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Buckland, Michael; Chen, Aitao; Chen, Hui-Min; Kim, Youngin; Lam, Byron; Larson, Ray; Norgard, Barbara; Purat, Jacek; Gey, Frederic – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Reports on work at the University of California, Berkeley, on the design and development of English-language indices to metadata vocabularies. Discusses the significance of unfamiliar metadata and describes the Entry Vocabulary Module which helps searchers to be more effective and increases the return on the original investment in generating…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Classification, Indexes, Indexing
Kirriemuir, John; Brickley, Dan; Welsh, Susan; Knight, Jon; Hamilton, Martin – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Describes characteristics of subject gateways on the Web (i.e., facilities allowing easier access to network-based resources in a defined subject area) and compares them to search engines (e.g., AltaVista). The application of WHOIS++, centroids, query routing, and forward knowledge to searching several gateways simultaneously is outlined, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Gateway Systems