Author Archives: mzarro

Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails

Posted on March 23, 2012 by mzarro

Käki, M. (2005). Findex: search result categories help users when document ranking fails. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI  ’05 (pp. 131–140). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1054972.1054991 In this study, a web search … Continue reading →

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A Novel Approach to Visualizing and Navigating Ontologies

Posted on February 17, 2012 by mzarro

Motta, E., Mulholland, P., Peroni, S., d’ Aquin, M., Gomez-Perez, J., Mendez, V., & Zablith, F. (2011). A novel approach to visualizing and navigating ontologies. The Semantic Web–ISWC 2011, 470–486. This work reports on a visualization tool, KC-Viz, for navigating … Continue reading →

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User-centered indexing

Posted on November 7, 2011 by mzarro

Fidel, R. (1994). User-centered indexing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(8), 572-576. User-centered indexing: requires we index reflecting the approach users would take to find a document. Document centered: that indexing, like abstracts, creates surrogates for documents. … Continue reading →

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Commercial Controlled Vocabulary Software Evaluation

Posted on October 4, 2011 by mzarro

Comparative evaluation of thesaurus creation software. (Hedden, 2008) This article compares three commercial thesaurus creation and maintenance tools; MultiTes, Term Tree 2000, and WebChoir TCS-10. The author sets out requirements for thesaurus maintenance, taken from published standards, that the three … Continue reading →

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LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data

Posted on November 5, 2010 by mzarro

A technique for converting Library of Congress Subject Headings MARCXML to Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) RDF is described. Strengths of the SKOS vocabulary are highlighted, as well as possible points for extension, and the integration of other semantic web vocabularies such as Dublin Core. An application for making the vocabulary available as linked- data on the Web is also described. Continue reading →

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SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organisation for the Web

Posted on October 28, 2010 by mzarro

Miles, A., & Perez-Aguera, J. (2007). SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organisation for the Web. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 43(3-4), 69-83. This is an early paper that introduces SKOS. “SKOS provides a framework for publishing thesauri, classification schemes, and subject indexes on … Continue reading →

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Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge organization systems

Posted on October 27, 2010 by mzarro

Lei Zeng, M., & Mai Chan, L. (2004). Trends and issues in establishing interoperability among knowledge organization systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(5), 377-395. doi:10.1002/asi.10387 This work examines methods used for establishing interoperability among … Continue reading →

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NLP Support for Faceted Navigation in Scholarly Collections

Posted on October 27, 2010 by mzarro

Hearst, M, & Stoica, E. (2009). NLP Support for Faceted Navigation in Scholarly Collections. In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital Libraries, ACL-IJCNLP 2009. 62-70. Digital libraries have begun using faceted navigation for … Continue reading →

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