CLDs for resource discovery
- Resource users wish to
- search across, interpret, and compare resource descriptions from different provider communities
- CLDs support “survey of information landscape”
- “to identify areas rather than specific features - to identify rainforest rather than to retrieve an analysis of the canopy fauna of the Amazon basin”
(Heaney, 2000)
- CLD as overview of aggregate of items
- Not a substitute for item-level description
- but CLD may be useful in contexts where item-level description inappropriate/unavailable