[Sigia-l] re: the future of search

[Joe 10]

I mean, that would be kind cool, as one of many interfaces... a 
virtual librarian which interviews you with lading questions like 
Karl said (at a recent SF IA gathering) they teach all LIS students...

You type in "Usability" and it asks "What are you trying to do with 
Usability" and you answer "Well, I need to know best practices" and 
it asks " what do you want to do with the best practices" and you 
answer "Well, I'm writing a book" and it asks "Oh really, what's the 
book about" and you answer "Well, it's about Flash & Web logs and 
garden tools, but I'm interested in Usability" Etc, etc, etc.

/Joe

At 7:11 PM -0400 7/27/02, javier velasco wrote:
>The primary school I went to had a beautiful library, it was said to 
>be one of the biggest in the city at that time. There was a man who 
>worked there for *lots* of years, he was a living legend among 
>students for his ability to give you what you needed.
>
>You would come to this man with a request for a subject, if he had 
>different material on the same subject he asked things like what you 
>needed it for, or he'd explain to you the differences between the 
>available publications. Then, he'd send you to a particular shelf 
>with a description of the book's color, size and thickness, and to 
>open the book in a particular chapter - sometimes the precise page - 
>that held the solution to your need.
>
>If a search engine could to that, it would be perfect for me.
>
>javier velasco
>
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