CISWeb 2008

Information Retrieval, especially in connection with the internet, is a well known research field. But as the technologies used for the internet become more and more elaborate, so grows the need to not only find (retrieve) already available information, but to generate knowledge. In this paper the emergence of collective intelligence from information retrieval and social network analysis will be presented. The main point will be how information gained from e.g. websites can be enhanced to become knowledge using methods and models from the research field of Social Network Analysis. Such an approach is very context sensitive, so two examples will be presented.