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Ciganik, Marek – Information Processing and Management, 1975
The metainformational approach represents some attempts to transform the implicit retrieval information contained in primary documents to an explicit information structure. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Science
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Vellucci, Sherry L. – Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 1996
Examines strengths and weaknesses of organizational systems developed to organize and access electronic resources available via the Internet. Highlights include library online catalogs; cataloging rules and MARC records; text encoding initiative (TEI) headers; the Internet union catalog; browsing lists; robot-generated indexes; a core data set of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cataloging, Information Retrieval
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Desai, Bipin C.; Shinghal, Raijan; Shayan, Nader R.; Zhou, Youquan – Library Trends, 1999
Describes a system called CINDI (Concordia INdexing and DIscovery System) for cataloging and searching documents in a distributed virtual library. The document author registers metadata in the form of a semantic header that contains information on syntactic and semantic content, and an expert system fills the semantic header according to accepted…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Bibliographic Databases, Cataloging, Electronic Libraries
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Tunender, Heather; Ervin, Jane – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998
Character strings were planted in a World Wide Web site (Project Whistlestop) to test indexing and retrieval rates of five Web search tools (Lycos, infoseek, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite). It was found that search tools indexed few of the planted character strings, none indexed the META descriptor tag, and only Excite indexed into the 3rd-4th site…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation