Project Panorama - vistas on validated information

Abstract

Internet has become the foremost information source for a large majority of people, young and old, in the Netherlands certainly not less than in other European countries. Search is a ubiquitous functionality available at any website. General search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Bing have become the primary tool for locating information for almost everybody. What you find (discover) in Google is immediately displayed (delivered) on your screen; a mechanism very unlike classical library practice. As a result a user-expectation of "instant satisfaction" of any information need has developed. Unfortunately, often these facts also trigger the general notion that no other information exists than what can be found by these search engines.