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Enhancing Subject Access in Online Systems: The Year's Work in Subject Analysis, 1991.
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Taylor, Arlene G. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1992
Review of the 1991 literature on subject access in online systems discusses users and subject searching; subject access in online catalogs, including improvement of the database, search processing, the user interface, and user understanding; subject cataloging and indexing; information retrieval; thesaurus and indexing approaches; classification;…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Futures (of Society), Indexing
Man-Machine Referential Communication in a Personal Information Retrieval System.
Linn, William Erwin, Jr. – 1972
The trend toward on-line utilization of computers in recent years has included the emergence of computer support systems to fill the information processing needs of individuals engaged in scientific research. In this study, a new approach to document description is applied to the design of a personal information storage and retrieval system,…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Programs, Indexing, Information Processing
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (12th, Montreal, Canada, July 2-5, 2019)
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Subject-Searching Experiences and Needs of Online Catalog Users: Implications for Library Classification.
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Markey, Karen – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1985
This paper describes an experiment in the use of Dewey Decimal Classification in online catalogs to introduce classed approach to subject searching of library collections, enhance subject terminology indexed in online catalog, and provide possibilities for search strategies not possible through alphabetical approach of subject headings and/or…
Descriptors: Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, Display Systems, Information Needs
An Image Database on a Parallel Processing Network.
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Philip, G.; And Others – Information Services and Use, 1991
Describes the design and development of an image database for photographs in the Ulster Museum (Northern Ireland) that used parallelism from a transputer network. Topics addressed include image processing techniques; documentation needed for the photographs, including indexing, classifying, and cataloging; problems; hardware and software aspects;…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Computer Networks, Computer Software
AUDACIOUS - An Experiment with an On-Line, Interactive Reference Retrieval ment with an On-Line, Interactive Reference Retrieval System Using the Universal Decimal Classification as the Index Language in the Field of Nuclear Science.
Freeman, Robert R.; Atherton, Pauline – 1968
This report describes an experimental system for remote direct access to files of computer-stored information which has been indexed by the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC). The data base for the experiment consisted of references from a single issue of Nuclear Science Abstracts. The Special Subject Edition of UDC for Nuclear Science and…
Descriptors: Classification, Display Systems, Evaluation Methods, Indexing