Typing and Transformational Effects in Complex Information Supply

Information plays an increasingly important role in our lives. Often we retrieve this information by querying the Web: data resources found on the web may provide the information that we’re looking for. This implies that the Web may be seen as an information market: authors supply information and searchers may find it. In this article we present a formal framework for the syntactic aspects of the information market. We explore the information landscape using a modeling approach. An important part of this model is a (syntactic) framework for transformations, which allows us to deal with the heterogeneity of the data resources found on the Web. Last but not least we attempt to give an outline how our framework, which in essence focuses on the data resources on the Web, may lead to a better understanding of how information is supplied via the Web. For this we use an example from the field of information retrieval.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: IJCIS
• Authors: Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Proper, Patrick van Bommel, Theo P. van der Weide
• Keywords: Data Resources, IJCIS 2007, Important Role, Information