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Blair, David C.; Kimbrough, Steven O. – Information Processing & Management, 2002
Suggests an alternative document representation method based on "exemplary documents," those that describe or exhibit the intellectual structure of a particular field of interest. Exemplary documents provide both an indexing vocabulary for that area and a narrative context in which the indexing terms have a clearer meaning. It is much…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer System Design, Document Delivery, Indexes
Powell, Andy – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Describes UKOLN's (United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking--a national center for support in network information management in the library/information communities) experimental system that allows digital object identifiers (DOIs) encoded as uniform resource names (URNs) to be resolved on behalf of Web browsers by Squid, a…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Hypermedia, Indexing, Information Management
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Tomov, D. T. – Journal of Documentation, 2001
A semantic analysis of the "Weekly Subject Index Stop Word List" of "Current Contents" of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and the full-stop word and semi-stop word lists of the Permuterm Subject Index of "Science Citation Index" was conducted. Emphasizes the necessity of an improved, semantically-oriented policy in preparing lists…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Citations (References), Data Analysis, Databases
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Coats, Lisa R. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
User studies have been conducted for many years in the information and library science fields. In the archival world, this phenomenon has not been as common and less emphasis has been placed on collecting and studying the user's perspective in general. However, there are studies showing the "use" of these types of studies, particularly in the…
Descriptors: Archives, Standards, Coding, Metadata
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Levine, Jennie A.; Evans, Jennifer; Kumar, Amit – Journal of Archival Organization, 2006
In April 2005, the University of Maryland Libraries launched "ArchivesUM" (www.lib.umd.edu/archivesum), an online database of finding aids for manuscript and archival collections using Encoded Archival Description (EAD). "ArchivesUM," however, is only the publicly available end-product of a much larger project-an integrated…
Descriptors: Archives, Documentation, Information Retrieval, Access to Information
Lancaster, F. Wilfrid; Warner, Amy J. – 1993
The emphasis of this text is that the problems of information retrieval are the intellectual ones of subject analysis and description. These problems are not easily solved by technology alone, although certain inroads are being made by knowledge-based expert systems and other computer aids to indexing. Linguistic approaches are also showing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers
Brown, Lorene Byron – 1995
This volume provides subject access to materials on all aspects of African American life and culture using the same format as the "Library of Congress Subject Headings" (LCSH). It lists approximately 5,000 subject headings that are interfaced and linked with LCSH. The list contains some of the problems that accompany the LCSH list…
Descriptors: African Culture, Authority Control (Information), Black Culture, Black History
Cunningham, Ann Marie; Wicks, Wendy – 1992
This book serves as an overview of the field of abstracting and indexing, beginning by explaining some of the history and terminology of the craft. Other topics include the customary duties of abstractors and indexers, the types of employers that hire them, personal attributes and educational requirements important to success in the profession,…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Career Guidance, Educational Background, Educational Opportunities
Ives, Jean E. – 1993
The Insurance Division of the Special Libraries Association began an index to insurance magazines, the "Insurance Periodicals Index" (IPI), in 1962. This study examines its historical development. The index was published monthly in an insurance trade journal and then cumulated into an annual edition. Part of the background for its…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Indexes
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Homan, J. Michael; Yokote, Gail – 1985
This course syllabus for a continuing education course for health science librarians introduces the MEDLARS system, the MEDLINE database, and the Index Medicus. Designed to enable health science librarians to discriminate between the capabilities of manual searching and online retrieval, an overview is given of the nature and scope of MEDLINE and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Databases, Indexing, Medical Libraries
Beeler, M. G. – 1979
Task analyses for library equipment operation by the severely retarded, behavioral objective information for library resources indexing, and three bibliographies of rehabilitation related materials are provided for the guidance of library staff in Florida libraries through a project funded by the Library Services and Construction Act, Title I. The…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Bibliographies, Indexing
Cochrane, Pauline A. – Research Libraries in OCLC: A Quarterly, 1982
This essay focuses on use of the Library of Congress Subject Headings system in online catalogs for the retrieval of information by subject. Among the topics addressed are differences among catalog forms (card, microform, and computer); user interface with different forms of catalog; the types of subject indexes employed in present online…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs
Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Development Communication. – 1981
This controlled vocabulary comprising approximately 1,030 terms commonly used in the field of international development communication was created by the Clearinghouse on Development Communication of the Academy for Educational Development to analyze and index documents. This standard list of terms, designed to provide subject access to information…
Descriptors: Classification, Communications, Coordinate Indexes, Developed Nations
Markey, Karen – 1980
This review takes a critical approach in summarizing and evaluating the methodology and scope of catalog use studies, with emphasis on the subject approach to card catalog searching. Subject access is defined in this report; however, the process of subject searching, described repeatedly in library literature, has been based upon common sense…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Content Analysis, Evaluation, Indexing
LOWE, THOMAS C. – 1966
AREAS INVESTIGATED INCLUDE SLOW MEMORY DATA STORAGE, THE PROBLEM OF DECODING FROM AN INDEX TO A SLOW MEMORY ADDRESS, THE STRUCTURE OF DATA LISTS AND DATA LIST OPERATORS, COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE HUMAN USER AND THE SYSTEM, PROCESSING OF RETRIEVAL REQUESTS, AND THE USER'S CONTROL OVER THE RETURN OF INFORMATION RETRIEVED. LINEAR, LINKED AND…
Descriptors: Codification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices
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