PIDB II: Search and Analysis

How are you able to search your records?

a. Do you use a search capability more sophisticated than a dirty-word search (i.e. context based or rules-based searching)?

More sophisticated than dirty-word search

Only able to use dirty-word search capability

Less sophisticated than dirty-word searching

Are analysts crafting the searches, or does technology automate or assist the query formation?

Analysts crafting searches

Technology-automated/-designed searches

Do analysts have to create ontologies and libraries of terms, or does the technology generate these lists? (Select all that apply)

Analyst creates ontologies/libraries

Technology generates ontologies/libraries

How are results differentiated? Are they ranked by relevancy? Are the results clustered? (Select all that apply)

Ranked by relevancy

Clustered results

Other

Are search results able to be refined in any way?

Yes, additional querying of a results set is possible

No, a new query must begin