Networked Information Discovery & Retrieval Tools

From Isolation to Distributed Sharing

• Computer Mediated Communication -- CMC
  • Types -- email, news, conferencing, desktop video
  • Basic -- will be with us as important for a long time
• Browsing
  • Best Known -- Internet Gopher, WorldWide Web
  • Oldies but Goodies -- Hytelnet, Launchpad
  • Wandering the book shelves model -- serendipity
• Searching
  • Intentional
  • Specific to particular data base resources
  • General searches of Internet Resources
• Discovery
  • Not well done yet.
  • Should be a fusion of Browsing and Searching

Remember all NIDR Tools are Beta

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