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Arrowsmith System
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<p>Arrowsmith was a <a href="/facts/Literature-based_discovery/vws4pG4u">literature-based discovery</a> system built by <a href="/facts/Don_R._Swanson/m7bxoIe4">Don R. Swanson</a> using the concept of undiscovered public knowledge. He called it Arrowsmith: ‘An intellectual adventure’ </p> <blockquote><p>"Imagine that the pieces of a puzzle are independently designed and created, and that, when retrieved and assembled, they then reveal a pattern – undesigned, unintended, and never before seen, yet a pattern that commands interest and invites interpretation. So it is, I claim, that independently created pieces of knowledge can harbor an unseen, unknown, and unintended pattern. And so it is that the world of recorded knowledge can yield genuinely new discoveries"</p>— Don R. Swanson, Swanson DR: "Undiscovered public knowledge." <i>Library Quarterly</i>, 1986, 56:103–118.</blockquote>