what? why did you ask that?: search terms and other confusions
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Pecha kucha presentation (20 slides for 20 seconds) made at UCL's Blue Sock Salon for early career researchers - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/intercultural-interaction/News/BlueSockSalonTRANSCRIPT
search terms and other confusionsAnne Welsh
Department of Information Studies
MEDIATED SEARCH
NOT *ALWAYS* A POSITIVE IMAGE
“Are you sure this thing understands apostrophes?”
WHAT THE LIBRARIAN SAWCONTROLLING THE [SEARCH] VOCABULARY
“I’m looking for information on types of weed”
“Are you a keen gardener?”
User interrogation for disambiguation
Argot / Homonyms
Synonyms
Synonyms
Catalogue rules, OK?
“Fuzzy” / Soft Terms
“What does she mean, it’s not on the Internet?”
The Internet is vast, with infinite relationships
SKOS attempts to map these
Who controls the web vocabulary?
LCSH (above): FAMILY VIOLENCE (neutral tone)
Feminist Library: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (political statement)
Are we “victims” or “survivors” of violence?
