“…Their system accommodates a variety of user profiles and usage patterns, from simple database searches to the automatic updating of pre‐specified queries. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have explored the possibilities of pattern‐directed searches of museum information systems (Dworman, Kimbrough, & Patch, 2000). Unlike traditional record‐oriented searches that query a database for records that meet a certain condition, pattern‐oriented searches derive from questions that seek relationships between variables in records: for example, how does the production of glassware in Italy vary over the life of the Roman Empire?…”