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Buchanan, Brian – 1976
An expansion of a list developed at a British library school, this glossary contains terminology used in indexing work done by libraries and information scientists. Entries are arranged alphabetically and vary in length from one line to one page. There may be up to three parts in each entry. The first is a basic definition with examples where…
Descriptors: Glossaries, Indexing, Information Science, Library Science
Albrechtsen, Hanne, Ed.; Mai, Jens-Erik, Ed. – 2001
This volume is a compilation of the papers presented at the 10th ASIS (American Society for Information Science) workshop on classification research. Major themes include the social and cultural informatics of classification and coding systems, subject access and indexing theory, genre analysis and the agency of documents in the ordering of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Indexing, Information Management
Wheeler, William J., Ed. – 2000
This book contains the following papers in honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane on subject access issues in library and information science: (1) "Obstacles in Progress in Mechanized Subject Access and the Necessity of a Paradigm Change" (Robert Fugmann); (2) "On MARC and the Nature of Text Searching: A Review of Pauline Cochrane's…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Science
Milstead, Jessica L., Ed. – 1998
This thesaurus covers the fields of information science and librarianship to a depth that will adequately support indexing, with coverage of related and peripheral fields as warranted by the strength of their relationship to information science and librarianship. Among the related fields are computer science, linguistics, and behavioral and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Cataloging, Computer Science, Indexing
Lancaster, F. Wilfrid; Warner, Amy J. – 1993
The emphasis of this text is that the problems of information retrieval are the intellectual ones of subject analysis and description. These problems are not easily solved by technology alone, although certain inroads are being made by knowledge-based expert systems and other computer aids to indexing. Linguistic approaches are also showing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers
Salton, Gerard – 1975
This book provides an introduction to automated information services: collection, analysis, classification, storage, retrieval, transmission, and dissemination. An introductory chapter is followed by an overview of mechanized processes for acquisitions, cataloging, and circulation. Automatic indexing and abstracting methods are covered, followed…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Cost Effectiveness, Indexing
