Known-item search

Known-item search is a specialization of information exploration which represents the activities carried out by searchers who have a particular item in mind.[1] In the context of library catalogs, known‐item search means a search for an item for which the author or title is known.[2] Although the concept of known-item search originated in library science, it is now applied in the context of web search and other online search activities.[3] Known-item search is distinguished from exploratory search, in which a searcher is unfamiliar with the domain of their search goal, unsure about the ways to achieve their goal, and/or unsure about what their goal is.[4]

References
  1. Wildemuth, Barbara; O'Neill, Ann (1995), "The "Known" in Known-Item Searches: Empirical Support for User-Centered Design", College & Research Libraries, 56 (3), doi:10.5860/crl_56_03_265
  2. Lee, Jin Ha; Renear, Allen; Smith, Linda (2006), "Known‐Item Search: Variations on a Concept.", Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 43 (1)
  3. Ogilvie, Paul; Callan, Jamie (2003), "Combining Document Representations for Known-Item Search", SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
  4. Ryen W. White and Resa A. Roth (2009). Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm, San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool.
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