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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1986
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Unanswered Questions in the Design of Controlled Vocabularies.
Svenonius, Elaine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v37 n5 p331-40 Sep 1986
The issue of free-text versus controlled vocabulary is examined. The history of the issue, which is seen as beginning with the debate over title term indexing in the nineteenth century, is reviewed and questions not satisfactorily addressed by previous research are raised. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, History, Indexes, Indexing, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Thesauri
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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