Surrogate
In general language a surrogate means a substitute or stand-in. In Library and Information Science (LIS) is the term often used about document surrogates (e.g., abstracts) or about user queries.
Literature:
Goodrum, A. A. (2001). Multidimensional scaling of video surrogates.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
52(2), 174-182.
Greene, S.; Marchionini, G.; Plaisant, C. & Shneiderman, B.
(2000). Previews and overviews in digital libraries: Designing surrogates to
support visual information seeking. Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, 51(4), 380-393.
Scholer, F.; Williams, H. E. & Turpin, A. (2004). Query association surrogates for Web search. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(7), 637-650.
Strong, S. M. (1974). Algorithm for generating structural surrogates of
English text. Journal of the American Society for Information Science,
25(1), 10-24.
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 17-09-2006