Competency Six: Databases-LibLit & the Specific Facet Search

New search query: How does the semantic web compare to the world wide web and what implications does it have on the school library?

My facets are: semantic web, world wide web, implications, school library. Since I am looking more for information on the semantic web, I will use it as my specific facet.

My first search, using no delimiters, delivered only 43 records.



I continued by adding the next facet, world wide web, yielding 6 results. Using the Boolean operator OR to add the acronym WWW to the query added one additional hit.

Adding my third facet (which is to broad for a specific facet search), school library to the query yielded no results.

When removing the word school from the facet, I end up with three hits, 2 that are full text.

One of the three hits for this query:

Reflections:

I can see how using this search would be beneficial if your initial search, using all facets, yielded not enough or too many results, but if the search using all facets returns a decent amount of hits, I don't see the need to go through the exercise of ordering the facets from most specific to least.

In my particular query, my end result was three hits. If I wanted to widen my net, deciding which facets are of most importance would help me to eliminate the term(s) that is(are) hindering the search.

I can see myself using this particular kind of search in the research I am doing for a paper currently. It would help narrow down a seemingly overwhelming amount of hits.