Report on Linking Subject Headings to LC Classification Numbers and Suggestions for Automating the Classification Schedules for the Explicit Purpose of Improving Subject Access in Online Public Access Catalogs
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https://doi.org/10.7152/acro.v1i1.12470Abstract
The average Library of Congress (LC) MARC record in today's online catalog provides a very limited number of subject access points. Certainly keywords can be extracted from the subject headings and the title but in both cases these reflect the "aboutness" of the book rather than its information content. The terms tend to be very broad and the size of the available vocabulary is very restricted. The justification for this is of course that the subject headings provide a grouping function.Downloads
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1990-10-06
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