29 Sep 2004
CS 5244: Reference Interviews / Information Seeking
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Berry Picking
¡“… picking blueberries in the forest.  The berries are scattered on the bushes; they do not come in bunches.  One must pick them one at a time…” 
¡ - paraphrased from Bates (89)
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lThe nature of the query is an evolving one
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lThe nature of the search process is such that it follows a berrypicking pattern
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lThe query is satisfied not by a final set of documents but by references and information accumulated over the search period.