{"id":3293,"date":"2015-04-23T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2015-04-23T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:57:11","slug":"understanding-professional-use-of-complex-search-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=3293","title":{"rendered":"Understanding professional use of complex search strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself at work staring at a jumble of text like this:<\/p>\n<pre>((((curtiss) NOT (curtis))) OR (((curtiss-* OR ~Curtiss-Wright* OR\ncurtiss NEAR\/1 wright*) AND ((model* OR monoplane*) NOT (prototype*)))))<\/pre>\n<p>If you are, we suspect you&#8217;re writing a complex query as part of a sophisticated search strategy and we would like to find out more about what you do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uxlabs.co.uk\/\">UXLabs<\/a> has been granted funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/innovate-uk\">InnovateUK<\/a> to investigate the use of complex search strategies in the workplace, with the aim of producing requirements for the design of next generation search tools. By collaborating in this research we can help make creating and refining your complex search queries easier and more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>We are interviewing professionals from the following sectors: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recruitment<\/li>\n<li>Media monitoring and competitive intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Science, technology &amp; medicine<\/li>\n<li>Patent analysis and legal<\/li>\n<li>Library and Information science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you can spare 30-40 minutes of your time to discuss (and ideally demonstrate) the practical challenges that professionals face in formulating complex search strategies then please get in touch at jchamb AT essex.ac.uk.<\/p>\n<p>Complex search strategies can include Boolean queries, such as the example at the beginning of the page, but also incremental, line-by-line strategies like this:<\/p>\n<pre>1 Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity\/\n2 adhd\n3 addh\n4 adhs\n5 hyperactiv$\n6 hyperkin$\n7 attention deficit$\n8 brain dysfunction\n9 or\/1-8\n10 Child\/\n11 Adolescent\/\n12 child$ or boy$ or girl$ or schoolchild$ or adolescen$ or teen$ or\n\u201cyoung person$\u201d or \u201cyoung people$\u201d or youth$\n13 or\/10-12\n14 acupuncture therapy\/or acupuncture, ear\/or electroacupuncture\/\n15 accupunct$\n16 or\/14-15\n17 9 and 13 and 16<\/pre>\n<p>and fielded queries (e.g. combining keywords with controlled terms) like this:<\/p>\n<pre>(\"etiology\"[Subheading] OR \"etiology\"[All Fields] OR \"causes\"[All Fields] OR\n\"causality\"[MeSH Terms] OR \"causality\"[All Fields])AND (\"somnambulism\"[MeSH Terms]\nOR\u00a0\"somnambulism\"[All Fields] OR (\"sleep\"[All Fields] AND \"walking\"[All Fields]) OR\n\"sleep walking\"[All Fields])<\/pre>\n<p>Find out more about the research here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/isquared.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/31\/user-requirements-for-complex-search-strategies\/\">https:\/\/isquared.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/31\/user-requirements-for-complex-search-strategies\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself at work staring at a jumble of text like this: ((((curtiss) NOT (curtis))) OR (((curtiss-* OR ~Curtiss-Wright* OR curtiss NEAR\/1 wright*) AND ((model* OR monoplane*) NOT (prototype*))))) If you are, we suspect you&#8217;re writing a complex query as part of a sophisticated search strategy and we would like to find out&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=3293\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Understanding professional use of complex search strategies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-article","category-spring-2015","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}