Toward a Computer-Generated Subject Validation File: Feasibility and Usefulness.

Chan, Lois Mai; Vizine-Goetz, Diane

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Publication Date: 1998

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Toward a Computer-Generated Subject Validation File: Feasibility and Usefulness.

Chan, Lois Mai; Vizine-Goetz, Diane

Library Resources & Technical Services, v42 n1 p45-60 Jan 1998

This study explored the feasibility of scanning the OCLC Online Union Catalog (OLUC) to create subject heading validation files. Concluded that automatically generated subject heading files were practical and that such files could be used to verify subject heading strings constructed by catalogers, update subject headings in catalog maintenance, and validate subject headings during retrospective conversion. (PEN)

Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Computers, Databases, Information Management, Library Automation, Online Catalogs, Retrospective Conversion (Library Catalogs), Subject Index Terms, Union Catalogs

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Language: English

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