... ontologies could be used to give direct support to the search tactics described by Bates (1990) . More specifically, they defined the relationship of the “gen-spec” relation with Bates’ search tactics as shown in Table I . Table I Relationship between “gen-spec” relation and Bates’ search tactics...

... skills (Tompkins et al., 2013 ; Verhallen and Bus, 2011). Storybook searching Visualized search interface Search tactics Story elements In contrast to a conventional search interface which requires users to perform keyword searches, a visualized search interface typically...

...Alastair G. Smith Purpose Bates' information search tactics have been influential in the practice and teaching of online searching since they were published in 1979. This paper is about using information search tactics to search the internet, and aims to present a set of tactics useful...