Social Information Seeking in Digital Libraries

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Author(s): George Buchanan (University of Waikato, New Zealand)and Annika Hinze (University of Wales, Swansea, UK)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 21
Source title: Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Dion Goh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)and Schubert Foo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-543-6.ch007

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Social Networking

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Abstract

Information seeking is a complex task, and many models of the basic, individual seeking process have been proposed. Similarly, many tools now exist to support “sit-forward” information seeking by single users, where the solitary seeker interacts intensively with a search engine or classification scheme. However, in many situations, there is a clear interaction between social contexts beyond the immediate interaction between the user and the retrieval system.

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