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This is the fifth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analysing research in areas such as computer science, information science and library science. CoLIS examines the historical, theoretical, empirical and technical issues relating to our understanding and use of information, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to research.
CoLIS 5 seeks to provide a broad platform for the examination of context as it relates to our theoretical, empirical and technical development of information-centred disciplines.
CoLIS 2 was held at the Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark.
CoLIS 3 was held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (IUC), Croatia.
CoLIS 4 was held at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
CoLIS 5 will be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
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Theme for CoLIS 5
The theme for CoLIS 5 will be the nature, impact and role of context within information-centred research. Context is a complex, dynamic, and multi-dimensional concept that influences both humans and machines: how they behave individually and how they interact with each other. In CoLIS 5 we will take an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of context to help us understand define the theoretical approaches to modelling and understanding context, to incorporate contextual reasoning within technology and to develop a shared framework for promoting the exploration of context.
Contributions are invited that address issues such: the relationship between context and information, investigations of context in information seeking environments, models of context and relevance,
contextual issues in interactive information retrieval, contextual evaluations of information technologies, technical solutions to modelling context, context aware technologies for information access.
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