Web Personalization and Cohort Information Services for Natural Resource Managers

Their information needs are long and popular information needs of the masses. Topic term and highly dynamic - nearly everything about this topic specificity, customizability, and automatically pursuing the is in flux. For these users, information search can be made long term unique information needs of individual users are more effective with knowledge about the field and about the not among the strengths of current main stream search engines types of documents being retrieved. Because the resource (Jansen, Spink, and Saracevic 2000) (Teevan, Dumais, management decisions require judgment about the materials and Horvitz 2005). This gap has inspired web personalization collected, the users require confidentiality and must trust the and collaborative information seeking tools such as sources. Google Alerts and has encouraged topic-specific blogs and Matilda is designed to 1) tailor information collection for podcasts.