Hi,
Further to the thread of distinguishing between different audiences, I would
like to bring up two points:
- a lay audience may not be able to handle archaeological periods well (e.g.,
being unaware that they should ask for 'paleolithic' to get information about
Neanderthals), but this would not be a problem if they could 'search by
example'. So you could have a list of specific finds (the Iceman) or sites
(Stonehenge) to chhose from, but then get 'more of the same period'. In a
thesuarus-like environment this would of course be easy to implement...
- if, in addition to the period terms themselves, you also provide access to the
definitions and characteristics of each term, the user can work out for
themselves whether a particular search is going to be relevent to them (e.g., an
Australian might decide that she is going to search on 'Roman' after all).
Martijn van Leusen
Groningen Institute of Archaeology
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