1.1 Kinds of Sources
Open-ended sources
- Lists of search requests or interest profiles
- Description of projects/activities to be served by the information retrieval system.
- Discussion with specialists in the field
- Sample of documents in the field
- Ask users why and how these documents relate to the field.
- Have documents indexed by experts in the field
- Lists of titles of documents in the field
- Abstracts and reviews of documents
- Your own knowledge