Redundancy and Uniqueness of Subject Access Points in Online Catalogs.

Fuente: ERIC Institute of Education Sciences
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Xu, Hong, Lancaster, F. W.
Natura: Recurso educativo Open Access
Lingua:en
Pubblicazione: 1998
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1867181575373848578
author Xu, Hong
Lancaster, F. W.
author_facet Xu, Hong
Lancaster, F. W.
Xu, Hong
Lancaster, F. W.
collection Education Resources Information Center
contents Redundancy and Uniqueness of Subject Access Points in Online Catalogs. Xu, Hong Lancaster, F. W. Classification Comparative Analysis Indexing Online Catalogs Online Searching Performance Permuted Indexes Redundancy Relevance (Information Retrieval) Subject Index Terms Union Catalogs An analysis of 205 records in the OCLC Online Union Catalog (OLUC) found considerable duplication among subject access points provided by title, subject heading, and classification number fields. On average, only 4.12 unique access points were found per record. The results suggest that online catalogs might outperform card catalogs more in precision than recall. (PEN)
format Recurso educativo Open Access
id eric_EJ566595
institution ERIC Institute of Education Sciences
language en
publishDate 1998
record_format eric
spellingShingle Redundancy and Uniqueness of Subject Access Points in Online Catalogs.
Xu, Hong
Lancaster, F. W.
Classification
Comparative Analysis
Indexing
Online Catalogs
Online Searching
Performance
Permuted Indexes
Redundancy
Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Subject Index Terms
Union Catalogs
Redundancy and Uniqueness of Subject Access Points in Online Catalogs. Xu, Hong Lancaster, F. W. Classification Comparative Analysis Indexing Online Catalogs Online Searching Performance Permuted Indexes Redundancy Relevance (Information Retrieval) Subject Index Terms Union Catalogs An analysis of 205 records in the OCLC Online Union Catalog (OLUC) found considerable duplication among subject access points provided by title, subject heading, and classification number fields. On average, only 4.12 unique access points were found per record. The results suggest that online catalogs might outperform card catalogs more in precision than recall. (PEN)
title Redundancy and Uniqueness of Subject Access Points in Online Catalogs.
topic Classification
Comparative Analysis
Indexing
Online Catalogs
Online Searching
Performance
Permuted Indexes
Redundancy
Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Subject Index Terms
Union Catalogs
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ566595