2004/07/30
An Experiment Using Coordinate Title Word Searches
Frederick G. Kilgour
JASIST 51(1):74-80, 2004
- Relevant to: Known Item queries, query rewriting
- Printed and Filed
- Available at: LINC
This paper goes into historical detail on past query retrieval studies on known items. Kilgour investigates known-item query studies from the era of card catalogs. Some notable results distilled from this survey of earlier work includes facts useful for our current study of known item queries: Tagliacozza et al. (1970) notes that users had a higher likelihood of having correct title information rather than correct author information. Also that title searches are more common in today's OPAC than in the older card catalog systems, although I concur with Kilgour that this is largely an artifact of only having limited title entries in the card catalog system.
