Concepts, subjects

Expectations:

  • Users expect search to be able to locate works about a concept/subject

  • Users expect search to also deliver works that are conceptually similar or items related to the search term; for example, in the case of beer, also beer bottles, labels, breweries

  • Users expect a search for a subject to be the first results

  • These types of keyword searches may coincide with controlled vocabularies (LCSH, MeSH, LC Genres, other thesauri that users know)

Examples:

  • Beer

  • funerary urn

  • hms beagle deckplan

  • syphilis images

  • Spanish flu

  • Royal Astronomical Society

  • cholera, london, patient

  • Colour vision defects

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