[Sigia-l] The Age of Findability

[Peter Morville]

A couple of quick responses:

1. Most of us actually have a hard time finding things we've already found
before...the UW iSchool is doing some interesting research in this area:
http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/

2. If we could get advanced Boolean searching added to the K-12 curriculum,
our jobs would certainly get a little easier (but only a little).


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
www.semanticstudios.com

----- Original Message -----
From: John Fullerton <JFULLERT at lib-gw.tamu.edu>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>; <morville at semanticstudios.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] The Age of Findability


> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002595.php

Thank you for the article.

I'd like to respond here.

Once I know (or understand) how to access a point of info, it is potentially
much easier for me to find that info. So understanding (via experience) has
an effect on finding. It is to be hoped that one can easily find a point of
info without having had to find it before.

One thought that came to mind while reading the article was that expertise
at searching (or understanding of searching) can make finding possible.

Have a nice day
John Paul Fullerton
j-fullerton at tamu.edu