48. évfolyam, 2002. 4. szám		Archívum

Hungarian

The assessment of information as an ecological process 1.

BENEDIKTSSON Dániel

Könyvtári Figyelő (Library Review) New Series 12.  (Vol. 48.) No. 4. 2002. pp .667-684.

Information transfer is an essential part of communication that leads the user on to  recorded textual information. The study deals with the theoretical aspects of the effectiveness of information retrieval, and explains it by means of evaluating bibliographical  records. An evaluation matrix  can be formulated  as a result of the assessment of bibliographical records, taking the interaction of  users with their environment into account. Any unit  should  be considered as bibliographical if in the process of information retrieval followed by assessment the physically descriptive elements  of transfer are interpreted  as intellectual meaning. The nature of the bibliographical record is textual  as well as  intertextual. Index terms also have textuality, while intertextuality  means the relationship  between the various levels of the text, though the environmental (and background) knowledge  of the user-interpreter (also known as heuristics)  has to be considered as well. Textuality gives the essential contents of the bibliographical  record, but it has to meet formal criteria as well. Through  retrieval the user  does not access a  work  but its physical version  manifested in the form of a concrete text. Accordingly, anticipations  related to  the retrieval process must change. The user has epistemological  needs, and acquires interpretable  text units as the result of the retrieval process. The author analyses the relationship  between  form and  substance  as a prerequisite of the process of interpretation. Form is important because it makes possible  textual analysis  at the level of the bibliographical  record. The second part of the study  (to be published in the next issue) offers a detailed  analysis of the textual and  environmental  components of any record or unit which qualifies as bibliographical   and gives an evaluation of the process.

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