Library Cataloging
Sleuthing Out Data by Fred Hapgood discusses the power of grouping items in catagories to improve the usefulness of result sets and the ability of computer programs do do the work.
- Online Catalogs: What Users And Librarians Want
OCLC has released the report Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want.This new report summarizes the findings of research conducted by OCLC on what constitutes quality in library online catalogs from both end users? and librarians? points of view....
- Searching, Pre And Post Web
Mansourian, Yazdan (2004) Similarities and differences between web search procedure and searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems. Webology 1(1).This paper presents an introductory discussion about the commonalities and dissimilarities between...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
Version 1.3.1 of SPT has been released, and is now available for download on the Scout web siteHighlights of the release include:new accessibility "mini-wizard"support for OAI-SQ (new OAI-PMH extension for searching)ability to page through user list and...
- Taxonomy, Classification & Search
Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search by Jeff Morris appears in the Sept. issue of Transform Magazine. His conclusion, a combination of free text searching, classification and vocabulary control is better for searching, than just...
- Subject Access
Auto-Categorization: Coming to a Library or Intranet Near You! by Tom Reamy.Simply put, automatic-categorization is a new type of software that assigns documents into subject matter categories based on a wide variety of techniques. These techniques include...
Library Cataloging
Categorization
Sleuthing Out Data by Fred Hapgood discusses the power of grouping items in catagories to improve the usefulness of result sets and the ability of computer programs do do the work.
There's no sign that advances in categorization and search technology will slow down anytime soon either. If searching is the foundation of all our relations with the online data, and categorization is the foundation of intelligent searching, then it seems likely that CIOs are going to be boosting the IQ of their searching tools for some time to come. Smart searching might very well become as important to the face of an enterprise as smart salespeople.Seen on Column Two.
- Online Catalogs: What Users And Librarians Want
OCLC has released the report Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want.This new report summarizes the findings of research conducted by OCLC on what constitutes quality in library online catalogs from both end users? and librarians? points of view....
- Searching, Pre And Post Web
Mansourian, Yazdan (2004) Similarities and differences between web search procedure and searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems. Webology 1(1).This paper presents an introductory discussion about the commonalities and dissimilarities between...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
Version 1.3.1 of SPT has been released, and is now available for download on the Scout web siteHighlights of the release include:new accessibility "mini-wizard"support for OAI-SQ (new OAI-PMH extension for searching)ability to page through user list and...
- Taxonomy, Classification & Search
Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search by Jeff Morris appears in the Sept. issue of Transform Magazine. His conclusion, a combination of free text searching, classification and vocabulary control is better for searching, than just...
- Subject Access
Auto-Categorization: Coming to a Library or Intranet Near You! by Tom Reamy.Simply put, automatic-categorization is a new type of software that assigns documents into subject matter categories based on a wide variety of techniques. These techniques include...