Key Technical Challenges
· fostering and insuring quality control;
· transitioning information seekers from self-directed search to
reference and community assistance when people do not
succeed with self-directed approaches;
· developing layers of assistance from fully automated (e.g.,
FAQs), through community assistance (e.g., posting a question
to a newsgroup), to professional assistance (e.g., online with a
reference librarian), including hybrid solutions; and
· creating interfaces that do not overwhelm or frustrate
information seekers as they transition through the various
service layers.