Talk:Collaborative information seeking

Conflict of interest
User:ShahChirag (talk, contrib) created this article and contributed most of the content referencing his own work. The title of this article corresponds to the title of his book. He is also the creator and the main contributor of Social information seeking article having very similar contents and also promoting his work. The topic of this article is more widely known as Social search.

Merger proposal
Collaborative information seeking and Social information seeking are two different topics. They may appear to have resemblances with each other and with topics like Social search, but there are important differences to warrant separate articles. For instance, Collaborative information seeking refers to people in close/strong ties working together to solve a common problem through information seeking. Social information seeking, on the other hand, is about people seeking information through their social connections. These connections may include their friends on a social network, or even people out in the crowd. Social search is more narrowly defined - focusing on social aspect of information search. One could imagine reasonable overlaps among these three concepts, but there are active groups of researchers and practitioners around these topics, with separate set of activities, publications, and even methodologies. Merging them somehow would be failing to recognize innovations and contributions that each of these topics bring individually. (added by User:ShahChirag while removing the COI tag) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.36.142.34 (talk) 17:10, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Collaborative information seeking is a well know separate research field these days. It can be seen as a subset of Social search — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.55.151.106 (talk) 19:49, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

In the last 5-6 years, there have been at least 7-8 different events focusing on Collaborative information seeking. There was a special issue of Journal of Information Processing & Management, several books, and a large number of publications/presentations at different conferences and journals. While some of these works are classified into Social search, there is a distinct field that has emerged - Collaborative information seeking. As an author, researcher, and a teacher in this field, and someone who has witnessed this research domain taking shape over the last several years, I strongly believe that Collaborative information seeking deserves its own page and not be merged with other similar-sounding names, including Social information seeking and Social search. See the first paragraph of this section for more details on how and why these three things are different. ShahChirag (talk) 20:23, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm agree with define Collaborative information seeking as a new research field. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcrcano (talk • contribs) 19:57, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

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