Domain Knowledge is an understanding of the topic being researched. This helps in regard to Information Retrieval by allowing the finding of primary resources more easily.

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User Expertise is the idea of utilizing knowledge and practices within Archives. It helps create a professional guideline for the User/Archive practitioner. This is determined by 3 fields: Domain Knowledge, Artifactual Literacy, and what will be discussed in this node, Archival Intelligence. Archival Intelligence is the knowledge about the environment(Archives) in which the search for primary sources is being conducted. From archival intelligence, user expertise can be developed through archival theory, practices, procedures, Strategies for reducing uncertainty/ambiguity, and intellective skills.

Archival Intelligence and User Expertise

Yakel, E., & Torres, D. (2003). AI: Archival intelligence and user expertise. The American Archivist, 66, 51-78.

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Domain Knowledge

Artifactual Literacy is the ability to interpret records and assess their value as evidence.  It also doubles as the practice of "Criticism, analysis, and pedagogy that reads texts as if they were objects and objects as if they were text". This is a method by which to discern information from a source as studied and researched or if it is misleading. 

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