New models from old tools: Leveraging an understanding of information tasks and subject domain to support enhanced discovery and access to folktales

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Abstract

This paper provides an introduction to an ongoing research project that aims to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency with which users discover and access folktales. Through systematic and rigorous research combining task analysis with facet analysis, the researchers intend to develop an enhanced bibliographic record prototype. The focus of the paper, however, is to discuss results from the preliminary phase of this project. In particular it will describe the information tasks, information seeking obstacles, and desired features for a discovery and access tool related to folktales for a group of scholarly users of folktales. Additionally the paper will address some of the bibliographic, cultural, and intellectual facets derived from a sample of folktale resources. Finally it proposes a provisional model for enhanced bibliographic records, comparing it with the one implicit in extant bibliographic discovery and access tools.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationParadigms and Conceptual Systems in Knowledge Organization - Proceedings of the 11th International ISKO Conference
PublisherInternational Society for Knowledge Organization
Pages269-275
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783899137460
StatePublished - 2010
Event11th International Conference on International Society for Knowledge Organization, ISKO 2010 - Rome, Italy
Duration: Feb 23 2010Feb 26 2010

Publication series

NameAdvances in Knowledge Organization
Volume12
ISSN (Print)0938-5495

Other

Other11th International Conference on International Society for Knowledge Organization, ISKO 2010
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period2/23/102/26/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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