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  • × theme_ss:"Klassifikationssysteme im Online-Retrieval"
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  • × year_i:[1990 TO 2000}
  1. Vizine-Goetz, D.: OCLC investigates using classification tools to organize Internet data (1998) 0.03
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    Abstract
    The knowledge structures that form traditional library classification schemes hold great potential for improving resource description and discovery on the Internet and for organizing electronic document collections. The advantages of assigning subject tokens (classes) to documents from a scheme like the DDC system are well documented
    Date
    22. 9.1997 19:16:05
    Source
    Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources: Papers presented at the 1997 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, 2-4 Mar 1997, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ed.: P.A. Cochrane et al
  2. Ardo, A.; Lundberg, S.: ¬A regional distributed WWW search and indexing service : the DESIRE way (1998) 0.02
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    Abstract
    Creates an open, metadata aware system for distributed, collaborative WWW indexing. The system has 3 main components: a harvester (for collecting information), a database (for making the collection searchable), and a user interface (for making the information available). all components can be distributed across networked computers, thus supporting scalability. The system is metadata aware and thus allows searches on several fields including title, document author and URL. Nordic Web Index (NWI) is an application using this system to create a regional Nordic Web-indexing service. NWI is built using 5 collaborating service points within the Nordic countries. The NWI databases can be used to build additional services
    Date
    1. 8.1996 22:08:06
  3. Kwasnik, B.H.: ¬The role of classification in knowledge representation (1999) 0.02
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    Abstract
    A fascinating, broad-ranging article about classification, knowledge, and how they relate. Hierarchies, trees, paradigms (a two-dimensional classification that can look something like a spreadsheet), and facets are covered, with descriptions of how they work and how they can be used for knowledge discovery and creation. Kwasnick outlines how to make a faceted classification: choose facets, develop facets, analyze entities using the facets, and make a citation order. Facets are useful for many reasons: they do not require complete knowledge of the entire body of material; they are hospitable, flexible, and expressive; they do not require a rigid background theory; they can mix theoretical structures and models; and they allow users to view things from many perspectives. Facets do have faults: it can be hard to pick the right ones; it is hard to show relations between them; and it is difficult to visualize them. The coverage of the other methods is equally thorough and there is much to consider for anyone putting a classification on the web.
    Source
    Library trends. 48(1999) no.1, S.22-47
  4. Loth, K.; Funk, H.: Subject search on ETHICS on the basis of the UDC (1990) 0.02
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  5. McAllister-Harper, D.: Dewey Decimal Classification in the online environment : a study of libraries in North Carolina (1990) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Results of a survey of North Carolina Libraries revealed that of 91 respondents, 29 had on-line catalogues. Of the libraries with on-line catalogues, 11 used the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Survey findings indicate that the DDC has limited use in on-line searching today.
    Footnote
    Paper presented at the 2nd Annette Lewis Phinazee Symposium on Classification as an enhancement of intellectual access to information in an online environment, held at the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina.
  6. High, W.H.: Library of Congress Classification numbers as subject access points in computer-based retrieval (1990) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Subject retrieval by Library of Congress (LC) Classification numbers is examined from the perspective of 5 user groups of on-line catalogues. Although, at present, librarians are the user group most likely to benefit from the LC classification advances in the capabilities of on-line catalogues. Research on the use of the LC classification schedules as a component of subject retrieval should continue.
    Footnote
    Paper presented at the 2nd Annette Lewis Phinazee Symposium on Classification as an enhancement of intellectual access to information in an online environment, held at the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina.
  7. Comaromi, C.L.: Summation of classification as an enhancement of intellectual access to information in an online environment (1990) 0.01
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    Date
    8. 1.2007 12:22:40
  8. Walker, S.: Views on classification as a search tool on a computer (1991) 0.01
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    Source
    Computers in libraries international 91. Proc. of the 5th Annual Conference on Computers in Libraries, London, February 1991
  9. Dodd, D.G.: Grass-roots cataloging and classification : food for thought from World Wide Web subject-oriented hierarchical lists (1996) 0.01
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    Abstract
    The explosion of the use of the Internet by the genral public, particularly via the WWW, has given rise to the proliferation of semiprofessional attempts to give some subject based access to Internet resources via hierarchical guides (hotlists) on Web search engines such as Yahoo and Magellan. Examines the structure and principles of various hierachical lists, and compares them, when possible, to broad LCC and DDC schemes, and to LCSH. Explores the approaches taken by non librarians in their efforts to organize and provide access to materials on the Internet. Focuses on the dichotomy between the hierarchical 'browse' and the analytical 'search' approaches to finding materials, as exemplified by these various attempts to organize the Internet
  10. Users Council urges continued emphasis on CORC project (1999) 0.01
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  11. Gödert, W.: ¬Die Dezimalklassifikation im Online-Retrieval (1990) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Considers some structural features of UDC which may be of some importance to on-line information retrieval with synthesised UDC notations
  12. Robbins, F.: ¬An exploration of the application of classification systems as a method for resource delivery on the World Wide Web (1999) 0.01
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  13. Beall, J.: Editing the Dewey Decimal Classification online : the evolution of the DDC database (1992) 0.01
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    Abstract
    The database used to publish the 20th edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) was produced on ESS (Editorial Support System). Systematic changes are being made in the database that will facilitate (1) converting ESS records to the USMARC format, (2) searching for component parts of and analyzing synthesized DDC numbers, and (3) tracking hierarchical relationships not expressed by the DDC notation.
    Source
    Classification research for knowledge representation and organization. Proc. 5th Int. Study Conf. on Classification Research, Toronto, Canada, 24.-28.6.1991. Ed. by N.J. Williamson u. M. Hudon
  14. Chan, L.M.: ¬The Library of Congress Classification System in an online environment (1990) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Advantages and disadvantages of on-line classification access are presented with special attention to Library of Congress Classification (LCC) features for subject browsing, known item-searching, enhancement of keyword and controlled vocabulary searching, and other unique retrieval capabilities.
    Footnote
    Paper presented at the 2nd Annette Lewis Phinazee Symposium on Classification as an enhancement of intellectual access to information in an online environment, held at the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina.
  15. Dhyani, P.: Library classification in computer age (1999) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Library classification is constantly being influenced by multifaceted, multidimensional, and infinite growth of literature on one hand and the users needs on the other. Dewey pioneered in devising a scheme of classification for the documentation utility of the organised knowledge. Subsequent schemes of classification worked purely without any theoretical foundation, colon classification being the exception. With the emergence of computer technology the library classification is being metamorphised. This paper attempts to delve a state-of-the-art of library classification in the new computer age.
  16. Hill, J.S.: Things are taking a little longer than that : a response to Dewey Decimal Classification in the online environment (1990) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Librarians are often so eager to adopt new technologies and systems that they can lose sight of the realities that must be dealt with. Among factors that may delay use of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) for on-line catalogues retrieval are: limited use of DDC in libraries with operational on-line catalogues; limitations to the MARC bibliographic formats: lack of an authority structure for classification number for items catalogued. Factors that may delay development of effective classification retrieval mechanisms include unclear terminology and unreasonably high (or low) expectations.
    Footnote
    Paper presented at the 2nd Annette Lewis Phinazee Symposium on Classification as an enhancement of intellectual access to information in an online environment, held at the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina.
  17. Frost, C.O.; Janes, J.: ¬An empirical test of gopher searching using three organizational schemes : background and methods (1994) 0.01
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    Abstract
    This paper describes the background underlying and the methods to be used in an investigation of use of the gopher protocol for browsing and searching for information via the Internet. Networked information resources are notoriously difficult to find; gopher is one attempt to facilitate the processes of organization and retrieval in that environment. Our project will design classification schemes based on traditional library models (i.e. Dewey and Library of Congress) and compare use of these to use of an existing gopher. We describe the project, the research questions, literature on related issues, the construction of the classification schemes, and the experimental methodology used
  18. Kent, R.E.: Organizing conceptual knowledge online : metadata interoperability and faceted classification (1998) 0.01
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    Date
    30.12.2001 16:22:41
  19. Jenkins, C.: Automatic classification of Web resources using Java and Dewey Decimal Classification (1998) 0.01
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    Date
    1. 8.1996 22:08:06
  20. Francu, V.: Building a multilingual thesaurus based on UDC (1996) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Once the library has been through a process of transition from traditional library procedures to automated ones, natural language searching became a necessity for both indexers and searchers. Therefore, aside from the precoordinated classified catalogue we started to build a dictionary of terms in order to make postcoordinate search possible in keeping with the UDC notations assigned to each bibliographic record. After a while we came to the conclusion that the dictionary needed a control of its terms so that synonymous concepts and semantic ambuguities be avoided. The project presented in this paper shows how reality imposed the improvement of the quality of indexing and hence of the searching possibilities. Is also shows the reasons why we consider a multilingual thesaurus based on UDC an ideal indexing and searching device. The experiment applied on class 8 of UDC illustrates the way the UDC tables can be quite successfully used in building a thesaurus due to their qulities and how their limitations can be overcome by a thesaurus. An appendix to the paper contains a sample of the multilingual thesaurus given in both alphabetical and systematic layouts