[Sigia-l] The Age of Findability

[Laura Norvig]

Yes, it's amazing how hard it can be to find things when the 
findability factor is low.

There's a site I use almost everyday for my work that is large enough 
to warrant a search function but has none. It's a government site - 
need I say more?

http://www.nationalservice.org/

I know this site has certain things I occasionally need, like a list 
of "State Commissions," but each time I try to find some of these 
elusive goodies, I go through the same head scratching exercise, 
"hmmm, now where would they put this?".  The prior experience does 
not seem to stick, because the path is so gol' darned twisty and 
turny.

Laura Norvig, MLIS
"Intelligent Human Agent"
lauran at etr.org

At 2:14 PM -0400 5/1/02, Peter Morville wrote:
>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/
>