Response: Search and Serendipity

Leary, Patrick

doi:10.1353/vpr.2015.0017

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“…This paper takes historians as its focus, including the subsection of historians that selfidentify as digital historians. Historians have become increasingly digital over the past decade, using and designing different tools to aid their own research (Fyfe, 2015;Leary, 2015). Often the designation digital historian is used to describe those history scholars who integrate various digital sources and tools into their work practice.…”

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“A process of controlled serendipity”: An exploratory study of historians' and digital historians' experiences of serendipity in digital environments

Martin¹,

Quan‐Haase

2017

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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We investigate historians' experiences with serendipity in both physical and digital environments through an online survey. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative data analyses, our preliminary findings show that many digital historians select a specific digital environment because of the expectation that it may elicit a serendipitous experience. Historians also create heuristic methods of using digital tools to integrate elements of serendipity into their research practice. Four features of digital environments were identified by participants as supporting serendipity: exploration, highlighted triggers, allowed for keyword searching and connected them to other people.

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confidence: 99%