Information needs

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In information science, library science, and information retrieval, an information need is person's gap in knowledge leading to a description of information they lack. It is closely related to relevance: if something is relevant for a person in relation to a given task, the person needs the information for that task.

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