Comparative Approaches to Interdisciplinary KOSs: Use Cases of Converting UDC to BCC

Authors

  • Richard Szostak University of Alberta
  • Richard P. Smiraglia University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7152/nasko.v6i1.15240

Abstract

We take a small sample of works and compare how these are classified within both the Universal Decimal Classification and the Basic concepts Classification. We examine notational length, expressivity, network effects, and the number of subject strings. One key finding is that BCC typically synthesizes many more terms than UDC in classifying a particular document – but the length of classificatory notations is roughly equivalent for the two KOSs. BCC captures documents with fewer subject strings (generally one) but these are more complex.

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