Discovery is the researcher’s dream

Abstract

Discovery is the researcher’s dream. The dream of a straightforward search that allows information seekers to find the content they are looking for and, more importantly, relevant content they do not yet know about. Librarians, system vendors and content providers aim to materialize this dream of efficient and accurate discovery motivated by rationales that vary from the noble goals of knowledge creation and sharing to profit-driven commercial grounds.

Keywords

• discovery
• metadata
• search engines
• online public access catalogues (opacs)
• open web discovery
• resource discovery systems