Analysis on Exploratory Factor of Relevance Criteria in Collaborative Information Seeking & Retrieval

  • Tong Ying ,
  • Li Peng ,
  • Xia Hui
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  • College of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715

Received date: 2013-08-30

  Revised date: 2013-09-18

  Online published: 2013-10-05

Abstract

The relevance criteria scale about collaborative information seeking and retrieval is given based on the cases study and early research achievements. The data on relevance judgment about it are collected with the questionnaire, which are completed by students of university and institute. Some exploratory statistical techniques, such as critical value comparison, internal consistence comparison, means comparison, and factor analysis, are applied to carry out quantitative analysis. Composed of 34 items in the relevance criteria scale, eight conceptual catalogues of collaborative relevance criteria are identified, which are information source characteristics, information content usefulness, information index characteristics, information representation pattern, information quality, accessibility, information structure characteristics and information dissemination characteristics. But in terms of eight conceptual catalogues, probably 60% variation of variance can be interpreted, which means that the collaborative relevance criteria in the scale are not the sole basis to judge relevance and there are other factors to influence the collaborative relevance judgment.

Cite this article

Tong Ying , Li Peng , Xia Hui . Analysis on Exploratory Factor of Relevance Criteria in Collaborative Information Seeking & Retrieval[J]. Library and Information Service, 2013 , 57(19) : 30 -36 . DOI: 10.7536/j.issn.0252-3116.2013.19.004

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