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What is Document

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
An element of web resources that have a distinct web address. Images, PDF documents, embedded video, and cascading style sheets (CSS) are examples of a document.
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Web Archiving
Trevor Alvord (Brigham Young University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch757
Abstract
Web Archiving is an emerging and growing field in Information Science and Technology; not even out of its second decade yet playing a critical role in the documentation and preservation of the human experience portrayed on the Internet. With an estimated 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute and over 300 million images added to Facebook daily the Internet has by far become the preferred method for documenting ones life; traditional mediums such as journals and scrapbooks have given way to blogs and Flickr accounts. This article explores the history, issues—such as appraisal, metadata, and copyright—uses, and the developing lexicon of web archiving while examining current tools and services available in the field.
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Retrieving Non-Latin Information in a Latin Web: The Case of Greek
A unit of retrieval. It might be a paragraph, a section, an article, a chapter, a Web page or a whole book.
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Exploitation of Public Sector Information in Europe
(a) any content whatever its medium (written on paper or stored in electronic form or as a sound, visual or audiovisual recording, and; (b) any part of such content.
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Categorizing Blogs as Information Sources for Libraries and Information Science
An information bearing object containing written, electronic or printed text. Information that such an object usually contains or bears include facts and/or statements, in which facts include names, numbers, statements and events, while statements can be factual, opinionated or subjective.
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Some Efficient and Fast Approaches to Document Clustering
A sequence of words. When each word is seen as a feature and frequency of the word as the feature value, a document can be represented as a vector of frequencies which can be seen as a pattern (see the definition of pattern below).
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