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Ruvane, M. B. (2005). Annotation as Process: A Vital Information Seeking Activity in Historical Geographic Research. In Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Vol. 42, Charlotte, NC, October 28-November 2, 2005.

Abstract:
This paper describes the role annotations played in evolving and growing the value of a research database in the framework of an historical geographer’s information seeking process. The database was designed as a “note-taking” tool for gathering historical evidence from primary source documents. The individual facts collected at first provided little utility to the researcher, indicative of Buckland’s (1991) information-as-thing. As the process of collecting data began to amass a large body of material the geographer’s information needs grew as new connections were made between the accumulating annotations.

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