Structure and function in retrieval

Gilchrist, Alan

doi:10.1108/00220410610642020

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“…For this, the IA community draws largely on LIS, looking specifically to facet analysis and taxonomy development (thesaurus construction). Happily, this has had the effect of renewing interest in Ranganathan and bringing his work to a wider audience (e.g., Spiteri, 1998;Weinberger, 2003), even though these taxonomies are often not quite what Ranganathan might have envisioned, being neither classification nor thesaurus (Gilchrist, 2006).…”

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Thesauri and Facets and Tags, Oh My! A Look at Three Decades in Subject Analysis

Schwartz¹

2008

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The field of subject analysis enjoyed a flurry of interest in the 1970s, and has recently become a focus of attention again. The scholarly community doing work in this area has become more diffuse, and has grown to include new groups, such as information architects. Changes in information services and information seeking have led to reexamination of the nature and role of subject analysis tools and practices. This selective review looks at thesauri, guided navigation, and folksonomy as three activity areas in which subject analysis researchers have been attempting to address rapidly changing new environments.

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Section: Guided Navigationmentioning

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Thesauri and Facets and Tags, Oh My! A Look at Three Decades in Subject Analysis

Schwartz¹

2008

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“…It is clear that user-driven social construction or classification of Web resources would continue despite its limitations. Regular empirical studies surveying views of the users about the usefulness, relevance and completeness of the information retrieved through the social tagging process is suggested in this regard 39 . That could lead in designing a new structural form for information organisation to supplement the ontologies.…”

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A Passage to Ontology Tool for Information Organisation in the Digital Age

Patkar¹

2011

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To facilitate access to relevant documents and information has been the core of the library and information science (LIS) profession. In this regard tools like classification, cataloguing, and indexing formed the basis of library practice for a long time. These served particularly well for the material that was predominantly in the print form and required physical location for storage. New information sources, however, in contrast are increasingly in the electronic or digital form and stored on medium like computer hard disks requiring completely different strategy for access and management. Extension of the traditional bibliographic control tools as well as construction of new tools has therefore become pertinent. Ontology is one of the latest tools in this context. The paper discusses progress of information organising tools culminating in ontology, highlights the commonality of the concept of ontology and its applications among the fields of philosophy, computer science and LIS. It also discusses the select features of ontology development in practice and directions for features of ontology development in practice and directions for further work.

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“…Contrary to its initial promise of disintermediation, the increased recall and frequent mismatches resulting from full text searching have prompted the development of a far more restrictive search technique, the use of taxonomies arranged in hierarchical menus. Gilchrist (2006, p. 26) explains how such menus “[allow] the user to recognise, rather than try to think of, a likely term; and to ‘drill down’, without worrying about Boolean operators, till finding a result.” He concludes that “these taxonomies are a sort of hybrid between classification and thesauri, though[,] being nearer to the former[,] use generic survey rather than specific search” (Gilchrist, 2006, p. 26). In other words, they actually appear to restrict the user's access to information, sacrificing the explicit structure of classification while foreclosing the possibility of specific enquiries.…”

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Frendo

2007

Records Management Journal

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PurposeContemporary practices of information management tend to approach information as discrete and decontextualised units. The creation and capture of electronically generated metadata, specific to individual transactions, have become a primary concern of the archival and records management literature. The prevalent model of discrete metadata capture lends itself easily to automation, but it cannot emulate the intellectual control offered by traditional classification structures such as file plans. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of the literature.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a critical review of literature.FindingsRecognition of contextual structures and relationships cannot at present be automated, natural language processing capabilities are poor, and metadata can easily become decoupled from “disembodied” discrete units of information. Discrete metadata capture has been developed in the context of commercial transactions rather than information management.Practical implicationsFile plans as explicit organisations of knowledge can be used to generate contextually significant metadata for records. Such metadata may then be of considerable value to digital curation processes.Originality/valueThis critique will be useful in considering practical approaches to metadata capture.

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Structure and function in retrieval

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Thesauri and Facets and Tags, Oh My! A Look at Three Decades in Subject Analysis

Thesauri and Facets and Tags, Oh My! A Look at Three Decades in Subject Analysis

A Passage to Ontology Tool for Information Organisation in the Digital Age

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