Lesson 12. Information Needs and Informational Query
The notions information need and informational query are important in the search strategy [3].
Information need is understood as a desire to find an answer to the question expressed in informational query for solving a user’s specific task. The degree of satisfying such a need is of an individual nature. Thus, the same information can be useful for one user and useless for another, since his awareness in this sphere is higher because he has read and know more. According to the opinion of an outstanding physicist Leo Szilard, the more a man knows the more questions arise (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. The ratio of a man’s knowledge and unknown information [2]
Informational query describes the search subject becoming thus a starting point for retrieval of necessary information.
The process of forming a query should start with answering the question: what purpose am I searching information for? what precisely do I want to find? what do I know about the subject and what do not I know? what words do better describe what I want to find?
Table 1. Classification of questions according to B. Bloom Taxonomy [1]
References:
1. Gein A. G. Informatika : uchebnik dlya 8 klassa / A. G. Gein, N. A. Yunerman, A. A. Gein. — Moskva : Prosveshcheniye, 2013. — 166 s.2. Gin A. A. Funktsii obrazovaniya. O TRIZ-pedagogike / A. A. Gin. —URL: https://trizway.com/art/form/funkcii-obrazovania.html (accessed: 18.09.2019).
3. GOST 7.73-96. Poisk i rasprostraneniye informatsii. Terminy i opredeleniya [State Standard 7.73–96. System of standards on information, librarianship and publishing. Retrieval and dissemination of information. Terms and definitions]. — 1998–01–01. — Access mode: for authorized users. – URL: http://sk5-410-lib-te.at.urfu.ru/docs/ (accessed: 18.09.2019).
Material prepared by Asya Kosenko, translated by Natalia Krasnogor