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Reyes, Kathryn Blackmer; Curry Rodriguez, Julia E. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2012
People of color in the United States have utilized the liberationist "testimonio" as both methodology and narrative development. This essay provides a discussion about the roots of "testimonio" in Latin America and how it has been transformed, integrating qualitative research approaches, oral history, spoken word, and memoir…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Oral History, Interviews, Latin Americans
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Cho, Chung-Wen; Yeh, Ting-Kuang; Cheng, Shu-Wen; Chang, Chun-Yen – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This paper explores the search effectiveness of social tagging which allows the public to freely tag resources, denoted as keywords, with any words as well as to share personal opinions on those resources. Social tagging potentially helps users to organize, manage, and retrieve resources. Efficient retrieval can help users put more of their focus…
Descriptors: Indexing, Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Epistemology
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Melero, Remedios; Abadal, Ernest; Abad, Francisca; Rodriguez-Gairin, Josep Manel – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2009
Introduction: The DRIVER I project drew up a detailed report of European repositories based on data gathered in a survey in which Spain's participation was very low. This created a highly distorted image of the implementation of repositories in Spain. This study aims to analyse the current state of Spanish open-access institutional repositories…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Questionnaires, Quality Control, Journal Articles
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Delong, Linwood – Acquisitions Librarian, 2007
This paper compares the subject indexing on articles pertaining to Immanuel Kant, agriculture, and aging that are found simultaneously in Humanities Index, Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) and Periodicals Research II (Micromedia ProQuest), in order to show that there are substantial variations in the depth and quality of indexing in these databases.…
Descriptors: Indexes, Databases, Indexing, Humanities
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Paci, A. M. – Electronic Library, 2001
Reports on a research project to build a new indexing technique, integrating experiences in database searching and indexing into a matrix model based on Internet use. Emphasizes the need for improving Web usability in specific domains and gives two examples from Italian Web sites, one for museums and one for health information. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Databases, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Internet
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Pejtersen, Annelise Mark; Austin, Jutta – Journal of Documentation, 1984
Describes the development and evaluation of a new classification system for fiction which is based on an analysis of users' formulations of needs. Problems of concept identification (author's intention, citation order, vocabulary control, and choice of access terms) are highlighted. Examples of questions used in retrieval tests and 20 references…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Classification, Fiction, Foreign Countries
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Johnson, Sandra; Maher, Brian – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1984
Outlines implementation and uses of the computerized question-banking system of the thesaurus-linked browse procedure used by APU National Assessment in Science Programme. The ROOT Thesaurus, a comprehensive indexing and searching tool for technological applications, is described and its modifications are discussed as the basis for the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Information Retrieval
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Hauer, Manfred; Simedy, Walton – Information Services & Use, 2002
Describes an online library catalog that was developed for an Austrian scientific library that includes table of contents in addition to the standard bibliographic information in order to increase relevance for searchers. Discusses the technology involved, including OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and automatic indexing techniques; weighted…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Character Recognition, Foreign Countries, Library Catalogs
Booth, Pat F.; South, M. L. – 1982
Designed to be a foundation work, this book about information storage and retrieval includes discussions of theory as well as descriptions of practice. It is intended for: (1) students at both the graduate and non-graduate level who are beginning formal studies of librarianship/information science; (2) staff of library/information units who have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Indexes, Indexing
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Currier, Sarah; Barton, Jane; O'Beirne, Ronan; Ryan, Ben – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2004
Metadata enables users to find the resources they require, therefore it is an important component of any digital learning object repository. Much work has already been done within the learning technology community to assure metadata quality, focused on the development of metadata standards, specifications and vocabularies and their implementation…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Educational Technology, Metadata, Foreign Countries
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Oley, Elizabeth – Journal of Reading, 1989
Explores aspects of information retrieval skills such as end user training, indexing, controlled vocabulary systems, search protocol, boolean logic, problem analysis, and decision making. Suggests techniques for classroom instruction using simulations of online databases, CD-ROMs, and DIALOG's classroom instruction program. Describes several…
Descriptors: Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Indexing
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Byrne, Alex; Micco, Mary – College and Research Libraries, 1988
Describes a project intended to improve subject access in an online catalog by adding multiword terms from the table of contents and index to MARC records for each book. The discussion covers a preliminary evaluation of the impact on workload, resources, and subject access to information. (seven references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Doan, Bich-Lien; Beigbeder, Michel; Girardot, Jean-Jacques; Jaillon, Philippe – 1998
The growing volume of heterogeneous and distributed information on the World Wide Web has made it increasingly difficult for existing tools to retrieve relevant information. To improve the performance of these tools, this paper suggests how to handle two aspects of the problem. The first aspect concerns a better representation and description of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Artificial Intelligence, Computer System Design, Foreign Countries
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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
Rabitti, Fausto, Ed. – 1986
Intended to identify and encourage research, development, and applications of information retrieval, the principal objective of this conference was to provide an international forum to promote an understanding of current research and to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experiences in information retrieval systems. Introductory material for…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Developed Nations, Display Systems, Expert Systems
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