{"id":830,"date":"2009-05-12T06:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2009-05-12T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:30:21","slug":"exploring-vs-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Exploring vs. finding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great line in a <a title=\"Reddy, M. C. and Jansen, B. J. 2008. A model for understanding collaborative information behavior in context: A study of two healthcare teams. IP&amp;M 44, 1 (Jan. 2008), 256-273.\" href=\"http:\/\/ist.psu.edu\/faculty_pages\/jjansen\/academic\/pubs\/reddy_jansen_collaborative_information_searching.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> by Reddy and Jansen about search:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>information seeking is just as much about producing new knowledge&#8211;a creative and inventive activity&#8211;as it is about finding extant information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This breaks out beautifully in terms of the dichotomy about finding and exploring: finding is the canonical &#8220;known item search&#8221; so well executed by Google and Yahoo!, whereas exploring is about creating new knowledge. Exploring is a much more complex activity, that cannot be boiled down to a short input text box for input and a ranked list of documents for output. It&#8217;s probably too late to change terminology, but this distinction is important to keep in mind when designing information seeking interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a great line in a paper by Reddy and Jansen about search: information seeking is just as much about producing new knowledge&#8211;a creative and inventive activity&#8211;as it is about finding extant information. This breaks out beautifully in terms of the dichotomy about finding and exploring: finding is the canonical &#8220;known item search&#8221; so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}