Marcia Bates is Professor Emerita in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies. Over the course of a long career in both consulting and academia, Dr. Bates produced seminal work in user-centered information system design. Her paper on “berrypicking” as a user search strategy has been widely cited and is considered a foundational text in the field. In this conversation, we discuss search systems.

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https://theinformed.life/2023/01/01/episode-104-marcia-bates-on-search-systems/

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Marcia J. Bates Home Page
Marcia J. Bates - Wikipedia
UCLA Department of Information Studies
The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques
Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume I
Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume II
Selected Works Of Marcia J. Bates, Volume III
The Contemporary Thesaurus of Search Terms and Synonyms: A Guide for Natural Language Computer Searching, Second Edition, by Sarah Knapp
Boolean algebra - Wikipedia
Carol Kuhlthau - Wikipedia
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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