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O'Connor's (1993) work on browsing is summarized to present a
hunter-gatherer model of seeking without recourse to bibliographic
tools. This work, too, stems from work with Wilson. Anthropologist
Pamela Sandstrom has written of Wilson's work as describing an opti-
mal allocation of resources model. Sandstrom (1994, 1999) has drawn
parallels between subsistence foraging and scholarly information seek-
ers. Blaise Cronin and Carol Hert (1995) describe a similar association
in the context of the World Wide Web. In each of these there is a strong
thread of function rather than mere topicality.
Chapter 7, "Prologue to Dialectic," provides the opportunity to
synthesize the results of our investigations and to suggest what a func-
tional access model might look like. There is no intention that we pro-
pose one model; rather, we suggest several aspects and attributes of
hunter-gatherer searching that are frequently not included in retrieval
systems and experiments.
While we were bringing this iteration of the conversation to a
close, we encountered a quote from Seymour Papert, professor of learn-
ing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that speaks
to the threads that emerged: "Knowledge is only part of understanding.
Genuine understanding comes from hands-on experience." [endorse-
ment for Lego MindStorms Robotics Invention System 1.5]12
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O'Connor, Brian Clark; Copeland, Jud H., 1943- & Kearns, Jodi L. Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna, book, 2003; [Lanham, Maryland]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83323/m1/22/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.