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Information science

open-ended searching aimed at learning and investigating rather than looking up a known item, involving many iterative queries.

In information science, exploratory search refers to open-ended searching aimed at learning and investigating rather than looking up a known item, involving many iterative queries. This meaning comes from Marchionini (2006) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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Marchionini, G. (2006). Exploratory search: from finding to understanding. Communications of the ACM, 49(4), 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1145/1121949.1121979

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