Purpose – This paper proposes a conceptual framework for creative information seeking drawing upon Weisberg's argument that creativity exists in everyone, and mapping the creative process described in the holistic model of creativity to the information seeking activities identified in the...

Purpose – This is part II of on‐going research, the purpose being to establish a creative information‐seeking model. Design/methodology/approach – Two studies were conducted to examine the subjects' creative information seeking behaviours and the extent to which they exhibited the...

Purpose – The design of context‐aware mobile applications can be improved through a clear and in‐depth understanding of context and how it can be used to meet users' requirements. Using tourism as a case application, this paper aims to address the lack of understanding of context and...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the effectiveness of the unified medical language system (UMLS) semantic network as a seed ontology for building a medical field ontology. Design/methodology/approach – The information extraction process known as the knowledge engineering...

Purpose – This paper aims to report a study of researchers' preferences in selecting information from cited papers to include in a literature review, and the kinds of transformations and editing applied to the selected information. Design/methodology/approach – This is a part of a larger...