Information seeking by humanities scholars.

Buchanan, G.; Cunningham, S.J.; Blandford, A.; Rimmer, J.; Warwick, C.

Abstract

This paper investigates the information seeking of humanities academics and scholars using digital libraries. It furthers existing work by updating our knowledge of the information seeking techniques used by humanities scholars, where the current work predates the wide availability of the Internet. We also report some of the patterns observed in query and term usage by humanities scholars, and relate this to the patterns they report in their own information seeking and the problems that they encounter. This insight is used to reveal the current gap between the skills of information seekers and the technologies that they use. Searches for ‘discipline terms’ prove to be particularly problematic.

Citation

Buchanan, G., Cunningham, S., Blandford, A., Rimmer, J., & Warwick, C. (2005, September). Information seeking by humanities scholars. Presented at Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries : 9th European conference, ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005 : proceedings., Vienna, Austria

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries : 9th European conference, ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005 : proceedings.
• Publication Date: 2005-09
• Deposit Date: Sep 5, 2014
• Print ISSN: 0302-9743
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Volume: 3652
• Pages: 218-229
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11551362_20
• Keywords: Digital libraries, Human-computer interaction, Information seeking, Humanities.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1676482