Ebook: Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge

Relationships abound in the library and information science (LIS) world. Those relationships may be social in nature, as, for instance, when we deal with human relationships among library personnel or relationships (i. e. , "public relations") between an information center and its clientele. The relationships may be educational, as, for example, when we examine the relationship between the curriculum of an accredited school and the needs of the work force it is preparing students to join. Or the relationships may be economic, as when we investigate the relationship between the cost of journals and the frequency with which they are cited. Many of the relationships of concern to us reflect phenomena entirely internal to the field: the relationship between manuscript collections, archives, and special collections; the relationship between end user search behavior and the effectiveness of searches; the relationship between access to and use of information resources; the relationship between recall and precision; the relationship between various bibliometric laws; etc. The list of such relationships could go on and on. The relationships addressed in this volume are restricted to those involved in the organization of recorded knowledge, which tend to have a conceptual or semantic basis, although statistical means are sometimes used in their discovery.

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With a goal of improving retrieval in bibliographic environments, this volume takes stock of what we know about relationships in the overall bibliographic domain, with particular emphasis on relationships between subjects, relationships among bibliographic entities, and relationships between subject content and user needs. The volume presents the current state of the art in examining the expression of relationships in some of the best thesauri and classification schemes in use throughout the world. It also looks to the future by providing guidance for relational tasks now taking on greater significance, as retrieval systems increasingly operate in automated modes and as retrieval systems cross linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.
By bringing together in one place the perspectives of some of the most prominent persons working in this arena, this volume should be of interest to researchers from library and information science, as well as computer science (artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, information retrieval, natural language processing), and to many practitioners, including: developers of thesauri and classification schemes; developers of Web search engines and search directories; indexers and subject cataloguers; and professional searchers.

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With a goal of improving retrieval in bibliographic environments, this volume takes stock of what we know about relationships in the overall bibliographic domain, with particular emphasis on relationships between subjects, relationships among bibliographic entities, and relationships between subject content and user needs. The volume presents the current state of the art in examining the expression of relationships in some of the best thesauri and classification schemes in use throughout the world. It also looks to the future by providing guidance for relational tasks now taking on greater significance, as retrieval systems increasingly operate in automated modes and as retrieval systems cross linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.
By bringing together in one place the perspectives of some of the most prominent persons working in this arena, this volume should be of interest to researchers from library and information science, as well as computer science (artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, information retrieval, natural language processing), and to many practitioners, including: developers of thesauri and classification schemes; developers of Web search engines and search directories; indexers and subject cataloguers; and professional searchers.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: An Overview....Pages 3-18
Bibliographic Relationships....Pages 19-35
Thesaural Relationships....Pages 37-52
Standards for Relationships between Subject Indexing Terms....Pages 53-66
Relationships in Multilingual Thesauri....Pages 67-80
Relationships among Knowledge Structures: Vocabulary Integration within a Subject Domain....Pages 81-98
Relationships in Classificatory Structure and Meaning....Pages 99-113
Relevance Relationships....Pages 115-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Relationships in Library of Congress Subject Headings....Pages 135-152
The Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Controlling Relationships through Rules and Structure....Pages 153-170
Relationships in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)....Pages 171-184
Lateral Relationships in Multicultural, Multilingual Databases in the Spiritual and Religious Domains: The OM Information Service....Pages 185-198
Relationships in Ranganathan’s Colon Classification....Pages 199-210
Relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification System....Pages 211-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-233

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With a goal of improving retrieval in bibliographic environments, this volume takes stock of what we know about relationships in the overall bibliographic domain, with particular emphasis on relationships between subjects, relationships among bibliographic entities, and relationships between subject content and user needs. The volume presents the current state of the art in examining the expression of relationships in some of the best thesauri and classification schemes in use throughout the world. It also looks to the future by providing guidance for relational tasks now taking on greater significance, as retrieval systems increasingly operate in automated modes and as retrieval systems cross linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.
By bringing together in one place the perspectives of some of the most prominent persons working in this arena, this volume should be of interest to researchers from library and information science, as well as computer science (artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, information retrieval, natural language processing), and to many practitioners, including: developers of thesauri and classification schemes; developers of Web search engines and search directories; indexers and subject cataloguers; and professional searchers.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: An Overview....Pages 3-18
Bibliographic Relationships....Pages 19-35
Thesaural Relationships....Pages 37-52
Standards for Relationships between Subject Indexing Terms....Pages 53-66
Relationships in Multilingual Thesauri....Pages 67-80
Relationships among Knowledge Structures: Vocabulary Integration within a Subject Domain....Pages 81-98
Relationships in Classificatory Structure and Meaning....Pages 99-113
Relevance Relationships....Pages 115-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Relationships in Library of Congress Subject Headings....Pages 135-152
The Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Controlling Relationships through Rules and Structure....Pages 153-170
Relationships in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)....Pages 171-184
Lateral Relationships in Multicultural, Multilingual Databases in the Spiritual and Religious Domains: The OM Information Service....Pages 185-198
Relationships in Ranganathan’s Colon Classification....Pages 199-210
Relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification System....Pages 211-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-233
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