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  • × year_i:[2000 TO 2010}
  • × theme_ss:"Klassifikationssysteme im Online-Retrieval"
  1. Ferris, A.M.: If you buy it, will they use it? : a case study on the use of Classification web (2006) 0.06
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    Abstract
    This paper presents a study conducted at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) to assess the extent to which its catalogers were using Classification Web (Class Web), the subscription-based, online cataloging documentation resource provided by the Library of Congress. In addition, this paper will explore assumptions made by management regarding CU-Boulder catalogers' use of the product, possible reasons for the lower-than-expected use, and recommendations for promoting a more efficient and cost-effective use of Class Web at other institutions similar to CU-Boulder.
    Date
    10. 9.2000 17:38:22
  2. Lin, Z.Y.: Classification practice and implications for subject directories of the Chinese language Web-based digital library (2000) 0.03
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    Source
    Journal of Internet cataloging. 3(2000) no.4, S.29-50
  3. Ferris, A.M.: Results of an expanded survey on the use of Classification Web : they will use it, if you buy it! (2009) 0.02
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    Abstract
    This paper presents the results of a survey examining the extent to which working catalogers use Classification Web, the Library of Congress' online resource for subject heading and classification documentation. An earlier survey analyzed Class Web's usefulness on an institutional level. This broader survey expands on that analysis and provides information on such questions as: what types of institutions subscribe to Class Web; what are the reasons for using Class Web when performing original or copy cataloging; and what other resources do catalogers use for classification/subject heading analysis?
    Source
    Cataloging and classification quarterly. 47(2009) no.5, S.427-451
  4. Lim, E.: Southeast Asian subject gateways : an examination of their classification practices (2000) 0.02
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    Date
    22. 6.2002 19:42:47
  5. Wheatley, A.: Subject trees on the Internet : a new role for bibliographic classification? (2000) 0.02
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    Source
    Journal of Internet cataloging. 2(2000) nos.3/4, S.115-141
  6. Reiner, U.: Automatische DDC-Klassifizierung von bibliografischen Titeldatensätzen (2009) 0.02
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    Date
    22. 8.2009 12:54:24
  7. Chan, L.M.; Childress, E.; Dean, R.; O'Neill, E.T.; Vizine-Goetz, D.: ¬A faceted approach to subject data in the Dublin Core metadata record (2001) 0.02
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    Source
    Journal of Internet cataloging. 4(2001) nos.1/2, S.35-47
  8. Vizine-Goetz, D.: DeweyBrowser (2006) 0.02
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    Source
    Cataloging and classification quarterly. 42(2006) nos.3/4, S.213-220
  9. Doyle, B.: ¬The classification and evaluation of Content Management Systems (2003) 0.01
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    Date
    30. 7.2004 12:22:52
  10. Peereboom, M.: DutchESS : Dutch Electronic Subject Service - a Dutch national collaborative effort (2000) 0.01
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    Date
    22. 6.2002 19:39:23
  11. Van Dijck, P.: Introduction to XFML (2003) 0.01
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    Source
    http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2003/01/22/xfml.html
  12. Ellis, D.; Vasconcelos, A.: ¬The relevance of facet analysis for World Wide Web subject organization and searching (2000) 0.01
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    Source
    Journal of Internet cataloging. 2(2000) nos.3/4, S.97-114
  13. Koch, T.; Golub, K.; Ardö, A.: Users browsing behaviour in a DDC-based Web service : a log analysis (2006) 0.01
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    Source
    Cataloging and classification quarterly. 42(2006) nos.3/4, S.163-186
  14. Alex, H.; Heiner-Freiling, M.: Melvil (2005) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Ab Januar 2006 wird Die Deutsche Bibliothek ein neues Webangebot mit dem Namen Melvil starten, das ein Ergebnis ihres Engagements für die DDC und das Projekt DDC Deutsch ist. Der angebotene Webservice basiert auf der Übersetzung der 22. Ausgabe der DDC, die im Oktober 2005 als Druckausgabe im K. G. Saur Verlag erscheint. Er bietet jedoch darüber hinausgehende Features, die den Klassifizierer bei seiner Arbeit unterstützen und erstmals eine verbale Recherche für Endnutzer über DDCerschlossene Titel ermöglichen. Der Webservice Melvil gliedert sich in drei Anwendungen: - MelvilClass, - MelvilSearch und - MelvilSoap.
  15. Broughton, V.; Lane, H.: Classification schemes revisited : applications to Web indexing and searching (2000) 0.01
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    Source
    Journal of Internet cataloging. 2(2000) nos.3/4, S.143-155
  16. Sandner, M.; Jahns, Y.: Kurzbericht zum DDC-Übersetzer- und Anwendertreffen bei der IFLA-Konferenz 2005 in Oslo, Norwegen (2005) 0.01
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    Content
    "Am 16. August 2005 fand in Oslo im Rahmen der heurigen IFLA-Konferenz das alljährliche Treffen der DDC-Übersetzer und der weltweiten DeweyAnwender-Institutionen (Nationalbibliotheken, Ersteller von Nationalbibliografien) statt. Die im Sommer 2005 bereits abgeschlossene deutsche Übersetzung wird in der Druckfassung Ende des Jahres in 4 Bänden vorliegen, beim K. G. Saur Verlag in München erscheinen (ISBN 3-598-11651-9) und 2006 vom ebenfalls erstmals ins Deutsche übersetzten DDC-Lehrbuch (ISBN 3-598-11748-5) begleitet. Pläne für neu startende Übersetzungen der DDC 22 gibt es für folgende Sprachen: Arabisch (mit der wachsenden Notwendigkeit, Klasse 200 Religion zu revidieren), Französisch (es erschien zuletzt eine neue Kurzausgabe 14, nun werden eine vierbändige Druckausgabe und eine frz. Webversion anvisiert), Schwedisch, Vietnamesisch (hierfür wird eine an die Sprache und Schrift angepasste Version des deutschen Übersetzungstools zum Einsatz kommen).
    Allgemein DDC 22 ist im Gegensatz zu den früheren Neuauflagen der Standard Edition eine Ausgabe ohne generelle Überarbeitung einer gesamten Klasse. Sie enthält jedoch zahlreiche Änderungen und Expansionen in fast allen Disziplinen und in vielen Hilfstafeln. Es erschien auch eine Sonderausgabe der Klasse 200, Religion. In der aktuellen Kurzausgabe der DDC 22 (14, aus 2004) sind all diese Neuerungen berücksichtigt. Auch die elektronische Version exisitiert in einer vollständigen (WebDewey) und in einer KurzVariante (Abridged WebDewey) und ist immer auf dem jüngsten Stand der Klassifikation. Ein Tutorial für die Nutzung von WebDewey steht unter www.oclc.org /dewey/ resourcesitutorial zur Verfügung. Der Index enthält in dieser elektronischen Fassung weit mehr zusammengesetzte Notationen und verbale Sucheinstiege (resultierend aus den Titeldaten des "WorldCat") als die Druckausgabe, sowie Mappings zu den aktuellsten Normdatensätzen aus LCSH und McSH. Aktuell Die personelle Zusammensetzung des EPC (Editorial Policy Committee) hat sich im letzten Jahr verändert. Dieses oberste Gremium der DDC hat Prioritäten für den aktuellen Arbeitsplan festgelegt. Es wurde vereinbart, größere Änderungsvorhaben via Dewey-Website künftig wie in einem Stellungnahmeverfahren zur fachlichen Diskussion zu stellen. www.oclc.org/dewey/discussion/."
  17. Chandler, A.; LeBlanc, J.: Exploring the potential of a virtual undergraduate library collection based on the hierarchical interface to LC Classification (2006) 0.01
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    Date
    10. 9.2000 17:38:22
  18. Slavic, A.: On the nature and typology of documentary classifications and their use in a networked environment (2007) 0.01
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    Date
    22.12.2007 17:22:31
  19. Place, E.: International collaboration on Internet subject gateways (2000) 0.01
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    Date
    22. 6.2002 19:35:35
  20. Beagle, D.: Visualizing keyword distribution across multidisciplinary c-space (2003) 0.01
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    Abstract
    The concept of c-space is proposed as a visualization schema relating containers of content to cataloging surrogates and classification structures. Possible applications of keyword vector clusters within c-space could include improved retrieval rates through the use of captioning within visual hierarchies, tracings of semantic bleeding among subclasses, and access to buried knowledge within subject-neutral publication containers. The Scholastica Project is described as one example, following a tradition of research dating back to the 1980's. Preliminary focus group assessment indicates that this type of classification rendering may offer digital library searchers enriched entry strategies and an expanded range of re-entry vocabularies. Those of us who work in traditional libraries typically assume that our systems of classification: Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), are descriptive rather than prescriptive. In other words, LCC classes and subclasses approximate natural groupings of texts that reflect an underlying order of knowledge, rather than arbitrary categories prescribed by librarians to facilitate efficient shelving. Philosophical support for this assumption has traditionally been found in a number of places, from the archetypal tree of knowledge, to Aristotelian categories, to the concept of discursive formations proposed by Michel Foucault. Gary P. Radford has elegantly described an encounter with Foucault's discursive formations in the traditional library setting: "Just by looking at the titles on the spines, you can see how the books cluster together...You can identify those books that seem to form the heart of the discursive formation and those books that reside on the margins. Moving along the shelves, you see those books that tend to bleed over into other classifications and that straddle multiple discursive formations. You can physically and sensually experience...those points that feel like state borders or national boundaries, those points where one subject ends and another begins, or those magical places where one subject has morphed into another..."