesh ToolKit)中目录协议的应用情况，指出目录协议在分布式索引、查询路由中起着的重要作用。  相似文献   

视频数据库及其应用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

梁雯 《现代图书情报技术》2002,18(6):64-65

视频数据库是多媒体数据库研究的继承和深入。本文阐述了视频数据库研究的主要问题，介绍了视频数据库系统的发展，并通过Hampapur提出的视频数据库的框架，旨在向读者展示视频数据库的优越性以及在各方面的应用。  相似文献   

数字时代的信息与知识组织研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

柯平 《中国图书馆学报》2008,(3)

扫描2007年度国外图书馆学研究进展,针对图书馆学理论、信息资源建设、信息与知识组织、用户研究、图书馆伦理与法律、图书馆管理思想与模式、开放获取、数字图书馆技术等8个方面的研究进行述评。  相似文献   

The role of metadata in the creation and application of information resources on the properties of substances and materials     

A. O. Yerkimbaev  V. Yu. Zitserman  G. A. Kobzev 《Scientific and Technical Information Processing》2008,35(6):247-255

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数字图书馆包装层生成技术研究     

张付志  肖阳 《中国图书馆学报》2006,32(4)

包装层是对应于特定信息源的一种特殊程序,是实现异构信息源集成的关键。数字图书馆的包装层可以作为数字图书馆的智能前端代理,负责把来自中介层的统一查询表示映射为针对具体数字图书馆的查询格式,并从得到的查询结果中提取出用户需要的信息,提交给中介层。数字图书馆包装层生成的关键技术主要有:查询映射机制,查询服务调用机制,结果提取与转换机制。图6。参考文献5。  相似文献   

Two-stage statistical language models for text database selection   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Hui Yang  Minjie Zhang 《Information Retrieval》2006,9(1):5-31

As the number and diversity of distributed Web databases on the Internet exponentially increase, it is difficult for user to know which databases are appropriate to search. Given database language models that describe the content of each database, database selection services can provide assistance in locating databases relevant to the information needs of users. In this paper, we propose a database selection approach based on statistical language modeling. The basic idea behind the approach is that, for databases that are categorized into a topic hierarchy, individual language models are estimated at different search stages, and then the databases are ranked by the similarity to the query according to the estimated language model. Two-stage smoothed language models are presented to circumvent inaccuracy due to word sparseness. Experimental results demonstrate that such a language modeling approach is competitive with current state-of-the-art database selection approaches.  相似文献   

The use of information and communication technologies in public libraries in South Africa as tools for bridging the digital divide: the case of the Kempton Park public library     

Mamathole Margaret Lediga 《Public Library Quarterly》2018,37(3):296-305

ABSTRACT

The information and knowledge society has resulted in the exponential growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs), thus creating a gap between those who use ICTs and those who do not; hence the emergence of the term “digital divide” in the 1990s. One of the milestones of South Africa’s National Development Plan, a policy that charts the country’s development up until 2030, is to ensure that high-speed broadband internet is universally available at competitive prices. Notwithstanding the importance of ICTs in public libraries, the provision of such is still taking place on a limited scale in South Africa. This article investigates the use of ICTs in public libraries in South Africa as a tool in bridging the digital divide. It also examines the inequalities in access and use and suggests ways in which ICTs may be used to reduce the digital divide. A qualitative research methodology was adopted. In order for public libraries to function as an important tool in bridging the digital divide, there is a need to standardize the provision of public library services with regard to the digital divide.  相似文献   

Applying a Software Development Product Cycle to Library Technology Adoption and Development     

Laura Costello 《图书馆管理杂志》2018,58(4):334-345

Product cycles have long been used in software development, but libraries can also benefit from a structured product life cycle to help manage technology development and acquisition. This article outlines a proposed product cycle for library technology management with information on implementing each step of the cycle. It will also include information for librarians assessing the success of structured technology management.  相似文献