Category Archives: Vocabularies

An unsupervised approach to automatic classification of scientific literature utilizing bibliographic metadata

Posted on March 15, 2012 by xliu

Joorabchi, A. and Mahdi A. E., An unsupervised approach to automatic classification of scientific literature utilizing bibliographic metadata, Journal of Information Science, 37, 5 (2011), 499–514 This article  describes an unsupervised approach for automatic classification of scientific literature archived in … 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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A Faceted Classification as the Basis of a Faceted Terminology: Conversion of a Classified Structure to Thesaurus Format in the Bliss Bibliographic Classification, 2nd Edition

Posted on October 8, 2011 by mzhang

Citation: Vanda Broughton. A Faceted Classification as the Basis of a Faceted Terminology: Conversion of a Classified Structure to Thesaurus Format in the Bliss Bibliographic Classification, 2nd Edition. Axiomathes. 2008, 18(2): 193-210 This paper develops a faceted thesaurus based on … 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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ThManager: An open source tool for creating and visualizing SKOS

Posted on November 16, 2010 by hzhao

Lacasta, J., Nogueras-Iso, J., Lopez-Pellicer, F. J., Muro-Medrano, P. R., & Zarazaga-Soria, F. J. (2007). ThManager: An open source tool for creating and visualizing SKOS. Information Technology and Libraries, 26(3), 39-50. In this paper, the authors presented the design and … Continue reading →

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Analysis of equivalence mapping for terminology services

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Catherine

Citation: McCulloch, E & Macgregor, G. (2008). Analysis of equivalence mapping for terminology services. Journal of Information Science, 34 (1), p. 70-92. Rationale: Terminology mapping is evident in a number of KOS interoperability approaches. It involves imposing equivalence, conceptual and … 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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JISC State-of-the-art Study on Terminology Services

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Catherine

JISC State-of-the-art Study on Terminology Services (2006) http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/terminology/JISC-review2006.html This report reviews vocabularies of different types, best practice guidelines, research on terminology services and related projects. It discusses possibilities for terminology services within the JISC Information Environment and eFramework. The report … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Organization System (KOS)

Posted on October 29, 2010 by mzhang

Marcia Lei Zeng. Knowledge Organization System (KOS). Knowledge Organization[J]. 2008(35): 160-182 This paper is a review about different types of KOS and their applications. 1. Overview of types of Knowledge Organization Systems The Class of KOS has four major groups … Continue reading →

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The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Module – An ontological approach to semantic interoperability of metadata

Posted on October 29, 2010 by ekhazraee

Citation: Doerr, M. (2003). The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Module – An ontological approach to semantic interoperability of metadata. AI MAGAZINE, 24(3), 75-92. Goals of Research: To justify the methodology and design of CIDOC-CRM by functional requirements. Summary: The emergence of … Continue reading →

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