- ExploringForwardLinks? (also called "footnote chasing", and "backward chaining"). The user starts with a document of interest, and then looks through the documents that it refers to.
- ExploringBackLinks? (also called "citation searching" or "forward chaining"). The user starts with a document of interest, and then looks for documents that refer to it.
- JournalRun?. The user identifies a periodical that deals with the desired subject matter, and then scans through the periodical (or just the issues correponding to some relevant timeperiod).
- AreaScanning?. The user identifies a relevant document, and browses the materials that are stored nearby. For example, in a library, you may identify the place where they store books related to what you're looking for, then go there and just look through what's there. On the web, you may look for other documents on the same website where you found an interesting document.
- SubjectSearchUsingIndex?. The user finds an index of documents according to subject, and then uses that index to find documents related to the desired subject. For example, in a library you may search by subject in a card catalog. On the web, you may use an index of web pages by subject like Yahoo or Open Directory.
- AuthorSearch?. The user finds an author who may have written about the desired topic, and searches for documents by that author.
Discussion
Not sure if this is the best name for the page…
Additional fallout from a Ting with lion and mattis: This is probably going to outgrow this starting point but it gets the discussion going. The spark term is: ConsensusEngine
References
Some of this list is from . That paper in turn cites and .
CategoryInformationRetrieval