Dr Liezl Ball and Prof Theo Bothma present a poster

Posted on November 03, 2021

Liezl Ball and Theo Bothma presented a poster entitled A Comparison of Search Functionalities in Several Tools Used for Searching within Digital Text Collections, at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Dr Ball is a lecturer at the Department of Information and Prof Bothma is a professor emeritus in the Department of Information Science.

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a professional association that focuses on information science practice and research. The Annual Meeting for 2021 took place in hybrid from October 30 - November 2, 2021, with the face-to-face meetings held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This poster was presented virtually on 2 November 17:00 (Mountain Time).

Abstract for the poster

The search functionalities that a search tool for a digital text collection offer, will determine how a user can interact with and search in such a collection. This poster considers the search functionalities in four tools that are used to search within digital text collections. Search functionalities that are well known in information science, namely basic word searching, phrase searching, wildcards, Boolean operators, proximity searching, field searching, case sensitive searching, filtering, as well as linguistic search functions will be considered. Knowledge about search functionalities can inform and improve the design of tools for digital text collections.

- Author Liezl Ball

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