Nicholas J. Belkin
Curriculum vitae
Current appointment:
Professor (II) of Information Science
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071
email: nick@belkin.rutgers.edu
url: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~belkin/belkin.html
tel: +1 732 932 8585 fax: +1 732 932 6916
Education:
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Ph.D. |
University College, University of London |
1977 |
Information Studies |
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M.L.S. |
University of Washington (Seattle) |
1970 |
Library Science |
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B.A. |
University of Washington (Seattle) |
1968 |
Russian Language & Literature |
Employment and appointment history:
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7.02-6.05 |
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ School of Communication, Information & Library Studies |
Chair of the Department of Library and Information Science and Director of the Masters in Library and Information Science |
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7.99-6.02 |
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ School of Communication, Information & Library Studies |
Director of the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information & Library Studies |
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7.98-date |
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ School of Communication, Information & Library Studies |
Professor II, Information Science |
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7.96-date |
Graduate Program in Psychology, Rutgers NB |
Full Member |
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9.94-date |
Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science |
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4.94-1.95 |
Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore |
Visiting Scientist |
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9.86-date |
Graduate School, New Brunswick, Rutgers University |
Full Member, Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information & Library Studies |
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5.85-date |
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ School of Communication, Information & Library Studies |
Professor, Information Science |
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9.82-4.83 |
Free University, Berlin, Germany Faculty of Communication |
Senior Research Fellow |
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9.79-8.80 |
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada School of Library and Information Science |
Visiting Associate Professor, Information Science |
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The City University, London, England Department of Information Science |
Lecturer in Information Science, from 10.81, Senior Lecturer |
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2.75-7.75 |
Hatfield Polytechnic, Hatfield, England |
Temporary Lecturer, Linguistics |
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1.73-5.73 |
The Nature Conservancy, London, England |
Deputy Librarian |
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9.70-7.72 |
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington |
Slavic Exchange Librarian |
Awards and honors:
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Award of Merit, 2003
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, Croatia, May/June 2003
SCILS Excellence in Research Award, 2001.
Lucille Kelling Henderson Memorial Lecturer, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Award for Excellence in Research in Information Science, 1997.
ACM Recognition of Service Award, 1997, 1992, 1989.
ASIS Certificate of Recognition, 1997.
Fulbright Research and Lecturing Fellowship (University of Tampere, Finland); August - December 1996;
University of Washington Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association, Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1996.
SCILS Excellence in Research Award, 1996.
ASIS Certificate of Appreciation, 1991.
American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, 1990
Distinguished Research Seminar Speaker, OCLC, February 1988.
Honorable mention, ASIS Information Science Book of the Year Award (with A. Vickery), 1985.
ISI Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Information Science (with T. Seeger and G. Wersig), 1984.
Professional activities:
Leadership in professional
organizations:
Association for Computing Machinery, Member 1985-date
1998 – 2001, Chair, Steering Committee for the ACM Digital Libraries Conferences (since June 2000, the Steering Committee for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conferences on Digital Libraries), July 2001- June 2003, Member of the JCDL Steering Committee
1995-1999, Chair, Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
1991-1995, Vice-Chair, SIGIR
1987-1991, Secretary, SIGIR
American Society for Information Science, Member, 1970-date
2005, President
Technical Program Chair, 1991 Annual Meeting
1988-89, Chair, SIG on Human-Computer Interaction
1987-88, Chair-elect SIG on Human-Computer Interaction
Organization of Meetings:
Member of the Steering Committee for the European Conferences on Digital Libraries (continuing)
Program Committee, 2007 European Conference on Digital Libraries,
Program Committee, 2007 European Conference on Information Retrieval,
Program Co-Chair, 2006 Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2006), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2006.
Organizing Committee, SIGIR Workshop on Personal Information Management, Seattle, Washington, 2006.
Program Committee and Area Coordinator, 2005 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, 2005.
Organizing Committee, SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context, Salvador, Brazil, 2005.
Program Committee and Area Coordinator, 2004 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sheffield, UK, 2004.
Organizing Committee, SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context, Sheffield, UK, 2004.
Program Committee, 2004 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, AZ, 2004.
Program Committee, 2004 European Conference on Digital Libraries,
Program Committee and U.S. Liaison Chair, 2003 European Conference on Digital Libraries, Trondheim, Norway, 2003.
Program Chair, LIDA 2003, Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia, May-June 2003.
Program Committee, 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Houston, TX, 2003.
Program Committee, 2002 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, OR, 2002.
Program Committee and U.S. Liaison Chair, 2002 European Conference on Digital Libraries, Rome, 2002.
Program Committee and Area Coordinator, 2001 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, 2001
Program Committee, 2001 European Conference on Digital Libraries, Darmstadt, 2001.
Program Chair for the Americas, 2000 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Athens, 2000.
Program Committee, 2000 ACM Digital Libraries Conference, San Antonio, 2000.
Program Chair for Americas and Asia, 1997 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, 1997.
Program Committee, 1996 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ZŸrich, 1996.
Chair of the Organizing Committee for the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conferences on Digital Libraries, 1999 – 2002
Organizing Committee, ACM International Conferences on Digital Libraries, 1995-2000.
Program Committee, the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC), 1995 – date.
Program Committee, 1995 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, 1995.
Program Committee, 1994 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Dublin, 1994.
Program Committee, Workshop on Access to Digital Libraries, San Antonio, Texas 1994.
Program Committee, Digital Libraries Workshop, Rutgers University, 1994.
Program Chair for Americas and Asia, 1992 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Copenhagen, 1992.
Technical Program Chair, 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC., 1991.
Program Committee, 1991 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Chicago, 1991.
Program Chair, 1989 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Cambridge, MA, 1989.
Organizing Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems, Singapore, 1991.
Program Chair, SIG UOI Program for the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Atlanta, 1988.
Chair, Organizing and Program Committee, Workshop on Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems, Rutgers University, March 1987.
Program Committee and Organizing Committee, Sixth International Research Forum in Information Science, Frascati, 1985
Program Committee, Third Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science, Ris¿, Denmark, 1985.
Program Committee, Fifth International Research Forum in Information Science, Heidelberg, 1983
Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Western Ontario, 1979
Honorary Secretary, Organizing Committee, First International Research Forum in Information Science, London, 1975.
Editorial Boards:
9.98-date Associate Editor, Information Processing and Management
6.96-date Information Retrieval
1.90-1.94 Library Quarterly
1.87-12.94 Journal of Information Science
9.86-9.93 Ablex Communication and Information Science Series
1.85-date Information Processing and Management
1.83-1.97 Linguistic Calculation
Publications:
Books
Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. London, The British Library Board, 1985, 250 pp. Nicholas J. Belkin and Alina Vickery.
Chapters in books (other than conference proceedings)
Dumais, S.T. & Belkin, N.J. (2005) The TREC interactive tracks: Putting the user into search. In E.M. Voorhees & D.K. Harman (Eds.) TREC. Experiment and evaluation in information retrieval (pp. 123-152). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
BELKIN, N.J. (2005) Anomalous state of knowledge. In K.E. Fisher, S. Erdelez & E.F. McKechnie (Eds.) Theories of information behavior (pp.44-48). Medford, NJ: American Society for Information Science and Technology.
BELKIN, N.J. (1998) An overview of results from RutgersÕ investigations of interactive information retrieval. In: Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources, edited by P.A. Cochrane and E.H. Johnson. Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 45-62.
BELKIN, N.J., ODDY, R.N. & BROOKS, H.M. (1997) ASK for information retrieval. Part I: Background and theory. In: Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997: 299-304.
A reprint of: BELKIN, N.J., ODDY, R.N. & BROOKS, H.M. (1982) ASK for information retrieval. Part I: Background and theory. Journal of Documentation, vol. 38, nos. 2: 61-71.
DANIELS, P.J., BROOKS, H.M. & BELKIN, N.J. (1997) Using problem structures for driving human-computer dialogues. In: Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997: 135-142.
A reprint of: DANIELS, P.J., BROOKS, H.M. & BELKIN, N.J. (1985) Using problem structures for driving human-computer dialogues. In: RIAO '85, Actes of the Conference: Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur, Grenoble, 1985. Grenoble, I.M.A.G.: 645-660 (refereed conference proceeding).
BELKIN, N.J. (1994) Design principles for electronic textual resources: investigating users and uses of scholarly information. In: Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honor of Don Walker, edited by Antonio Zampolli, Nicoletta Calzolari, Martha Palmer (Linguistica Computazionale, v. IX-X). Pisa, Giardini, 1994: 479-488.
BELKIN, N.J. (1993) Understanding and supporting human information seeking. In: Intelligent information retrieval: the case of astronomy and related space sciences, A. Heck & F. Murtaugh, eds. Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1993: 9-20.
BELKIN, N.J., BROOKS, H.M. & DANIELS, P.J. (1988) Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis. In: Knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, edited by B.R. Gaines & J.H. Boose (Knowledge-Based Systems, volume 1). London, Academic Press, 1988: 107-124.
A reprint of: BELKIN, N.J., BROOKS, H.M. & DANIELS, P.J. (1987) Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, vol. 27: 127-144
BELKIN, N.J. & CROFT, W.B. (1987) Retrieval techniques. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 22: 109-146 .
BELKIN, N.J. (1987) User/intermediary interaction analysis: a foundation for designing intelligent information systems. In J. Varlejs, ed. Information seeking: basing services on users' behaviors. North Carolina, McFarland, 1987: 327-330.
BELKIN, N.J. (1981) Ineffable concepts in information retrieval. In: Information retrieval experiment, K. Sparck Jones, ed. London, Butterworths: 44-58.
YATES, B, revised by N.J. BELKIN (1979) Some less conventional means of obtaining information. In: The use of the chemical literature, 3rd edition, R.T. Bottle, ed. London, Butterworths, 1979: 236-250.
BELKIN, N.J. (1975) The concept of information in informatics. In: Problems of Information Science (FID 530). Moscow, VINITI, 1975: 74-89.
TAYLOR, A.R., COOL, C., BELKIN, N.J., & AMADIO, W.J. (2007) Relationships between categories of relevance criteria and stage in task completion. Information Processing & Management, (in press).
MURDOCK, V., KELLY, D., CROFT, W. B., BELKIN, N. J., & YUAN, X.-J. (2007). Identifying and answering procedural questions. Information Processing & Management 43(1), 181-203.
LIN, S.-J. & BELKIN, N.J. (2005) Validation of a model of information seeking over multiple search sessions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v. 56, no. 4: 393-415.
BELKIN, N.J., COOL, C., KELLY, D., LIN, S.-J., PARK, S.Y., PEREZ-CARBALLO, J., SIKORA, C. (2001) Iterative exploration, design and evaluation of support for query reformulation in interactive information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, v. 37, no. 3: 403-434.
BELKIN, N.J. (2000) Helping people find what they don't know. Communications of the ACM, vol. 43, no. 8: 58-61.
SAVAGE-KNEPSHIELD, P.A. & BELKIN, N.J. (1999) Interaction in information retrieval: trends over time. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 50, no. 12: 1067-1082.
BELKIN, N.J., COOL, C., STEIN, A. & THIEL, U. (1995) Cases, scripts, and information seeking strategies: on the design of interactive information retrieval systems. Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 9 (1995): 379-395 .
BELKIN, N.J., KANTOR, P., FOX, E.A. & SHAW, J. (1995) Combining queries for information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, vol. 31: 431-448.
BELKIN, N.J., MARCHETTI, P.G. & COOL, C. (1993) BRAQUE: Design of an interface to support user interaction in information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, vol. 29: 325-344 .
BELKIN, N.J. & CROFT, W.B. (1992) Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin? Communications of the ACM, vol. 35, no. 12: 29-38.
BELKIN, N.J., MARCHETTI, P.G., ALBRECHT, M., FUSCO, L., SKOGVOLD, S., STOKKE, H. & TROINA, G.. (1990) User interfaces for information systems. ESA Journal, vol. 14: 325-342; also in Journal of Information Science, vol. 17: 327-344.
BELKIN, N.J. (1990) The cognitive viewpoint in information science. Journal of Information Science, vol. 16: 11-15.
ANDERSON, J.D., BELKIN, N.J., LEDERMAN, L.C. & SARACEVIC, T. (1988) Information science at Rutgers: establishing new interdisciplinary connections. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 39: 327-330.
BELKIN, N.J., BROOKS, H.M. & DANIELS, P.J. (1987) Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, vol. 27: 127-144.
Reprinted in: Knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, edited by B.R. Gaines & J.H. Boose (Knowledge-Based Systems, volume 1). London, Academic Press, 1988: 107-124.