> Finally, we talk a great deal in this community about "discovery."
> DC came up with title and creator etc. because there was a history
> of discovery based on those elements in information seeking behavior.
> They didn't just spring from nowhere. In our early work, we looked at
> hundreds of thousands of archived inquiries in the AskERIC database
> to see what USERS were asking for ... how they were trying to discover
> resources. These aspects you'd dump into an undifferentiated annotation
> are the very sorts of information they used to try and discover resources.
Hi Stuart
At Te Kete Ipurangi, We're in the relatively early stages of developing a
gateway for school teachers, and trying to gather the sort of information
that you talk about getting from searches of the AskERIC database. I
imagine there are significant differences arising from cultural and
curriculum differences, but it would be very useful to see what you came
up with. Is further information about this research available? Was there
a document reporting the break down of what people looked for?
Has anyone else produced a breakdown of what people actually tend to
search for on a general educational gateway (pre tertiary)?
Andrew McNaughton
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