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Creating Better Library Information Systems: The Road to FRBR-Land
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Mercun, Tanja; Švab, Katarina; Harej, Viktor; Žumer, Maja – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: To provide valuable services in the future, libraries will need to create better information systems and set up an infrastructure more in line with the current technologies. The "Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records" conceptual model provides a basis for this transformation, but there are still a number of…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Library Development, Library Services, Bibliographic Databases
Discovering Hidden Analogies in an Online Humanities Database.
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Cory, Kenneth A. – Computers and the Humanities, 1997
Contends that large databases contain hidden knowledge, or literature that is logically linked but not bibliographically linked, that contains academically interesting commonalities not retrievable by normal searching methods. Based on search methods for discovering previously unknown causes of medical syndromes, a method for discovering new…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Databases, Humanities
Answer Your Questions with ERIC (ERIC/RCS).
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Smith, Carl B. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system, a national network of 16 specialized clearinghouses and several central ERIC service facilities. Notes that the ERIC system is charged with enhancing the database of educational resources by identifying hard-to-find materials. Explains briefly how to use ERIC and the educational…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Educational Resources, Information Dissemination, Information Processing
Hierarchical Indexing and Document Matching in BoW.
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Geffet, Maayan; Feitelson, Dror G. – 2001
An obvious and natural approach to organizing a large corpus of data is a hierarchical index--akin to a book's table of contents. The type of corpus dealt with here is a bibliographical repository, with entries form a limited domain. Given such an index, it is desirable that search results point to relevant locations in the hierarchy, rather than…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Indexes, Information Processing
Mental Models Theory and Search Outcome in a Bibliographic Retrieval System.
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Dimitroff, Alexandra – Library and Information Science Research, 1992
A study investigated the relationship between the completeness of end users' mental models of an online system and their ability to use the system effectively. Although all of the study subjects were relatively successful, those with more complete mental models tended to have better search results than subjects with incomplete or poor mental…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, College Libraries, Graduate Students, Higher Education
A Comparative Analysis of ERIC and LISA with an Emphasis on Database Composition and Authority Control as They Relate to Retrieval.
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Wells, Amy Tracy – 1993
The ERIC and LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) databases are compared through a literature review and the analysis of an online search on a topic in librarianship. ERIC emphasizes education and includes serials, monographs, collections, and research reports for their coverage of some aspect of education. LISA is dedicated to topics…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Databases, Clearinghouses, Comparative Analysis