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O'Brien, Ann – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1994
This review deals with online catalog enhancements and developments over the past two to three years, including bibliographic standards; cataloging rules; MARC; bibliographic records; subject access, including keyword searching, Library of Congress Subject Headings, multiple vocabularies, and classification; refining searches; enriching…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Classification, Library Catalogs
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Carlyle, Allyson – Journal of Documentation, 1999
Examines users' categorization of documents related to a particular literary work. After finishing the sorting task, participants wrote descriptions of the attributes used to create each group. Content analysis of these descriptions revealed categories of attributes for grouping, many of which exist in bibliographic records and may be used to…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Classification
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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
Micco, Mary; Popp, Rich – 1994
Techniques for building a world-wide information infrastructure by reverse engineering existing databases to link them in a hierarchical system of subject clusters to create an integrated database are explored. The controlled vocabulary of the Library of Congress Subject Headings is used to ensure consistency and group similar items. Each database…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, College Libraries, Databases
Moen, William E. – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992
Discussion of issues related to the development of navigational tools for networked resources considers parallels and differences between traditional library materials and networked resources. Four domains of the networked environment--applications, information containers, information content, and users--are identified; and results of a pilot…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Presents abstracts of 15 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Topics include navigation and information utilization in the Internet, natural language processing, automatic indexing, image indexing, classification, users' models of database searching, online public access catalogs, education for information professions, information services,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Automatic Indexing, Classification, Conferences