A website could collect digitized vocabularies, classification schemes, sori, index languages, and other similar resources that people could borrow from for their own local situation.
It's inefficient to redo complex labor when people have already done it. Taking advantage of what others have done could aid tremendously.
There should be more vocabulary support for searchers on websites or at Google to help people find specific information on different topics that have unique vocabularies.
Many available resources are proprietary and not easily accessible to everyone.
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.