page_title: Information seeking
section_title: Wilson's nested model of conceptual areas
hierarchical_section_title: Information seeking / Wilson's nested model of conceptual areas
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilson's Nested Model of Conceputal Areas (1999)
context_page_description: Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in both human and technological contexts. Information seeking is related to, but different from, information retrieval.
context_section_description: The concepts of information seeking, information retrieval, and information behaviour are objects of investigation of information science. Within this scientific discipline a variety of studies has been undertaken analyzing the interaction of an individual with information sources in case of a specific information need, task, and context. The research models developed in these studies vary in their level of scope. Wilson (1999) therefore developed a nested model of conceptual areas, which visualizes the interrelation of the here mentioned central concepts.
  Wilson defines models of information behavior to be "statements, often in the form of diagrams, that attempt to describe an information-seeking activity, the causes and consequences of that activity, or the relationships among stages in information-seeking behaviour" (1999: 250).
caption: Wilson's Nested Model of Conceptual Areas
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